Robert A Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3822882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kenya School of Government |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8158-0291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dual computer displays reduce extraneous cognitive load
Dual display desktop computers are becoming more prevalent in the home, workplace, and schools, yet there has been little research into how learning and productivity are impacted by having a second display. One useful method in exploring this question is to measure cognitive load during an intensive learning event. This study compared perceived cognitive load among participants in a military training program using one or two computer displays. Pa…
Concrete Evidence
The COVID pandemic has forced governments to reimagine their revenue sources and spending priorities as well as how they balance meeting increasing public health demands with other pressing challenges. As the challenges to local economies have grown, policymakers at all levels of government have debated how best to restore confidence in the economy while mitigating the pandemic’s economic fallout. One such example is the Federal Government’s CARE…
The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative for scaling up service delivery innovation
Research projects demonstrating ways to improve health services often fail to have an impact on what national health programmes actually do. An approach to evidence-based policy development has been launched in Ghana which bridges the gap between research and programme implementation. After nearly two decades of national debate and investigation into appropriate strategies for service delivery at the periphery, the Community-based Health Planning…
A Microeconometric Comparison of Household Behavior Between Countries
This article reviews the methodological issues associated with estimating and testing competitive markets with panel data and applies it to an important new arena, international economics. We investigate differences in housing consumption and male labor supply across households in Germany and the United States with data from the German Socio Economic Panel and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Observations are treated as equilibrium outcomes, g…
The Crucible
The Situation Analysis Study of the Family Planning Program in Kenya
A new, relatively "quick and clean" operations research approach called a "situation analysis" was developed for examining the strengths and weaknesses of the family planning program of Kenya. Field research teams visited a stratified random sample of 99 of the Ministry of Health's approximately 775 service delivery points. Observation techniques and interviewing were used to collect information on program components and on the quality of care pr…
Segmentation and gender occupational segregation within an industrial labor market
Industrial and occupational differentiation and gender occupational segregation are important bases of labor market segmentation. Case studies of labor markets of specific industries advance understanding of labor market segmentation and gender occupational segregation and their consequences. This paper, based on a reanalysis of work history data gathered by Palmer and Stoflet (1938), examines differentiation in the labor market of the radio manu…
An Empirical Analysis of Life Cycle Fertility and Female Labor Supply
This paper examines household fertility and female labor supply over the life cycle. We investigate how maternal time inputs, market expenditures on offspring, as well as the benefits they yield their parents, vary with ages of offspring, and influence female labor supply and contraceptive behavior. Our econometric framework combines a female labor\nsupply model and a contraceptive choice index function. It also accounts for the fact that concept…
Innovation and Reputation
This paper analyzes a monopolist that markets successive generations of new and improving nondurable products. Prices, research intensity, and product innovations are derived as sequential equilibrium outcomes to a dynamic game with incomplete information. Asymmetric information is an important feature of the model. The monopolist is fully aware of the current product's quality, as are consumers who have tried it. However, the beliefs of other pe…
Job Matching and Occupational Choice
This paper presents a model of job matching the generalizes the existing literature by allowing for different jobs types, or occupations. Such differences affect the value of job-specific experience, inducing a career profile where certain types are sampled before others. More specifically, the analysis shows that it is optimal for the young and inexperienced to gravitate toward jobs exhibiting a certain kind of risk. Then, after deriving the equ…
Transitional phenomena in early language acquisition
Two transitional phases in the child's early language development are described; the first occurs between prelinguistic vocalization and one-word speech and the second between one-word and patterned speech. Cognitive, linguistic and affective inputs to the acquisition of reference and syntax are discussed in the light of the transitional phenomena that were found. We claim that each major linguistic stage is preceded by a transitional phase which…
The Party-State and Bureaucratic/Political Relations in Africa
he single-party state is a common form of political organization in T the Third World. Although independent Black Africa has witnessed a wave of military coups, the one-party system continues to dominate the remaining civilian regimes. In describing such systems reference is often made to one particular form, the party-state (Zolberg, 1966; Coleman and Rosberg, 1964). Despite the fact that the party-state itself is not common in Africa, it has at…
Élite Formation in Africa
A unified élite means the end of freedom. But when the groups of the élite... become a disunity, it means the end of the state. Freedom survives in [the] intermediate free zones.1Any system that restrains [solidification of the élite] however slightly can only excite awe.2
The Relation of Reading Characteristics to Social Indexes
Two small areas in Chicago were studied to determine the differences in the amount and character of the reading of books and periodicals. One area is a middle-class residential district, the other an industrial community largely foreign born or of foreign parentage. The residential community with a higher economic status, better educational background, and greater average maturity in age contrasted sharply with the other community, their reading …
Job Matching and Occupational Choice
This paper presents a model of job matching the generalizes the existing literature by allowing for different jobs types, or occupations. Such differences affect the value of job-specific experience, inducing a career profile where certain types are sampled before others. More specifically, the analysis shows that it is optimal for the young and inexperienced to gravitate toward jobs exhibiting a certain kind of risk. Then, after deriving the equ…
The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative for scaling up service delivery innovation
Research projects demonstrating ways to improve health services often fail to have an impact on what national health programmes actually do. An approach to evidence-based policy development has been launched in Ghana which bridges the gap between research and programme implementation. After nearly two decades of national debate and investigation into appropriate strategies for service delivery at the periphery, the Community-based Health Planning…
The Situation Analysis Study of the Family Planning Program in Kenya
