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The Effect of "Foreign" and Local Visitors on Granting Park Concessions
(1986-08)
If parks have particular characteristics, park managers should grant firms exclusive right to provide products or services within the park. The particular characteristics include that park development is only attractive ...
Religion Still Matters
(Missouri Valley Economic Association, 2000)
Research by Lipford, McCormick, and Tollison and by Hull and Bold shows a negative relationship between church membership and crime rates. The results are important but do not employ the most recent available data. This ...
The Value of a Forest: A Critique of the Groome and Associates IRR Method
(1985-02)
The Groome and Associates Internal Rate of Return method for estimating the value of a standing forest is compelling in its simplicity. A forest manager need only be aware of current lumber prices, aware of harvesting ...
The Effect of Foreign and Local Visitors on Granting Park Concessions
(New Zealand Association of Economists, 1987)
If parks have particular characteristics, park managers should grant firms exclusive rights (concessions) to provide products or services within the park. The characteristics include that park development is only attractive ...
Towards an Economic Theory of the Church
(MCB University Press, 1989)
This paper employs the theory of the firm to explain behavior of the church. Churches produce a set of products including entertainment, a variety of socially valuable public goods, eternal life, and alteration of otherwise ...
Modern and Postmodern Tensions in Adult Education Theory: A Response to Jack Mezirow
(Sage Publications, 1998)
An OPEC in Fantasyland? The NAB Television Code as Cartel
(1985-05)
The U.S. Justice Department filed suit against the National Association of Broadcasters in 1979, charging that its Television Code restricted the supply of advertising. Had the case, which was settled by consent decree ...
Religion, Warrior Elites, and Property Rights
(Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University, 2017)
In 1119 King Baldwin II of Jerusalem granted nine French knights space on the Temple Mount over the ruins of Solomon’s Temple to create the headquarters of a new monastic order: The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of ...
The trajectory of maternal and paternal fatigue and factors associated with fatigue across the transition to parenthood
(Statistics CanadaWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-03)
BackgroundFatigue is prevalent in new parents and is associated with poorer functional performance and cognitive functioning. This can be particularly detrimental during the transition to parenthood when parents are adapting ...
The Economics of Misbehavior and Love in Marriage
(1986-07)
This paper presents a mathematical model examining the role of love in marriage. This paper extends the new theory of marriage, especially that developed by Becker, by examining the effect sharing of family output has on ...