Stephen C Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen C Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen C |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-9452-1003 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Can Agricultural Extension and Input Support Be Discontinued? Evidence from a Randomized Phaseout in Uganda
Many development programs that attempt to disseminate improved technologies are limited in duration because of external funding constraints or an assumption of impact sustainability, but there is limited evidence on whether and when terminating such programs is efficient. We provide novel experimental evidence on the impacts of a randomized phaseout of an agricultural extension and subsidy program that promotes improved inputs and cultivation pra…
Nonunion Employee Representation
Theories of how nonunion employee representation impacts firm performance, affects market equilibria, and generates externalities on labor and society are synthesized. Mandated works councils in Germany provide a particularly strong form of nonunion employee representation. A systematic review of research on the German experience with mandated works councils finds generally positive effects, though these effects depend on a series of moderating f…
Assessing the Frontiers of Ultrapoverty Reduction
This article uses household panel data to provide robust evidence on the effects of BRAC’s (Building Resources across Countries) Targeting the Ultra-poor (TUP) program in Bangladesh. We use alternative treatment-comparison pairs; in addition to BRAC’s own classification, we exploit type 1 errors in assignment in BRAC’s selection process to create a second treatment-comparison pair. This allows us to estimate the program effects on the target grou…
Education and Freedom of Choice
Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use war disruptions and spatial indicators of schooling supply as instruments. The point estimates indicate that a year of additional schooling reduces the probability of an arranged marriage by about 14 percentage points for an individual with eight years of schooling. We also estimate bounds on the effect of education on arranged m…
Regional Agricultural Endowments and Shifts of Poverty Trap Equilibria
We examine changes in patterns of equilibria over time and across regions, applied to the Ethiopia Rural Household Survey. We revisit incidence of multiple equilibria using new nonparametric techniques, and examine single equilibria that remain stagnant below the poverty line. Using quantile regressions, we identify differences across the income distribution. We introduce the empirical analysis of sequences of equilibria. We identify a single equ…
Brutus as an Earthborn Founder of Rome (Livy 1.56)
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Ending Global Poverty
Village Banking and Maternal and Child Health
Gender, Gender Roles and Attitudes Towards Violence
Androgyny is a gender role that has several positive characteristics such as adaptive coping strategies and less violent viewpoints. To examine the relationship between gender, gender roles, and attitudes towards violence, 161 individuals were administered the Bem Sex Role Inventory and a violence questionnaire. It was hypothesized that a significant number of non-androgynous people would have a great predisposition towards violence. The mean vio…
Development economics
On the Law and Economics of Employee Ownership in Privatization in Developing and Transition Economies
Anyone Can Grow up to Be President! (And Other Myths of the American Presidential Election Process)
1994). Anyone can grow up to be president! (and other myths of the American presidential election process) New Political Science: Vol. 15, No. 1-2, pp. 7-29
The competitive advantage of nations
Labor-Managed Cooperatives and Private Firms in North Central Italy
The authors analyze the differences between the behavior of private firms and that of producer cooperatives in a matched sample of the two organizational types from the regions of Emilia Romagna and Toscana in North-Central Italy, where producer cooperatives are numerous. Individual firm-level surveys provide new detailed comparative data on key issues such as investment, productivity, wages, employment, and industrial relations. Differences betw…
Dworkin's 'Imperialism' and Socio-Legal 'Empiricism
Industrial Growth in India
On Illyrian Macroeconomics
The Ward-Vanek labor-managed economy macro models are found to contain errors in capital pricing treatment which, when correct ed, removes "perverse" responses and leads to monetary neutrality. Vanek's (1977) open model is shown not to be a labor-managed econ-omy model, but rather one of any economy with fixed output. A rational e xpectations macro model is developed in which labor-managed firms mus t decompose price movement into its nominal and…
The Behavior of Labor‐managed Firms Under Uncertainty Product Diversification, Income Insurance and Layoff Policy
Water Research
Water Policy in the United States. Review
The California Basin
Anyone Can Grow up to Be President! (And Other Myths of the American Presidential Election Process)
1994). Anyone can grow up to be president! (and other myths of the American presidential election process) New Political Science: Vol. 15, No. 1-2, pp. 7-29
Labor-Managed Cooperatives and Private Firms in North Central Italy
The authors analyze the differences between the behavior of private firms and that of producer cooperatives in a matched sample of the two organizational types from the regions of Emilia Romagna and Toscana in North-Central Italy, where producer cooperatives are numerous. Individual firm-level surveys provide new detailed comparative data on key issues such as investment, productivity, wages, employment, and industrial relations. Differences betw…
Village Banking and Maternal and Child Health
The competitive advantage of nations
Nonunion Employee Representation
