What drags and drives mobility? Explaining Canada's aggregate migration patterns

Explaining drives the discovery of real and illusory patterns

Children’s and adults’ attempts to explain the world around them plays a key role in promoting learning and understanding, but little is known about how and why explaining has this effect. An experiment investigated explaining in the social context of learning to predict and explain individuals’ behavior, examining if explaining observations exerts a selective constraint to seek patterns or reg...

What Drives Aggregate Investment? Evidence from German Survey Data

The Ifo Investment Survey (IS) asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of technical factors, sales, finance, profit expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. Using the survey responses to these questions, we construct measures of aggregate technology and non-technology shocks to quantify their contributions to aggregate inve...

Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries

Database users commonly explore large data sets by running aggregate queries that project the data down to a smaller number of points and dimensions, and visualizing the results. Often, such visualizations will reveal outliers that correspond to errors or surprising features of the input data set. Unfortunately, databases and visualization systems do not provide a way to work backwards from an ...

What is trustworthiness and what drives it?

This paper reports the results of experiments designed to isolate the impact of various combinations of the following motives on trustworthiness: (i) unconditional other-regarding preferences — like altruism, inequality aversion, quasi-maximin, etc.; (ii) deal-responsiveness — reacting to actions that allow for a mutual improvement by adopting behavior that implies a mutual improvement; (iii) g...

Migration, Mobility and HIV