cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01254.v1
title: Presidential Uses of Force During the Cold War: Aggregation, Truncation, and Temporal Dynamics
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description: This study identifies three methodological issues that affect inferences drawn in studies of presidential decisions to use force: aggregation, truncation, and dynamics. The authors suggest that a dichotomous measure of uses of force introduces aggregation bias, while the decision to examine only major uses of force introduces truncation bias. In addition, they argue that the presence of rivalry creates temporal dependence or dynamics in the use of force series. They re-examine the empirical findings reported in a seminal study of United States presidents' use of force during the Cold War (Ostrom and Job, 1986). The findings demonstrate the importance of these three methodological issues. Results of a Poisson Autoregressive (PAR) model show dynamics in the use of force series. Contrary to Ostrom and Job, the authors find that international variables have a larger substantive effect on the president's decision to use force than political variables like approval and domestic variables like economic performance.
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description: (1) The file submitted is mandm2002.zip, which contains mmvarlist02.txt, a dictionary describing the variables, Readme.txt, a description of the study, Results.log, the results from the various analyses, force49-76final.csv, a comma-delimited (ASCII) version of the data, force49-76final.dta, a Stata version of the data, and force49-76final.xls, an Excel version of the data. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigators if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01255.v1
title: Making the Most of Statistical Analyses: Improving Interpretation and Presentation
title: Version 1

description: Social scientists rarely take full advantage of the information available in their statistical results. As a consequence, they miss opportunities to present quantities that are of greatest substantive interest for their research, and to express their degree of certainty about these quantities. In this article, the authors offer an approach, built on the technique of statistical simulation, to extract the currently overlooked information from any statistical method, no matter how complicated, and to interpret and present it in a reader-friendly manner. Using this technique requires some sophistication, but its application should make the results of quantitative articles more informative and transparent to all. To illustrate their recommendations, the authors replicate the results of several published works, showing in each case how the authors' own conclusions could be expressed more sharply and informatively, and how this approach reveals important new information about the research questions at hand.
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description: (1) The file submitted is ktw.zip, which contains the data and program files along with a readme file. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigators if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01257.v1
title: Media Content Coding Analysis, 1980 Presidential Campaign, Los Angeles Times
title: Version 1

description: This dataset contains a content analysis of stories covering the 1980 presidential election campaign in the Los Angeles Times. The data are referenced in Chapter 9 of INFORMATION AND ELECTIONS, R. Michael Alvarez, University of Michigan Press, 1997.
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description: The files submitted are codebook.pdf and lat1980.xls. These data and documentation are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01258.v1
title: Seeing Through the Smoke and Mirrors: A Response to Palmer and Whitten, British Journal of Political Science, January 2003
title: Version 1

description: This is a corrected version of IS CLARITY OF RESPONSIBILITY IMPORTANT FOR ECONOMIC VOTING? REVISITING POWELL AND WHITTEN'S HYPOTHESIS (ICPSR 1206), used to write two responses to criticisms made by Harvey Palmer and Guy Whitten in an exchange in the January 2003 issue of the British Journal of Political Science.
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description: (1) Files submitted are response.xls (Excel 97 file), response.sav (SPSS Version 8 data file), and codebk.doc (Codebook in MS Word 97 format). (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01259.v1
title: Conducting Monetary Policy Without Government Debt: The Fed's Early Years
title: Version 1

description: The Federal Reserve implements its monetary policy by using open market operations in United States government securities to target the federal funds rate. A substantial decline in the stock of United States Treasury debt could interfere with the conduct of monetary policy, possibly forcing the Fed to rely more heavily on discount window lending or to conduct open market transactions in other types of securities. Either choice would cause the implementation of monetary policy to resemble the methods used by the Fed before World War II. This paper describes two things: (1) how the Fed implemented monetary policy before the war and (2) the conflicts that arose within the Fed over the allocation of private-sector credit when discount window loans and Fed purchases of private securities were a substantial component of Federal Reserve credit. Those conflicts help explain the Fed's failure to respond vigorously to the Great Depression. The experience suggests that a renewed reliance on the discount window or on open market operations in securities other than those issued by the United States Treasury could hamper the conduct of monetary policy if it leads to increased pressure on the Fed to affect the allocation of credit.
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description: The file submitted is 0205dwd.txt. These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01260.v1
title: Few and Far Between?: An Environmental Equity Analysis of the Geographic Distribution of Hazardous Waste Generation
title: Version 1