A new, relatively "quick and clean" operations research approach called a "situation analysis" was developed for examining the strengths and weaknesses of the family planning program of Kenya. Field research teams visited a stratified random sample of 99 of the Ministry of Health's approximately 775 service delivery points. Observation techniques and interviewing were used to collect information on program components and on the quality of care pr…
Élite Formation in Africa
A unified élite means the end of freedom. But when the groups of the élite... become a disunity, it means the end of the state. Freedom survives in [the] intermediate free zones.1Any system that restrains [solidification of the élite] however slightly can only excite awe.2
The Party-State and Bureaucratic/Political Relations in Africa
he single-party state is a common form of political organization in T the Third World. Although independent Black Africa has witnessed a wave of military coups, the one-party system continues to dominate the remaining civilian regimes. In describing such systems reference is often made to one particular form, the party-state (Zolberg, 1966; Coleman and Rosberg, 1964). Despite the fact that the party-state itself is not common in Africa, it has at…
Innovation and Reputation
This paper analyzes a monopolist that markets successive generations of new and improving nondurable products. Prices, research intensity, and product innovations are derived as sequential equilibrium outcomes to a dynamic game with incomplete information. Asymmetric information is an important feature of the model. The monopolist is fully aware of the current product's quality, as are consumers who have tried it. However, the beliefs of other pe…
The Relation of Reading Characteristics to Social Indexes
Two small areas in Chicago were studied to determine the differences in the amount and character of the reading of books and periodicals. One area is a middle-class residential district, the other an industrial community largely foreign born or of foreign parentage. The residential community with a higher economic status, better educational background, and greater average maturity in age contrasted sharply with the other community, their reading …
Élite Formation in Africa
A unified élite means the end of freedom. But when the groups of the élite... become a disunity, it means the end of the state. Freedom survives in [the] intermediate free zones.1Any system that restrains [solidification of the élite] however slightly can only excite awe.2
The Party-State and Bureaucratic/Political Relations in Africa
he single-party state is a common form of political organization in T the Third World. Although independent Black Africa has witnessed a wave of military coups, the one-party system continues to dominate the remaining civilian regimes. In describing such systems reference is often made to one particular form, the party-state (Zolberg, 1966; Coleman and Rosberg, 1964). Despite the fact that the party-state itself is not common in Africa, it has at…
Transitional phenomena in early language acquisition
Two transitional phases in the child's early language development are described; the first occurs between prelinguistic vocalization and one-word speech and the second between one-word and patterned speech. Cognitive, linguistic and affective inputs to the acquisition of reference and syntax are discussed in the light of the transitional phenomena that were found. We claim that each major linguistic stage is preceded by a transitional phase which…
Job Matching and Occupational Choice
This paper presents a model of job matching the generalizes the existing literature by allowing for different jobs types, or occupations. Such differences affect the value of job-specific experience, inducing a career profile where certain types are sampled before others. More specifically, the analysis shows that it is optimal for the young and inexperienced to gravitate toward jobs exhibiting a certain kind of risk. Then, after deriving the equ…
An Empirical Analysis of Life Cycle Fertility and Female Labor Supply
This paper examines household fertility and female labor supply over the life cycle. We investigate how maternal time inputs, market expenditures on offspring, as well as the benefits they yield their parents, vary with ages of offspring, and influence female labor supply and contraceptive behavior. Our econometric framework combines a female labor\nsupply model and a contraceptive choice index function. It also accounts for the fact that concept…
Innovation and Reputation
This paper analyzes a monopolist that markets successive generations of new and improving nondurable products. Prices, research intensity, and product innovations are derived as sequential equilibrium outcomes to a dynamic game with incomplete information. Asymmetric information is an important feature of the model. The monopolist is fully aware of the current product's quality, as are consumers who have tried it. However, the beliefs of other pe…
Segmentation and gender occupational segregation within an industrial labor market
Industrial and occupational differentiation and gender occupational segregation are important bases of labor market segmentation. Case studies of labor markets of specific industries advance understanding of labor market segmentation and gender occupational segregation and their consequences. This paper, based on a reanalysis of work history data gathered by Palmer and Stoflet (1938), examines differentiation in the labor market of the radio manu…
The Situation Analysis Study of the Family Planning Program in Kenya
A new, relatively "quick and clean" operations research approach called a "situation analysis" was developed for examining the strengths and weaknesses of the family planning program of Kenya. Field research teams visited a stratified random sample of 99 of the Ministry of Health's approximately 775 service delivery points. Observation techniques and interviewing were used to collect information on program components and on the quality of care pr…
A Microeconometric Comparison of Household Behavior Between Countries
This article reviews the methodological issues associated with estimating and testing competitive markets with panel data and applies it to an important new arena, international economics. We investigate differences in housing consumption and male labor supply across households in Germany and the United States with data from the German Socio Economic Panel and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Observations are treated as equilibrium outcomes, g…
The Crucible
The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative for scaling up service delivery innovation
Research projects demonstrating ways to improve health services often fail to have an impact on what national health programmes actually do. An approach to evidence-based policy development has been launched in Ghana which bridges the gap between research and programme implementation. After nearly two decades of national debate and investigation into appropriate strategies for service delivery at the periphery, the Community-based Health Planning…
Dual computer displays reduce extraneous cognitive load
Dual display desktop computers are becoming more prevalent in the home, workplace, and schools, yet there has been little research into how learning and productivity are impacted by having a second display. One useful method in exploring this question is to measure cognitive load during an intensive learning event. This study compared perceived cognitive load among participants in a military training program using one or two computer displays. Pa…
Concrete Evidence
The COVID pandemic has forced governments to reimagine their revenue sources and spending priorities as well as how they balance meeting increasing public health demands with other pressing challenges. As the challenges to local economies have grown, policymakers at all levels of government have debated how best to restore confidence in the economy while mitigating the pandemic’s economic fallout. One such example is the Federal Government’s CARE…
Economics (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (3 works)