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Evaluating the Impact of Private and Public Sentiments on the Linkage Between Gold and Stock Markets: Evidence from China.

IF 3 4区社会学

Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1177/0193841X251317024

Lin Ren, Yingyue Sun, Deping Xiong, Yu Wei

{"title":"Evaluating the Impact of Private and Public Sentiments on the Linkage Between Gold and Stock Markets: Evidence from China.","authors":"Lin Ren, Yingyue Sun, Deping Xiong, Yu Wei","doi":"10.1177/0193841X251317024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841X251317024","url":null,"abstract":"Gold and stocks, which are conventionally regarded as a safe haven and risk assets, respectively, exhibit complex interrelationships, with significant implications for financial risk management. This paper builds on the sentiment categorization proposed by Liang et al. (2020) to distinguish between private and public sector sentiment. The construction of sentiment indices for both sectors aims to allow the exploration of the heterogeneous effects of these sector-specific sentiments on the gold-stock market linkages in China under different market conditions. The empirical results demonstrate a notable asymmetry in the impact of market sentiment between the public and private sectors, with distinct manifestations in stable versus highly volatile market environments. Specifically, positive sentiment in the public sector tends to diminish the safe-haven function of gold, whereas positive sentiment in the private sector tends to reinforce it. This disparity becomes particularly evident during periods of extreme market volatility. Our findings not only underscore the diverse impacts of market sentiment but also provide novel insights into the importance of incorporating sector-specific sentiment when devising hedging strategies for specific industries.","PeriodicalId":47533,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Review","volume":" ","pages":"193841X251317024"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143053935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evaluating the Effect on Infants and Parents Attending the Parent-Child Psychological Support Programme®, a Community-Based Program to Promote Attachment Security.

IF 3 4区社会学

Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1177/0193841X251315508

Jesús M Jornet-Meliá, Carlos Sancho-Álvarez, Purificación Sánchez-Delgado, M Ángeles Cerezo

{"title":"Evaluating the Effect on Infants and Parents Attending the Parent-Child Psychological Support Programme®, a Community-Based Program to Promote Attachment Security.","authors":"Jesús M Jornet-Meliá, Carlos Sancho-Álvarez, Purificación Sánchez-Delgado, M Ángeles Cerezo","doi":"10.1177/0193841X251315508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841X251315508","url":null,"abstract":"The foremost index of caregiving quality is child attachment, as supported by attachment theory. Research supports the relevance of early parenting interventions in improving child outcomes in attachment quality to promote public health because of their long-term effects on mental health and functioning. This study aimed at evaluating the impact on both parenting and child outcomes of the Parent-Child Psychological Support Programme® (PCPS), a community-based program individually tailored to parents and their infants during periodic center-based visits to promote attachment security. The evaluation involved two cohorts from \"vulnerable populations\" and used the resources embedded in the program design without interfering with the normal functioning of the service. From an evaluative research approach, the effects on mothers and children were assessed using a quantitative approach. Pre- and post-test measures (parenting questionnaires) and child attachment quality assessments through the Strange Situation Procedure were examined. The equivalence of the cohorts was verified and used as a baseline for parenting outcomes. PCPS participants demonstrated increased parental competence and self-efficacy, as well as reduced levels of parenting stress. Analysis of the two cohorts showed a significant difference in the number of visits and proxies for intervention, which were associated with the expected pre-post changes in parenting dimensions. The proportion of securely attached children was significantly higher in the \"medium-high intervention\" group than in the \"no/low intervention\" group (72.7% vs 54.5%). Furthermore, compared with international baselines, this proportion showed no differences in the \"no-/low-intervention\" group but demonstrated expected significant differences in the \"medium-high intervention\" group.","PeriodicalId":47533,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Review","volume":" ","pages":"193841X251315508"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143029941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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What Can We Learn From Qualitative Impact Evaluations About the Effectiveness of Lobby and Advocacy? A Meta-Evaluation of Dutch aid Programmes and Assessment Tool. 从游说和倡导有效性的定性影响评估中我们可以学到什么？荷兰援助方案和评估工具的元评价。

IF 3 4区社会学

Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2025-01-11 DOI: 10.1177/0193841X251314731

