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Displaying Results 226 - 250 of 1617 on page 10 of 65
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Caring and Theories of Welfare Economics
(1995)
O'Shea, Eamon; Kennelly, Brendan
Caring and Theories of Welfare Economics
(1995)
O'Shea, Eamon; Kennelly, Brendan
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This paper explores the relationship between theories of welfare economics and our understanding of the care of old people within families. It is difficult to make sense of family care relationships within the framework of any single approach to welfare economics. Standard utilitarian welfare economics implies that there are no transendent standards of morality, virtue or justice for appraising human actions. This view is hard to reconcile with the amount of care given by families to dependent and vulnerable old people living at home. The nature of informal caring relationships rests on a delicate balance between affection, reciprocity and moral responsibility. Utilitarianism is a useful way to begin the evaluation process, but it cannot fully capture the complexity of caring relationships, which require a far deeper understanding of human interaction than revealed preference analysis allows. Economists, and others working in this area, must be prepared to explore other theories of ...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1364
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Carrots without Sticks: The Impacts of Job Search Assistance in a Regime with Minimal Monitoring and Sanctions
(2011)
KELLY, ELISH MARY; O'CONNELL, PHILIP J.; MCGUINNESS, SEAMUS
Carrots without Sticks: The Impacts of Job Search Assistance in a Regime with Minimal Monitoring and Sanctions
(2011)
KELLY, ELISH MARY; O'CONNELL, PHILIP J.; MCGUINNESS, SEAMUS
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This paper uses a high quality longitudinal dataset to assess the impact of an active labour market intervention consisting of referral for interview plus Job Search Assistance (JSA) with the public employment service in Ireland during a period when both job search monitoring and sanctions were virtually non-existent. The results indicate that, relative to a control group with no intervention, unemployed individuals that were exposed to the interview letter and participated in JSA were 16 per cent less likely to have exited to employment prior to 12 months. The negative effects of the intervention approximately doubled when those that received a referral letter but did not attend a JSA interview were removed from the data. The results held when tested against the underlying assumptions of the model, and the influences of both sample selection and unobserved heterogeneity bias. The negative treatment impact is attributed to individuals lowering their job search intensity on learning,...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61190
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Cartel stability and the Joint Executive Committee, 1880-1886
(1994)
Lobato, Ignacio N.; Walsh, Patrick P.
Cartel stability and the Joint Executive Committee, 1880-1886
(1994)
Lobato, Ignacio N.; Walsh, Patrick P.
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In this paper we analyse a railroad cartel run by the Joint Executive Committee (JEC) in the United States in the nineteenth century. The JEC was a cartel whose members anticipated a periodic fall in demand due to competition from the Great Lakes. In a simplified situation we model the optimal price setting behaviour of a cartel that fully anticipates a large and prolonged (infinite) switch to a lower level of demand. We show that joint profit maximisation is not sustainable as a perfect equilibrium before the switch (in the lakes closed regimes). We also show that an optimal cartel may have had to revise its official rate downwards in the periods leading up to the infinite switch in demand. Empirically we show that the number of weeks leading up to the opening of the lakes is a significant factor in explaining downward price revisions by the JEC in lakes closed regimes. Unanticipated demand shocks and entry of new firms are also found to be significant factors. The factors that det...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1000
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Catholic families weren't always bigger : religion, wealth, and fertility in rural Ulster before 1911
(1984)
Ó Gráda, Cormac
Catholic families weren't always bigger : religion, wealth, and fertility in rural Ulster before 1911
(1984)
Ó Gráda, Cormac
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1407
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Catholic identity, habitus and practice in contemporary Ireland
(2004)
Inglis, Tom
Catholic identity, habitus and practice in contemporary Ireland
(2004)
Inglis, Tom
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1928
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Catholicism in Northern Ireland and the process of conflict
(2003)
Mitchell, Claire
Catholicism in Northern Ireland and the process of conflict
(2003)
Mitchell, Claire
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It is a common misconception that religion in Northern Ireland is politically important only for Protestants, whereas for Catholics the causes of conflict are social, economic and political. Despite very high levels of religiosity amongst Catholics, faith is generally viewed as something located in the private sphere that does not spill over into the public realm. This paper challenges the assumption of the social insignifcance of Catholicism and urges re-examination of how the relationships between religion and politics are conceived and measured for this group. It argues that analysis must extend beyond linkages between theological beliefs and political preferences. In fact other dimensions of religion, such as its role in the construction of community and identity as well as its institutional influence, are much more useful in understanding its political significance. The paper concludes that when these dimensions of religion are examined, we find that Catholicism has been enormo...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2189
