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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Indexing The Local, Barbara Johnstone
Language And Place, Barbara Johnstone
Diversification Across Time, Ian Ayres, Barry Nalebuff
Diversification Across Time, Ian Ayres, Barry Nalebuff
Ian Ayres
By employing leverage to gain more exposure to stocks when young, individuals can achieve better diversification across time. Using stock data going back to 1871, we show that early leverage combined with reduced equity exposure when older can reduce lifetime portfolio risk. For example, an initially-leveraged portfolio can produce the same mean accumulation as a constant 75% stock allocation with a 21% smaller standard deviation. Since the mean accumulation is the same, the reduction in volatility does not depend on the equity premium. A leveraged lifecycle strategy can also allow investors to come closer to their utility-maximizing allocation. If risk …
Learning And Engaging The Information Values Of A Karst Community Of Practice, Kaya Van Beynen, Spencer Fleury Ph.D.
Learning And Engaging The Information Values Of A Karst Community Of Practice, Kaya Van Beynen, Spencer Fleury Ph.D.
Spencer Fleury Ph.D.
The Karst Information Portal (KIP) is a publicly accessible Internet portal for karst literature and data, hosted by the University of South Florida (USF) libraries. It was created to foster interaction and collaboration among the karst community by identifying, acquiring, and facilitating access to karst literature in a single, centralized location. Karst is a type of terrain typified by soluble rocks, such as limestone, gypsum, and dolomite, where solutional processes are dominant, forming sinkholes, depressions, caves, and enhancing underground drainage. The karst community consists of formal researchers working in academic or governmental institutions along with an informal cohort of recreational …
Review Of Beyond The Box: B.F. Skinner's Technology Of Behavior From Laboratory To Life, Jill G. Morawski
Review Of Beyond The Box: B.F. Skinner's Technology Of Behavior From Laboratory To Life, Jill G. Morawski
Jill G. Morawski
No abstract provided.
Costly Research Joint Ventures: The Role Of Coordination Costs, Rod Falvey, Joanna Poyago-Theotoky, Khemarat Talerngsri Teerasuwannajak
Costly Research Joint Ventures: The Role Of Coordination Costs, Rod Falvey, Joanna Poyago-Theotoky, Khemarat Talerngsri Teerasuwannajak
Joanna Poyago-Theotoky
We consider a simple oligopoly model where firms engage in cost-reducing R&D and compare two R&D regimes: R&D competition and R&D cooperation where firms can enter in a Research Joint Venture (RJV). We introduce coordination costs for the RJV and examine how these affect the equilibrium outcomes. Further, we address the question of the equilibrium versus the optimal size of the RJV. For a given size of the RJV, its members decrease their own R&D as the anticipated coordination costs increase. This results in lower output and profits. On the contrary, the non-RJV firms increase their R&D in response to …
Neurodynamics Of An Election, Armando F. Rocha, Fabio T. Rocha, Marcelo N. Burattini, Eduardo Massad
Neurodynamics Of An Election, Armando F. Rocha, Fabio T. Rocha, Marcelo N. Burattini, Eduardo Massad
Armando F Rocha
Variables influencing decision-making in real settings, as in the case of voting decisions, are uncontrollable and in many times even unknown to the experimenter. In this case, the experimenter has to study the intention to decide (vote) as close as possible in time to the moment of the real decision (election day). Here, we investigated the brain activity associated with the voting intention declared 1 week before the election day of the Brazilian Firearms Control Referendum about prohibiting the commerce of firearms. Two alliances arose in the Congress to run the campaigns for YES (for the prohibition of firearm commerce) …
Labour Mobility And The Redistributive Effects Of Trade Integration, Carlo Devillanova, Michele Di Maio, Pietro Vertova
Labour Mobility And The Redistributive Effects Of Trade Integration, Carlo Devillanova, Michele Di Maio, Pietro Vertova
Michele Di Maio
This paper addresses the role of mobility costs in shaping the effects of trade integration on wage inequality and welfare. We present a three-factor, two-sector model in which the production technology exhibits capital-skill complementarity and the cost of moving across sectors differs between unskilled and skilled workers. Results show that trade integration increases aggregate welfare, but it also raises wage inequality, both within and across skill categories. We also model a public re-training program, financed by a proportional tax levied on skilled workers, which reduces the mobility cost of unskilled workers. We show that even if the re-training programme entails …
Acteal: An Open Wound On Indigenous Human Rights, Marco Tavanti
Acteal: An Open Wound On Indigenous Human Rights, Marco Tavanti
Marco Tavanti
The December 22, 1997 massacre of indigenous Maya people in town of Acteal in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico is an unsolved justice and indigenous rights case. Although some paramilitary associated people were imprisoned and liberated by a decision of the Mexican Supreme Court, the sense of justice and proper reparation is nothing but a frustrated reality for various indigenous groups, especially for the family members of the victims, members of Las Abejas (The Bees) civil society organization.
