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Is Wealth Green? Examining the Relationship Between Wealth and Environmental Conservation
… Manifesto</i> (1999). Huber's thesis is that wealth leads to environmental conservation in two ways: 1) that wealthy nations develop and implement technologies to maximize the efficiency of land use, and 2) that wealthy individuals pour their wealth into the conservation of nature. Using …
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Wealth and ethics in Pindar
This dissertation examines wealth alongside other ethical values in Pindar’s epinicians, using an approach developed with the anthropology of ethics and in critical dialogue with socioeconomic historicism. It aims to restore the place of divinity in Pindar’s valuation of wealth and provide a …
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Wealth management and divorce: how stress adjustment affects the accumulation, management and distribution of wealth
The dearth of research on short and long-term effects of divorce on financial behaviors warrants further investigation. This study investigates the effects of divorce on precautionary and retirement savings, proportion of assets in risk investments, and bequest intentions. Using data from the Panel …
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Determinants of wealth in South Africa
… paper investigates the determinants of household wealth in South Africa, using the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 2. In particular, we look at the effect s of the wealth-age profile and other household demographic variables. The hump-shaped profile of the wealth and age relationship …
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Housing Demand, Housing Wealth, and Public Policy
… three papers on housing demand, housing wealth, and public policy. The first two papers make use of veteran access to the VA Loan Guaranty Program during the post-war housing boom during the 1940s and 1950s. The findings show that, for both World War II and Korean War veterans, access to …
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THE WEALTH EFFECTS OF REITS PROPERTY DISPOSITIONS
This study seeks to examine the wealth effects of U.S. REITs property dispositions from 2001 to 2009 and to assess the factors that contribute to the wealth effects. To investigate the wealth effects of REITs property dispositions, this study employs the event study methodology. It finds that …
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Influence of Income on Environmental Education Practices in High Wealth and Low Wealth Areas: A Review of the Literature
… literature is to examine if students from low wealth areas are afforded the same opportunities for environmental education as students from high wealth areas.</p> <p>This paper explores issues related to environmental education. These include concepts of environmental racism, differences in …
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And by Community Wealth Building, do you mean Land Back? Points of Relation between Land Back and Community Wealth Building
Land Back and Community Wealth Building are two social movements countering extractive wealth accumulation structures and systems that continue to harm people and land while concentrating economic power and assets into the hands of the wealthy elite and away from communities. While vast differences …
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Information Technology and Wealth: Cybernetics, History and Economics
<p>Capitalism developed where and when it did because there was high information access. There was high information access because of a major advance in information technology--the press. Where the technology was not controlled by the "powers that be" there was economic growth and a shift in the …
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Economic sanctions, resource wealth, and increased state utility
… empirical evidence that natural resource wealth increases the capacity of targeted states to persevere the negative cost associated with the implementation of economic sanctions.
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Chicago, 1870 and 1900: Wealth, Occupation and Education
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:06:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7913399.pdf: 7035173 bytes, checksum: 6160f65519ca4f3a25c0d37b1de90e8b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Essays on inequality, redistribution and wealth-based politics
… of them study theoretical models of inequality, wealth-based politics and redistribution. The third chapter is an empirical contribution to the literature on growth and the income distribution In the first chapter, we explore the theoretical relation between economic and political inequality and …
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Housing assistance and the creation of household wealth
… of rental subsidies begin to build household wealth through homeownership. Its core beneficiaries are households in Boston and Cambridge earning between 60% and 80% of the area median income. It also proposes an extended program to help households earning between 80% and 135% AMI purchase a …
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Incorporating Community Cultural Wealth in a Community-Based Organization
… them. Critical Race Theory, community cultural wealth, and the many studies on academic success provided a model through which to examine the efficacy and cultural relevance of Hack the Hood programming using interviews and data already gathered on the organization. Based on the analysis of Hack …
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Optimal Portfolio Construction for Oil-Based Sovereign Wealth Funds
… examine the efforts of Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund in diversifying revenue streams and mitigating risks associated with an excessive dependence on oil. To achieve this, the study proposes an adaptation of the subset-optimization algorithm within the mean-variance model, aiming to enhance …
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Three aspects of investment decisions under terminal wealth constraints
… investors face even larger reductions. When wealth constraints (e.g. minimum guarantee) on the amount of pension savings at retirement are considered, we find that ignoring inflation by using nominal constraints gives a potential reduction in welfare of up to 36% for the average retiree. The …
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