Theories of how nonunion employee representation impacts firm performance, affects market equilibria, and generates externalities on labor and society are synthesized. Mandated works councils in Germany provide a particularly strong form of nonunion employee representation. A systematic review of research on the German experience with mandated works councils finds generally positive effects, though these effects depend on a series of moderating f…
Industrial Growth in India
Assessing the Frontiers of Ultrapoverty Reduction
This article uses household panel data to provide robust evidence on the effects of BRAC’s (Building Resources across Countries) Targeting the Ultra-poor (TUP) program in Bangladesh. We use alternative treatment-comparison pairs; in addition to BRAC’s own classification, we exploit type 1 errors in assignment in BRAC’s selection process to create a second treatment-comparison pair. This allows us to estimate the program effects on the target grou…
Brutus as an Earthborn Founder of Rome (Livy 1.56)
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Ending Global Poverty
Development economics
The Behavior of Labor‐managed Firms Under Uncertainty Product Diversification, Income Insurance and Layoff Policy
The California Basin
Water Policy in the United States. Review
Water Research
The Behavior of Labor‐managed Firms Under Uncertainty Product Diversification, Income Insurance and Layoff Policy
Industrial Growth in India
On Illyrian Macroeconomics
The Ward-Vanek labor-managed economy macro models are found to contain errors in capital pricing treatment which, when correct ed, removes "perverse" responses and leads to monetary neutrality. Vanek's (1977) open model is shown not to be a labor-managed econ-omy model, but rather one of any economy with fixed output. A rational e xpectations macro model is developed in which labor-managed firms mus t decompose price movement into its nominal and…
Dworkin's 'Imperialism' and Socio-Legal 'Empiricism
Labor-Managed Cooperatives and Private Firms in North Central Italy
The authors analyze the differences between the behavior of private firms and that of producer cooperatives in a matched sample of the two organizational types from the regions of Emilia Romagna and Toscana in North-Central Italy, where producer cooperatives are numerous. Individual firm-level surveys provide new detailed comparative data on key issues such as investment, productivity, wages, employment, and industrial relations. Differences betw…
The competitive advantage of nations
On the Law and Economics of Employee Ownership in Privatization in Developing and Transition Economies
Anyone Can Grow up to Be President! (And Other Myths of the American Presidential Election Process)
1994). Anyone can grow up to be president! (and other myths of the American presidential election process) New Political Science: Vol. 15, No. 1-2, pp. 7-29
Development economics
Gender, Gender Roles and Attitudes Towards Violence
Androgyny is a gender role that has several positive characteristics such as adaptive coping strategies and less violent viewpoints. To examine the relationship between gender, gender roles, and attitudes towards violence, 161 individuals were administered the Bem Sex Role Inventory and a violence questionnaire. It was hypothesized that a significant number of non-androgynous people would have a great predisposition towards violence. The mean vio…
Village Banking and Maternal and Child Health
Ending Global Poverty
Brutus as an Earthborn Founder of Rome (Livy 1.56)
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Education and Freedom of Choice
Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use war disruptions and spatial indicators of schooling supply as instruments. The point estimates indicate that a year of additional schooling reduces the probability of an arranged marriage by about 14 percentage points for an individual with eight years of schooling. We also estimate bounds on the effect of education on arranged m…
Regional Agricultural Endowments and Shifts of Poverty Trap Equilibria
We examine changes in patterns of equilibria over time and across regions, applied to the Ethiopia Rural Household Survey. We revisit incidence of multiple equilibria using new nonparametric techniques, and examine single equilibria that remain stagnant below the poverty line. Using quantile regressions, we identify differences across the income distribution. We introduce the empirical analysis of sequences of equilibria. We identify a single equ…
Assessing the Frontiers of Ultrapoverty Reduction
This article uses household panel data to provide robust evidence on the effects of BRAC’s (Building Resources across Countries) Targeting the Ultra-poor (TUP) program in Bangladesh. We use alternative treatment-comparison pairs; in addition to BRAC’s own classification, we exploit type 1 errors in assignment in BRAC’s selection process to create a second treatment-comparison pair. This allows us to estimate the program effects on the target grou…
Nonunion Employee Representation
Theories of how nonunion employee representation impacts firm performance, affects market equilibria, and generates externalities on labor and society are synthesized. Mandated works councils in Germany provide a particularly strong form of nonunion employee representation. A systematic review of research on the German experience with mandated works councils finds generally positive effects, though these effects depend on a series of moderating f…
Can Agricultural Extension and Input Support Be Discontinued? Evidence from a Randomized Phaseout in Uganda
Many development programs that attempt to disseminate improved technologies are limited in duration because of external funding constraints or an assumption of impact sustainability, but there is limited evidence on whether and when terminating such programs is efficient. We provide novel experimental evidence on the impacts of a randomized phaseout of an agricultural extension and subsidy program that promotes improved inputs and cultivation pra…
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