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Proctor, Tony - In: Journal of Management History 20 (2014) 4, pp. 352-367

Purpose – The purpose of the article is to examine aspects of executive behaviour relating to social responsibility in the British railway companies from their beginnings in 1830 until 1860. It offers a fruitful contribution to the literature and the understanding of responsibility, noting...

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The causal effects of education on welfare participation in the US

Kämpfen, Fabrice - In: Education economics 29 (2021) 6, pp. 580-596

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Chapter 2. Nonproduction Benefits of Education : Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

Lance, Lochner - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 4, (pp. 183-282). 2011

A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor … market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic … participation. This chapter reviews recent developments on these “nonproduction” benefits of education. …

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An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure : the effects of college expansions on crime

Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Tavassoli, Nahid - In: International review of law and economics 71 (2022), pp. 1-15

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One Rural, two Visions — Environmental Issues and Images on Rural Areas in Portugal

Elisabete, Figueiredo - In: European Countryside 1 (2009) 1, pp. 9-21

In recent years rural areas, specially the most peripheral and remote ones, have become increasingly perceived and identified as spaces of outstanding environmental quality. This relatively new function of the rural, while widely recognized both socially and institutionally, is to some extent...

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Determinant factors for the development of rural entrepreneurship

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Rural domestic waste disposal: an empirical analysis in five provinces of China

Liu, Ying; Huang, Jikun - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 6 (2014), pp. 558-573

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the different types of domestic waste disposal in rural China and the major factors that affect rural household waste disposal behavior. Design/methodology/approach – Stratified and randomly sampled household data are used to describe the...

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Rural domestic waste disposal: an empirical analysis in five provinces of China

Liu, Ying; Huang, Jikun - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 6 (2014) 4, pp. 558-573

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Economic benefits of agritourism development in Poland : an empirical study

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The aggregate economic benefits of the national cultivar trials for maize in South Africa with specific reference to the Highveld region

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