The Cobb County Braves

The Impact of Teacher Absenteeism on Student Performance: The Case of the Cobb County School District

Theoretical Evaluation of the Community Collaboration on Pet Homelessness: The Case of Cobb County Animal Control

Matthew Cobb

Matthew Cobb is Senior Lecturer in Animal Behaviour at the University of Manchester. He earned his PhD in Psychology and Genetics from the University of Sheffield in 1984, and spent most of his career in France. He specialises in insect behaviour, with a focus on chemical communication and the olfactory responses of Drosophila larvae. He recently co-edited Insect Taste and has translated a numb...

Stanley Cobb. A builder of the neurosciences

DOROTHY A. STANSFIELD, Thomas Beddoes MD, 1760-1808, Dordrecht, Reidel, 1984, 8vo, pp. xx, 306, Dfl.140.00/$54.00. Thomas Beddoes has been the subject of intermittent study, manifested through a succession of more or less specialized papers, mostly on his pneumatic studies. His political involvements have also been noticed, but usually in ways that do not reveal any substantial connexion betwee...

Simple Microfoundations for Cobb-Douglas Matching Functions

This paper derives a Cobb-Douglas matching function as the aggregate of the number of matches made by each firm in a large economy using results from the theory of heavy tail distributions. The model is then calibrated using the empirical distribution of firm sizes and stylized facts about social networks.The implied elasticity of the matching function is found to be close to those reported by ...