UNG Authors Reception Bibliography 2022

La Vie et rien d’autre: Remembering the Aftermath of the First World War and the Unknown Soldier

Globalization in the United States: The Case of California

Creating a Culture of Mindful Innovation in Higher Education

<p>The main goals of this study were to determine if student growth mindset impacted achievement and motivation and to see if gender and ethnicity made a difference in the type of mindset a student possesses. The study was conducted in a suburban middle school in Georgia with a predominantly white population and aboveaverage socio-economic status. Ninety-five students from four 7th grade social studies classes took part in the eight-week study. The results from the study showed that there was no statistically significant relationship between mindset gains and academic gains; however, there was a strong positive, statistically significant relationship between mindset gains and motivation gains. These results indicated that motivation could be the linking factor between mindset and higher academic achievement.</p>

Teacher impact on student growth mindset.

<h3>Purpose</h3>
<p>This paper aims to examine how the “wage premium,” the percentage by which wages earned by skilled workers exceed those of unskilled workers, varies across industries characterized by different levels of competitiveness.</p>
<h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3>
<p>A theoretical model employing constant elasticity of substitution (CES) utility function and constant returns to scale production function is developed and analyzed to derive the effects of industry competitiveness on the wage premium. Econometric methods are applied to Chilean manufacturing data to test implications of theoretical model.</p>
<h3>Findings</h3>
<p>Once the relative factor endowment is being controlled, market competition significantly reduces the wage premium. More specifically, given with the same relative factor endowment, the wage premium is significantly higher under oligopolistic competition than under monopolistic competition. Empirical evidence from Chilean manufacturers supports our theoretical conclusions.</p>
<h3>Practical implications</h3>
<p>During economic development, the reallocation of production factors from unskilled labor-intensive to skilled labor-intensive industries raises the wage premiums received by skilled workers. Besides, skilled workers will earn higher wages by working in more highly concentrated industries instead of more competitive industries. This needs to be considered by government policymakers who must balance promotion of technical change with prevention of extreme the income inequality.</p>
<h3>Originality/value</h3>
<p>This paper examines how market structure affects wage premiums, providing new insights into a well-established literature that largely maintains that wage premiums are primarily a function of relative factor endowments or international trade.</p>

The Wage Premium and Market Structure: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Chilean Manufacturers

<p>Prior research indicates a significant relation between life events and the demand for life insurance. This paper is the first study to relate the demand for life insurance to household portfolio holdings in a dynamic framework. The study examines changes in life insurance demand as a function of changes in household portfolio holdings and life events using panel data during the recent financial crisis. The results indicate that household portfolio holdings are more significant than life events in explaining life insurance ownership decisions, and suggest a complementary rather than a substitution relationship between the ownership of life insurance and the holdings of equity and bonds during recessions. The results also indicate that households with more financial assets allocated to bonds drop significantly more term life insurance coverage. Further implications for practitioners are discussed.</p>

A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Life Insurance during the 2008 Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Panel Survey of Consumer Finances

<p>Stephanie Rountree examines the relational possibilities of queer performance in Max Vernon's <em>The View UpStairs</em>, a play that dramatizes the 1973 Up Stairs Lounge fire in New Orleans. Rountree contextualizes the fire within the scope of the twentieth century gay liberation movement and explores how the play's various production sites both embody and transcend the time and place of the tragedy.</p>

"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs

<p>This study investigated the connections between religious ideology, authoritarianism, intergroup relations, and political orientation. Building from the psychological literature on religious belief, the current study sought to explore the extent of these relationships using a university sample from the American South. The Diverse Learning Environments survey was administered to undergraduate students, with 2,582 responding. Variables of interest were religious belief, authoritarianism, intergroup relation views, diversity-related actions, and political views. Results suggest that while general religious orientation did not correlate positively with authoritarianism, Christians, specifically those associated with Evangelical groups, displayed greater authoritarianism than non-believers and reported fewer diversity-related interactions. While results indicated that more salient religious identity was associated with right-leaning political beliefs, an unexpected finding was that non-belief was associated with greater political involvement. These results suggest patterns of ingroup favoritism among conservative Christians which may lead to outgroup derogation and influence voting patterns. </p>

An analysis of the relationships between religious orientation, authoritarianism, cross cultural interactions, and political views.

<p>Researchers have struggled to find rational risk factors that explain momentum profits derived from buying recent winners and shorting recent losers. Behavioral explanations have been offered that focus on the tendencies of investors to underreact to news and recommendations. Our study provides an alternative explanation centered on the behavior of sell-side analysts. We find a change in consensus recommendation from a hold to a buy is accompanied by an increase in momentum profits of 3.40% annually. Momentum profits fall, yet remain material, after the passage of Reg FD and the enactment of the Global Analyst Research Settlement. Our results support a behavioral explanation of investor cognitive biases fueled by analyst regency and optimism biases.</p>

Does Analyst Optimism Fuel Stock Price Momentum?

