Why the more educated are less inclined to keep ethnic distance: An empirical test of four explanations

Why Are Criminals Less Educated than Non-Criminals? Evidence from a Cohort of Young Australian Twins

Many studies find a strong negative association between crime and education. This raises the question whether crime reduces investment in human capital or whether education reduces criminal activity. This article investigates posed question by using fixed-effect estimation on data of Australian twins. We find early arrests (before the age of 18) both to have a strong effect on human capital acc...

Are the Better Educated Less Likely to Support Militancy and Terrorism? Women Are

I use 2009 public opinion survey data from Pakistan to show that the relationship between education and support for terrorism varies by gender. Specifically: 1) as women become more educated, they are less likely to support militancy relative to similarly educated men, whereas uneducated women are more likely to support militancy relative to uneducated men, controlling for religiosity, demograp...

Why Software Projects Escalate: An Empirical Analysis and Test of Four Theoretical Models

Software projects can often spiral out of control to become “runaway systems” that far exceed original budget and schedule projections. The behavior that underlies many runaway systems can best be characterized as “escalation of commitment to a failing course of action.” The objectives of this study were to: (1) understand the extent to which IS projects are prone to escalate, (2) compare the o...

Children’s Associational Rights? Why Less Is More

ترجمه و تحقیق کتاب an introduction to the history of mysticism

پایان نامه ی ارائه شده ترجمه ی کتاب «an introduction to the history of mysticism» نوشته ی مارگارت اسمیت که وی پژوهشگر، خاورشناس و محقق برجسته ی تصوف و عرفان می باشد. موضوع اساسی و مهم این کتاب عرفان در ادیان مختلف است. نویسنده در ابتدا این کلمه را ریشه یابی کرده و سپس تعریفی از آن ارائه داده و آن را در ادیان مختلف مورد بحث قرار داده است و در هر فصل کتاب به معرفی عرفای آن دین یا عصر خاصی پرداخته...