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Author : V. Pandit
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8171886825
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Author : Sebastiano Bavetta,Pietro Navarra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107017849
This book develops a measure of Autonomy Freedom and sheds light on its consequences for policy and political design.
Author : Subrata Guha,Rajendra Prasad Kundu,S. Subramanian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317410829
This book covers diverse themes, including institutions and efficiency, choice and values, law and economics, development and policy, and social and economic measurement. Written in honour of the distinguished economist Satish K. Jain, this compilation of essays should appeal not only to students and researchers of economic theory but also to those interested in the design and evaluation of institutions and policy.
Author : James John McRae,Martine Madeleine Desbois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0088645061
From the back cover: Conceptual and empirical work on the role played by the service sector to the process of national and regional economic development has had a very difficult time escaping from the views of Adam Smith. The father of economics left no doubt that he regarded the service industries as unproductive, and contributing nothing to the process of economic growth. However, the continued growth of domestic service sector employment, and the increasing volume of international service transactions, has made the continued neglect of these industries hard to justify. The papers presented for this conference represent a step toward a better understanding of the perplexing phenomena of production in trade in services.
Author : Peter Svedberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Malnutrition
ISBN : 0195660919
Author : David Andrich,Ida Marais
Publisher : Springer
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811374968
This book applies Rasch measurement theory to the fields of education, psychology, sociology, marketing and health outcomes in order to measure various social constructs. The chief focus is on first principles of both the theory and its applications. Because software is readily available to carry out analyses of real data, numerous small examples are provided in the book. The software used in these examples, and which is helpful in working through the text, is RUMM2030 (Rasch unidimensional models for measurement). The book’s main goals are to equip researchers with the confidence they need in order to be in control of the analysis and interpretation of data, and to make professional rather than primarily statistical decisions mechanically. Because statistical principles are necessarily involved, reviews of the requisite statistics are provided in the Appendix. The content is based on courses that have been taught both online and in intensive form for over two decades. Although first principles are emphasised, much of the book is based on research conducted by the two authors and their colleagues.
Author : Deborah L. Bandalos
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781462532131
Which types of validity evidence should be considered when determining whether a scale is appropriate for a given measurement situation? What about reliability evidence? Using clear explanations illustrated by examples from across the social and behavioral sciences, this engaging text prepares students to make effective decisions about the selection, administration, scoring, interpretation, and development of measurement instruments. Coverage includes the essential measurement topics of scale development, item writing and analysis, and reliability and validity, as well as more advanced topics such as exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory, diagnostic classification models, test bias and fairness, standard setting, and equating. End-of-chapter exercises (with answers) emphasize both computations and conceptual understanding to encourage readers to think critically about the material. ÿ
Author : Nausheen Nizami,Narayan Prasad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811021947
This book introduces readers to the concept and theories of decent work and provides a framework for measuring it at the micro, meso and macro level in a given country. Further, it addresses the importance of measuring decent work in today’s world and in connection with the different challenges countries face depending on their respective stage of development. The essence of the book lies in highlighting the practical applications of decent work in terms of its ability to deliver empirical measurements of qualitative and subjective phenomena with a mixed-methods approach combining tools and techniques from economics and statistics. Moreover, as the applicability of decent work is not confined to the IT industry and formal sectors of the economy, the book also provides useful guidelines on how further empirical studies can be undertaken to measure decent work in non-IT industries. As such, the book offers a rich compilation of empirical and theoretical contributions on decent work designed to not only enrich readers’ understanding, but also promote awareness of the practical relevance and technical aspects of the subject matter.
Author : Brian E. Clauser,Michael B. Bunch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000402391
The History of Educational Measurement collects essays on the most important topics in educational testing, measurement, and psychometrics. Authored by the field’s top scholars, this book offers unique historical viewpoints, from origins to modern applications, of formal testing programs and mental measurement theories. Topics as varied as large-scale testing, validity, item-response theory, federal involvement, and notable assessment controversies complete a survey of the field’s greatest challenges and most important achievements. Graduate students, researchers, industry professionals, and other stakeholders will find this volume relevant for years to come.