<h3>Purpose</h3>
<p>The purpose of this paper is to determine if the failure of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to persecute Madoff is, in fact, an ethical failure. The authors turn to the extension of Aristotelian theory of moral values, virtue epistemology, to identify specific failures. The authors generalize this study’s conclusions to an overall responsibility of regulatory agencies to exercise epistemic virtues in their decision-making process. The authors explore how behavioral biases confound the execution of epistemic duty, and how awareness of behavioral biases can alleviate epistemic failures. The authors conclude this study with recommendations to prevent future frauds of Madoff proportions.</p>
<h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3>
<p>The authors rely on recent advances in virtue epistemology and behavioral finance. The authors combine these two theoretical approaches to better understand the duty of competence inherent in being a finance professional, and even more so in being a regulator entrusted with overseeing financial industry, and psychological biases that may prevent finance professionals and regulators from performing this duty.</p>
<h3>Findings</h3>
<p>The paper concludes that the SEC employees failed to exercise epistemic virtues in their handling of the complaints implicating Madoff’s firm of fraud. This failure reveals a consistent pattern of behavioral biases in decision-making. The authors posit that knowledge of ethical theory, specifically virtue epistemology, as well as awareness of behavioral biases, which inhibit epistemically virtuous cognitive process, can improve the functioning of both finance industry and its overseers. The authors suggest that future finance professionals and regulators need to acquire this knowledge while pursuing their undergraduate education: it is the duty of business schools to facilitate this progress.</p>
<h3>Originality/value</h3>
<p>This paper combines the theory of virtue epistemology with the current knowledge of behavioral biases, which distort rational decision-making, to explain the failures of regulators to analyze fraud reports. The authors extend this finding to recommend the inclusion of the theory of virtue epistemology in business schools’ ethics curriculum.</p>

Professional Competence and Business Ethics

<p>The emergence of social media as a platform for sharing information and affirming social identities has transformed the way people interact, disseminate information and identify with others.  The following examines how Arab tribes in Iraq and Saudi Arabia are utilizing social media to reaffirm their tribal identities, with a focus on the Shammar tribal confederation.  In particular, it argues that despite the fact that modernizing impulses have threatened traditional lifestyles of Arab tribal communities and undercut allegiances to tribal affiliations, many tribal members have enthusiastically embraced social media as an effective tool to revitalize tribal identities in the internet age.  </p>
<p>This article will evaluate three elements of tribal presence on the internet and social media within the overarching context of relocating tribal practices from a physical space to a virtual space.  First, it will examine the iconography of Iraqi tribal websites to discern how tribes present images to represent tribal ideals.  Second, it will  investigate how tribes use social media as a platform to reenact communal tribal practices of sharing of information and enhancing a sense of solidarity among tribal members.  Finally, this paper will compare how tribal affiliates in Iraq and Saudi Arabia use cyberspace to contest and negotiate authority vis vis the state. </p>
<p>This study seeks to contribute to discussions on continuities and innovations among marginalized communities during the integrative processes of modernity, and broaden our perspectives of how tribal communities are adapting to an increasingly computer literate and globalized world to speak for themselves in a direct manner previously unavailable.</p>

Cyber Tribes: Social Media and the Representation and Revitalization of Arab Tribal Identities in the Internet Age

Acute and Chronic Injury in Individuals with Visual Impairments Using Dog Guides

Physical Risk and Benefits Associated with Pickleball in Active Aging Adults

<p>Many studies find that traditional option pricing models fail to work in practice. The implied volatility smile is one example. In this study, we examine deviations of spot prices from prices implied by put-call parity for Korean KOSPI 200 index options, one of the most actively traded derivative products in the world. Deviations are significant and economically meaningful across different moneyness categories spanning deep-in-the-money to deep-out-of-the-money options. Determinants of put-call disparities for the KOSPI 200 index options include past spot return moments, cognitive biases, and prior option trading volume relative to spot trading volume. We show mispricing is more likely to occur after periods of extreme downturns in the stock market, implying demand for put options increases relative to call options when investors become more likely to insure against extreme loss. We also show that put-call disparity rates have predictive power for future spot returns due to overreaction of KOSPI 200 index option traders, rather than to information contained in option prices.</p>

