Ian Crawford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Crawford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Crawford |
| SIGNATURE | CRAWFORD I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4853-3370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Forum on Heikki Patomäki’s World Statehood: The Future of World Politics
In this forum, six scholars discuss Heikki Patomäki’s book World Statehood: The Future of World Politics, published in 2023. The editor’s introduction situates it in the discursive contexts of cosmopolitanism, deep history and functional differentiation. Ian Crawford looks at the concept of world statehood from an astrobiologist’s point of view, putting the debate in the context of research on the possibility of life existing beyond Earth. Eva Er…
New Characteristics and Hedonic Price Index Numbers
Changes in product characteristics on the extensive margin (the addition of new features and the removal of old ones) are an important and hitherto neglected dimension of quality change. Standard techniques for adjusting price indices for new goods cannot handle such changes satisfactorily, and this leads to an economically and statistically significant bias in the measurement of prices and real output. We combine insights from the theories of ex…
Factors motivating destination decisions of Chinese study abroad students
Purpose The paper examines the effects of individual differences on the key motivational factors affecting Chinese study abroad students. Design/methodology/approach The current study adopts a quantitative survey approach. Students are recruited through the largest online survey provider in China. Using 335 completed questionnaires and factor analysis, the key factors influencing Chinese students are identified. Subsequently, regressions are empl…
Higher achievers? Mobility programmes, generic skills, and academic learning: A UK case study
The received wisdom is that mobility programmes considerably contribute to students in terms of the development of generic skills, language and multicultural competence and competitive advantage in the global labour market. Surprisingly, the impacts of mobility programmes on academic learning have received very limited research interest in the literature. This study uses students enrolled on international management and modern language degrees in…
Who are gaining the highly paid elite placements in UK higher education
This study analyses longitudinal student data to determine the influence of social class, academic performance and other individual factors such as gender, ethnicity and age on entry on the possibility of obtaining highly paid placements in elite professions. Focusing on subject-relevant placements, the findings here strongly support the meritocratic recruitment and rewarding process for such work experience schemes. Prestigious and highly paid p…
The impact of placements on the academic performance of UK and international students in higher education
Motivated by an increasing number of international students in UK higher education, this study investigates the effect of year-long placements on the academic performance of 268 accounting and finance students enrolled between 2006 and 2009. The results show differences between UK and international students although both statistically and significantly increase their final-year marks and their chance to obtain a good degree (first or 2.1) followi…
Models of Revealed Preference
Revealed preference theory is concerned with what we can learn about the process by which economic agents make decisions using simply the features of the world that we observe: choices. Different economic models place different restrictions on these choices. The revealed preference literature derives these restrictions and then puts them to use. Research effort has recently been extended far beyond the axiomatic characterization of neoclassical m…
The impact of individual factors on the academic attainment of Chinese and UK students in higher education
This study investigates the academic performance differences between Chinese and UK students in a UK university using two undergraduate cohorts by uniquely exploring academic performance patterns among Chinese and UK students across a full degree study period (3 or 4 years). The results reveal a dramatic drop in performance among Chinese students from year 1 to year 2 and increasingly significant performance gaps between Chinese and UK students i…
How many types are there
We consider a revealed preference‐based method that will bound the minimal partition of consumer microdata into a set of preference types such that the data are perfectly rationalisable by standard utility theory. This provides a simple, non‐parametric and theory‐driven way of investigating unobserved preference heterogeneity in empirical data, and easily extends to any choice model which has a revealed preference characterisation. We illustrate …
Books
Domestic Service in Australia. By B.W. Higman. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii + 358. $49.95 cloth. Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement. By Kerreen M. Reiger. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. 335. $38.95 paper. The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia. By Warwick Anderson. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 352. $34.95 paper. Invisible…
Books
