OLS and IV estimation of regression models including endogenous interaction terms

We analyze a class of linear regression models including interactions of endogenous regressors and exogenous covariates. We show how to generate instrumental variables using the nonlinear functional form of the structural equation when traditional excluded instruments are unknown. We propose to use these instruments with identification robust IV inference. We furthermore show that, whenever functional form identification is not valid, the ordinary least squares (OLS) estimator of the coefficient of the interaction term is consistent and standard OLS inference applies. Using our alternative empirical methods we confirm recent empirical findings on the nonlinear causal relation between financial development and economic growth.     

On the conditions of authority in academic publics

The discourse of some of the most powerful public figures in today’s world is often incoherent and nonsensical. Incoherent yet authoritative discourse shows that authority does not rest in language but results from non‐linguistic and pre‐textual conditions. The non‐linguistic and pre‐textual conditions are exemplified in an Australian case‐study of a media debate between the Immigration Minister and a refugee, drawing on research by Smith‐Khan (2019a, 2019b). Two such conditions are then examined with reference to academic publics. First, I ask which languages do or do not carry authority, before moving on to speaker identity as a condition of authority. The close association between English and academic excellence has resulted in diminishing the authority of academic publications in languages other than English. The same is true of publications by women and people of colour. I close by reflecting on referencing practices as forms of extending authoritativeness to voices in excluded languages and from excluded scholars in academic publics.     

The business of writing: literature as a commodity in Claudia Piñeiro’s Betibú

This article presents considerations about the status of literature as a commodity and writers as professionals in the twenty-first century. These considerations are based on an analysis of Argentine writer Claudia Piñeiro’s Betibú (2011), which follows the story of an Argentine crime novel writer who becomes a ghostwriter after her latest novel receives harsh reviews for being considered commercial rather than literary. I argue that the novel in question points out misconceptions about the influence of the book industry on the aesthetic quality of literary writing, highlighting the need for literary criticism to look into everyday relations between readers, authors, and editors.     

Self as enterprise: digital disability practices of entrepreneurship and employment in the wave of ‘Internet + disability’ in China

ABSTRACT

Situated in China’s neoliberal context and its rapid development of information communication technologies (ICTs), this study aimed to examine how disabled people in China transformed themselves into new self-enterprising subjects in the wave of ‘Internet?+?Disability.’ In order to answer this question, this study tried to develop an analytical framework to illustrate the disability practices that situated in the ICTs and neoliberal context, underpinned by the discourse of ‘self as enterprise,’ and demonstrated by the practices of entrepreneurship and employment. Based on the research design of case studies and methods that included ethnographic participant observation and in-depth interviews, this study explained how a disabled entrepreneur, Mr. Yuan, took advantage of the wave of ‘Internet?+?Disability’ to realize his dream of entrepreneurship and face the uncertainties of a precarious entrepreneurship. It also explained how Mr. Yuan’s employees achieved their dreams of employment but suffered the precariousness of enterprising subjects.     

基于Mo-RVIKOR的混合多属性决策方法

针对复杂性和不确定性多属性决策问题,考虑定量和定性融合的属性形式,提出了模块化随机多准则妥协解排序法（Modular Random VlseKriterijumska Opti-mizacija I Kompromisno Resenje,Mo-RVIKOR）,该方法无需将信息统一,就能处理多种信息形式存在的多属性决策问题。采用精确数、随机变量处理定量评价信息,用概率语义术语集处理定性评价信息;通过改进离差最大化法确定属性权重;根据Mo-RVIKOR对决策对象进行排序;最后以某公司C2B定制化服务质量评测项目为例,验证了所提方法的有效性。     

译者的翻译决策研究

翻译活动不可避免地要受到翻译过程中各种因素的制约与影响,然而目前对译者在翻译过程中的主导行为(翻译决策)及其相应的制约因素的研究尚嫌不足。以《亲历历史:希拉里回忆录》中译本为例,以语篇分析为基础,从原文分析、翻译策略的制定、译文分析三个方面,运用翻译规范理论,深入分析译者在翻译过程中的决策行为及受制机制,以期探讨该研究对翻译批评和翻译实践的实用价值。     

汉语中军事用语的隐喻表达

当语言使用者认识到两种事物之间的差别,或者语言中存在着现成的词语或表达法,为了获得更好的交际效果,会选择使用现存事物来谈论另一事物.文章通过归纳军事用语在政治、经济、文化、体育四个领域的隐喻表达,探讨了军事用语隐喻的应用对社会各领域产生的影响,分析了军事用语隐喻应用广泛的主客观原因.     

Differences and similarities in monetary benefits for informal care in old and new EU member states

This article presents an overview of the monetary benefits available in the context of long‐term care provided by family or other informal carers in 11 old and 10 new EU member states. All but one country in our sample offer at least some monetary benefits that can be used to help finance informal care. Old EU member states tend to direct benefits to individuals in need of care, whereas new EU member states place more emphasis on benefits for carers. Among new EU member states, monetary benefits are less often means‐tested and tend to be lower compared with benefits in old EU member states. Because social policies in many countries increasingly rely on monetary benefits rather than on benefits in kind and because the share of informal care in the overall provision of elderly care will scarcely decline, monetary benefit incentives for labour market participation need to be carefully monitored.     

晏阳初:平民教育从中国到世界的历程

晏阳初先生是我国,也是世界著名的平民教育家、社会改革家,是我国早期社会学中乡村建设学派的最重要的创始人之一。他的平教运动和乡村改造事业具有重要的历史意义,至今闪耀着进步思想的光辉。本文从晏阳初人生观的形成,其成功之道,以及反映晏阳初晚年平教业绩的国际乡村建设学院等几个侧面,对晏阳初及其事业进行了客观评述和简要分析,并对国外的一些评述进行了回应。     

论教学相长在高职英语教学中的重要性

教师与学生、教与学,是贯穿整个教学过程的最基本的一对关系。建立师生共同发展的教学关系,是课程教学改革的重要方向和基本任务。当前,面对高职教学以实用为主的实施策略,教师必须在教中不断学习、终身学习。只有这样,教师才能不断丰富、拓宽自己的知识,从而适应不断发展的教育教学的需要,既有效提高教育教学效果,又全面提升自己的教学能力与职业素养。