Determinants of Put-Call Disparity: KOSPI 200 Index Options

<p>Is queer social science possible? Early queer theorists disparaged empiricism as a normalizing, modernist discourse. Nonetheless, LGBTQI+ social scientists have applied queer concepts in empirical projects. Rather than seek a queer method, we ask, Is there an empirical perspective that (ontologically) envisions social relations more queerly—attending to discursive and materialist productions of reality? Dorothy Smith’s work foregrounds people’s activities of engaging texts and satisfies Black queer studies’ and new materialisms’ critiques of early queer theory. Underutilized and often misread, especially its ethnomethodological sensibilities and its vision of actors as relational, practical actors, her work shows how <em>my race is not mine, it is ours; your sexual orientation is not yours, it is ours; their gender is not theirs, it is ours.</em> Smith offers an ontology without essence, grand theory, or normativity, facilitating a range of queer, interpretive projects—from the intersectional to the transnational to the embodied.</p>

Smithing Queer Empiricism: Engaging Ethnomethodology for a Queer Social Science

<h3>Purpose</h3>
<p>This paper aims to study how firms’ longitudinal and dynamic growth will be affected by their bribing decisions to address the controversies existing in the extant literature on the impacts of briberies.</p>
<h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3>
<p>The authors acquired information from Enterprise Survey by the World Bank and compiled a unique panel data set including firms from five South American countries between 2006 and 2017. The authors used multiple methods to estimate firms’ productivity. A comprehensive inspection of firms’ longitudinal development using a two-step estimation method that addressed the endogeneity issue was then conducted.</p>
<h3>Findings</h3>
<p>Bribery could significantly shorten the waiting time for resources to become available. However, bribery also substantially and robustly slows down firms’ productivity growth over time. Meanwhile, a bribing firm is very likely to bribe again in the future.</p>
<h3>Originality/value</h3>
<p>This paper contributes to the extant literature by pioneering the empirical study of firms’ bribing decisions and their longitudinal growth. First, the authors constructed unique panel data and established a longitudinal investigation upon firms’ dynamic growth after bribing, filling the literature gap by studying the time-lagging effect of bribery on firms’ growth. Second, the authors performed a comprehensive overview of South American firms’ growth by looking into the dynamics of their production, employment, resource delay and productivity across years. Third, the authors found that bribing exerted contingent impacts upon firms’ growth, reconciling the mixed evidence in the literature.</p>

Does Bribing Lead to Extra Convenience or is it a Barrier to Longitudinal Growth? Empirical Evidence from South American Firms

<p>This study investigated the effects of instructional and administrative text messages on student academic achievement and sense of learning. Ninety-eight Food, Nutrition, and Wellness students in grades 9th through 12th were involved in this study. In this quasi-experimental study, there was an experimental group and a comparison group. Students in the experimental group received instructional and administrative text messages three times a week for a total of nine weeks. A one-way ANCOVA and independent samples t-test were used for data analyses. The study found a statistically significant difference in academic achievement and sense of learning with students in the experimental group scoring higher as compared to students in the control group. In addition, there was a statistically significant difference with females in the treatment group scoring higher than males in the treatment group.</p>

The effects of instructional and administrative text messages on academic achievement and student perception of learning in a high school food, nutrition, and wellness classroom.

<p><strong>Purpose</strong></p>
<p>This paper proposes the use of a gauge function as a measure of technical efficiency. The measure of technical inefficiency from a gauge function is desirable as the estimation of a gauge function is not subject to the endogeneity problem under the behavioral assumption of profit maximization in the competitive market.</p>
<p><strong>Design/methodology/approach</strong></p>
<p>The authors address three important properties of a gauge function, i.e. linear homogeneity, monotonicity and convexity in inputs and outputs, and show how such properties are utilized in its estimation. Then, the authors apply the estimation of a gauge function to US Blacksmiths in 1850 and 1880 to show that a failure to satisfy such properties may lead to an incorrect inference on the technical efficiency.</p>
<p><strong>Findings</strong></p>
<p>The authors find that the Blacksmiths in the 1850s were technically more efficient than the ones in the 1880s, indicating technical regress in Blacksmithing when the properties are satisfied.</p>
<p><strong>Originality/value</strong></p>
<p>This paper introduces a measure of technical inefficiency from a gauge function and shows how to estimate the gauge function parametrically for the measure. The authors show McFadden's gauge function and its properties, which differ from the properties of other distance functions. The authors emphasize linear homogeneity as well as monotonicity and convexity in inputs and outputs, which must be satisfied in the estimation of a gauge function.</p>

Parametric Estimation of a Gauge Function and a Measure of Technical Efficiency

The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women's Political Culture

We formulate the generalized Forchheimer equations for the three-dimensional fluid flows in rotating porous media. By implicitly solving the momentum in terms of the pressure’s gradient, we derive a degenerate parabolic equation for the density in the case of slightly compressible fluids and study its corresponding initial boundary value problem. We investigate the nonlinear structure of the parabolic equation. The maximum principle is proved and used to obtain the maximum estimates for the solution. Various estimates are established for the solution’s gradient, in the Lebesgue norms of any order, in terms of the initial and boundary data. All estimates contain explicit dependence on key physical parameters, including the angular speed.

