Profiles in workplace giving: a cluster analysis of ‘types’ of givers within a public university

This study examines public employees’ donations to a workplace giving campaign at a large public university in the south-east of the United States. First, we employed logistic regression to predict the likelihood of donating through workplace giving programmes using a sample of employees at a large public university (N = 11,726). Second, we estimated an ordinary least squares regression to identify the significant predictors of donation value with a subsample of employee donors (n=1,832). Third, we developed donor profiles (for example, clusters) of employee benefactors using K-medoids clustering. Factors such as sex, age, education and salary were significant predictors of both being a donor and the donation amount. Additionally, employment duration was significantly related to being a donor and the donation amount, while job classification only predicted being a donor. Employee donors fell into five distinct clusters. These findings contribute to our knowledge of workplace giving campaigns and can be used to develop strategic marketing campaigns.

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The Economic and Organizational Basis of Early United States Strikes, 1900–1948

ILR Review ◽

10.1177/001979398203500403 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 491-503 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Jack W. Skeels

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Least Squares ◽

The United States ◽

Ordinary Least Squares ◽

Economic Factors ◽

Least Squares Regression ◽

Two Stage ◽

Strike Activity ◽

Political Variables

This paper examines the question of whether economic factors played an important role in determining strike activity in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. A review of recent research shows one author, David Snyder, concluding that economic factors mattered little during that period and that union organization and political variables explained much more; and another, P. K. Edwards, concluding the opposite. A retest of these authors' analyses, employing ordinary least squares regression and a variety of measures, suggests that Snyder's position is more sound. This author argues, however, that Edwards was correct in claiming that economic factors are major determinants of the extent of unionism as well as of strike activity, and thus one needs to apply a two-stage least squares test of the Snyder hypothesis. When that is done, the results show that economic variables are highly significant determinants of strike activity throughout the pre-1949 period, but for the subperiod 1921–29 noneconomic factors also play a role.

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Access to Saloons, Wet Voter Turnout, and Statewide Prohibition Referenda, 1907–1919

Social Science History ◽

10.1017/s0145553200013997 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 373-404 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael Lewis

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Least Squares ◽

Voter Turnout ◽

Rural Areas ◽

The United States ◽

Ordinary Least Squares ◽

Urban Life ◽

Least Squares Regression ◽

Demographic Groups ◽

Evangelical Protestants

When explaining the success of the Prohibition movement in the United States between 1900 and 1920, scholars argue that prohibitionists were able both to tap into the distrust of many rural, native-born, evangelical Protestants toward modern urban life and to bring together disparate groups of reformers around one goal: the elimination of the saloon. Furthermore, localized campaigns resulting in the elimination of saloons from many rural areas kept this base of voters energized, ultimately leading to impressive dry turnouts in statewide Prohibition referenda. This study extends and amplifies these findings through an analysis of three sets of factors on voting outcomes: the percentage of various demographic groups (urban, immigrant, and ritualistic religious populations) residing in a county; the distance of each county to saloons; the presence or absence of producers of alcohol in a county. Results of ordinary least-squares regression demonstrate that access to saloons and the percentage of immigrant and ritualistic church members in a county are the variables that most influence the results of Prohibition referenda. Furthermore, unlike what previous research has demonstrated, these variables have their greatest influence by affecting wet turnout rates.

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Marital Quality and Salivary Telomere Length Among Older Men and Women in the United States

Journal of Aging and Health ◽

10.1177/0898264320980250 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 089826432098025

Author(s):

Yan-Liang Yu ◽

Hui Liu

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Telomere Length ◽

Marital Quality ◽

The United States ◽

Ordinary Least Squares ◽

Cellular Aging ◽

Complex Nature ◽

Least Squares Regression ◽

Intimate Partnerships ◽

Older Men And Women

Objective: The link between marital quality and cellular aging remains underexplored. This study examined how both positive and negative marital quality were associated with salivary telomere length among partnered adults in the United States over the age of 50°years. Methods: Data were from the 2008 Health and Retirement Study ( N = 3203). Ordinary least squares regression was used to estimate the link between marital quality and telomere length. Results: While neither positive nor negative marital quality was significantly associated with telomere length among older women, positive and negative marital quality had an interacting effect on telomere length among men. Specifically, when negative marital quality was low, higher positive marital quality was associated with shorter telomere length, whereas when negative marital quality was high, higher positive marital quality was associated with longer telomere length. Discussion: The findings speak to the complex nature of intimate partnerships and the implications of these partnerships for cellular aging processes.

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Pension Enhancements and the Retention of Public Employees

ILR Review ◽

10.1177/0019793916650452 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 70 (2) ◽

pp. 519-551 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Cory Koedel ◽

P. Brett Xiang

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Sector ◽

Employee Retention ◽

Cost Effective ◽

The United States ◽

Pension Plans ◽

Public Employees ◽

Public School Teachers ◽

School Teachers ◽

Public Pension Plans

The authors use data from workers in the largest public-sector occupation in the United States—teaching—to examine the effect of pension enhancements on employee retention. Specifically, they study a 1999 enhancement to the benefit formula for public school teachers in St. Louis, Missouri, that resulted in an immediate and dramatic increase in their incentives to remain in covered employment. To identify the effect of the enhancement on teacher retention, the analysis leverages the fact that the strength of the incentive increase varied across the workforce depending on how far teachers were from retirement eligibility when it was enacted. The results indicate that the St. Louis enhancement—which was structurally similar to enhancements that were enacted in other public pension plans across the United States in the late 1990s and early 2000s—was not a cost-effective way to increase employee retention.

