Vicar Valencia
Biographic Data
| ID | 8880876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicar Valencia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicar |
| FAMILY NAME | Valencia |
| SIGNATURE | VALENCIA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University South Bend |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6110-7168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Role of Higher Education in Shaping Attitudes to the Environment and Economic Growth
Research on the determinants of public attitudes on the environment requires a focus on factors influencing values and responses across countries. One important influence is the global expansion of university education in recent decades, with increased higher education attainment emerging as a potentially important factor affecting public support for the environment across countries. This paper provides evidence on the impact of higher education …
Higher education and the importance of values
The collection of data on values through instruments such as the World Values Survey has focused attention on two opposing but inter-related trends, namely the combination of substantial cultural change in many countries and the persistence of distinctive traditional values. This reflects the interplay between social changes associated with modernisation and globalisation—including increased global trade and the rise of global popular culture—wit…
Global Income Distributions and Inequality, 1993 and 2000
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…
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Global Income Distributions and Inequality, 1993 and 2000
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…
Higher education and the importance of values
The collection of data on values through instruments such as the World Values Survey has focused attention on two opposing but inter-related trends, namely the combination of substantial cultural change in many countries and the persistence of distinctive traditional values. This reflects the interplay between social changes associated with modernisation and globalisation—including increased global trade and the rise of global popular culture—wit…
The Role of Higher Education in Shaping Attitudes to the Environment and Economic Growth
Research on the determinants of public attitudes on the environment requires a focus on factors influencing values and responses across countries. One important influence is the global expansion of university education in recent decades, with increased higher education attainment emerging as a potentially important factor affecting public support for the environment across countries. This paper provides evidence on the impact of higher education …
Demographic economics (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Educational attainment (2 works) · Higher education (2 works) · Survey data collection (2 works) · World Values Survey (2 works) · BETA (programming language) (1 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (1 works) · Demography (1 works) · Developed country (1 works)