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- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
Hi all, my name is Rhea! I was lucky enough to work for the National Park Service this summer as a business management intern with the Submerged Resources Center (SRC). The SRC is the NPS national dive...
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- 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006
three-level system much like any organized sport. Markets occupy the first level, where the competition takes place; the institutional foundations that underpin those markets are the second; and the political authority that administers...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
activity, using hitherto little studied U.S. Treasury data. The CDFI Fund grants increase lending at credit unions by 3%. For every dollar awarded, 45 additional cents are loaned out to borrowers in the first year, and up to an additional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
measurement errors. I document the first direct empirical evidence that ICC measurement errors can be persistent, can be associated with firms' risk or growth characteristics, and thus confound regression inferences on expected returns. I...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
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development. First, structural conditions first postulated by Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2
to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance measures via deception. In a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
on schemas, procedural justice, emotion expression, and prosocial behavior. Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China Author:Meg Rithmire Publication:China Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract Despite common View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19
312-002 McKesson, a large, diversified drug distribution and health care IT company, is considering development of new business offerings to help private practice physicians remain independent. The company, with $122 billion in 2010 revenues, just made its View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781846142734,00.html?strSrchSql=Civilization%3A+The+West+and+the+Rest/Civilization_Niall_Ferguson Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors Authors: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell, eds....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16
their experience, gender, and professional training; their ongoing relationships with suppliers; and the gender diversity of their audit teams. By providing the first comprehensive and systematic findings on supply chain auditing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
sociologists present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and social circumstances and suggest steps for Cuba to reactivate economic growth and improve the welfare of its citizens. These authors focus first on trade, capital inflows,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8
exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26
http://www.ajmc.com/publications/issue/2013/2013-1-vol19-n9/Testimonials-Do-Not-Convert-Patients-From-Brand-to-Generic-Medication August 2013 Health Affairs Lessons from England's Health Care Workforce Redesign: No Quick Fixes By: Bohmer, Richard, and Candance Imison...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
believed that the government should play a more active role in the financial system by regulating national securities exchanges. In February 1934, the president urged Congress to enact such legislation, prompting the introduction of a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4% to 5% annually during the 2000s, the financial crisis set it back by 1 million more unemployed. Moreover, it seemed as if the nation were stuck between...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26
also be detrimental to some. Specifically, we examine in detail the relation between religious involvement and subjective well-being. We first replicate prior findings showing a positive relation between religiosity and subjective...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
democracies such as Finland and New Zealand are overrepresented. Does It Matter? "There are two views of the United Nations," says Werker. "Either you think it matters or you don't." In the first camp are those who...
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- 18 Feb 2014
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positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and to the head of the National Association for the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
differs from experts in judging which ideas to fund, and, indeed, whether the crowd is even rational in making funding decisions. Drawing on a panel of national experts and comprehensive data from the largest crowdfunding site, we examine...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006
Jones Author's Abstract A noteworthy characteristic of the contemporary global economy is the uneven distribution of world foreign direct investment (FDI). While in the first global economy before 1929 most FDI was located in developing...
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