description: This article examines whether the generation of hazardous waste is concentrated in communities that are disproportionately minority or low-income. While much environmental equity research has focused on commercial facilities managing hazardous waste, facilities that generate and manage their own wastes -- which account for over 98 percent of hazardous waste volume -- have been ignored. The demographic characteristics were determined of people in geographic concentric rings around hazardous waste generators accounting for most of the country's 1997 hazardous waste volume. The author's analyses indicate no tendency for disproportionately minority communities to be near these facilities. In fact, relatively few people are near the locations where most hazardous waste is generated. While a few of these facilities have large numbers of minority people around them, most are in areas with higher than average white populations. There was, however, a tendency for low-income communities to be near these facilities. To the extent that there are potential risks from the presence of hazardous waste at facilities, most of this risk is in relatively unpopulated areas. The presence of hazardous waste is not concentrated in areas that are disproportionately minority or low-income.
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description: The files submitted are fewfar.txt, an ASCII data file, and read.me.pdf, a description of the dataset. These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01261.v1
title: Why Are Stock Market Returns Correlated with Future Economic Activity?
title: Version 1

description: Stock price, because it is a forward-looking variable, forecasts economic activities. An unexpected increase in stock price reflects that (1) future dividend growth is higher and/or (2) future discount rates are lower than previously anticipated. Therefore, the increase predicts higher output and investment. As well, other studies argue for an important relation between the expected stock market return and investment. In this paper, the author analyses the relative importance of these mechanisms by using Campbell and Shiller's (1988) method to decompose stock market return into three parts: expected return, a shock to the expected future return, and a shock to the expected future dividend growth. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the author finds that dividend shocks are a rather weak predictor for future economic activities. Moreover, the expected return and shocks to the expected future return display different predictive patterns. The results shown here, collectively, explain why the forecasting power of stock market return is rather limited.
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description: The files submitted are a data file, 0203hgd.xls, and a program file, 0203hgp.tsp. These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01262.v1
title: Monetary Policy Innovation Paradox in VARs: A Discrete Explanation
title: Version 1

description: Monetary policy shocks derived from VARs often suggest that monetary policymakers regularly react to an unexpected increase that they induced in the federal funds rate with additional increases. This puzzling pattern can be called the "policy innovation paradox" because there is no obvious explanation for such a pattern. This article shows that the policy innovation paradox is most likely the artifact of failing to account for the discreteness of changes that policymakers make to the target federal funds rate. Misspecified VARs that fail to account for discrete target changes imply the policy innovation paradox, whereas a model that uses information from discrete policy changes does not.
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description: The submitted zip file opens to the data and program files. These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02376.v1
title: Vocational Education Data System (VEDS): Teacher-Staff Report, 1978-1979
title: Version 1

description: The Teacher-Staff report is a component of the Vocational Education Data System (VEDS), an annual program of data collection in the United States and its territories. The file provides data on all instructional staff by occupational program assignment covered in each state's plan for vocational education, including staff in the consumer and homemaking, industrial arts, and program support and supervisory areas.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
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description: Vocational Education Series
description: All states (except Montana), the District of Columbia, and five United States territories (American Samoa, Northern Marianas, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific).
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02377.v1
title: Vocational Education Data System (VEDS): Financial Status Report, Fiscal Year 1979
title: Version 1

description: The Financial Status Report, Part A, is a component of the Vocational Education Data System (VEDS), an annual program of data collection in the United States and its territories. This survey collected data on federal and non-federal funds outlayed and obligated for vocational education under specific legislative code authorizations, by state.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
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description: Vocational Education Series
description: All states, plus the District of Columbia and five territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Trust Territory of the Pacific).
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01263.v1
title: High-Tech Investment Boom and Economic Growth in the 1990s: Accounting for Quality
title: Version 1

description: The rapid pace of economic growth in the 1990s was associated with an increasingly prominent role for investment, particularly for information processing and communications technologies. Given the evident pace of technological advancement in these sectors, official economic statistics have been constructed to take careful account of improvements in the quality of these high-tech capital goods. In this article, the author examines the possibility that this selective accounting for quality improvement has distorted the true importance of high-tech investment in recent economic growth trends. After constructing alternative measures of investment spending that are adjusted for quality change that may go unmeasured in the official data, he finds that the increasing importance of high-tech investment revealed in the official data is quite robust: The prominent role of investment spending during the 1990s, particularly for high-tech capital goods, does in fact represent a significant departure from past trends in the composition of United States economic growth.
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description: The file submitted is a data file, 0203mpd.xls. These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01264.v1
title: [Title removed at the request of the principal investigators]
title: Version 1

description: [Summary removed at the request of the principal investigators]
description: This material was removed at the request of the principal investigators. According to Barry C. Burden, "All of the involved parties believe that the archive has outlived its usefulness. The controversy involved is no longer salient to researchers and over the past decade a variety of new methods have been developed that improve on those used in the study."
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01265.v1
title: Did Right-to-Work Work for Idaho?
title: Version 1