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Caught in the trap? The disincentive effect of social assistance
(2009)
Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina
Caught in the trap? The disincentive effect of social assistance
(2009)
Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina
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While financial incentives usually have a signifi cant effect on the labor supply of married women and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males especially, is more scant. This is, however, important in countries like France and Germany, where single individuals constitute the core of social assistance recipients. As yet, there is no conclusive evidence about whether, and to what extent, this group is affected by the fi nancial disincentives embedded in the generous redistributive programs in place in these countries. In this paper, we exploit a particular feature of the main welfare scheme in France (Revenu Minimum d'Insertion, RMI), namely that childless adults under age 25 are not eligible for it. Using a regression discontinuity approach and the French micro-census data, we find that the RMI reduces the employment of uneducated single men by 7% - 10%. Important policy implications are drawn.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2603
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CCCTB 4 EU? SA vs. FA w/ FTA
(2012)
Davies, Ronald B.
CCCTB 4 EU? SA vs. FA w/ FTA
(2012)
Davies, Ronald B.
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Since its conception, some within the European Union have expressed concerns over the ability of multinationals to avoid taxation by undertaking transfer pricing to shift profits towards low tax locations. These concerns have been growing, leading to a renewed call for a common consolidated corporate tax base wherein profits are allocated to nations according to a formula rather than firms’ internal prices. This paper analyzes the merits of such a shift in taxation. In particular, it is shown that, given tax rates, implementing formula apportionment can result in greater tax revenues and less intense tax competition particularly for lower trade barriers. However, this is not always the case and depends on parameter values, including those describing the extent of economic integration.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/3879
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Change points and temporal dependence in reconstructions of annual temperature : did Europe experience a little Ice Age?
(2012)
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac
Change points and temporal dependence in reconstructions of annual temperature : did Europe experience a little Ice Age?
(2012)
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac
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We analyze the timing and extent of northern European temperature falls during the Little Ice Age, using standard temperature reconstructions. However, we can find little evidence of long swings or structural breaks in European weather before the twentieth century. Instead, European weather between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries resembles uncorrelated draws from a distribution with a constant mean (although there are decades of markedly lower summer temperature); with the same behaviour holding more tentatively back to the twelfth century. Our results suggest that the existing consensus about a Little Ice Age in Europe may stem from a Slutsky effect, where the standard climatological practice of smoothing data before analysis gives the spurious appearance of irregular oscillations.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/3632
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Changes in the gender wage gap and the returns to firm specific human capital
(1999)
Walsh, Frank; Strobl, Eric
Changes in the gender wage gap and the returns to firm specific human capital
(1999)
Walsh, Frank; Strobl, Eric
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If employers believe females are more likely to separate from a job than males, efficient cost sharing of on-the-job training implies that females will have higher returns to tenure. Becker and Lindsay (1994) argue that this is true empirically. (1994). Updating the analysis we find that that there is no longer a difference in the probability of leaving jobs or in returns to tenure by gender. Differences in contracts to finance on the job training can no longer explain any of the “discrimination” component in the gender wage gap.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/915
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Changing Ireland : cultural heritage and migration
(2010)
Mulhall, Anne; Donaghy, Tom; O'Connor, Catherine; Russell, Ian
Changing Ireland : cultural heritage and migration
(2010)
Mulhall, Anne; Donaghy, Tom; O'Connor, Catherine; Russell, Ian
