Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique survey data to estimate the impact of suspension on the educational outcomes of those suspended. It finds that while suspension is strongly associated with educational outcomes, the...

We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana use is related to educational penalties that are...

How to coordinate the relationships between economy, energy and environment is a complex issue for China. This paper presented an indicator system based on energy, emergy and monetary units to explore the interactions between China׳s economic growth, its energy production and consumption, and...

In this paper we reconsider Jansen et al.’s (2012) Cournot model of the European Union natural gas market with three major suppliers Russian Gazprom, Norwegian Statoil, and Algerian Sonatrach. To reflect Russia’s geopolitical consideration, we incorporate a relative market...

Projective synchronization (characterized by a scaling factor α) and its control have recently been well investigated in two coupled chaotic oscillators, but it has not been realized yet in the case of more than two chaotic systems. In this paper, we study the projective synchronization in 1+N...

Advanced traveller information systems (ATIS) are likely to exhibit significant economies of scale in production and operation. Private provision would therefore typically occur under considerable market power. An important policy question is whether the resulting distortions would aggravate or...

A non-parametric estimator of a non-increasing density is found in a class of piecewise linear functions when the data consist only of counts. An EM-Algorithm for computing the estimator is developed, and the iterates in the algorithm are shown to converge to the maximum likelihood estimator....

A Bayesian sampling algorithm for parameter estimation in a discrete-response model is presented, where the dependent variables contain two layers of binary choices and one ordered response. The investigation is motivated by an empirical study using such a double-selection rule for three...

Purpose Currently, in China, the governance structure of modern companies gives directors great powers to pursue profits. However, little attention is paid to the undertaking of corporate philanthropic activities. Therefore, rules on directors’ behavior in terms of corporate philanthropy are...

This study presents a model for exploring the interactions between a transport market and a monopolistic market for advanced traveller information systems (ATIS). We examine the properties of the information market, and in particular, the relationship between monopoly information pricing and...