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Cluster Analysis: Air Pollution in the United States

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using SAS ◽

10.1201/9781584887850-20 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 335-354

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Air Pollution ◽

Cluster Analysis ◽

The United States

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Recursive Partitioning Methods to Examine the Effects of Physical Activity on Physical and Mental Health: A Case Study at One Public University in the United States

Physical Activity and Health ◽

10.5334/paah.98 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 87-97

Author(s):

Samantha Robinson ◽

Jessica Gilmore

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Physical Activity ◽

United States ◽

Recursive Partitioning ◽

The United States ◽

Public University ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

Partitioning Methods

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Reliability and validity of an instrument that measures the willingness to emigrate

Psychologia ◽

10.21500/19002386.4143 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 41-46

Author(s):

Celia Yaneth Quiroz Campas ◽

Eyder Bolivar Mojica ◽

Margarita Juárez Nájera ◽

Jorge Hernández Valdés ◽

Cruz García Lirios

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Construct Validity ◽

United States Of America ◽

Vocational Training ◽

Strategic Alliance ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

The United States ◽

Public University ◽

Selection Of

Provisions for migration underlie asymmetric relations between sending and receiving countries, such as the cases of Mexico and the United States of America, although studies focus on stigma. The objective of this study was to establish the reliability and construct validity of an instrument that measures the phenomenon. A transversal and exploratory work was carried out with a selection of 300 students, considering their affiliation to a public university in a strategic alliance with multinationals for vocational training. A structure of four factors related to risk, utility, hyperopia and identity was observed, although the design of the research limited the results to the research scenario, suggesting the extension of the work towards negative dispositions such as exclusion, discrimination and the stigma. Keywords: Migration, Identity, Hyperopia, Helplessness, Reliability.

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Measurement of Genetic Diversity of Chinese Seashore Paspalum Resources through Morphological and Sequence-related Amplified Polymorphism Analysis

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science ◽

10.21273/jashs04700-19 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 144 (6) ◽

pp. 379-386

Author(s):

Yan Liu ◽

Hailin Guo ◽

Yi Wang ◽

Jingang Shi ◽

Dandan Li ◽

...

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Genetic Diversity ◽

Cluster Analysis ◽

Genetic Variation ◽

Genetic Distance ◽

Morphological Characteristics ◽

The United States ◽

Germplasm Resources ◽

Seashore Paspalum ◽

Chinese Germplasm

Seashore paspalum (Paspalum vaginatum) is a notable warm-season turfgrass. Certain germplasm resources are distributed in the southern regions of China. The objectives of this study were to investigate the genetic diversity and genetic variation of Chinese seashore paspalum resources. Morphological characteristics and sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) markers were used to assess genetic relationships and genetic variation among 36 germplasm resources from China and six cultivars from the United States. The results showed significant variation for 13 morphological characteristics among 42 tested seashore paspalum accessions, and that the phenotypic cv was, in turn, turf height > turf density > internode length > inflorescence density > leaf width > reproductive branch height > spikelet width > leaf length > spikelet number > inflorescence length > internode diameter > inflorescence width > spikelet length. According to the morphological characteristics and cluster analysis, 42 seashore paspalum accessions were divided into six morphological types. In total, 374 clear bands were amplified using 30 SRAP primer combinations; among these bands, 321 were polymorphic with 85.83% polymorphism. SRAP marker cluster analysis showed that 42 seashore paspalum accessions were grouped into seven major groups, with a genetic similarity coefficient ranging from 0.4385 to 0.9893 and genetic distance values ranging from 0.0108 to 0.8244. The high level of genetic diversity occurred among Chinese germplasm, and the genetic distance was relatively high between Chinese germplasm and cultivars introduced from the United States. The patterns in morphological trait variations and genetic diversity will be useful for the further exploitation and use of Chinese seashore paspalum resources.

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Vendor Master Data Cleaning – a Project for Accounting Class

Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting ◽

10.2308/jeta-2020-028 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sonia Gantman ◽

Lorrie Metzger

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Problem Solving ◽

Data Analytics ◽

Data Cleaning ◽

The United States ◽

Public University ◽

Data Set ◽

Initial Analysis ◽

Master Data

We present a data cleaning project that utilizes real vendor master data of a large public university in the United States. Our main objective when developing this case was to identify the areas where students need guidance in order to apply a problem solving approach to the project. This includes initial analysis of the data and the task at hand, planning for cleaning and testing activities, executing this plan, and communicating the results in a written report. We provide a data set with 29K records of vendor master data, and a subset of the same data with 800 records. The assignment has two parts - the planning and the actual cleaning, each with its own deliverable. It can be used in many different courses and completed with almost any data analytics software. We provide suggested solutions and detailed solution notes for Excel and for Alteryx Designer.

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