William E Griffith
Biographic Data
| ID | 749505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William E Griffith |
| GIVEN NAMES | William E |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffith |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITH W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0081-1319 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Inequality in Education: A Comparison of Australian Indigenous and Nonindigenous Populations
Data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey is used to estimate distributions for the level of educational attainment for Australian indigenous and nonindigenous populations for the years 2001, 2006, 2014 and 2017. Bayesian inference is used to analyse how these ordinal categorical distributions have changed over time and to compare indigenous and nonindigenous distributions. Both the level of educational attainment and…
Central and Eastern Europe: The Opening Curtain?
Lay people’s models of the economy: A study based on surveys of consumer sentiments
Inference for Income Distributions Using Grouped Data
We develop a general approach to estimation and inference for income distributions using grouped or aggregate data that are typically available in the form of population shares and class mean incomes, with unknown group bounds. We derive generic moment conditions and an optimal weight matrix that can be used for generalized method-of-moments (GMM) estimation of any parametric income distribution. Our derivation of the weight matrix and its invers…
Global Income Distributions and Inequality, 1993 and 2000: Incorporating Country-Level Inequality Modeled with Beta Distributions
Using a method-of-moments estimator, flexible three-parameter beta distributions are fitted to aggregate country-level income data to overcome an untenable assumption of previous studies that persons within each income group receive the same income. Regional and global income distributions are derived as weighted mixtures of country-specific distributions. Analytical expressions for Gini and Theil's measures of inequality at country, regional, an…
What Creates Abnormal Profits
In this paper, we re‐examine the debate regarding the determinants of persistent abnormal profits. Abnormal profits are estimated using data on tangible and intangible capital for 2689 Australian firms over a 17‐year period. The determinants of abnormal profits are then estimated using variables collated from accounting and survey data on innovation and management practices. We find that market share, use of lead‐time strategies, and industry con…
Estimating and Combining National Income Distributions Using Limited Data
A major problem encountered in studies of income inequality at regional and global levels is estimating income distributions from data that are in summary form. In this article we estimate national and regional income distributions within a general framework that relaxes the assumption of constant income within groups. We propose a technique to estimate the parameters of a beta-2 distribution using grouped data. We model regional income distribut…
Averaging Lorenz curves
Estimating Lorenz Curves Using a Dirichlet Distribution
The Lorenz curve relates the cumulative proportion of income to the cumulative proportion of population. When a particular functional form of the Lorenz curve is specified, it is typically estimated by linear or nonlinear least squares estimation techniques that have good properties when the error terms are independently and normally distributed. Observations on cumulative proportions are clearly neither independent nor normally distributed. This…
Central and Eastern Europe: The Opening Curtain
Central and Eastern Europe: The Opening Curtain
Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Econometrics.
Value of a Random Variable 2.4.2Expectation of a Function of a Single Random Variable 2.4.3Expectations of Functions of Several Random Variables 2.4.4Moments ' 2.4.5 Chebyshev's Theorem 2.4.6 Expectations Involving Multivariate Random Variables 2.5 Some Special Distributions 2.5.1 The Bernoulli Distribution 2.5.2The Binomial Distribution 2.5.3The Multinomial Distribution 2.5.4The Gamma Distribution 2.5.5The Normal Distribution 2.5.6The Bivariate …
Mission on the Rhine: Reeducation and Denazification in American-Occupied Germany
The Theory and Practice of Econometrics
The Theory and Practice of Econometrics
Propaganda and Communication in World History: Volume II: Emergence of Public Opinion in the West
Super‐power relations after Afghanistan
The Ostpolitik of the Federal Republic of Germany
The European Left: Italy, France, and Spain
The Ussr in Political Perspective
The Revival of Islamic Fundamentalism: The Case of Iran
The Iranian revolution has highlighted one of the principal religious and political developments of our time, the revival of Islamic fundamentalism, from Indonesia to Morocco and from Turkey to central Africa.' In the short run it will cause more problems for the West. In the long run, however, it may be more dangerous to the Soviet Union in Muslim Soviet Central Asia.2 The Western model of modernization, industrialization, and rational bureaucra…
The Soviet Empire: Expansion and Detente. Critical Choices for Americans. Vol. 9
The World and the Great-Power Triangles
Soviet influence in the Middle East
The Pitfalls of the Theory of Modernization
