Economic Education Research: Part III, Statistical Estimation Methods

Becker, William E.

doi:10.1080/00220485.1983.10845020

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“…At this stage, we collected, coded and analysed data simultaneously to understand which data to collect next (Glaser and Strauss, ). More specifically, our ongoing data collection process was controlled by the emerging theory rather than a list of variables (Becker, ). In other words, our approach was based on the need to collect more data to examine categories and their relationships and to ensure that representativeness in the categories exists (Glaser and Strauss, ; Chenitz and Swanson, ).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Hidden’ expatriates: international mobility in the United Arab Emirates as a challenge to current understanding of expatriation

Haak‐Saheem

Brewster²

2017

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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Expatriates are often assumed to have enhanced terms and conditions and, because that makes them expensive, to be in key managerial or technical specialist roles. Employees who come from abroad and are in more manual or even menial roles are usually referred to as ‘migrants’. However, there are millions of people around the world who are not migrants, their intended sojourn in a foreign country is seen by them and their employers as temporary, but their employment contracts are far from advantageous compared with those of locals. These ‘hidden’ expatriates are brought into focus in the emerging Arab Gulf States. In some of these countries, the population consists mainly of expatriates, with the local population a small minority: These expatriates include many in lower‐management or manual or menial jobs. We demarcate these expatriates from organisationally assigned expatriates, self‐initiated expatriates and migrants. We use qualitative data from such expatriates in the United Arab Emirates to explore the issues this raises for governments, employers and the expatriates – and for our understanding of the phenomenon of expatriation.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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‘Hidden’ expatriates: international mobility in the United Arab Emirates as a challenge to current understanding of expatriation

Haak‐Saheem

Brewster²

2017

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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“…In this study we follow Walstad (1990) and use a stock model, whereby we attempt to explain students’ stock of economic knowledge or level of economics understanding , as measured by a set of examination results. An alternative approach that we do not follow is to explain economic learning or the change in the stock of knowledge (Becker, 1983a, 1983b and 1983c; Becker et al. , 1991).…”

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A Multivariate Evaluation of Mainstream and Academic Development Courses in First‐year Microeconomics

Smith

Edwards²

2007

South African J Economics

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This paper analyses the impact of the University of Cape Town's first-year microeconomics academic development course on performance in examinations. The paper makes two advances to existing empirical literature in this area. Firstly, we compare performance with a control group drawn from the mainstream economic course. Secondly, we evaluate performance in subsequent courses in first-year macroeconomics and second-year microeconomics. The results suggest that the academic development course has a major impact on students' performance in the structured/essay questions, relative to the control group, in first- and second-year microeconomics, and for the multiple-choice questions in first-year macroeconomics. Copyright (c) 2007 The Authors. Journal compilation (c) 2007 Economic Society of South Africa.

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“…We also include other demographic variables that could affect the production function; examples include gender and number of total credit hours earned. Since letter grade is discrete and ordinal and we assume the error term is normally distributed; an ordered probit model is chosen for the analysis (Spector and Mazzeo, 1980; Becker, 1983; Borg, Mason, and Shapiro, 1989; Borg and Shapiro, 1996; Borooah, 2002; Greene, 2003; Raehsler et al, 2012). The ordered probit differs from the ordered logit in its assumption of the error term being normally distributed as opposed to logistically distributed; however, as Greene (2003) points out, “it is difficult to justify the choice of one distribution over the other on theoretical grounds when in most cases it seems to not make much of a difference.” The ordered probit model takes the form:

\begin{matrix} y^{*} = β^{'} x + ε \end{matrix}

where y * is the unobserved latent dependent variable, (coded as 0, 1, 2, and 3) for letter grades of D, C, B, and A, respectively.…”

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Grade Performance of Face-to-Face Versus Online Agricultural Economics Students

Greenway

Makus

2014

Natural Sciences Education

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Online course offerings have been growing at a rapid pace in post‐secondary education. An ordered probit model is estimated to analyze the effects of online vs. face‐to‐face course format in achieving specific letter grades. An upper‐division agricultural economics course taught over 9 years using both formats is used for the analysis. For a sample of 81 students, variables of grade point average, number of credit hours taken, verbal SAT score, gender, course format, and major were used to predict final score in the course. Results indicate that online students performed better than face‐to‐face students at a marginal significance level. Online students were 2% less likely to earn a D in the course, and 15% less likely to earn a C in the course than their face‐to‐face counterparts. Online students were 8%t more likely to earn a B in the course and 9% more likely to earn an A in the course than face‐to‐face students.

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Economic Education Research: Part III, Statistical Estimation Methods

Cited by 26 publications

References 25 publications

‘Hidden’ expatriates: international mobility in the United Arab Emirates as a challenge to current understanding of expatriation

‘Hidden’ expatriates: international mobility in the United Arab Emirates as a challenge to current understanding of expatriation

A Multivariate Evaluation of Mainstream and Academic Development Courses in First‐year Microeconomics

Grade Performance of Face-to-Face Versus Online Agricultural Economics Students

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