By: John Duncan MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, England Glyn W. Humphreys Birkbeck College, University of London, London, England Financial support was provided by the MRC Applied Psychology Unit, where the work was carried out. The second author's research is also supported by grants from the Medical Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, and Science and Engineering Re...

Economics at Columbia University, and Senior Director and Chairman of the Advisory Committee at Sebago Associates, Inc., an economic policy consulting firm. Dr. Stiglitz is the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Previously, Dr. Stiglitz served as the World Bank’s Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics and, before that, as the Chairman of the Presid...

Heckman for North-Holland. The first and third authors acknowledge financial support from the UK Economic and Social Research Council under an award for General Equilibrium Analysis of UK Policy Issues; the third author also acknowledges support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We are grateful to Andres Erosa and Gustavo Ventura for helpful comments on an earl...

Please see Table 4.1: Percentage Distribution of Immigrants and Natives by Educational Attainment, United States and California. In Smith, James P., and Barry Edmonston, eds. The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration. Panell on the Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration, National Research Council, 1997. Available online at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5...

In the wake of controversy over allegations of espionage by Wen Ho Lee, a nuclear scientist at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, the department ordered that polygraph tests be given to scientists working in similar positions. Soon thereafter, at the request of Congress, the department asked the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct a thorough study of polygraph tes...

Acknowledgments This study was funded by a Sidney Sax Public Health Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (Grant 187027) to Richard de Visser. Funding for research costs in London was provided by the United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council (Grant RES-000-22-0406). We are grateful to Professor Jim Orford for his comments on...

To outline and interpret the major concerns of education research all over the world, we propose to conduct a three-year research project titled “An International Comparison of Education Research Organizations, Research Policies, Quality-Standards Construction, and the Relationship between Research and Practice with a View to Improve Education Research Mechanisms in Taiwan.” The study will incl...

Economic & Political Weekly EPW June 26, 2010 vol xlv nos 26 & 27 199 The project, “Pesticide Use in Food Crops of Kerala” was funded by the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment. Thanks to the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics and Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment for funding the project and all those who helped in...