Hugh Sharma Waddington, Hikari Umezawa, Howard White

{"title":"What Can We Learn From Qualitative Impact Evaluations About the Effectiveness of Lobby and Advocacy? A Meta-Evaluation of Dutch aid Programmes and Assessment Tool.","authors":"Hugh Sharma Waddington, Hikari Umezawa, Howard White","doi":"10.1177/0193841X251314731","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0193841X251314731","url":null,"abstract":"Official development agencies are increasingly supporting civil society lobby and advocacy (L&A) to address poverty and human rights. However, there are challenges in evaluating L&A. As programme objectives are often to change policies or practices in a single institution like a Government Ministry, L&A programmes are often not amenable to large-n impact evaluation methods. They often work in strategic partnerships to foster change; hence, contribution may be a more relevant evaluation question than attribution. Small-n qualitative approaches are available to measure the effectiveness of L&A which use the theory of change as their analytical framework. We conducted a meta-evaluation of 36 evaluations of multi-component international programmes to support civil society L&A across Asia, Africa and Latin America, comprising the majority of programmatic support from one international donor. We assessed the confidence in causal claims in the evaluations using a new tool that we developed. Assessments of the contribution of the programmes to the changes in outcomes were not provided in many of the evaluations, nor were predictable sources of bias addressed. Given that L&A programmes are likely to adopt an influencing approach where many different inside-track and outside-track engagement objectives, opportunities and strategies are attempted, many of which might be expected to fail, there appeared to be a clear bias in the evaluations towards reporting outcomes that were achieved, ignoring those that were not. We provide guidance on how to improve the design, conduct and reporting of small-n qualitative evaluations of aid effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":47533,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Review","volume":" ","pages":"193841X251314731"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142966781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Performance Evaluation of University-Based Scientific Research Institutions With a Non-Independent Parallel System. 基于非独立并行系统的高校科研机构绩效评估。

IF 3 4区社会学

Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1177/0193841X241312823

Junming Guo, Chuanbin Liu, Han Zhang, Dan Wang, Jintao Lu

{"title":"Performance Evaluation of University-Based Scientific Research Institutions With a Non-Independent Parallel System.","authors":"Junming Guo, Chuanbin Liu, Han Zhang, Dan Wang, Jintao Lu","doi":"10.1177/0193841X241312823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841X241312823","url":null,"abstract":"Performance management in university-based scientific research institutions is essential for driving reform, advancing education quality, and fostering innovation. However, current performance evaluation models often focus solely on research indicators, neglecting the critical interdependence between the education and research systems. This oversight leads to inefficiencies in resource allocation and an underestimation of overall institutional performance, particularly in universities with varying development levels. To address these deficiencies, this study introduces two innovative two-stage data envelopment analysis models: the group-frontier and meta-frontier evaluation models. The findings are validated using data from 144 universities across China. They demonstrate that the proposed models effectively mitigate the underestimation of efficiency in traditional models and accurately reflect the intertwined nature of university subsystems and the disparities in university development. These results offer valuable insights for improving the performance of scientific research institutions and informing the strategic decisions of university administrators and government education departments.","PeriodicalId":47533,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Review","volume":" ","pages":"193841X241312823"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142956563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Time to Take a Chance: The Promise of Royston-Parmar Proportional Hazard Models for Understanding Caseload Transitions. 是时候抓住机会了：Royston-Parmar比例风险模型对理解案例负荷转换的承诺。

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Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2024-12-23 DOI: 10.1177/0193841X241305869

David C Seith, Siyanbade Adegoke, Camisha Burchett, Ryan Kennedy

{"title":"Time to Take a Chance: The Promise of Royston-Parmar Proportional Hazard Models for Understanding Caseload Transitions.","authors":"David C Seith, Siyanbade Adegoke, Camisha Burchett, Ryan Kennedy","doi":"10.1177/0193841X241305869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841X241305869","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter to the editor, we compare six different event history models to estimate which eligible families participated in a subsidized rental housing program and when. Answering these questions can inform efforts to improve program marketing and outreach, staffing and budgeting, triage, bias identification, as well as benchmarking and evaluation. One of six specifications clearly outperforms the others and understanding how will inform similar research pursuits. Although decision-relevant participation patterns are available in state administrative records, deciphering them is difficult for several well-known reasons. Participants enter and exit the eligible risk pool at different times, for different reasons, and at different rates. To answer our questions of when and whom, we restructure the data from calendar to relative months and then employ event history models designed to accurately estimate a complete hypothetical risk trajectory from observed spells of varying lengths, many of which ended before families took up the rental subsidy, (i.e., censored observation spells). We find that eligible parents most likely to take up the subsidy live in high-rent counties, have relatively strong recent work history, short prior adult lifetime TANF receipt, and medium-size families. Program take-up fell substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contrasting the application of six parallel specifications, we find that a Royston-Parmar proportional hazard model achieves an exceptional balance between the descriptive accuracy of discrete time approaches and the elegance of Cox regression.","PeriodicalId":47533,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Review","volume":" ","pages":"193841X241305869"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142877883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Workplace Cyberbullying: Nature, Characteristics, and Implications. 工作场所网络欺凌：性质、特征和影响。

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Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1177/0193841X241304293

Tansif Ur Rehman

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When Who Matters: Interviewer Effects and Survey Modality. 当谁重要时：受访者效应与调查方式。

IF 3 4区社会学

Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1177/0193841X231221303

Rebecca Walcott, Isabelle Cohen, Denise Ferris

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Effects of Behaviour Change Communication on Knowledge and Prevention of Malaria Among Women in Ghana. 行为改变交流对加纳妇女疟疾知识和预防的影响。

IF 3 4区社会学

Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-08-11 DOI: 10.1177/0193841X231194565

