Browsing Research and Writings by Title
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A Change of Affections: The Development, Dynamics, and Dethronement of John Wesley's Heart Religion
("Heart Religion" in the Methodist Tradition and Related Movements, 2001) -
A Computer Simulation Model of Pharmaceutical Innovation
(Pharmaceutical Economics: Papers Presented at the 6. Arne Ryde Symposium, Helsingborg, Sweden 1982, 1984) -
A Computer Simulation Model of Pharmaceutical Innovation
(Pharmaceutical Economics, 1984) -
A Delegation-Based Theory of Expertise
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2015-09-17)We investigate competition in a delegation framework, with a coarsely informed principal. Two imperfectly informed and biased experts simultaneously propose action choices. A principal with a diffuse prior, and only being ... -
A Fair and Impartial Jury? The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2012-02-01)This paper uses data from over 700 felony trials in Sarasota and Lake Counties in Florida from 2000-2010 to examine the role of age in jury selection and trial outcomes. The results of the analysis imply that prosecutors ... -
A Framework for Library Support of Expansive Digital Publishing
(2018-12-01)This report offers a framework for how libraries can begin to embrace their role in the maturing space of digital humanities publishing, particularly as they seek to support what we call “expansive digital publishing” — ... -
A Glimpse Into Duke Research: Where Are You Now?
(2017-02-28)Duke is one of the leading sites for research across the nation, throughout the world where professionals are defining the way to a better and healthier future. A thorough understanding of how Duke networks behave is crucial ... -
A Jewish Asylum in Greco-Roman Egypt
(Das antike Asyl, 2003) -
A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-02-10)This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act ... -
A Man with No Religion
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A MAN WITH NO RELIGION
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A Note on Moral Hazard and Linear Compensation Schemes
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper, 2013-07-18)This note identifies a moral hazard environment in which a piecewise linear compensation scheme is optimal. Both the principal and the agent have CARA utility, mean output is increasing in the agent's non-contractible input, ... -
A Profile of 2013 Mortgage Borrowers: Statistics from the National Survey of Mortgage Originations
(Technical Report Series, 2017-03-21) -
A Profile of 2013 Mortgage Borrowers: Statistics from the National Survey of Mortgage Originations
(Technical Report Series,, 2016-05-27) -
A Profile of 2014 Mortgage Borrowers: Statistics from the National Survey of Mortgage Originations
(Technical Report Series, 2017-03-21) -
A sensible debate about radical Islam
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A Theory of Subjective Learning
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2012-08-31)We study an individual who faces a dynamic decision problem in which the process of information arrival is unobserved by the analyst. We derive two utility representations of preferences over menus of acts that capture the ... -
Academic Peer Effects with Different Group Assignment Policies: Residential Tracking versus Random Assignment
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-03-03)I study the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African university dormitories. Tracking reduces low-scoring students' GPAs but has little effect on high-scoring students. This ... -
Acciones Ambientales para el Mejoramiento del Medio Ambiente en las Comunidades Rurales [Environmental Actions for Improving the Environment of Rural Communities]
(1998)This guide is for rural communities in Latin America and for those who work with them. It provides clear, step-by-step instructions for organizing a community environmental group, conducting participatory planning exercises ...
