Policies for rural areas have become an important but complex policy field in the EuropeanUnion`s Common Agricultural Policy. The purpose of this paper is to report on amethodological approach pursued to model the allocation of EAFRD (European AgriculturalFund for Rural Development) funds in...

Since the late 1980s slogans like ‘use it or lose it’ or ‘conservation through sustainable use’ emphasized the economic use of wildlife for conservation and rural development. In addition, a stronger involvement of local communities instead of displacement and curtailing of their access...

Agri-environment schemes (AES) have been an important policy tool within the EU for over 15 years and are viewed as a central element of the Rural Development Regulation (RDR) in seeking to secure certain environmental public goods. Currently, AES tend to be action-based rather than...

[...]The work of the National Equality Panel will underpin the response by all strategic publicauthorities to Clause One of the Equality Bill which places a new legal duty on key publicbodies to consider, in all the important decisions they make and all important actions theytake, how they can...

There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as mendo and are less willing to enter a competition than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personalityvariables toto understand the underlying motives of women (and men) toenter a...

This paper focuses on pathways to adult disadvantage (or social exclusion) up toage 33 for a cohort of children born in Great Britain in March 1958. A sequenceof interrelated analyses that build up a life-course account of the pathwaysinvolved in the origins of adult social exclusion are...

Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...

This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...