description: The Idaho legislature passed a right-to-work law in 1986. Idaho provides an interesting case study for the effects of the law because it adopted the law during a period in which unionization had already declined substantially in the United States. This paper provides evidence on the industrial organization consequences of right-to-work laws by jointly examining the trends in Idaho's unionization rate and industrial performance before and after 1986, using neighboring states as controls. The authors find that unionization declined substantially starting a few years before the passage of the law, and this decline persisted thereafter. Furthermore, the post-law growth rates in manufacturing employment and the number of establishments far exceeded their pre-law counterparts. As a result, Idaho gradually became more like an average right-to-work law state in terms of its unionization rate and the employment share of manufacturing, diverging from the patterns exhibited by states without a right-to-work law.
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description: (1) Files submitted are 0205rhp.zip, containing programs, and 0205rhd.zip, containing data. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01266.v1
title: Unemployment Insurance Claims and Economic Activity
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description: Economic forecasters pay especially close attention to labor market indicators during periods of economic uncertainty. Labor market data are thought to provide early evidence about changes in the course of the economy. This article examines whether monthly changes in labor market indicators are useful for predicting real GDP. It then examines whether weekly changes in initial and continuing unemployment insurance claims are useful for helping to predict changes in important labor market indicators. Incoming monthly data on nonfarm payroll jobs and the index of aggregate weekly hours help predict changes in real GDP growth, but data on the civilian unemployment rate do not. The authors also find that unemployment insurance claims help to predict changes in monthly labor variables. As others have found, these predictions work best in periods of recession. However, this article shows that there was also some predictive ability during the 1990s expansion.
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description: (1) Files submitted are 0205wgd.xls, the data, and 0205wgp.prg, the program. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02386.v1
title: Vocational Education Data System (VEDS): Program Enrollment and Termination Report, Form 2404, Part A: Occupational Preparation Programs Involving VEDS Follow-Up Activities, 1978-1979
title: Version 1

description: The Program Enrollment and Termination Report, Part A, is a component of the Vocational Education Data System (VEDS), an annual program of data collection in the United States and its territories. This survey includes data on enrollment in vocational education programs by instructional program topic, racial/ethnic designation, and sex, and by program level. The survey distinguishes between program completers and program leavers.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
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description: Vocational Education Series
description: All states (except Montana), the District of Columbia, and five territories (American Samoa, Northern Marianas, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Trust Territory of the Pacific).
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01267.v1
title: Aviation Security and Terrorism: A Review of the Economic Issues
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description: Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the passage of the Aviation and Transportation Act mandated a substantial increase in resources devoted to aviation security. This paper summarized the specific changes stemming from this legislation. In addition, the paper examines the economic issues underlying the regulation and provision of aviation security. The fact that security at one airport can affect the well-being of those at other airports and elsewhere, an example of a network externality (spillover), provides an economic justification for governmental involvement in aviation security. A fundamental question is whether the federal role should be restricted to setting and monitoring security standards or whether the role should also include the financing and implementation of security. A controversial change is that the federal government has assumed responsibility from the airlines and airports for the actual provision of aviation security. Proponents of this change argue that, relative to private provision, public provision reduces the incentives to reduce quality through cost reductions. On the other hand, a public agency might not provide security services efficiently because it can operate in a more-or-less monopolistic way. Furthermore, a public agency might provide an excessive amount of security and incur unnecessary expenses because it is likely to be judged on its security record and not on all the attributes encompassed by air transportation services for consumers. Thus, economic theory does not provide a clear answer to what is likely to be a continuing source of controversy -- the appropriate scope of governmental involvement in aviation security.
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description: (1) The file submitted is the data file, 0209ccd.txt. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.
DOI: 10.3886/icpsr01268.v1
title: How Well Do Monetary Fundamentals Forecast Exchange Rates?
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description: For many years after the seminal work of Meese and Rogoff (1983a), conventional wisdom held that exchange rates could not be forecast from monetary fundamentals. Monetary models of exchange rate determination were generally unable to beat even a naive no-change model in out-of-sample forecasting. More recently, the use of sophisticated econometric techniques, panel data, and long spans of data has convinced some researchers (Mark and Sul, 2001) that monetary models can forecast a small, but statistically significant part of the variation in exchange rates. Others remain skeptical, however (Rapach and Wohar, 2001b, Faust, Rogers, and Wright, 2001). It remains a puzzle why even the most supportive studies find such a small predictable component to exchange rates. This article reviews the literature on forecasting exchange rates with monetary fundamentals and speculates as to why it remains so difficult.
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description: (1) Files submitted are the program file, 0209cnp.txt, and the data file, 0209cnd.txt. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.