Stakes high in tax debate

Accuracy in Detecting High Stakes

Author(s): Clea Wright Whelan ; Graham Wagstaff ; Jacqueline M Wheatcroft Title: High stakes lies: Police and non-police accuracy in detecting deception Date: 2015. Appeared online 26 June 2014 Originally published in: Psychology, Crime and Law Example citation: Wright Whelan, C., Wagstaff, G., & Wheatcroft, J. M. (2015). High stakes lies: Police and non-police accuracy in detecting deception. ...

High-Stakes Interpretation

High-Stakes Testing

I review the literature on the impact on student achievement of high-stakes testing. Its popularity as a mechanism for holding educators accountable has triggered studies to examine whether its promise to increase student learning has been fulfilled. The review concludes there is no consistent evidence to suggest high-stakes testing leads to increases in student learning. Some evidence suggests...

Framing the policy debate over spirits excise tax in Poland.

Industry lobbying remains an obstacle to effective health-oriented alcohol policy. In 2013, an increase in excise tax on spirits was announced by the Polish government. This article presents a qualitative analysis of the public debate that ensued on the potential economic, health and social effects of the policy. It focuses on how competing groups, including industry actors, framed their positi...

Rhetoric and Economics in the Estate Tax Debate

In this paper, we evaluate and critique ten principal claims made in recent debates on the estate tax, distinguishing five types of statements: facts, rhetoric, value judgments, economic reasoning, and informed speculation. Economics can not fully resolve the debate because economic knowledge is inconclusive and because value judgments help determine optimal choices. Nevertheless, economic anal...