Professor Korbonski has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay with which I find myself largely in disagreement, in general and in detail. I hope that the following brief comments will indicate with what, and why, I disagree. But in spite of my disagreements I think that Professor Korbonski's effort was well worth making. Indeed, I share his view that the study of East European politics can well profit from the study of political develo…
Couple Concurrence and Empathy on Birth Control Motivation in Dacca, East Pakistan
The purpose of the analysis was to measure the degree of communication between husbands and wives with respect to family-size goals. The data were interview responses from 547 husbands and their wives living in Dacca East Pakistan in 1963. As had been true in previous analyses of Puerto Rico and of Mysore India large proportions of the Dacca couples agreed about their family-size goals. In addition large proportions of husbands and wives were abl…
Peaceful Engagement in Eastern Europe
THE United States has never had a realistic and effective foreign policy toward Eastern Europe. During World War II the official American position was that the disposition of Eastern European problems should await the peace settle ment, but this was primarily a rationalization for a lack of policy. After the war, when the area became dominated by the Soviet Union (to some extent because of Western passivity), the Amer ican interest in Eastern Eur…
Husbands' vs. Wives' responses to a fertility survey
A fertility survey of 547 couples was carried out in Dacca, East Pakistan in 1963. Both husbands and wives were interviewed. Therefore, it was possible to study the degree and nature of differences in husbands' and wives' responses and, on some topics, to infer which spouse tended to give the more accurate responses. Husbands reported more use of contraception and seemed to give more precise reports on time elapsed since marriage and since last l…
The Ostpolitik of the Federal Republic of Germany
What Creates Abnormal Profits
In this paper, we re‐examine the debate regarding the determinants of persistent abnormal profits. Abnormal profits are estimated using data on tangible and intangible capital for 2689 Australian firms over a 17‐year period. The determinants of abnormal profits are then estimated using variables collated from accounting and survey data on innovation and management practices. We find that market share, use of lead‐time strategies, and industry con…
The Theory and Practice of Econometrics
Denazification in the United States Zone of Germany
LIKE the rest of military government, denazification planning suffered from Washington indecision, Morgenthau plan influence, and Roosevelt's decision not to plan at all.' However, based on experience in purging Fascists in Italy, the Public Safety Branch of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces drew up a plan for immediate removal of top-level Nazis and militarists and for retention and
Lay people’s models of the economy: A study based on surveys of consumer sentiments
The Theory and Practice of Econometrics
The Revival of Islamic Fundamentalism: The Case of Iran
The Iranian revolution has highlighted one of the principal religious and political developments of our time, the revival of Islamic fundamentalism, from Indonesia to Morocco and from Turkey to central Africa.' In the short run it will cause more problems for the West. In the long run, however, it may be more dangerous to the Soviet Union in Muslim Soviet Central Asia.2 The Western model of modernization, industrialization, and rational bureaucra…
Soviet And Chinese Communism: Similarities and Differences
Family planning survey in Dacca, East Pakistan
Este artíficulo presenta los resultados preliminares de una encuesia sobre planificación. de la familia, que es parte de un Programa de Planificación Familiar denominado Estudio de Crecimiento Familiar en Dacca, Pakistán del Este, 1963. Los datos que se presentan constituyen la información obtenida en la encuesta preliminar. Los datos corresponden a 547 esposos y sus señoras, que viven en grupos habitacionales del Gobierno, en Dacca. La población…
European Communism and the Sino-Soviet Schism
East European communism has two subgroups: the more moderate Yugoslavs, Poles, and Hungarians and the more rigid East Germans, Czechoslovaks, Rumanians, and Bul garians—plus the pro-Chinese Albanians. West Europe has two mass Communist parties, the semirevisionist Italians and the rigid French, and many other small, sectarian ones. The effect of the Sino-Soviet schism has been decisive only in Al bania, which, out of fear of Yugoslavia, has deser…
Communist Propaganda Methods: A Case Study on Czechoslovakia, by Vladimir Reisky de Dubnic, Hans J. Morgenthau
Denazification in the United States Zone of Germany
LIKE the rest of military government, denazification planning suffered from Washington indecision, Morgenthau plan influence, and Roosevelt's decision not to plan at all.' However, based on experience in purging Fascists in Italy, the Public Safety Branch of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces drew up a plan for immediate removal of top-level Nazis and militarists and for retention and
Communist Propaganda Methods: A Case Study on Czechoslovakia, by Vladimir Reisky de Dubnic, Hans J. Morgenthau