A History of the Churches in Australasia. By Ian Breward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi + 474. £65.00 doth. Holocaust Remembrance in Australian Jewish Communities 1945–2000. By Judith E. Berman. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2001. Pp. 276. $34.95 paper. Speaking to Immigrants: Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Migration. Edited by A. James Hammerton and Eric Richards. Canberra: History Program and Centr…
The Cost of Living with the RPI: Substitution Bias in the UK Retail Prices Index
This paper uses revealed preference restrictions and nonparametric statistical methods to bound the true cost-of-living index which corresponds most closely to the UK Retail Prices Index (RPI). This is used to assess the RPI formula for substitution bias. We show that neither the direction nor the existence of bias in the RPI forumla can be established on a priori theoretical grounds. However, we find empirical evidence of a variable, but general…
Promoting farmer uptake of agri-environment schemes: The Countryside Stewardship Arable Options Scheme
The Role of the Australian Archaeological Association
The Role of the Australian Archaeological Association." Australian Archaeology, 2(1), pp. 3–4
An interstate drowning study
An interstate drowning study. E Press, J Walker, and I CrawfordCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.58.12.2275 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Promoting farmer uptake of agri-environment schemes: The Countryside Stewardship Arable Options Scheme
The impact of placements on the academic performance of UK and international students in higher education
Motivated by an increasing number of international students in UK higher education, this study investigates the effect of year-long placements on the academic performance of 268 accounting and finance students enrolled between 2006 and 2009. The results show differences between UK and international students although both statistically and significantly increase their final-year marks and their chance to obtain a good degree (first or 2.1) followi…
The impact of individual factors on the academic attainment of Chinese and UK students in higher education
This study investigates the academic performance differences between Chinese and UK students in a UK university using two undergraduate cohorts by uniquely exploring academic performance patterns among Chinese and UK students across a full degree study period (3 or 4 years). The results reveal a dramatic drop in performance among Chinese students from year 1 to year 2 and increasingly significant performance gaps between Chinese and UK students i…
How many types are there
We consider a revealed preference‐based method that will bound the minimal partition of consumer microdata into a set of preference types such that the data are perfectly rationalisable by standard utility theory. This provides a simple, non‐parametric and theory‐driven way of investigating unobserved preference heterogeneity in empirical data, and easily extends to any choice model which has a revealed preference characterisation. We illustrate …
Higher achievers? Mobility programmes, generic skills, and academic learning: A UK case study
The received wisdom is that mobility programmes considerably contribute to students in terms of the development of generic skills, language and multicultural competence and competitive advantage in the global labour market. Surprisingly, the impacts of mobility programmes on academic learning have received very limited research interest in the literature. This study uses students enrolled on international management and modern language degrees in…
Who are gaining the highly paid elite placements in UK higher education
This study analyses longitudinal student data to determine the influence of social class, academic performance and other individual factors such as gender, ethnicity and age on entry on the possibility of obtaining highly paid placements in elite professions. Focusing on subject-relevant placements, the findings here strongly support the meritocratic recruitment and rewarding process for such work experience schemes. Prestigious and highly paid p…
The Cost of Living with the RPI: Substitution Bias in the UK Retail Prices Index
This paper uses revealed preference restrictions and nonparametric statistical methods to bound the true cost-of-living index which corresponds most closely to the UK Retail Prices Index (RPI). This is used to assess the RPI formula for substitution bias. We show that neither the direction nor the existence of bias in the RPI forumla can be established on a priori theoretical grounds. However, we find empirical evidence of a variable, but general…
An interstate drowning study
An interstate drowning study. E Press, J Walker, and I CrawfordCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.58.12.2275 Published Online: August 29, 2011
The Role of the Australian Archaeological Association
The Role of the Australian Archaeological Association." Australian Archaeology, 2(1), pp. 3–4
Promoting farmer uptake of agri-environment schemes: The Countryside Stewardship Arable Options Scheme
The Cost of Living with the RPI: Substitution Bias in the UK Retail Prices Index
This paper uses revealed preference restrictions and nonparametric statistical methods to bound the true cost-of-living index which corresponds most closely to the UK Retail Prices Index (RPI). This is used to assess the RPI formula for substitution bias. We show that neither the direction nor the existence of bias in the RPI forumla can be established on a priori theoretical grounds. However, we find empirical evidence of a variable, but general…
Books
