Journal of Urban Economics 65 (2009) 74–90 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Urban Economics www.elsevier.com/locate/jue Why do households without children support local public schools? Linking house price capitalization to school spending ✩ Christian A.L. Hilber a,b,∗ , Christopher Mayer c,d a London School of Economics, Department of Geography and Environment, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), UK Columbia Business
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Chapter 1 Preliminaries Questions for Review 1. It is often said that a good theory is one that can be refuted by an empirical, data-oriented study. Explain why a theory that cannot be evaluated empirically is not a good theory. A theory is useful only if it succeeds in explaining and predicting the phenomena it was intended to explain. If a theory cannot be evaluated or tested by comparing its predictions to known facts and data, then we have no idea whether the theory is valid. If we cannot
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Economic Reform and Changing Patterns of Labor Force Participation in Urban and Rural China By Margaret Maurer-Fazio, James W. Hughes, and Dandan Zhang Abstract In this project, we employ data from the Chinese population censuses of 1982, 1990, and 2000 to examine reform-era changes in the patterns of male and female labor force participation and in the distribution of men’s and women’s occupational attainment. Very marked patterns of change in labor force participation emerge when we disaggregate
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Graduate School of Development Studies INFLATION IN VIETNAM OVER THE PERIOD 1990-2007 A Research Paper presented by: Bui Thi Kim Thanh (Vietnam) in partial fulfillment of the requirements for obtaining the degree of MASTERS OF ARTS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Specialisation: Economic of Development (ECD) Members of the examining committee: Dr. Karel Jansen Dr. Lorenzo Pellegrini The Hague, The Netherlands November, 2008 1 Disclaimer: This document represents part of the author’s
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and Jaworski (1990) and Narver and Slater (1990). Kohli and Jaworski (1990) consider that market orientation is the implementation of marketing while Narver and Slater (1990) say that it’s an organizational culture. Moreover, Kohli and Jaworski (1990) defined that market orientation as "the organization-wide generation of market intelligence, dissemination of the intelligence across departments and organization-wide responsiveness to it" [1] On the other hand, Narver and Slater (1990) defined market
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financial situation and to answer the question of how well Butler is doing are not an easy task. There are many things to look into. Let us start with net working capital. Net working capital= current assets- current liabilities 1988 1989 1990 1991 current assets 468 596 776 932 current liabilities 260 375 535 690 net working capital 208 221 241 242 In thousands of dollars For 1991, only first quarter’s data is provided, so in the following discussion, we us the first quarter’s
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College chose alternatives to address their problems at the time. Coeducation was recommended again in 1986 by President Dorsey. The Board voted to admit men starting in the fall of 1987 with support from faculty, administrators, and alumnae (Musser, 1990). The theme of freedom stemming from the social movements of the sixties resulted in a more
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study on the nature and extent of child labour between 10–14 years of age is available. Accordingly, this study, based on micro data of three labour force surveys from 1990-91 to 1992-93, has been carried out to fill this gap. The study indicates that the quantum of child labour age cohort of 10–14 years grew from 1.8 million in 1990-91 to 2 million in 1992-93. The growth of girl workers is higher as compared to boys. Industrial structure shows that at the national level and in the rural area, agriculture
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usually only a few, manage to stay ‘in the spotlight’ for longer; Chandler’s (1962; 1990) ‘managerial enterprise’ is among them. His theory links strategic decisions, internal structures and corporate performance and despite its criticism, it is still used to explain corporate success (and failure) of the late19th, 20th and even the 21st century (Gospel, 1988:105). In contrast to the contingency approach, Chandler (1990) advocates the American way of organisation as the ‘one best way’ for all countries
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the group of 30,000 settlers who had founded their own community in the state of Bahia and Canudos.( Jackson, 1990) The area had initially been quelled by numerous military expedition that all failed. After a series of unsuccessful military incursion, the area was brutally subdued by a large Brazilian army force that overran the village and almost killed all the inhabitants. (Jackson, 1990) This was classified as deadliest civil war in the history of Brazilian. The message in the artifact about the
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