In this paper, we address the often contentious debate over state and local recycling policy by carefully estimating the social net benefit of curbside recycling. Benefits are estimated using household survey data from over 4,000 households across 40 western U.S. cities. We calibrate household willingness-to-pay for hypothetical bias using an innovative experimental design that contrasts stated...

OBJECTIVE Magazines targeted at children under 12 years old are growing in popularity; past studies have asserted that food items are rarely exposed, but methodological issues may have covered the true extent of covert promotion. The primary purpose of the present study was to quantify the nature and extent of the promotion of branded food products in Australian children's magazines. DESIGN W...

Since the late 1990s, corpora have become established as popular and useful translation resources within translator training institutes; however, the uptake of corpora in the world of professional translators appears to have been considerably slower. This article explores the different uses of corpora (including translation memories) in these two sectors and attempts to account for these differ...

The lack of resources is often highlighted as the most important correlate poor learning outcomes in developing countries. However, increasing school may not necessarily drive better if are properly translated into outcomes. current paper investigates efficient utilization to promote learning. Applying Data Envelopment Analysis methodology, an efficiency analysis performed using PASEC 2014 asse...