Domestic Service in Australia. By B.W. Higman. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii + 358. $49.95 cloth. Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement. By Kerreen M. Reiger. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. 335. $38.95 paper. The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia. By Warwick Anderson. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 352. $34.95 paper. Invisible…
Books
A History of the Churches in Australasia. By Ian Breward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi + 474. £65.00 doth. Holocaust Remembrance in Australian Jewish Communities 1945–2000. By Judith E. Berman. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2001. Pp. 276. $34.95 paper. Speaking to Immigrants: Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Migration. Edited by A. James Hammerton and Eric Richards. Canberra: History Program and Centr…
How many types are there
We consider a revealed preference‐based method that will bound the minimal partition of consumer microdata into a set of preference types such that the data are perfectly rationalisable by standard utility theory. This provides a simple, non‐parametric and theory‐driven way of investigating unobserved preference heterogeneity in empirical data, and easily extends to any choice model which has a revealed preference characterisation. We illustrate …
Models of Revealed Preference
Revealed preference theory is concerned with what we can learn about the process by which economic agents make decisions using simply the features of the world that we observe: choices. Different economic models place different restrictions on these choices. The revealed preference literature derives these restrictions and then puts them to use. Research effort has recently been extended far beyond the axiomatic characterization of neoclassical m…
The impact of individual factors on the academic attainment of Chinese and UK students in higher education
This study investigates the academic performance differences between Chinese and UK students in a UK university using two undergraduate cohorts by uniquely exploring academic performance patterns among Chinese and UK students across a full degree study period (3 or 4 years). The results reveal a dramatic drop in performance among Chinese students from year 1 to year 2 and increasingly significant performance gaps between Chinese and UK students i…
The impact of placements on the academic performance of UK and international students in higher education
Motivated by an increasing number of international students in UK higher education, this study investigates the effect of year-long placements on the academic performance of 268 accounting and finance students enrolled between 2006 and 2009. The results show differences between UK and international students although both statistically and significantly increase their final-year marks and their chance to obtain a good degree (first or 2.1) followi…
Higher achievers? Mobility programmes, generic skills, and academic learning: A UK case study
The received wisdom is that mobility programmes considerably contribute to students in terms of the development of generic skills, language and multicultural competence and competitive advantage in the global labour market. Surprisingly, the impacts of mobility programmes on academic learning have received very limited research interest in the literature. This study uses students enrolled on international management and modern language degrees in…
Who are gaining the highly paid elite placements in UK higher education
This study analyses longitudinal student data to determine the influence of social class, academic performance and other individual factors such as gender, ethnicity and age on entry on the possibility of obtaining highly paid placements in elite professions. Focusing on subject-relevant placements, the findings here strongly support the meritocratic recruitment and rewarding process for such work experience schemes. Prestigious and highly paid p…
Factors motivating destination decisions of Chinese study abroad students
Purpose The paper examines the effects of individual differences on the key motivational factors affecting Chinese study abroad students. Design/methodology/approach The current study adopts a quantitative survey approach. Students are recruited through the largest online survey provider in China. Using 335 completed questionnaires and factor analysis, the key factors influencing Chinese students are identified. Subsequently, regressions are empl…
New Characteristics and Hedonic Price Index Numbers
Changes in product characteristics on the extensive margin (the addition of new features and the removal of old ones) are an important and hitherto neglected dimension of quality change. Standard techniques for adjusting price indices for new goods cannot handle such changes satisfactorily, and this leads to an economically and statistically significant bias in the measurement of prices and real output. We combine insights from the theories of ex…
Forum on Heikki Patomäki’s World Statehood: The Future of World Politics
In this forum, six scholars discuss Heikki Patomäki’s book World Statehood: The Future of World Politics, published in 2023. The editor’s introduction situates it in the discursive contexts of cosmopolitanism, deep history and functional differentiation. Ian Crawford looks at the concept of world statehood from an astrobiologist’s point of view, putting the debate in the context of research on the possibility of life existing beyond Earth. Eva Er…
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