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Slightly Compressible Forchheimer Flows in Rotating Porous Media

<p>This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Diana Pérez Edelman dissects Horace Walpole’s use of embryological concepts in the development of his Gothic imagination and provides an overview of the conflict between preformation and epigenesis in the scientific community. The book then explores the ways in which Gothic literature can be read as epigenetic in its focus on internally sourced modes of identity, monstrosity, and endless narration. The chapters analyze Horace Walpole’s <em>The Castle of Otranto</em>; Ann Radcliffe’s <em>A Sicilian Romance</em>, <em>The Italian</em>, and <em>The Mysteries of Udolpho</em>; Mary Shelley’s <em>Frankenstein</em>; Charles Robert Maturin’s <em>Melmoth the Wanderer</em>; and James Hogg’s <em>Confessions of a Justified Sinner</em>, arguing that these touchstones of the Gothic register <em>why</em> the Gothic emerged at that time and <em>why</em> it continues today: the mysteries of reproduction remain unsolved.</p>

Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel

<p>As colleges and universities push to offer more online offerings, particularly during this current pandemic, concerns about upholding standards of excellence surface. As a result, programs like Quality Matters (QM) have flourished in an attempt to make courses not only easily accessible, but also tied to learning outcomes. This paper takes a look at the Quality Matters framework with the goal of easing new instructors into the process; it breaks down the specific review standards into easily understandable “bucket” categories, and assesses how it fits within introductory political science and international relations courses. It will also make recommendations on potential activities and assignments to help fit QM’s active learning framework, which should be helpful for new and seasoned instructors alike.</p>

Implementing Quality Matters in The Political Science Online Classroom

<h3>Purpose</h3>
<p>Sports economists have consistently found that winning positively impacts team revenue fans prefer to allocate their entertainment dollars to winning teams. Previous research has also found that fans do not have a preference for how their team wins. However, this research ignores the significant variability in revenue that can exist between teams with similar attendance figures. The authors contribute to the literature by testing whether profit maximizing teams should pay different amounts for different types of production by estimating the marginal revenue product of a win due to offense, defense and pitching.</p>


<h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3>
<p>Using data from the 2010–2017 Major League Baseball seasons and an Ordinary Least Squares-Fixed Effects approach, the authors test whether a unit of offensive, defensive and pitching production generates differing amounts of team revenue both before and after revenue sharing. The authors then test if team Wins Above Replacement is a good approximation of actual wins while accounting for the previously observed nonlinear relationship between wins and revenue.</p>


<h3>Findings</h3>
<p>The authors found that marginal revenue product estimates in the postrevenue sharing model for mowar, pwar and dwar are nearly identical to each other. Further, after predicting prerevenue sharing, the authors find that fans have no preference for mowar, pwar or dwar play styles.</p>


<h3>Originality/value</h3>
<p>The findings illustrate that team decision-makers appear to be acting irrationally by paying more for offense than they do for defense. Thus, the findings suggest that team decision-makers should value defensive wins and pitching wins at the same rate as offensive wins on the free agent market.</p>

Is offense worth more than defense and pitching? Marginal revenue product and revenue sharing in major league baseball

We study the precise asymptotic behavior of a non-trivial solution that converges to zero, as time tends to infinity, of dissipative systems of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The nonlinear term of the equations may not possess a Taylor series expansion about the origin. This absence technically cripples previous proofs in establishing an asymptotic expansion, as an infinite series, for such a decaying solution. In the current paper, we overcome this limitation and obtain an infinite series asymptotic expansion, as time goes to infinity. This series expansion provides large time approximations for the solution with the errors decaying exponentially at any given rates. The main idea is to shift the center of the Taylor expansions for the nonlinear term to a non-zero point. Such a point turns out to come from the non-trivial asymptotic behavior of the solution, which we prove by a new and simple method. Our result applies to different classes of non-linear equations that have not been dealt with previously.

Infinite series asymptotic expansions for decaying solutions of dissipative differential equations with non-smooth nonlinearity

<p>Teaching mathematics involves a variety of techniques and approaches in order to reach students’ academic needs in a way that aids them in achieving at the level required by state standards. One of the ways that educators are meeting the needs of their students is through using computer-based programs. In this study, 17 fifth grade students were placed into two groups and assigned computerbased programs. One program, MobyMax, offered students scaffolding measures to aid in concept development. The other program, IXL, offered students detailed feedback in response to their answer submissions. This study was designed to determine the impact of the features of the two computer-based programs on student achievement through problem solving and their level of motivation. Students in both groups experienced gains in problem-solving ability on average, while it appeared that those who received instruction through MobyMax benefitted more. Time spent on the program did not appear to be a contributing factor to gain score for problem solving. And student motivation showed little change throughout using either computer-based program.</p>