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This paper reports on the Cultural Heritage and Migration project which was conducted as part of the UCD Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) series of demonstrator research projects. The project, undertaken from September to December 2009, has two separate strands: Schools’ Folklore Scheme 2009/10 and Migration to Ireland 2009/10. Both strands take as their starting point key surveys by the Irish Folklore Commission (in 1937-38 and 1955 respectively) and seek to gather comparative information in today’s very different Ireland, focusing on a society that is more urban, multicultural, and rapidly changing. The methodology and focus necessarily differ substantially from the earlier surveys, being influenced by debates and issues in the ethics of information collection as well as the need to reflect a more heterogeneous society. The project's online collection gives the background for both strands (including sample scanned material from the 1937-38 Schools’ Survey) a...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2496
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Changing office location patterns and their importance in the perpheral expansion of the Dublin region 1960 - 2008
(2009)
Attuyer, Katia; MacLaran, Andrew; Williams, Brendan
Changing office location patterns and their importance in the perpheral expansion of the Dublin region 1960 - 2008
(2009)
Attuyer, Katia; MacLaran, Andrew; Williams, Brendan
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Recent development patterns have seen the urban region of Dublin evolve from a compact urban form towards a dispersed development pattern assisted by a shift in service-sector employment. In particular, this paper examines the movement of the office sector towards a number of suburban locations over the period from 1960 to 2008. It outlines the manner in which the geographic location of office development in Dublin has been transformed over recent years from one which focused primarily on a single dominant core from the 1960s until the 1980s, towards one in which numerous and widely-spread suburban sites tended to account for a growing proportion of new developments during the 1990s and early 2000s. The implications of this emerging pattern are of significant importance to the long term development of the region.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2357
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Checking the Price Tag on Catastrophe: The Social Cost of Carbon Under Non-linear Climate Response
(2011)
TOL, RICHARD S. J.
Checking the Price Tag on Catastrophe: The Social Cost of Carbon Under Non-linear Climate Response
(2011)
TOL, RICHARD S. J.
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Research into the social cost of carbon emissions — the marginal social damage from a tonne of emitted carbon — has tended to focus on “best guess” scenarios. Such scenarios generally ignore the potential for low-probability, high-damage events, which are critically important to determining optimal climate policy. This paper uses the FUND integrated assessment model to investigate the influence of three types of low-probability, high-impact climate responses on the social cost of carbon: the collapse of the Atlantic Ocean Meridional Overturning Circulation; large scale dissociation of oceanic methane hydrates; and climate sensitivities above “best guess” levels. We find that incorporating these events can increase the social cost of carbon by a factor of over 3.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/57635
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Child externalising and internalising behaviour in the first year of school : the role of parenting in a low SES population
(2010)
Cheevers, Carly; Doyle, Orla; McNamara, Kelly
Child externalising and internalising behaviour in the first year of school : the role of parenting in a low SES population
(2010)
Cheevers, Carly; Doyle, Orla; McNamara, Kelly
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Successful transition and adjustment to school life is critical for a child's future success. To ease this transition a child needs to arrive equipped with the necessary skills for school. The extent of a child’s behavioural problems is one indicator of his or her level of adjustment and school readiness. A factor which is consistently associated with such behaviours is parenting practices. This study examined the role of maternal parenting behaviours on externalising and internalising behaviours displayed by children in their first year of schooling. As children living in low socioeconomic status (SES) families are at risk of both adverse parenting behaviours and childhood behavioural difficulties, the study focuses on a low SES cohort. Mothers (n = 197) reported parenting behaviours using the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ; Robinson, Mandelco, Olsen, & Hart, 2001). Teachers (n = 21) rated children on how frequently they engaged in fifteen behaviours. ...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2697
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Children and The Internet in Ireland: Research and Policy Perspectives
(2013)
O'Neill, Brian; Dinh, Thuy
Children and The Internet in Ireland: Research and Policy Perspectives
(2013)
O'Neill, Brian; Dinh, Thuy
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<p>For good or ill, the internet is now very much part of children’s lifestyles today. Indeed, it is hardly possible to approach contemporary childhood – its possibilities and its risks – without understanding the degree to which information and communications technologies (ICTs) are embedded in every aspect of young people’s lives. For policy makers, the fast pace of change in the technology sector represents an additional challenge and effective interventions to protect children as well as promote positive opportunities sometimes struggle to keep up an environment that continues to evolve rapidly. There is also a tension between some of the competing responses that children’s use of the internet evokes: whether children are viewed as ‘digital natives’ or as helpless victims of online threats, there is a difficult balancing act between promoting use of the internet as something positive and beneficial for young people’s futures, whilst seeking to minimize risks they may encou...
