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Fall 2011
Vertical scaling is the process of establishing a numerical test score scale across several age or grade levels. Given that the current literature does not indicate which of the different vertical scaling procedure works “best” for all situations. This study evaluated the performance of four...
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Spring 2016
Women’s land rights are increasingly advocated as an empowerment tool to spur development outcomes. However, empirical evidence of this relationship is limited. In this study we use data from peasant communities in rural Peru to explore the effect of the intra-household allocation of inherited...
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Polytomous item response theory parameter recovery: An investigation of non-normal distributions and small sample size
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Item Response Theory (IRT) has been extensively used in educational research with large sample sizes and normally distributed traits. However, there are cases in which distributions are not normal, and research has shown that the estimation of parameters becomes problematic with non-normal data....
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Fall 2022
We rarely think of hope as a determinant of economic outcomes. Yet it has been shown to be a motivator of human behavior in the fields of psychology and anthropology. Recent studies have incorporated the longstanding psychological concept of hope into economics, but have failed to pay sufficient...