¿En Qué Momento Se Jodió El Sur? Crecimiento Económico, Derechos De Propiedad Y Regulación Del Crédito En Las Colonias Británicas Y Españolas En América, Enrique Pasquel
¿En Qué Momento Se Jodió El Sur? Crecimiento Económico, Derechos De Propiedad Y Regulación Del Crédito En Las Colonias Británicas Y Españolas En América, Enrique Pasquel
Enrique Pasquel
Las instituciones legales de las colonias británicas y españolas pueden ayudar a explicar los distintos niveles de desarrollo económico en esas regiones. Este artículo se centra en el marco legal de los derechos de propiedad y el mercado del crédito en la época colonial, analizando las políticas de asignación de tierras, el establecimiento de registros, los programas de titulación, las cargas sobre la tierra y las restricciones al crédito.
Retos Urbano Ambientales: Disturbio Climático En América Latina Y El Caribe, Clara Irazabal
Retos Urbano Ambientales: Disturbio Climático En América Latina Y El Caribe, Clara Irazabal
Clara Irazabal
Las proyecciones hacia el futuro determinan que podría haber un aumento de hasta 1,7°C de temperatura para el 2050 y hasta 4°C para el final de este siglo, lo que sería catastrófico para la sostenabilidad de vida en el planeta, tal y como la conocemos hoy, Los niveles de aumento del nivel del mar han alcanzado 2 a 3 mm/año desde 1980 en la región. Han sido observados también cambios en los patrones de precipitaciones, con algunas áreas recibiendo más lluvias-sur de Brasil. Paraguay, Uruguay, nordeste de Argentina y noroeste de Perú-y otras con un menor nivel-sur de Chile, suroeste …
Standardization As A Solution To The Reading Costs Of Form Contracts, Abraham L. Wickelgren
Standardization As A Solution To The Reading Costs Of Form Contracts, Abraham L. Wickelgren
Abraham L. Wickelgren
It is well-known that a monopolist cannot commit to offer a high quality contract to a consumer reading costs are postive. This paper shows that this also holds in a competitive environment with consumer heterogeneity if the contract space is unrestricted. If firms can offer standardized contracts from a finite set, however, each with a standardized name, this paper shows that, when reading costs are not too large, there exists an equilibrium in which firms offer the most efficient contracts from the set of named contracts and consumers purchase the most efficient contracts offered without incurring any reading costs.
Innovations, Off-Shoring And Specialization, Ioannis Bournakis, Michela Vecchi, Francesco Venturini
Innovations, Off-Shoring And Specialization, Ioannis Bournakis, Michela Vecchi, Francesco Venturini
Francesco Venturini
This paper investigates the role of innovations in affecting specialisation by allowing countries to rely not only on their traditional factor endowments but also on their abilities to increase their stock of knowledge (R&D) and technologically advanced (ICT) capital, and on their abilities to access resources in other countries (off-shoring). By looking at measures of specialisation based on industry shares of GDP or total employment, we present evidence for 18 manufacturing and service industries, using data for the US, Japan and the largest EU countries for the period 1990-2005. Our results suggest that accumulating ICT or R&D at the industry …
Skript Zur Vorlesung Rechtsanthropologie, Wolfgang Fikentscher
Skript Zur Vorlesung Rechtsanthropologie, Wolfgang Fikentscher
Wolfgang Fikentscher
No abstract provided.
Foresight Into The Future Of Wipo’S Development Agenda, Jeremy De Beer, Sara Bannerman
Foresight Into The Future Of Wipo’S Development Agenda, Jeremy De Beer, Sara Bannerman
Jeremy de Beer
No abstract provided.
State, Youth And Electoral Violence In Nigeria’S Fourth Republic: The Imperative Of A Nationally Cordinated Youth Empowerment Program, David O. Moveh Mr
State, Youth And Electoral Violence In Nigeria’S Fourth Republic: The Imperative Of A Nationally Cordinated Youth Empowerment Program, David O. Moveh Mr
David O Moveh PhD.
One manifestation of Nigeria’s crisis of governance since the advent of civil rule in 1999 is the spate of youth violence that has characterized the electoral process. From the plains up north to the creeks in the south, Nigeria’s electoral process within the past decade has been mired in violence so much as to make mockery of the democratization process. A lot of works (Bangura: 1997, Momoh: 2000, Yau: 2000) have studied how Nigeria’s economic crisis and the attendant structural adjustment programme of the 1980s resulted in the alienation and marginalization of the youth, thereby exacerbating the whole phenomenon of …
A Comparative Study Of Globalization And Democratic Consolidation In Ghana And Nigeria (1990-2008), David O. Moveh Mr
A Comparative Study Of Globalization And Democratic Consolidation In Ghana And Nigeria (1990-2008), David O. Moveh Mr
David O Moveh PhD.
