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[...]This paper examines the impact that the PCAstandards had on bank portfolios following the passage ofFDICIA in 1991. To do this, the simultaneous equationsmodel developed by Shrieves and Dahl (1992), and latermodified by Jacques and Nigro (1997) to study the impactof risk-based capital, is...
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Much of the discourse about regional andlocal economic development strategiesin the United States over the pasttwenty-five years has looked like asearch for general rules. Very few such rules have emerged,in part because—like all policy debates—there have beenlarge inputs of ideology and...
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Recent advances in brain research have provided new evidence thatearly experience matters and have greatly increased interest in theeffects of early childhood interventions on outcomes for children. Thispaper reviews what is now known about the potential benefits andpotential ill effects of...
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interventions that target adolescents might be especiallyimportant. We analyze the intention to participate in training programs of … adolescent girlsin Uganda, a country with perhaps the most skewed age distribution anywhere in the world.The training program we … training, and microfinance. We findthat girls who are more likely to benefit from the program are more likely to intend to …
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Western Europe than suggested in the historiography. The measurement of regional market potential proves strongly sensitive to …
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Recently, there has been a growing interest in social capital and in the difficulties related to its measurement. In …
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Using a new source of evidence we explore the geographical mobility of mid-nineteenth century seamen. Among seamen born outside London, the tall, the literate and those who could remember the exact day, month and year when they were born - characteristics that we suggest mark them out as men...
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: its recipesfor development, its possibilities of measurement, and fromdifferences in political economy. These dimensions …
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Design standards are carriers and creators of facts, enabling facts about product value to travel between groups, and assisting in the creation of product value by establishing a reference or comparison against which product attributes are compared. However, when design standards are not...
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years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained …
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