In order to establish an adequate balance between tourists’ welfare, the needs of the natural and cultural environment, as well as to develop tourist destinations and organizations’ competitiveness, it is necessary to carry out a global and integrated approach, where all interested parties...

Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as...

School quality is hard to define and measure. It is influenced by not only school expenditures, but also characteristics that are hard to measure like norms and peer effects among teachers and pupils. Furthermore, family background and community characteristics are important in explaining...