In the current accelerated process of global warming, forest conservation is becoming more difficult to address in developing countries, where woodlands are often fueling the illegal economy. In Colombia, the issue of narcodeforestation is of great concern, because of the ramification of...

Negligence rule is one of the most widely used liability rules for apportioning accident loss between victim and injurer. Under the negligence rule the entire accident loss is borne by the injurer if he is negligent; and the entire accident loss is borne by the victim if the injurer is...

Traditional analysis of gender wage gaps has largely focused on average gaps between men and women, and mean wage decompositions such as the Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) decomposition method. To answer the question of whether there is a “glass ceiling” or a “sticky floor,” i.e. whether wage...

This Paper Tackles the Problem of Aggregate TFP Measurement Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). Data From Penn World Table 6.1 are Used to Estimate a World Production Frontier For a Sample of 75 Countries Over a Long Period (1950-2000) Taking Advantage of the Model Offered By Battese and...

This study investigates the determinants of the fertility rate in Taiwan over the period 1966-2001. Consistent with theory, the key explanatory variables in Taiwan's fertility model are real income, infant mortality rate, female education and female labor force participation rate. The test for...