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Entrepreneurship And Economic Growth: The Proof Is In The Productivity, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Chihwa Kao

Center for Policy Research

Popular and policy discussions have focused extensively on "entrepreneurship." While entrepreneurship is often viewed from the perspective of the individual's benefits--an increase in standard of living, flexibility in hours, and so forth--much of the policy interest derives from the presumption that entrepreneurs provide economy-wide benefits in the form of new products, lower prices, innovations, and increased productivity. How large are these effects? Using a rich panel of state-level data, we quantify the relationship between productivity growth--by state and by industry--and entrepreneurship. Specifically, we use state-of-the-art econometric techniques for panel data to determine whether variations in the birth rate and death …

On The Measurment Of Job Risk In Hedonic Wage Models, Dan Black, Thomas J. Kniesner

Center for Policy Research

We examine the incidence, form, and research consequences of measurement error in measure of fatal injury risk in United States workplaces using both BLS and NIOSH data. We find evidence of substantial measurement errors in the fatality risk researchers attach to individual workers when estimating the implicit price of risk and the value of a statistical life. We first examine possible classical attenuation bias in the fatality risk coefficient. However, because we also find non-classical measurement error that differs across multiple risk measures and is not independent of other regressors, more complex statistical procedures than a standard instrumental variables estimator …

Texas Silver Haired Legislature Foundation - Donations And Receipts, Texas Silver Haired Legislature Foundation

Texas Silver-Haired Legislature

Information from the Texas Silver Haired Legislature Foundation on donations and receipts from 1992-2003.

Global Changes In Scholarly Communication, Suzanne E. Thorin

Librarian Publications

For more than a decade, the cost of print and electronic journals, particularly in the sciences, has increased rapidly at the same time that the amount of research being reported via published articles has grown exponentially. With academic libraries being less and less able to purchase the journals needed for their communities, the use of the term scholarly communication has evolved to illustrate the breakdown of the process of traditional scholarly publication; that is, as a means to disseminate research results, the present system of scholarly communication can no longer meet the needs of the scholarly community at large.

When …

Strategic Analysis Of The Alabama Nursing Home Industry., Martha Mariah Perryman Starkey

All ETDs from UAB

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Leadership Styles Of Select Inner -City Principals Who Administer Schools Categorized As Clear, Caution, Or Alert: Practices And Actions Of Nine School Leaders., Coradean Carson Bishop

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Among Ownership, Board Compensation, Venture Capitalists, And The Quest For Value Within Healthcare Ipos: An Agency Perspective., David Raymond Williams

All ETDs from UAB

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Social Capital And Adolescent Violent Behavior: Correlates Of Fighting And Weapon Use Among Secondary School Students., Darlene Romania Wright

All ETDs from UAB

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An Examination Of Role Conflict, Role Strain, And Coping Strategies Among Single-Mother College Students, Lisa L. Adolfs

Theses and Dissertations

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2003-2004 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Undergraduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

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2002-2003 Annual Report Of The Board Of Trustees Of Southern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Reports of the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University - Archives

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Catalog 2003-04, Dmacc

Catalogs

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A Survey Analysis Of Participation In A Community Forest Management In Nepal, Vishakha Maskey, Tesfa Gebremedhin, Timothy J. Dalton

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

The main objective of the study is to determine which socio-economic factors affect levels of individual participation in the “Ludi-damgade” community forest. The empirical evidence for participation as a function of social status is obtained by using an ordered probit model. The model also estimates the marginal effects of socio-economic factors on different levels of participation suggesting how per unit change in such socioeconomic characters affects the level of participation. Results from the two-stage least squares model also verify that participation in forest management determines the level of benefits received from the community forest. The study suggests that participation in …

Annual Report On Research Activities 2002-2003, Lingnan University (Hong Kong, China)

Annual Report on Research Activities to Research Grants Council

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Deterrents To Participation In Parenting Education, Debora C. Johnson, Betty C. Harrison, Michael F. Burnett, Peter Emerson

Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to determine the deterrents to participation by adults in parenting education programs. The objectives were (a) to describe parents with children in selected day care facilities on selected sociodemographic characteristics, (b) to determine factors that deterred those parents from participating in parenting education, and (c) to determine if there was a relationship between selected sociodemographic characteristics and the parents' participation in parenting education programs. A simple random sample of parents was drawn from the accessible population. Factor analysis revealed five factors that deterred this population from participating in parenting education: Lack of Confidence, Lack …

