"Try to Balance the Baseline": A comment on "Parent-teacher meetings and student outcomes: Evidence from a developing country" by Islam (2019)

European Economic Review Abstract Islam (2019) reports results from a cluster randomized field experiment in Bangladesh that examines the effects of parent–teacher meetings on student test scores in pri

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Insecurity and political values in the Arab world

Democratization, vol 27, issue 5, p. 699-716 Abstract Within a few years of the historic Arab uprisings of 2011, popular mobilization dissipated amidst instability in many Arab countries. We trace the r

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Chandra Kumar: Racist Explanations

Chandra Kumar, with a PhD in Philosophy, teaches philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at York University in Canada. AbstractWhile crudely and explicitly racist explanations persist in our social

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