Author : Keith A. Markus,Denny Borsboom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135055868
This book examines test validity in the behavioral, social, and educational sciences by exploring three fundamental problems: measurement, causation and meaning. Psychometric and philosophical perspectives receive attention along with unresolved issues. The authors explore how measurement is conceived from both the classical and modern perspectives. The importance of understanding the underlying concepts as well as the practical challenges of test construction and use receive emphasis throughout. The book summarizes the current state of the test validity theory field. Necessary background on test theory and statistics is presented as a conceptual overview where needed. Each chapter begins with an overview of key material reviewed in previous chapters, concludes with a list of suggested readings, and features boxes with examples that connect theory to practice. These examples reflect actual situations that occurred in psychology, education, and other disciplines in the US and around the globe, bringing theory to life. Critical thinking questions related to the boxed material engage and challenge readers. A few examples include: What is the difference between intelligence and IQ? Can people disagree on issues of value but agree on issues of test validity? Is it possible to ask the same question in two different languages? The first part of the book contrasts theories of measurement as applied to the validity of behavioral science measures.The next part considers causal theories of measurement in relation to alternatives such as behavior domain sampling, and then unpacks the causal approach in terms of alternative theories of causation.The final section explores the meaning and interpretation of test scores as it applies to test validity. Each set of chapters opens with a review of the key theories and literature and concludes with a review of related open questions in test validity theory. Researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in test validity or developing tests appreciate the book's cutting edge review of test validity. The book also serves as a supplement in graduate or advanced undergraduate courses on test validity, psychometrics, testing or measurement taught in psychology, education, sociology, social work, political science, business, criminal justice and other fields. The book does not assume a background in measurement.
Author : Paul Frijters,Christian Krekel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192896803
This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence. Around the world, governments are starting to directly measure the subjective wellbeing of their citizens and to use it for policy evaluation and appraisal. What would happen if a country were to move from using GDP to using subjective wellbeing as the primary metric for measuring economic and societal progress? Would policy priorities change? Would we continue to care about economic growth? What role would different government institutions play in such a scenario? And, most importantly, how could this be implemented in daily practice, for example in policy evaluations and appraisals of government analysts, or in political agenda-setting at the top level? This volume provides answers to these questions from a conceptual to technical level, by showing how direct measures of subjective wellbeing can be used for policy evaluation and appraisal, either complementary in the short-run or even entirely in the long-run. It gives a brief history of the idea that governments should care about the happiness of their citizens, provides theories, makes suggestions for direct measurement, derives technical standards and makes suggestions on how to conduct wellbeing cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses, and gives examples of how real-world policy evaluations and appraisals would change if they were based on subjective wellbeing. In doing so, it serves the growing interest of governments as well as non-governmental and international organisations in how to put subjective wellbeing metrics into policy practice.
Author : Steven A. Y. Lin
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483271477
Theory and Measurement of Economic Externalities provides information on some analytical and empirical developments in the field of externalities. This book presents the function of turning out producer's goods in the form of better knowledge, analytical formulation, and approaches for application to current problems. Organized into five parts encompassing 12 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the notion of externalities in connection with analyses of economic welfare. This text then discusses the relationship between publicness and external diseconomies when either consumption or production or decision sets are nonconvex due to a high degree of externalities. Other chapters consider disproving the pessimistic conclusions concerning tax–subsidy schemes. This book discusses as well the solutions for the allocation of resources in an economy with public goods and interdependent preferences. The final chapter deals with a general framework for estimating externality production functions. This book is a valuable resource for economists.
Author : Michael Carley
Publisher : Unwin Hyman
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0043100090
Author : Ed Diener,Richard Lucas,John F. Helliwell,Ulrich Schimmack
Publisher : Oxford Positive Psychology
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195334074
The authors explain why subjective indicators of well-being are needed, showing how these can offer useful input and giving examples of policy uses of well-being measures. They also describe the validity of the subjective well-being measures as well as potential problems, then delve into objections to their use for policy purposes.
Author : Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0886450667
The service sector is steadily growing as services that previously were undertaken within the family unit, now show up in social accounts as health care, education and public sector services. Technological changes make possible a process of intermediation in service activities, a separation in space or time of the recipient of services from the original producer, and the increase of v̀alue-added' services. This conference met to discuss implications of the growing service sector, with the larger goal of identifying frameworks for policies to support an efficient and expanding system for production and exchange of services domestically and internationally.
