Showing papers by "Yu Xie published in 2005"
TL;DR: The authors examined trends in earnings inequality in urban China between 1988 and 1995, focusing on regional variations in earnings determination and economic growth, and found that net returns to schooling almost doubled for both men and women during this period.
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TL;DR: The notion that computing is synonymous with doing research, the naive faith that statistics is a complete or sufficient basis for scientific methodology, the superstition that statistical formulas exist for evaluating such things as the relative merits of different substantive theo-
Abstract: Statistics is a powerful, yet potentially dangerous, tool. More than two decades ago, the late Otis Dudley Duncan (1984:226) warned us concerning the danger of"statisticism": "the notion that computing is synonymous with doing research, the naive faith that statistics is a complete or sufficient basis for scientific methodology, the superstition that statistical formulas exist for evaluating such things as the relative merits of different substantive theo-
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