Data Profiles-Rhode Island-Providence,
2016
Clark University
Data Profiles-Rhode Island-Providence, John C. Brown, Richard A. Ramsawak, James R. Gomes
Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise
We continue support the Federal Bank of Boston “Working Cities” challenge which aims to support social and economic recovery of underperforming small and mid-sized cities in the New England region. We continue to extend our data profiles of these cities located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and now Connecticut. It is our hope that these data ‘rich” profiles which includes key indicators on health, population and demographic changes, industrial growth, and educational performance can not only support policy development in these targeted areas, but also help in monitoring the progress these cities make over time.
Data Profiles-Rhode Island-Warwick,
2016
Clark University
Data Profiles-Rhode Island-Warwick, John C. Brown, Richard A. Ramsawak, James R. Gomes
Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise
We continue support the Federal Bank of Boston “Working Cities” challenge which aims to support social and economic recovery of underperforming small and mid-sized cities in the New England region. We continue to extend our data profiles of these cities located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and now Connecticut. It is our hope that these data ‘rich” profiles which includes key indicators on health, population and demographic changes, industrial growth, and educational performance can not only support policy development in these targeted areas, but also help in monitoring the progress these cities make over time.
Data Profiles-Rhode Island-West Warick,
2016
Clark University
Data Profiles-Rhode Island-West Warick, John C. Brown, Richard A. Ramswak, James R. Gomes
Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise
We continue support the Federal Bank of Boston “Working Cities” challenge which aims to support social and economic recovery of underperforming small and mid-sized cities in the New England region. We continue to extend our data profiles of these cities located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and now Connecticut. It is our hope that these data ‘rich” profiles which includes key indicators on health, population and demographic changes, industrial growth, and educational performance can not only support policy development in these targeted areas, but also help in monitoring the progress these cities make over time.
Data Profiles-Rhode Island-Woonsocket,
2016
Clark University
Data Profiles-Rhode Island-Woonsocket, John C. Brown, Richard A. Ramsawak, James R. Gomes
Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise
We continue support the Federal Bank of Boston “Working Cities” challenge which aims to support social and economic recovery of underperforming small and mid-sized cities in the New England region. We continue to extend our data profiles of these cities located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and now Connecticut. It is our hope that these data ‘rich” profiles which includes key indicators on health, population and demographic changes, industrial growth, and educational performance can not only support policy development in these targeted areas, but also help in monitoring the progress these cities make over time.
Are There Environmental Benefits From Driving Electric Vehicles? The Importance Of Local Factors,
2016
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Are There Environmental Benefits From Driving Electric Vehicles? The Importance Of Local Factors, Stephen P. Holland, Erin T. Mansur, Nicholas Z. Muller, Andrew J. Yates
Dartmouth Scholarship
We combine a theoretical discrete-choice model of vehicle purchases, an econometric analysis of electricity emissions, and the AP2 air pollution model to estimate the geographic variation in the environmental benefits from driving electric vehicles. The second-best electric vehicle purchase subsidy ranges from $2,785 in California to -$4,964 in North Dakota, with a mean of -$1,095. Ninety percent of local environmental externalities from driving electric vehicles in one state are exported to others, implying they may be subsidized locally, even when the environmental benefits are negative overall. Geographically differentiated subsidies can reduce deadweight loss, but only modestly.
Measuring The Impact Of 21st Century Community Learning Centers,
2016
Illinois State University
Measuring The Impact Of 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Melissa Johnston-Gross
Student Research – Stevenson Center
This paper investigates the relationship between student achievement and participation in before- and after- school academic enrichment programs funded by the 21st Century Community Learning Center (21CCLC) grant. The 21CCLC program is aimed at students in high-poverty, low-performing schools. I analyzed the first two cohorts awarded the program in school years 2002/2003 and 2003/2004 and compared them to public schools not funded by the program. Using difference-in-differences estimation, I found schools receiving the program experienced a higher percentage of students meeting or exceeding test standards: 1.332% higher in the first year and 2.055% in the second year compared to schools …
Editor's Introduction To The Special Edition: The Economics Of Climate Change In Coastal Areas,
2016
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Editor's Introduction To The Special Edition: The Economics Of Climate Change In Coastal Areas, Charles S. Colgan
Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics
Editor's introduction to the Special Edition on the Economics of Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Areas
Climate Adaptation Finance Mechanisms: New Frontiers For Familiar Tools,
2016
Senior Advisor and Emeritus Director, USEPA Region 1 Environmental Finance Center at the University of Southern Maine
Climate Adaptation Finance Mechanisms: New Frontiers For Familiar Tools, Jack D. Kartez Ph.D., Samuel B. Merrill Ph.D.
Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics
Demands for mechanisms to pay for adaptation to climate risks have multiplied rapidly as concern has shifted from greenhouse gas mitigation alone to also coping with the now-inevitable impacts. A number of viable approaches to how to pay for those adjustments to roads, drainage systems, lifeline utilities and other basic infrastructure are emerging, though untested at the scale required across the nation, which already has a trillion-dollar deferred maintenance and replacement problem. There are growing efforts to find new ways to harness private financial resources via new market arrangements to meet needs that clearly outstrip public resources alone, as well …
The Economics Of Climate Adaptation On America’S Coasts: A Washington Conversation,
2016
Center for the Blue Economy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
The Economics Of Climate Adaptation On America’S Coasts: A Washington Conversation, Dr. Charles Colgan
Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics
Report of a colloquium on the economics of coastal climate change adaptation held in Washington D.C. on April 16, 2015. The event was sponsored by The Center for Blue Economy of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and the Urban Coast Institute of Monmouth University. Participants included Michael Conathan, Center for American Progress; Frank Nutter, Reinsurance Association of America; Dr. Robert Kopp, Rutgers University; Josh Sawislak, Council on Environmental Quality; Tony MacDonald, Urban Coast Institute; Jason Scorse and Charles Colgan, Center for the Blue Economy
Meeting People Where They Are, Creating A Bridge Out Of Poverty,
2016
Teen Start Inc.
Meeting People Where They Are, Creating A Bridge Out Of Poverty, Stanya M. Greathouse
Learning Showcase 2016: A Celebration of Discovery, Transformation and Success
The poverty rate is a key economic indicator often used by policy makers to evaluate current economic conditions within communities. Teen Start Inc. targets persons experiencing generational poverty by offering programs that supports young parents and their children providing culturally competent programs to "improve human capital through education, employment, intergenerational transfer of knowledge and social bridging capital" (Payne, 2012).
Analisis Pergerakan Nilai Tukar Rupiah Dengan 4 Negara Partner Dagang Utama Indonesia Pasca Krisis 1997-1998,
2016
Magister Perencanaan Ekonomi dan Kebijakan Pembangunan, Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis, Universitas Indonesia
Analisis Pergerakan Nilai Tukar Rupiah Dengan 4 Negara Partner Dagang Utama Indonesia Pasca Krisis 1997-1998, Anisa Khairatun Hisan
Jurnal Kebijakan Ekonomi
Penelitian ini akan menjelaskan pengaruh dan pentingnya mata uang Negara mitra dagang utama Indonesia dalam keranjang mata uang rupiah dan terhadap pergerakan nilai tukar rupiah setelah krisis 1997–1998 sebelum dan sesudah China menjadi mitra dagang utama Indonesia. Data yang digunakan adalah data mingguan dari tahun 1999 sampai maret 2016. Penelitian ini berdasarkan model Turnovsky (1982). Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah pada periode sebelum China menjadi mitra dagang utama Indonesia US dollar masih mendominasi dalam mempengaruhi pergerakan mata uang dalam keranjang rupiah dengan bobot yang besar. Sedangkan pada periode China menjadi mitra dagang utama Indonesia yaitu pada saat ACFTA baru diterapkan, …
Uji Empiris Reformulasi Kondisi Marshall-Lerner Untuk Kasus Ekspor Dan Impor Manufaktur Di Indonesia,
2016
Badan Perencanaan dan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Daerah Kab. Kebumen
Uji Empiris Reformulasi Kondisi Marshall-Lerner Untuk Kasus Ekspor Dan Impor Manufaktur Di Indonesia, Taukhid Yudotaruno, Telisa Aulia Falianty
Jurnal Kebijakan Ekonomi
This study aims to examine the condition of Marshall-Lerner regard to the simultaneous relationship of export and import of Indonesia’s manufacturing sector. This simultaneous relationship occurs due to Indonesia’s manufacturing industry is part of the global production network as of its export products containing imported intermediate inputs. SVAR is using to analyze the simultaneous relationship between variables with their own variables and other variables in the past. Its due to changes in export and import values do not immediately occur at the same time with changes in exchange rates. Empirical results shows that by taking into account the simultaneous relationship …
Analisis Efektivitas Kebijakan Harga Pembelian Pemerintah (Hpp) Beras,
2016
Lembaga Penyelidikan Ekonomi dan Masyarakat
Analisis Efektivitas Kebijakan Harga Pembelian Pemerintah (Hpp) Beras, Lukas Bonar Nainggolan, Widyono Soetjipto
Jurnal Kebijakan Ekonomi
Analysis on the effectivity of rice price-support policy needs to be done to determine whether the rice price-support policy should be continued or not. The reason is that Indonesia is still ex- periencing problems in rice production and the farmer’s welfare of farmers when government spend large budget for rice price-support policy. This study will analyze the the effectiveness of rice price-support policy by estimating the model of rice production and grain prices with Two- Stage Least Square (2SLS) method. The result is rice price-support policy affects the grain prices effectively and it means also for the farmer’s welfare, with …
Persistensi Bahan Bakar Fosil: Analisis Path Dependence Dalam Bauran Konsumsi-Energi Indonesia Periode 1980–2015,
2016
Magister Perencanaan Ekonomi dan Kebijakan Pembangunan FEB UI
Persistensi Bahan Bakar Fosil: Analisis Path Dependence Dalam Bauran Konsumsi-Energi Indonesia Periode 1980–2015, Made Harimbawa
Jurnal Kebijakan Ekonomi
Current fossil fuels use has created two major issues: environmental damage from greenhouse gas emissions and energy security. In the recent decades, development in science and technology along with increasing demand for shifting to cleaner and renewable energy sources have not yet changed the proportion of fossil fuel in Indonesia energy-consumption mix. One explanation to this phenomenon is the existence of path dependence that locks Indonesia’s technological systems and institutions into cycles of fossil fuels consumption, which in turn limiting the development of alternative technologies. Analysis using equilibrium dependent model suggests that this is the case: fossil fuels persistence in …
Economies Of The Internet,
2016
Old Dominion University
Economies Of The Internet, Kylie Jarrett, D. E. Wittkower
Philosophy Faculty Publications
The papers in this issue of First Monday were originally presented as a series of panels at the Association of Internet Researchers 2015 conference in Phoenix, Arizona. This short introduction explains the impetus behind the organization of these panels-- which was to document diversity in approaches to the study of internet economies-- and briefly introduces each paper by locating them in the nexus between political economy and cultural studies.