Towards A New Scholarship For Equal Justice, James S. Liebman

William Mitchell Law Review

Over the last thirty years, the legal academy has turned a cold shoulder to the subject matter of this symposium: scholarship for equal justice. I am here to suggest that a thaw may be on the way. By scholarship for equal justice--as distinguished from scholarship about that topic--I mean academic work undertaken for the purpose of improving outcomes for individuals and members of groups who have been systematically held back by their race, sex, poverty, or any other basis for rationing success that our legal system treats with suspicion. With reference to some of my own work and that of …

Journals In The Discipline: A Report On A New Survey Of American Political Scientists, James C. Garand, Micheal W. Giles

Faculty Publications

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The Taxman Cometh, Corwin R. Kruse

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Furman Alumni News, Furman University

Furman Magazine

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University Of New Hampshire Neasc Self-Study Report 2003. Cihe Data Form Viii: Credit Hours Generated By Department Or Comparable Academic Unit: Undergraduate / Unh/Unhm, University Of New Hampshire. Office Of Institutional Research.

NEASC Self-Study

Documents related to the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) self-study to assess compliance with accreditation standards and to advance the University's Academic Plan.

Faculty Excellence, University Of New Hampshire

Faculty Excellence Awards

Each year, the University of New Hampshire selects a small number of its outstanding faculty for special recognition of their achievements in teaching, scholarship and service. Awards for Excellence in Teaching are given in each college and school, and university-wide awards recognize public service, research, teaching and engagement. This booklet details the year's award winners' accomplishments in short profiles with photographs and text.

Qualifications You Can Trust, Aga Khan University Examination Board

The Aga Khan University Examination Board Archives

• Vision and Mission
• Development of Syllabi & Learning Resources
• Examination Development & Conduct
• Teacher Development & Research
• Assessment: Quality, Relevance, Access
• Middle School Programme (MSP)
• Secondary School Certificate (SSC, Grades IX–X)
• Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC, Grades XI–XII)
• Teacher Training & Continuous Professional Development
• School Affiliation Process & Checklist
• Examination Sessions & Result Access
• Scholarships & University Exemptions

2003-2005 Graduate Catalog, The University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Course Catalogs

Includes academic calendars, campus resources, a campus map, admissions requirements, and information about finances and degree programs for the academic years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005.

2003-2005 Undergraduate Catalog, The University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Course Catalogs

Includes academic calendars, campus resources, a campus map, admissions requirements, and information about finances and degree programs for the academic years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005.

The Everychurch Guide To Growth (Korean), Elmer Towns, Tom Raynor, Peter Wagner

Towns Foreign Language Book Collection

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The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights: Effective Remedies And The Domestic Courts, Judge Edward D. Re

California Western International Law Journal

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Adoptive Families Headed By Gay Or Lesbian Parents: A Threat . . . Or Hidden Resource?, Scott D. Ryan, Scottye Cash

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

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Viewbook- 2003, Admissions Staff

Student Handbooks

Student guide

Models For The Distribution Of Quaking Aspen In Geographic And Potential Evapotranspiration Spaces Relevant To The Book Cliffs (Utah), 2000-2002, Joseph O. Sexton

Aspen Bibliography

Quaking aspen is the most widely distributed tree species in North America and an asset to sociological, ecological, and hydrological land values in the western United States. In recognition of these values, land managers seek means to oppose a regional decline of aspen in the Intermountain West—a decline apparently in progress since the close of the Pleistocene and driven by climate change, fire suppression, and increasing ungulate densities. One location of special relevance to this decline is the Utah-Colorado Book Cliffs, a discrete boundary of quaking aspen’s geographic range and a potential biogeographic corridor between the sub-alpine communities of the …

Wooster Magazine: Winter 2003, Lisa Watts

Wooster Magazine: 2001-2010

This edition of the Wooster Magazine was published in the winter of 2003. Wooster was awarded a $1.7 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. from the Lilly Project, Wooster's Classical Studies faculty member, Dianna Kardulias, is the rector of this projects. Communication Studies Professor Michelle Johnson is featured for her study of friendships as social support along with a section of alumni friendships from page eight to twenty-one. John Poling '74 talks about the two years he spend under with famous artist Georgia O'Keeffe. The Class Notes section can be found starting on page twenty-six.