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12 Oct 2015: Professor Deaton is Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Economics. ... Professor Sanjeev Goyal, Chair of the Faculty of Economics, commented: "My colleagues and I

6 May 2015: In academic terms, search is a form of sequential decision making for which there is an optimal stopping point. ... Beyond this point, the further effort of hitting the ‘search’ button once again is not worth the potential for finding a better deal.

8 Sep 2015: None of us has any control over the family we are born into. ... Because of this, the way people vote – and if they vote for more public spending on education – can affect inequality and intergenerational mobility, the difference between what parents

14 Sep 2015: one,” said co-author Dr Ferninand Rauch from Oxford’s Department of Economics. ... In economics, this is known as the Porter hypothesis. “For the small fraction of commuters who found a better route, when multiplied over a longer period of time,

20 Nov 2015: Mike Rands. Madagascar is one of the world’s great biodiversity hotspots, having been isolated from major continents for millions of years. ... We look forward to learning from his knowledge and experience and sharing our own expertise to find ways to

9 Feb 2015: Real estate companies are a good subject for a study of capital structure management because they own and operate large, long-term assets with changeable value, and need to be set ... The strength of these firms was measured using a standard rating

21 Apr 2015: The Museum’s collections include many significant specimens that have been instrumental in furthering scientific knowledge, such as Darwin’s finches, as well as a number of examples of extinct organisms ... for the Protection of Birds (RSPB),

10 Feb 2015: Each has been equipped with remote sensors. Their task is to image both the Harapan Rainforest – a 100,000 hectare area of formerly logged forest that is now managed for conservation ... VoxTox, which brings together cancer specialists, mathematicians,

9 Mar 2015: On its own, common knowledge of social connections had little impact on overall levels of cooperation. ... They investigated four treatments that varied the amount of knowledge subjects have about the network and previous actions of others.

14 Oct 2015: Structured question formats that extract upper and lower boundaries, degrees of confidence and force consideration of alternative theories are important for shoring against slides into group-think, or individuals getting ascribed ... When seeking expert