Housing Policies In Singapore,
2016
Singapore Management University
Housing Policies In Singapore, Phang Sock Yong, Matthias Helble
Research Collection School of Economics
Singapore has developed a unique housing system, with three-quarters of its housing stock built by the Housing & Development Board (HDB) and homeownership financed through Central Provident Fund (CPF) savings. As a result, the country’s homeownership rate of 90% is one of the highest among market economies. At different stages of its economic development, the Government of Singapore was faced with a different set of housing problems. An integrated land–housing supply and financing framework was established in the 1960s to solve the severe housing shortage. By the 1990s, the challenge was that of renewing aging estates and creating a market …
University Rankings: Evidence And A Conceptual Framework,
2016
Montclair State University
University Rankings: Evidence And A Conceptual Framework, Jonathan G.S. Koppell, Jacob Fowles, H. George Frederickson
Publications from President Jonathan G.S. Koppell
University ranking has high public visibility, the ranking business has flourished, and institutions of higher education have not been able to ignore it. This study of university ranking presents general considerations of ranking and institutional responses to it, particularly considering reactions to ranking, ranking as a self-fulfilling prophecy, and ranking as a means of transforming qualities into quantities. The authors present a conceptual framework of university ranking based on three propositions and carry out a descriptive statistical analysis of U.S. and international ranking data to evaluate those propositions. The first proposition of university ranking is that ranking systems are demarcated …
Incense Burning During Pregnancy And Birth Weight And Head Circumference Among Term Births: The Taiwan Birth Cohort Study,
2016
Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Incense Burning During Pregnancy And Birth Weight And Head Circumference Among Term Births: The Taiwan Birth Cohort Study, Le-Yu Chen, Christine Ho
Research Collection School Of Economics
Incense burning for rituals or religious purposes is an important tradition in many countries. However, incense smoke contains particulate matter and gas products such as carbon monoxide, sulfur and nitrogen dioxide, which are potentially harmful to health. We analyzed the relationship between prenatal incense burning and birth weight and head circumference at birth using the Taiwan Birth Cohort Study. We performed multivariate regression analysis on a sample of 15,773 Taiwanese babies born in 2005 and controlled extensively for factors that may be correlated with incense burning and birth outcomes. Prenatal incense burning environment was associated with lower birth weight and …
Is Predicted Data A Viable Alternative To Real Data?,
2016
Singapore Management University
Is Predicted Data A Viable Alternative To Real Data?, Tomoki Fujii, Roy Van Der Weide
Research Collection School Of Economics
It is costly to collect the household- and individual-level data that underlies official estimates of poverty and health. For this reason, developing countries often do not have the budget to update their estimates of poverty and health regularly, even though these estimates are most needed there. One way to reduce the financial burden is to substitute some of the real data with predicted data. An approach referred to as double sampling collects the expensive outcome variable for a sub-sample only while collecting the covariates used for prediction for the full sample. The objective of this study is to determine if …
Is Predicted Data A Viable Alternative To Real Data?,
2016
Singapore Management University
Is Predicted Data A Viable Alternative To Real Data?, Tomoki Fujii, Roy Van Der Weide
Research Collection School Of Economics
It is costly to collect the household- andindividual-level data that underlies official estimates of poverty and health. Forthis reason, developing countries often do not have the budget to update their estimatesof poverty and health regularly, even though these estimates are most neededthere. One way to reduce the financial burden is to substitute some of the realdata with predicted data. An approach referred to as double sampling collectsthe expensive outcome variable for a sub-sample only while collecting thecovariates used for prediction for the full sample. The objective of this studyis to determine if this would indeed allow for realizing meaningful reductionsin …
