How Does the Composition of Public Spending Matter?

Child Mortality and Public Spending on Health: How Much Does Money Matter?

Abstra ct W e u se cross-na tiona l d a ta to exa m ine the im pa ct of both non-hea lth fa ctors (econom ic, edu ca tiona l, cu ltu ra l) a nd pu b lic spending on hea lth in determ ining child (u nder-5) a nd infa nt m orta lity. There a re tw o strik ing finding s. First, ninety-five percent of cross-na tiona l va ria tion in m orta lity ca n be expla ined by a cou ntry’s incom e per ca pita...

Public Acceptance of Food Biotechnology; How does Information Matter?

When, where and how does microbial community composition matter?

Diana R. Nemergut*, Ashley Shade and Cyrille Violle 1 Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA 2 Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA 3 Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 4 Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA 5 CEFE UMR 5175, CNRS Unive...

How Does Government Spending Stimulate Consumption ?

Recent empirical work finds that government spending shocks cause aggregate consumption to increase over the business cycle, contrary to the predictions of Neoclassical and New Keynesian models. This paper proposes a mechanism to account for the consumption increase that builds on the framework of imperfect information in Lucas (1972) and Lorenzoni (2009). In my model, owners of firms targeted ...

How Does the Gender of Parents Matter?

s International, 59-A, 3662. Risman, B. J. (1987). Intimate relationships from a microstructural perspective: Men who mother. Gender and Society, 1, 6 – 32. *Rivers, I., Poteat, V. P., & Noret, N. (2008). Victimization, social support, and psychosocial functioning among children of same-sex and opposite-sex couples in the United Kingdom. Developmental Psychology 44, 127 – 134. Sandberg, J. F., ...