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Three Essays in Econometrics

This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in applied and theoretical econometrics. The first chapter presents a Lagrange Multiplier test for detecting shock triggered asymmetries in time series and investigates its properties. Chapter 2 links variance bounds tests to forecast evaluation tests. Exploiting the cointegration relation between prices and dividends, we find rejections of the null hypothesis of market efficiency. The last chapter analyses the effect of social networks on wealth and wealth components on the basis of a novel dataset. Distributional effects are investigated in an instrumental variable quantile regression framework

A Child\u27s Perception of Bullies In Grades 3-4, and 7-8

The study was conducted to determine if differences exist in bullying behavior between elementary and middle school students. The sample consisted of 192 children: 57 third graders, 29 girls and 28 boys; 40 fourth graders, 26 girls and 14 boys; 47 seventh graders, 20 girls and 27 boys; and 48 eighth graders, 26 girls and 22 boys . A rural school district in central Virginia was used. A likert scale survey containing 10 questions was administered to determine the perceptions children hold regarding fear of bullying, the number of bullying experiences, why children are bullied, and what adults do or can do when bullying occurs. A chi square was conducted. However, only three items (i .e., teacher s pet,\u27\u27 smaller/younger/weaker, and physical or learning disability) showed a statistically significant level . A correlation between number of friends and number of bullying experiences found a significant relationship between a low number of friends and a high number of bullying experiences

“The best men can be”: New configurations of masculinity in the Gillette ad “We believe”

In January 2019, the company Gillette released a short movie “We believe” as advertisement for the brand. In the ad, Gillette reframes their slogan from “the best a man can get” to “the best a man can be.” Connecting the video to the #MeToo movement and critiquing ‘toxic masculinity’, Gillette portrays a new, more responsible, gentle, empathetic masculinity for “the men of tomorrow.” In this article, we present and discuss theories and strands of masculinity studies, and we analyze how the short movie portrays contemporary masculinity vis-à-vis these theories. Our argument is that while Gillette’s short movie and similar branding movies appeal to social responsibility and might open for new and more inclusive masculinities, it does, however, at the same time reproduce the patriarchal organization of masculinity in which power and privilege run from man to man and leave women and children as objects. Furthermore, the recoding of masculinity from toxicity to empathy is framed as an individual choice within neoliberal logics