The implications of globalization for the developing world continue to attract the attention of scholars across the globe; yet, scant attention is paid to the dynamics of its political consequences. This paper is a comparative study of the external linkages and regime trajectories of Ghana and Nigeria; within the period 1990-2008. Evidence gathered on both countries substantiates the propositions that: the more a peripheral state derives huge revenues from commodity export, the more it will be able to exercise a significant degree of independence by resisting external pressure to imbibe liberal democratic values and vice versa. Similarly, the higher a …
11. Revising By Reading Aloud. What The Mouth And Ear Know, Peter Elbow
11. Revising By Reading Aloud. What The Mouth And Ear Know, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
Introduction To Part One: Defining "Speech" And "Writing", Peter Elbow
Introduction To Part One: Defining "Speech" And "Writing", Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
10. The Need For Care: Easy Speaking Onto The Page Is Never Enough, Peter Elbow
10. The Need For Care: Easy Speaking Onto The Page Is Never Enough, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
12. How Does Reading Aloud Improve Writing, Peter Elbow
12. How Does Reading Aloud Improve Writing, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
0 Table Of Contents And Introduction, Peter Elbow
7. Freewriting: An Obvious And Easy Way To Speak Onto The Page, Peter Elbow
7. Freewriting: An Obvious And Easy Way To Speak Onto The Page, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
Is “Race-Neutral” Really Race- Neutral?: Adverse Impact Towards Underrepresented Minorities In The Uc System., Jose Luis Santos, Nolan L. Cabrera, Kevin J. Fosnacht
Is “Race-Neutral” Really Race- Neutral?: Adverse Impact Towards Underrepresented Minorities In The Uc System., Jose Luis Santos, Nolan L. Cabrera, Kevin J. Fosnacht
Nolan L. Cabrera
Authors examine the proportion of undergraduate applications, admissions, and enrollments preceding, during, and after Proposition 209 while accounting for the relative growth in University of California eligibility for underrepresented minorities (URMs). They employed standard deviation analyses to measure dispersion of the URMs to non-URMs. Results suggest that "disparate impact" towards URMs persists, the magnitude is large, and affirmative action alone is insufficient to ensure an equitable admissions process.
Effects Of A Rape Awareness Program On College Women: Increasing Bystander Efficacy And Willingness To Intervene., John D. Foubert, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
Effects Of A Rape Awareness Program On College Women: Increasing Bystander Efficacy And Willingness To Intervene., John D. Foubert, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
John D. Foubert
An experimental study evaluated the efficacy of a sexual assault riskr eduction program on 279 college women that focused on learning characteristics of male perpetrators and teaching bystander intervention techniques. After seeing The Women’s Program, participants reported significantly greater bystander efficacy and significantly greater willingness to help than before seeing the program. Participants outperformed a control group. Rape myth acceptance also declined among program participants. Implications for rape awareness programming are discussed.
First-Year Male Students’ Perceptions Of A Rape Prevention Program Seven Months After Their Participation: Attitude And Behavior Changes., John D. Foubert, Jerry Tatum, Eric Godin
First-Year Male Students’ Perceptions Of A Rape Prevention Program Seven Months After Their Participation: Attitude And Behavior Changes., John D. Foubert, Jerry Tatum, Eric Godin
John D. Foubert
Seven months after seeing The Men’s Program, a commonly used rape prevention program, 248 first-year college men responded to four openended questions concerning whether or not the program impacted their attitudes or behavior, particularly regarding alcohol related sexual assault. Two thirds of participants reported either attitude or behavior change during the preceding academic year due to the program’s effects or that the program reinforced their current beliefs, with many describing specific incidents of either intervening to prevent a rape, or stopping themselves from engaging in risky behavior.
Demutualization Of Stock Exchanges, Poonam Mehra
Demutualization Of Stock Exchanges, Poonam Mehra
Poonam Singh Mehra
No abstract provided.
Lawyers And The Power Of Community: The Story Of South Ardmore, Corey S. Shdaimah
Lawyers And The Power Of Community: The Story Of South Ardmore, Corey S. Shdaimah
Corey S Shdaimah
Community organizing and lawyering have often been seen as incompatible. Lawyers are said to take over, many legal remedies are not amenable to and even dampen lay participation, and legal efforts can siphon money and other scarce resources. However, community organizations choose to seek out legal assistance for the benefits it provides despite their awareness of the dangers of working with lawyers and engaging the law. Much of the more recent literature shows that lawyers working with community organizations are also sensitive to these potential risks and benefits. This article presents the author’s efforts to organize her South Ardmore community …
18. A New Culture Of Vernacular Literacy On The Horizon, Peter Elbow
18. A New Culture Of Vernacular Literacy On The Horizon, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
No abstract provided.
Medicare’S Bundled Reimbursement Policy For Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease, Lisa M. Lines
Medicare’S Bundled Reimbursement Policy For Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease, Lisa M. Lines
Lisa M. Lines
No abstract provided.