Peaceful Engagement in Eastern Europe
THE United States has never had a realistic and effective foreign policy toward Eastern Europe. During World War II the official American position was that the disposition of Eastern European problems should await the peace settle ment, but this was primarily a rationalization for a lack of policy. After the war, when the area became dominated by the Soviet Union (to some extent because of Western passivity), the Amer ican interest in Eastern Eur…
European Communism and the Sino-Soviet Schism
East European communism has two subgroups: the more moderate Yugoslavs, Poles, and Hungarians and the more rigid East Germans, Czechoslovaks, Rumanians, and Bul garians—plus the pro-Chinese Albanians. West Europe has two mass Communist parties, the semirevisionist Italians and the rigid French, and many other small, sectarian ones. The effect of the Sino-Soviet schism has been decisive only in Al bania, which, out of fear of Yugoslavia, has deser…
Quebec in Revolt
Albania and the Sino-Soviet Rift
Family planning survey in Dacca, East Pakistan
Este artíficulo presenta los resultados preliminares de una encuesia sobre planificación. de la familia, que es parte de un Programa de Planificación Familiar denominado Estudio de Crecimiento Familiar en Dacca, Pakistán del Este, 1963. Los datos que se presentan constituyen la información obtenida en la encuesta preliminar. Los datos corresponden a 547 esposos y sus señoras, que viven en grupos habitacionales del Gobierno, en Dacca. La población…
The Sino-Soviet Rift
Husbands' vs. Wives' responses to a fertility survey
A fertility survey of 547 couples was carried out in Dacca, East Pakistan in 1963. Both husbands and wives were interviewed. Therefore, it was possible to study the degree and nature of differences in husbands' and wives' responses and, on some topics, to infer which spouse tended to give the more accurate responses. Husbands reported more use of contraception and seemed to give more precise reports on time elapsed since marriage and since last l…
Sino-Soviet Relations, 1964–1965
The radical worsening of Sino-Soviet relations began in the spring of 1958 and the “ point of no return ” occurred at the latest in the summer of 1959. Indeed, since 1958 the public dispute has followed a cyclical course of escalation and partial détente. Each cycle has made Moscow-Peking relations worse than before and given other communist parties more autonomy from the Soviet Union. The apparent partial détentes have ostensibly been caused by …
Educational efforts in the implementation of rural family planning programs in East Pakistan
The pilot family planning studies reported in this paper were conducted in a rural area adjacent to the city of Dacca in East Pakistan. It reports the preliminary findings of action-research in the implementation of educational efforts to reach rural villagers of a developing country. Preliminary analyses of the records identify two significant educational problems: (1) most of the villagers (85–90 percent of the couples) who initially accepted c…
Sino-Soviet Relations 1964-1965
Couple Concurrence and Empathy on Birth Control Motivation in Dacca, East Pakistan
The purpose of the analysis was to measure the degree of communication between husbands and wives with respect to family-size goals. The data were interview responses from 547 husbands and their wives living in Dacca East Pakistan in 1963. As had been true in previous analyses of Puerto Rico and of Mysore India large proportions of the Dacca couples agreed about their family-size goals. In addition large proportions of husbands and wives were abl…
Soviet And Chinese Communism: Similarities and Differences
The Pitfalls of the Theory of Modernization
Professor Korbonski has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay with which I find myself largely in disagreement, in general and in detail. I hope that the following brief comments will indicate with what, and why, I disagree. But in spite of my disagreements I think that Professor Korbonski's effort was well worth making. Indeed, I share his view that the study of East European politics can well profit from the study of political develo…
Soviet influence in the Middle East
The Soviet Empire: Expansion and Detente. Critical Choices for Americans. Vol. 9
The World and the Great-Power Triangles
The Ussr in Political Perspective
The Revival of Islamic Fundamentalism: The Case of Iran
The Iranian revolution has highlighted one of the principal religious and political developments of our time, the revival of Islamic fundamentalism, from Indonesia to Morocco and from Turkey to central Africa.' In the short run it will cause more problems for the West. In the long run, however, it may be more dangerous to the Soviet Union in Muslim Soviet Central Asia.2 The Western model of modernization, industrialization, and rational bureaucra…
Propaganda and Communication in World History: Volume II: Emergence of Public Opinion in the West
Super‐power relations after Afghanistan
The Ostpolitik of the Federal Republic of Germany
The European Left: Italy, France, and Spain
The Theory and Practice of Econometrics
Political science (24 works) · Economics (15 works) · Law (14 works) · History (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Econometrics (9 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (7 works) · Geography (7 works)