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Grading Exams: 100, 99, 98,... or A, B, C? [PDF]

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John Geanakoplos, Pradeep Dubey
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The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China

, 2023
In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule?
Susan L. Shirk
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Still Shirking

Political Research Quarterly, 2007
While Lawrence's analysis highlights the importance of considering outliers, it neither disconfirms the original Rothenberg and Sanders analysis of shirking on the impeachment vote nor findings of shirking generally. Indeed, when a systematic analysis of outliers is conducted for Republican voting on the Clinton impeachment, shirking results again ...
Lawrence S. Rothenberg, Mitchell Sanders
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Ideology, “shirking”, and representation

Public Choice, 1993
In theory, republican government arises from the fact that the citizens are too numerous to be gathered in one place to make decisions. From the larger number a smaller number must be chosen and given the power to make decisions. How the small number should decide is the question of representation, and this question has been a central concern of public
Keith T. Poole, Thomas Romer
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Absenteeism, Efficiency Wages and Shirking

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1994
We investigate the absence behaviour of workers when there is asymmetric information regarding worker health. An individual's health is assumed to be private information to that individual and only observable to a third party at cost. Our aim is to complement the existing, largely empirical, studies of absence behaviour, which have tended to treat the ...
Barmby T, Sessions J, Treble J
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IDEOLOGY AND LEGISLATOR SHIRKING

Economic Inquiry, 1987
We argue that legislator shirking (voting on the basis of personal ideology rather than the interests of one's constituents) can exist, but its appearance should conform to the law of demand. We test and confirm this theory using votes on defense expenditure bills in the U.S. Senate in 1982.
DOUGLAS NELSON, EUGENE SILBERBERG
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