This article examines the nature o f governance reform in Thailand. The argument is that Thai citizens are not especially benefiting from the public reform initiatives o f Thai governments because governnlent reformers made four questionable assumptions about refonn which have in turn produced

stereotypical assumptions about the Net Gen's expectations for technology on campus. Our results suggest that attention to context is of great importance if we are to move away from generalized assumptions toward a more nuanced understanding of the role that technology plays in college students &apos

and structural characteristics of schooling and by the needs of individual students. A question being addressed more recently, is whether the cost of education varies by performance outcomes or expected performance outcomes of schools. That is, is there a cost - quality relationship that can rationally be used

Abstract: In the linear instrumental variables model, we provide theoretical and Monte Carlo evidence for the size distortion of a two-stage hypothesis test that uses a test of overidentifying restrictions in the …rst stage. We derive a lower bound for the asymptotic size of the two-stage test. The lower bound is given by the asymptotic size of a test that rejects the null hypothesis when two conditions are met: the test of overidentifying restrictions used in the …rst stage does not reject and the test in the second stage rejects. This lower bound can be as large as 1 "P; where "P is the pretest nominal size, for a parameter space that allows for local non-exogeneity of the instruments Zi but rules out weak instruments. The overrejection problem is worst asymptotically in cases where EuiZi is a nonzero multiple of EZiZ 0 i; where ui is the structural error and the reduced form vector. We also provide pointwise asymptotic rejection probabilities for various degrees of colinearity between EuiZi and EZiZ 0 i: Finite sample simulations document that severe overrejection of the two-stage test not only occurs in this knife-edge case but for a large array of parameter combinations. Despite these …ndings we recommend the use of a J test as a pretest. It can guard an applied researcher from using non-exogenous instruments. The empirical application reexamines the …ndings in

of action. As did E. J. hanger, the authors question this assumption. First, they review evidence that the ability to exercise such conscious, intentional control is actually quite limited, so that most of moment-to-moment psychological life must occur through nonconscious means if it is to occur at all

This paper reviews recent research that grapples with the question: What happens after an exogenous shock to monetary policy? We argue that this question is interesting because it lies at the center of a particular approach to assessing the empirical plausibility of structural economic models

containing clear attribute dependences suggest that the answer to this question may be positive. This article shows that, although the Bayesian classifier’s probability estimates are only optimal under quadratic loss if the independence assumption holds, the classifier itself can be optimal under zero

Recent work in supervised learning has shown that a surprisingly simple Bayesian classifier with strong assumptions of independence among features, called naive Bayes, is competitive with state-of-the-art classifiers such as C4.5. This fact raises the question of whether a classifier with less

We describe the basic assumptions and key results of loop quantum gravity, which is a background independent approach to quantum gravity. The emphasis is on the basic physical principles and how one deduces predictions from them, at a level suitable for physicists in other areas such as string

assumptions now standard within the Government-Binding (GB) framework. The central empirical problem addressed is the question of the proper analysis of the so-called "Poss-ing" gerund in English. This construction possesses simultaneously many properties of sentences, and many properties of noun