What Can Repeated Cross-Sectional Studies Tell Us About Student Growth?

What Does Skewness of Firm Fundamentals Tell Us About Firm Growth, Profitability, and Stock Returns

This paper investigates whether the skewness of firm fundamentals is informative about future firm performance and stock returns. We present two distinct preference-free theoretical models of firm fundamentals, both of which imply a positive relation between the skewness of firm fundamentals and expected stock return. Consistent with this implication, we show empirically that the skewness measu...

Cross-sectional anthropometry: what can it tell us about the health of young children?

It has become common practice in health surveys to collect anthropometric measurements from young children. These datasets comprise one-point-in-time measurements for a number of children, and are very different in character from longitudinal data such as those collected during growth monitoring. This paper explores the nature of cross-sectional data, their applications and their limitations, u...

What Do College Ranking Data Tell Us About Student Retention?

Cross-Cultural Piagetian Studies: What Can They Tell Us?/

Impact? What Three Years of Research Tell Us about Library Instruction

7 I keep returning to a question librarians in my line of work have asked ourselves many times during the course of our careers: " Are we having an impact with library instruction? " We can judge our success by talking to colleagues or hearing anecdotal feedback from our students after any library workshop. But what does the literature tell us? I decided to peruse issues of C&RL published over ...