Maxwell School News and Commentary
Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the 21st Century
Michael O’Hanlon, James B. Steinberg
The authors propose a set of policy proposals to achieve a sustainable, relatively cooperative relationship between the two nations, based on the concept of providing mutual strategic reassurance in such key areas as nuclear weapons and missile defense, space and cyber operations, and military basing and deployments, while also demonstrating strategic resolve to protect vital national interests, including, in the case of the United States, its commitments to regional allies.
December 31, 2014
Lee article on reducing unmeasured confounding-by-indication published in Statistics in Medicine
Yun Li, Yoonseok Lee, Robert A. Wolfe, Hal Morgenstern, Jinyao Zhang, Friedrich K. Port & Bruce M. Robinson
December 28, 2014
Lopoo article on prescription contraception coverage published in Pop Research and Policy Review
Kerri M. Raissian & Leonard M. Lopoo
December 13, 2014
WP 174 Random Effects, Fixed Effects and Hausman’s Test for the Generalized Mixed Regressive Panel
Badi H. Baltagi & Long Liu
This paper gives random & fixed effects spatial 2-stage least squares estimators for the generalized mixed regressive spatial autoregressive panel data model.
November 30, 2014
WP 173 Firm-level Productivity Spillovers in China’s Chemical Industry
Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger & Michaela Kesina
This paper assesses the role of intra-sectoral spillovers in total factor productivity across Chinese producers in the chemical industry.
November 30, 2014
Monnat study on elementary school physical education policies published in Preventive Medicine
Shannon M. Monnat, Monica A.F. Lounsbery & Nicole J. Smith
November 30, 2014
See related: Health Policy
WP 176 On Testing for Sphericity with Non-normality in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model
Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao & Bin Peng
Testing for sphericity of the variance-covariance matrix in a fixed effects panel data regression model without the normality assumption on the disturbances.
November 30, 2014
WP 175 Sources of Productivity Spillovers: Panel Data Evidence from China
Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger & Michaela Kesina
This paper uses a panel data-set of firms observed from 2004-2007 to assess productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry.
November 30, 2014
Process Tracing
Edited by Andrew Bennett, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Jeffrey T. Checkel, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
November 30, 2014
See related: Research Methods
Finding Pathways
Nicholas Weller, University of Southern California, Jeb Barnes, University of Southern California
November 30, 2014
See related: Research Methods