Emmanuel Orkoh, Uchenna Efobi

{"title":"Effects of Behaviour Change Communication on Knowledge and Prevention of Malaria Among Women in Ghana.","authors":"Emmanuel Orkoh, Uchenna Efobi","doi":"10.1177/0193841X231194565","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0193841X231194565","url":null,"abstract":"Behaviour change communication (BCC) remains a central component of the interventions used in the fight against malaria in Ghana. However, there is limited evidence of its effectiveness. This study evaluated the effects of BCC strategies on knowledge (symptoms, causes and prevention) and overall knowledge of malaria among Ghanaian women aged 15-49 years. The propensity score matching (PSM) approach and logistic regression were used to analyse data from the 2016 edition of the Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS). Women who participated in community-level education or heard/saw media messages on malaria, or both, had significantly more knowledge of the disease than women who lacked access to any of these mediums of communication. The effect of these strategies on women's overall knowledge of malaria is about 2% to 4% and is higher on their knowledge of the symptoms (3% to 6%) and prevention (2% to 4%) than the causes (2%). The combined effects of both mediums of communication are relatively higher than the effect of either of them as a single medium of communication. Further analysis showed that improved knowledge of the disease is associated with higher preventive measures taken by women for themselves and for their children. The results are more significant in rural and poor households than in urban and non-poor households. These findings underscore the need for the Ministry of Health and its partner institutions to adopt an innovative approach which combines the two strategies in intensively educating Ghanaians, and women in particular, on the symptoms and prevention of malaria, giving due cognisance to households' socioeconomic status and geographical location.","PeriodicalId":47533,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Review","volume":" ","pages":"1050-1087"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11447998/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10033653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Calibrating Items Using an Unfolding Model of Item Response Theory: The Case of the Trait Personality Questionnaire 5 (TPQue5). 使用项目反应理论的展开模型校准项目：特质人格问卷 5 (TPQue5) 案例。

IF 3 4区社会学

Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-25 DOI: 10.1177/0193841X231223374

Eirini M Mitropoulou, Leonidas A Zampetakis, Ioannis Tsaousis

{"title":"Calibrating Items Using an Unfolding Model of Item Response Theory: The Case of the Trait Personality Questionnaire 5 (TPQue5).","authors":"Eirini M Mitropoulou, Leonidas A Zampetakis, Ioannis Tsaousis","doi":"10.1177/0193841X231223374","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0193841X231223374","url":null,"abstract":"Unfolding item response theory (IRT) models are important alternatives to dominance IRT models in describing the response processes on self-report tests. Their usage is common in personality measures, since they indicate potential differentiations in test score interpretation. This paper aims to gain a better insight into the structure of trait personality, by investigating whether the dominance or alternatively the unfolding IRT model are better descriptors of the response processes on a personality measure constructed under the dominance response theorem. For the assessment of the dominant model, the Graded Response Model (GRM) is used; while for the unfolding model, the Generalized Graded Unfolding Model (GGUM) was examined. All analyses are conducted with the freely available R. A sample of 1340 Greek adults, employed in private and public organizations, fulfilled the Trait Personality Questionnaire 5 short-form (TPQue5). Findings contradict previous research on trait personality. In accordance to the construction method employed, the TPQue5 items are best understood by monotonically increasing item response functions (IRFs). Individuals responding to the TPQue5 increase their probability of endorsing its items as their trait level increases; this stands for all personality dimensions, although Openness to Experience exhibited mixed type of item response patterns. Further research directions, implications and limitations are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":47533,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Review","volume":" ","pages":"1146-1159"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139038099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cluster Randomized Trials Designed to Support Generalizable Inferences. 旨在支持可推广推论的分组随机试验。

IF 3 4区社会学

Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-17 DOI: 10.1177/0193841X231169557

Sarah E Robertson, Jon A Steingrimsson, Issa J Dahabreh

{"title":"Cluster Randomized Trials Designed to Support Generalizable Inferences.","authors":"Sarah E Robertson, Jon A Steingrimsson, Issa J Dahabreh","doi":"10.1177/0193841X231169557","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0193841X231169557","url":null,"abstract":"When planning a cluster randomized trial, evaluators often have access to an enumerated cohort representing the target population of clusters. Practicalities of conducting the trial, such as the need to oversample clusters with certain characteristics in order to improve trial economy or support inferences about subgroups of clusters, may preclude simple random sampling from the cohort into the trial, and thus interfere with the goal of producing generalizable inferences about the target population. We describe a nested trial design where the randomized clusters are embedded within a cohort of trial-eligible clusters from the target population and where clusters are selected for inclusion in the trial with known sampling probabilities that may depend on cluster characteristics (e.g., allowing clusters to be chosen to facilitate trial conduct or to examine hypotheses related to their characteristics). We develop and evaluate methods for analyzing data from this design to generalize causal inferences to the target population underlying the cohort. We present identification and estimation results for the expectation of the average potential outcome and for the average treatment effect, in the entire target population of clusters and in its non-randomized subset. In simulation studies, we show that all the estimators have low bias but markedly different precision. Cluster randomized trials where clusters are selected for inclusion with known sampling probabilities that depend on cluster characteristics, combined with efficient estimation methods, can precisely quantify treatment effects in the target population, while addressing objectives of trial conduct that require oversampling clusters on the basis of their characteristics.","PeriodicalId":47533,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Review","volume":" ","pages":"1088-1114"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11626727/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139486566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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