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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"private good"”.
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Transformative leadership and the purpose of schooling in affluent communities
… and capitalist markets, and between public good responsibility and private good expectations—combine with the ever increasing list of normative requirements of the school leadership role and represent common, challenging phenomena experienced by school leaders across the country. The …
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UNPACKING HEALTH AID EFFECTIVENESS
… based on the distinction between public and private good properties of coordination. Finally, using a collective action theory framework and aided by Schelling’s (1973) diagrams, this chapter illustrates why it is so hard to coordinate. My results show that individual incentives to coordinate …
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Impacto del marco normativo en la urbanización contemporánea del litoral: Camaçari (Brasil) y Asia (Peru)
… makes mechanisms more flexible, generous with private investment, which the private good prevails over the public, and measures that support that action are promoted; which has had significant implications in the structure and management of space, including the appearance or intensification of …
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The Protection Racket: Patrons, Clients, and the Political -Economy of Security Provision Markets
… new life into realism by modeling security as a private good that is traded in a de facto market context between stronger and weaker actors in the international system. What resulting synthesis is an analytically rigorous, positive theory of realism that is much more capable of explaining and …
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The internal politics of external threat
… to engage in conflict and repression when public goods issues such as symbolic territory (e.g. Jerusalem, Kashmir) are contested. In contrast autocratic states, which are dependent on elite support, are more likely threats salient when they threaten private good distribution, or when land such as …
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Intra-Household Decision Making
… of the effect of change in wages, price of the private good, power of each individual in the household, relative importance of private consumption compared to leisure, and the level of altruism on individual's decisions about how much private good or leisure he/she wants to consume. The effect …
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Internalized choice theory: a model of student/faculty choice within the university
… the teacher's lecture time from a purely public good to a purely private good (or vice versa)? What are the long run and short run repercussions from grade inflation? What are the impacts of different student aptitudes and initial endowments of knowledge on student achievement and grades? How …
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Building an Educated Workforce: Brain Drain and Senior State Merit Scholarship Recipients Studying Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics
… Schlossberg's theory of students in transition (Goodman, Schlossberg, & Anderson, 2006) and answer the following questions: </p> <p> Research Question 1: Do senior state merit scholarship recipients studying math, science, engineering, and technology intend to remain in South Carolina after …
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Coordination failure and its consequences: Three essays
… banks that features a trade-off between a public good (the cybersecurity of a digital platform) and a private good (bank operational resilience). Rollover risk informs investment of working capital into cybersecurity, with the production of cybersecurity having weakest-link characteristics. …
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The Ties That Do Not Bind: Social Capital, Minority Female Representation, and Social Inequality in the United States
… capital indexes reveal that social capital is a private good that unique effects in-group members. Aware of research that highlights additional "limits" to expected benefits of social capital and the importance of other representatives that can affect health, I examine how social capital shapes …
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Household economies of scale, food consumption and intra-household allocation of time
… of food increases relative to a more public good and decreases relative to a more private good. This suggests food is less private than the composite of all other goods in the household budget; the likely public component of food being food preparation time. Extending the model to incorporate …
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Political Power at the City University of New York: A Case Study of Meritocracy vs. Democracy – Open Admissions and the Imposition of Tuition, 1969–1976
… which education becomes a commodity, making it a private good. Merit-based criteria relies on a political set of rules that is set based on institutional and political needs. Therefore, the belief that education is “the great leveler”—one of the most powerful tools to alleviate poverty and …
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Essays in Gender and Labor Economics
… defines childcare expenditure as a mother's private good expenditure rather than a common family expense. Analyzing data from the consumption expenditure survey (2014-2021) and the PSID dataset (1999-2021), the study finds that as the wife’s earnings increase relative to the husband's, …
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The commodification of higher education in the welfare state of Sweden: exploring the possibilities
… results into products and co-operation with the private sector. There are statutes that hinder some entrepreneurial activities or limit the universities’ ability to make money from them; a vehement stand against the commodification of higher education for natives, but qualified openness for some …
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Tag based Bayesian latent class models for movies : economic theory reaches out to big data science
… that arises from the notion that creative goods need to be experienced before an assessment can be made about the utility they deliver to the consumer. In this they differ from the standard private good that forms the basis of demand theory in economic textbooks, in which utility is known …
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Alternative Funding Mechanisms for Public Recreation: An Analysis of the Montana State Parks Opt-Out Fee
… 2006; More and Stevens, 2000) and turn a public good meant for everybody into an excludable private good (Samnaliev, More, and Stevens, 2006). In 2003, the State of Montana took an alternative approach by enacting an opt-out fee during vehicle registration to fund state parks. Several other …
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State employment in South Africa
… under the criteria of: (i) when a pure public good is produced this is to the full extent of the bureau budget without regard for average and marginal cost conditions and (ii) in the production of a pure private good the bureau produces efficiency only if the trading surplus accrues to the …
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Education, employment and earnings: a study of the South African manufacturing sector
… output under the criteria of: when a pure public good is produced this is to the full extent of the bureau budget without regard for average and marginal cost conditions and in the production of a pure private good the bureau produces efficiency only if the trading surplus accrues to the bureau …