http://arrow.dit.ie/aaschmedcon/32
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Chiquita Brands and the banana business: brands and labour relations transformations
(2006)
Gonzalez-Perez, Maria-Alejandra; McDonough, Terrence
Chiquita Brands and the banana business: brands and labour relations transformations
(2006)
Gonzalez-Perez, Maria-Alejandra; McDonough, Terrence
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This paper reports the results of research investigating the evolution of environmentally and socially responsible strategies and practices within the banana industry. An historical overview of a major multinational banana company, Chiquita Brands Int., provides context for the research. Chiquita Brands has been involved in political, environmental, legal and labor controversies in many parts of the world. In Latin America, Chiquita Brands has attracted more attention than any other foreign company and is seen by many as the archetypical representative of United States imperialism. Over a considerable period of time, Chiquita Brands has adopted a succession of structural changes aiming to "clean the past" including innovative corporate social behaviours and building alliances with NGOs such as trade unions and community organizations. Since its bankruptcy in 2001, Chiquita Brands International has adopted a strategy of environmental and social responsibility, has been cert...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2542
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Choice, Price and Service Characteristics in the Irish Broadband Market
(2012)
LYONS, SEÁN; SAVAGE, MICHAEL
Choice, Price and Service Characteristics in the Irish Broadband Market
(2012)
LYONS, SEÁN; SAVAGE, MICHAEL
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Using detailed plan-level data, this paper examines the choice, price and quality of broadband services available to consumers in Ireland over time. We find modest geographical (county level) variation in broadband services. Hedonic regression analysis is used to value various components of the broadband service. Download and upload speed attract positive valuations, whereas contention ratio is valued negatively as expected. The results suggest that the marginal valuation of download speed decreases as the speed level increases, with little value currently placed upon speeds above about 60 Mb/s.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/63744
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Citizenship and borders : Irish nationality law and Northern Ireland
(2006)
Ó Caoindealbháin, Brian
Citizenship and borders : Irish nationality law and Northern Ireland
(2006)
Ó Caoindealbháin, Brian
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Depending on its underlying principles and scope of application, citizenship law can impact on territorial borders in varying ways, ranging from their reinforcement to their active subversion. In this paper I develop a schema of possible relationships between borders and four common principles of citizenship with the aim of assessing their compatibility. I then apply this schema to pre-1998 Irish citizenship law to illustrate an instance of subversion of a territorial border. While highly distinctive in Europe, the formerly irredentist nature of Irish citizenship law calls attention to the potential for conflict between certain citizenship criteria and territorial boundaries, a potential which has increased in recent decades with the reform of citizenship regimes in Central and Eastern Europe.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2185
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Citizenship in contested states: new models from the 1998 Northern Ireland agreement
(2002)
Doyle, John
Citizenship in contested states: new models from the 1998 Northern Ireland agreement
(2002)
Doyle, John
http://doras.dcu.ie/2116/
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Class, status and the stratification of residential preferences amongst accountants
(2011)
O'Regan, Philip; Halpin, Brendan
Class, status and the stratification of residential preferences amongst accountants
(2011)
O'Regan, Philip; Halpin, Brendan
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Drawing primarily on data from the 1911 Irish Census, and adopting a specifically Weberian focus, this paper investigates the separate explanatory power of class and status in the stratification of outcomes. Specifically we find that both class and status do have independent explanatory power in terms of the geographical residential patterns of various occupations, including accountants, in early twentieth-century Dublin, Ireland. We also demonstrate the usefulness of considering the experience of accountants in a comparative context.
http://hdl.handle.net/10344/1532
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Class/race polarisation in Venezuela and the electoral success of Hugo Chávez: a break with the past or the song remains the same?
(2008)
Cannon, Barry
Class/race polarisation in Venezuela and the electoral success of Hugo Chávez: a break with the past or the song remains the same?
