Does it matter who advises farmers? Pest management choices with public and private extension

Who owns Children and does it Matter?∗

Most countries seem to have experienced a shift in the property rights over children. While two centuries ago parents had extensive control over their children, laws have been implemented in many countries to curb these control rights and thereby essentially led to the self-ownership of children. In this paper, we first document these changes, then argue that the property right allocation alter...

Public Versus Private: Does It Matter for Water Conservation? Insights from California

This article asks three connected questions: First, does the public view private and public utilities differently, and if so, does this affect attitudes to conservation? Second, do public and private utilities differ in their approaches to conservation? Finally, do differences in the approaches of the utilities, if any, relate to differences in public attitudes? We survey public attitudes in Ca...

ACGME core competencies: Who knows what and does it matter?

Public and private choices in organ donation

Organ donation and allocation form a particularly instructive case of health care provision since, due to the necessity of resource pooling, there is a clear collective good aspect that might be missing in most other fields of health care. Though a strong moral case in favor of purely private organization of cadaveric organ donation and allocation in private clubs can be made purely private org...

Housework: Who Did, Does or Will Do It, and How Much Does It Matter?

“Is Anyone Doing the Housework?” (Bianchi et al. 2000) was motivated, like much of the research on housework, by a desire to better understand gender inequality and social change in the work and family arena in the United States. During the 1990s, Arlie Hochschild’s (1989) influential book, The Second Shift, provided the dominant assessment of the gender division of labor in the home (Konigsber...