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Race to the Future: Innovations in Gifted and Enrichment Education in Asia, and Implications for the United States
Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-25
How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills—including creativity, innovation, and technical capability—to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate education policy and practice into a key component...
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A Bourdieusian Perspective on Acculturation: Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Prieto, Leonel; Sagafi-nejad, Tagi; Janamanchi, Balaji - In: Administrative Sciences 3 (2013) 4, pp. 290-305
This article uses Bourdieu’s theory of practice (BTOP) to understand immigrants’ acculturation. It synthesizes research findings by discussing acculturation as: (1) equalization of immigrants’ and natives’ development (convergence); (2) language and social practices related to economic,...
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Does the US Tax Code Encourage Market Concentration? An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of the Corporate Tax Structure on Profit Shares and Shareholder Payouts
Hager, Sandy Brian; Baines, Joseph - 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY *** Concerns about the market power of large corporations are growing. There are good reasons why monopoly now features so prominently on the political and economic agenda. Mounting evidence shows that corporate concentration stifles innovation and investment, resulting in...
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Estimating crowding costs in public transport
Haywood, Luke; Koning, Martin - 2013
Preferences for transport activities are often considered only in terms of time and money. Whilst congestion in …
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Did cheaper flights change the direction of science?
Catalini, Christian; Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick - 2016
We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine-grained, scientist-level dataset within chemistry (1991-2012), we find that after Southwest Airlines enters a new route, scientific collaboration increases by 50%, an effect that is...
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Using mandated speed limits to measure the value of a statistical life
Ashenfelter, Orley; Greenstone, Michael - 2002
their urban interstate roads, from 55 mph to 65 mph for the first time in over a decade. Since the states that adopted the … 125,000 hours were saved per lost life. Valuing the time saved at the average hourly wage implies that adopting states …
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Buyer-Seller Relationships in International Trade : Evidence from U.S. States' Exports and Business-Class Travel
Cristea, Anca D. - 2012
international trade. Interactions among trade partners entail a fixed cost of trade, but at the same time they generate relationship … bilateral exports and business-class air travelers by foreign country and time period, circumventing any spurious correlation …
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Green Commuting and Gasoline Taxes in the United States
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2019
This paper analyzes how gasoline tax rates are related to the time workers in the United States spend commuting by …-state differences and time variations in gasoline taxes. Using the American Time Use Surveys for the years 2003 to 2015, we find that … higher gasoline tax rates are related with less time spent in commuting. Furthermore, higher gasoline taxes are related to a …
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The Size of U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Rappaport, Jordan; Humann, McKenzie - 2021
Metropolitan areas --unions of nearby built-up locations within which people travel on a day-to-day basis among places of residence, employment, and consumption--serve as a fundamental unit of economic analysis. But existing delineations of U.S. metro areas--including metropolitan Core-Based...
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The High-Speed Rail Money Sink : Why the United States Should Not Spend Trillions on Obsolete Technology
Institute, Cato; O'Toole, Randal - 2021
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s proposal to make the United States a “world leader” in high‐​speed rail would add more than $4 trillion to the federal debt for construction of new rail lines plus tens of billions of dollars of annual deficit spending to subsidize operating...
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