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Make Simple Cross-Sectional Data with World Bank Data (from {WDI})

Steven V. Miller

If you’re interested in topics of economic development, population growth, corruption, education levels—or almost anything else in the cross-national context—the World Bank’s DataBank has you covered. European Union, OECD states), economic groupings (e.g. NA #> 2 Afghanistan AF AFG 2015 71.5 There’s a better way, I promise.

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Short Course: Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Case Studies & Comparative Research (QMMR B)

Political Science Now

He is the co-author, with Alexander George, of Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Science (MIT Press, 2005), and co-author, with Jeffrey T. Checkel, of Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Tasha Fairfield is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics.

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app.

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Persistent problems: A powerful paradigm for professional development

A Psychology Teacher Writes

The paradigm of persistent problems Mary Kennedy’s seminal (2015) paper “Parsing the practice of teaching” sets out the idea that every teacher, no matter their experience, expertise or context, faces the same persistent problems of teaching. Sims, S. & & Allen, R. Review of Education, rev3.3226. Kennedy, M. Korthagen, F.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.

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With enrollment sliding, liberal arts colleges struggle to make a case for themselves

The Hechinger Report

High-achieving low-income students, in particular, don’t know what “liberal arts” means, according to a 2015 study by researchers at Stanford and the University of Virginia. More than a third saw no relationship between their jobs and what they learned in college, according to that American Academy of Arts & Sciences study.