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Financial Intermediation and Growth: Causality and Causes

by Ross Levine, Norman Loayza, Thorsten Beck - JOURNAL OF MONETARY ECONOMICS , 2000
"... This paper evaluates (1) whether the exogenous component of financial intermediary development influences economic growth and (2) whether cross-country differences in legal and accounting systems (e.g., creditor rights, contract enforcement, and accounting standards) explain differences in the level ..."
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This paper evaluates (1) whether the exogenous component of financial intermediary development influences economic growth and (2) whether cross-country differences in legal and accounting systems (e.g., creditor rights, contract enforcement, and accounting standards) explain differences

Ecology of the family as a context for human development: Research perspectives.

by Urie Bronfenbrenner , Josephine Arastah , Mavis Hetherington , Richard Lerner , Jeylan T Mortimer , Joseph H Pleck , Lea Pulkinnen , Michael Rutter , Klaus Schneewind , Diana Slaughter - Developmental Psychology, , 1986
"... This review collates and examines critically a theoretically convergent but widely dispersed body of research on the influence of external environments on the functioning of families as contexts of human development. Investigations falling within this expanding domain include studies of the interac ..."
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of the interaction of genetics and environment in family processes; transitions and linkages between the family and other major settings influencing development, such as hospitals, day care, peer groups, school, social networks, the world of work (both for parents and children), and neighborhoods and communities

Finance and growth: Theory and evidence

by Ross Levine , 2004
"... This paper reviews, appraises, and critiques theoretical and empirical research on the connections between the operation of the financial system and economic growth. While subject to ample qualifications and countervailing views, the preponderance of evidence suggests that both financial intermedia ..."
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intermediaries and markets matter for growth and that reverse causality alone is not driving this relationship. Furthermore, theory and evidence imply that better developed financial systems ease external financing constraints facing firms, which illuminates one mechanism through which financial development

Culture in action: Symbols and strategies

by Ann Swidler - American Sociological Review , 1986
"... Culture influences action not by providing the ultimate values toward which action is oriented, but by shaping a repertoire or "tool kit " of habits, skills, and styles from which people construct "strategies of action. " Two models of cultural influence are developed, for settle ..."
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Culture influences action not by providing the ultimate values toward which action is oriented, but by shaping a repertoire or "tool kit " of habits, skills, and styles from which people construct "strategies of action. " Two models of cultural influence are developed

Core affect and the psychological construction of emotion

by James A. Russell - Psychological Review
"... At the heart of emotion, mood, and any other emotionally charged event are states experienced as simply feeling good or bad, energized or enervated. These states—called core affect—influence reflexes, perception, cognition, and behavior and are influenced by many causes internal and external, but pe ..."
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At the heart of emotion, mood, and any other emotionally charged event are states experienced as simply feeling good or bad, energized or enervated. These states—called core affect—influence reflexes, perception, cognition, and behavior and are influenced by many causes internal and external

Probabilistic Boolean networks: a rule-based uncertainty model for gene regulatory networks

by Ilya Shmulevich, Edward R. Dougherty, Seungchan Kim, Wei Zhang , 2002
"... Motivation: Our goal is to construct a model for genetic regulatory networks such that the model class: (i ) incorporates rule-based dependencies between genes; (ii ) allows the systematic study of global network dynamics; (iii ) is able to cope with uncertainty, both in the data and the model selec ..."
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Motivation: Our goal is to construct a model for genetic regulatory networks such that the model class: (i ) incorporates rule-based dependencies between genes; (ii ) allows the systematic study of global network dynamics; (iii ) is able to cope with uncertainty, both in the data and the model

Media will never influence learning.

by Richard E Clark - Educational Technology Research and Development, , 1994
"... The purpose of this discussion is to explain and sharpen different points of view about the impact of media and attributes of media on learning, motivation and efficiency gains from instruction. This paper is an attempt to INTRODUCTION A Brief History of Media Research The claim of "no learnin ..."
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as theorists, to shift from media attributes as causal in learning to media attributes as causal in the cost-effectiveness of learning. While this may seem a small shift in the representation of the problem, it would have major consequences for instructional research, theory and for design. Cognitive

The effects of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities on labor market outcomes and social behavior

by James J. Heckman, Jora Stixrud, Sergio Urzua, James J. Heckman, Jora Stixrud, Sergio Urzua - Journal of Labor Economics , 2006
"... William Johnson and James P. Ziliak and two anonymous referees for helpful comments. We also thank Jeff Grogger, Bruce Meyer and Derek Neal for very helpful comments that led to revisions and clarifications. Supplementary materials are on our website jenni.uchicago.edu/noncog. We thank Federico Teme ..."
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important. Our analysis addresses the problems of measurement error, imperfect proxies, and reverse causality that plague conventional studies of cognitive and noncognitive skills that regress earnings (and other outcomes) on proxies for skills. Noncognitive skills strongly influence schooling decisions

Assessing the contribution of venture capital to innovation

by Samuel Kortum, Josh Lerner - Rand Journal of Economics , 2000
"... We examine the influence of venture capital on patented inventions in the United States across twenty industries over three decades. We address concerns about causality in several ways, including exploiting a 1979 policy shift that spurred venture capital fundraising. We find that increases in ventu ..."
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We examine the influence of venture capital on patented inventions in the United States across twenty industries over three decades. We address concerns about causality in several ways, including exploiting a 1979 policy shift that spurred venture capital fundraising. We find that increases

Genetic Network Inference: From Co-Expression Clustering To Reverse Engineering

by Patrik D'Haeseleer, Shoudan Liang, Roland Somogyi , 2000
"... motivation: Advances in molecular biological, analytical and computational technologies are enabling us to systematically investigate the complex molecular processes underlying biological systems. In particular, using highthroughput gene expression assays, we are able to measure the output of the ge ..."
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aspects of clustering, ranging from distance measures to clustering algorithms and multiple-cluster memberships. More advanced analysis aims to infer causal connections between genes directly, i.e. who is regulating whom and how. We discuss several approaches to the problem of reverse engineering
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