(2008)
Cannon, Barry
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Polls have repeatedly shown a class based polarisation around Chávez, which some political science analysis on Venezuela has recognised. This paper seeks to show, however, that this class based division needs to be placed in historical context to be fully understood. Examining Venezuelan history from the colonial to the contemporary era the paper shows, unlike most previous work on Bolivarian Venezuela, that race is an important subtext to this class based support, and that there is indeed a correlation between class and race within the Venezuelan context. Furthermore, class and race are important positive elements in Chávez’s discourse, contrasting this with their negative use in opposition anti-Chavismo discourse. Finally the paper briefly reviews the Chávez government’s policy in tackling the class/race fissures in Venezuelan society, and concludes by asking whether these policies represent a change in the historical patterns of classism and racism within Venezuelan society or ar...
http://doras.dcu.ie/2146/
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Climate Policy Under Fat-Tailed Risk: An Application of Dice
(2011)
TOL, RICHARD S. J.
Climate Policy Under Fat-Tailed Risk: An Application of Dice
(2011)
TOL, RICHARD S. J.
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Uncertainty plays a significant role in evaluating climate policy, and fat-tailed uncertainty may dominate policy advice. Should we make our utmost effort to prevent the arbitrarily large impacts of climate change under deep uncertainty? In order to answer to this question we propose an new way of investigating the impact of (fat-tailed) uncertainty on optimal climate policy: the curvature of carbon tax against the uncertainty. We find that the optimal carbon tax increases as the uncertainty about climate sensitivity increases, but it does not accelerate as implied by Weitzman's Dismal Theorem. We find the same result in a wide variety of sensitivity analyses. These results emphasize the importance of balancing of the costs and the benefits of climate policy, also under deep uncertainty.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/59469
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Climate Policy Under Fat-Tailed Risk: An Application of Dice
(2011)
TOL, RICHARD S. J.
Climate Policy Under Fat-Tailed Risk: An Application of Dice
(2011)
TOL, RICHARD S. J.
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Uncertainty plays a significant role in evaluating climate policy, and fat-tailed uncertainty may dominate policy advice. Should we make our utmost effort to prevent the arbitrarily large impacts of climate change under deep uncertainty? In order to answer to this question we propose an new way of investigating the impact of (fat-tailed) uncertainty on optimal climate policy: the curvature of carbon tax against the uncertainty. We find that the optimal carbon tax increases as the uncertainty about climate sensitivity increases, but it does not accelerate as implied by Weitzman�۪s Dismal Theorem. We find the same result in a wide variety of sensitivity analyses. These results emphasize the importance of balancing of the costs and the benefits of climate policy, also under deep uncertainty.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/59873
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Co-operative competition: a Foucauldian perspective
(1997)
McGovern, Siobhain; Mottiar, Zeine
Co-operative competition: a Foucauldian perspective
(1997)
McGovern, Siobhain; Mottiar, Zeine
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This paper considers the extent to which Michel Foucault's conception of power gives a useful explanation of power relations between firms. It examines the perceived shift in the nature of interfirm relations from the traditional model in which firms operate as autonomous units within a competitive industry, to the co-operative competition model whereby firms engage in co-operation at certain levels of their operations and compete at other levels. It argues that the concepts of power and competition are closely intertwined and that an understanding of how power operates can give a greater understanding of the nature of competition within an industry. However the issue of power relations in the presence of co-operative competition has not been adequately explored by the literature. An analysis of the type of power reflected in interfirm relations is held as being the key to understanding the simultaneous existence of co-operation and competition between firms.
http://doras.dcu.ie/2161/
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Cognitive ability and continuous measures of relative hand-skill : a note
(2008)
Denny, Kevin
Cognitive ability and continuous measures of relative hand-skill : a note
(2008)
Denny, Kevin
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This note re-examines a finding by Crow et al. (1998) that equal skill of right and left hands is associated with deficits in cognitive ability. This is consistent with the idea that failure to develop dominance of one hemisphere is associated with various pathologies such as learning difficulties. Using the same data source but utilising additional data, evidence is found of a more complex relationship between cognitive ability and relative hand skill.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1132
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