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Showing 1 to 20 of 1213 for “"spending"”.
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Out-Of-Pocket Health Care Spending: Effects Of Partner Spending On Own Spending
… the relationship between household out-of-pocket spending and household-member delayed or foregone health care and none of this literature focuses primarily on older adults. This research seeks to answer the following question: Among older adults, how does the existence of a pre-existing medical …
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Blockchain Security: Double-Spending Attack and Prevention
… of work are vulnerable to hashrate-based double-spending attacks due to abuse of majority rule. Through building a private fork of Litecoin and executing a double-spending attack this thesis examines the mechanics and principles behind the attack. This thesis also conducts a survey of …
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Effect Of Candidate Spending On Vote Share
<p>Prior research on the effect that candidate spending has on vote share has produced conflicting results, with some research finding that only spending by challenger candidates has an effect on the vote outcome and other research finding incumbent and challenger spending roughly equally …
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Spending decision responsibilities of husbands and wives
… exists between who makes major and everyday spending decisions and the variables: average age of couple, length of marriage, and the wife's contribution to the income. Previous studies have provided divergent opinions as to who makes family spending decisions. A questionnaire was developed …
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What Drives Defense Spending in South Asia?: An Application of Defense Spending and Arms Race Models to India and Pakistan
… we apply five models widely used in defense spending studies. If the model performs well, we will assume that the underlying driver of defense expenditure or change in defense expenditure is present. If the model does not perform well, we will assume the driver is absent. Our goal is not to …
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Federal highway spending and economic growth in Appalachia
… development in the region. Federal highway spending was seen as a key to improving the Appalachian infrastructure.;Today, the debate continues on the effectiveness of federal highway spending in Appalachia. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of federal highway spending on …
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Defense Spending and the System of Regional Economies
The federal government is frequently identified as one of the principal agents inducing change within and between the system of regional economies. This influence, and associated impacts, stem from the enormity of the federal budget, the relative instability of expenditure patterns over time, and …
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The economics of military spending, conflict and growth
… Chapter one introduces the roles military spending and conic play in affecting economic growth, while also considering the causes of civil conflict. Chapter two investigates the relationship between military expenditure and economic growth, considering group heterogeneity and non-linearity. …
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The impact of spending cuts on Missouri student achievement
Since the Coleman Report in 1966, researchers have been analyzing educational resource inputs with respect to district, school, and student level outputs. There has been an increase in federal and state control of local school districts, as demonstrated in the adoption of the Common Core Standards …
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Government Spending And Economic Growth In Tanzania 1970-2010
… paper is to analyze the impact of government spending on economic growth in Tanzania for the period 1970-2010. We find that government expenditure is positively correlated with economic growth. Moreover, we find that only public expenditure of the current period and lagged in two period, …
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The impact of public spending on education in Nigeria
This study investigated the impact of public spending on enrolments in primary and secondary education in Nigeria using a multiple regression model. The model was constructed to identify the relationship between government spending, primary and secondary enrolments rate while also considering the …
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Examine spending capacity to deliver infrastructure in KwaZulu-Natal
Capital budgeting and spending in emerging countries remains a major challenge facing government. The Minister of Finance (South Africa) in 2011 and 2012 (Gordhan 2011 and 2012) has emphasised on the need to focus more on infrastructure spending and efficient use of financial resource allocations. …
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Navy design spending in an era of acquisition reform
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1999.
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Oil volatility and government spending behaviour in oil-exporting countries.
… price and rent in relation to government spending behaviour in OPEC and non-OPEC oil exporting countries. A research gap has been identified in three areas, firstly, there is a paucity of comparative literature between OPEC and non-OPEC countries. Secondly, there exists a limited number of …
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Focusing on the big picture: How widening attention decreases spending
Seven studies tested the hypothesis that thinking about one’s overall financial situation (e.g., how much one has in total debts, assets, or net worth) reduces participants’ willingness to spend. Four of the seven studies found significant results in favor of this hypothesis; however, three of the …
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Public spending and economic growth in Zambia - an econometric analysis
The importance of understanding the relationship between fiscal policies and economic growth has inspired many scholars to investigate the underlying relationship between these variables. In Zambia the growth in public expenditure has become a topical issue in the light of escalating debt levels …
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From wealth to well-being : spending money on others promotes happiness
… they earn. Specifically, we hypothesized that spending money on others may have a more positive impact on well-being than spending money on oneself. We found converging evidence for this hypothesis in a nationally representative survey (Study 1), a longitudinal study of windfall spending (Study …
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