This paper explores the impact of residential mobility on educational outcomes. By considering a large Dutch city with substantial internal residential mobility, we examine how residential mobility influences the decision of students to drop out of school. The paper exploits a rich administrative dataset with extensive information on educational, individual, family, housing and moving character...

This is a most worth-while volume, that should be read by social workers in particular and humanitarians in general. Within small bulk, it lays bare, without offence to those who are labouring now in this field, the great need of the inhabitants of Common Lodging Houses, to be understood in the first place, and to be given the help they so sorely need, in the second. The survey is well planned,...

Because o f an eleventh-hour plea w ith the Saint Mary’s adm inistration, studen ts picking room s for the fall sem ester’s on cam pus housing this w eek will no t have to w ork around approxim ately 100 previously blocked-off rooms. An open m eeting o f approxim ate­ ly 300 students w ith College Presi­ den t John Duggan led to changes w hich left m ost o f the studen ts op ­ timistic. As Soph...

because of its widespread needs in different scientific fields, statistics and probability theory have gained great importance and medical students as well as students of other medically related disciplines including nursing need to use them especially in their research projects in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate schools. this article deals with the question of finding the most effecti...

In Finland the social and health care sector is undergoing major changes. The percentage of elderly population is growing due to longevity and low birth rates. Twice as many elderly need to be taken care of with the current amount of human and economic resources. New housing options to better support elderly and their family members have to be developed. The aim of the ongoing project is to dev...

Chuck Newell and Michelle Heard For the third time in three years, Rice students will face an increase in food and housing costs. Strapped by the rising cost of food, utilities and labor, the Residential College Management Advisory Committee recommended a $200 increase in room and board to Dr. Hackerman last January 22. Room and board cost $1940 in 1977 and $1990 in 1978. Next year, student wil...

This article analyses (1) how financial incentives (salary top-ups) and non-financial incentives (housing and education) affect nurses' willingness to work in remote areas of Tanzania and (2) how the magnitude of the incentives needed to attract health workers varies with the nurses' geographic origin and their intrinsic motivation. A contingent valuation method was used to elicit the location ...

The higher education system in the United States is characterized by a large degree of quality heterogeneity, and there is a growing literature suggesting students attending higher quality universities have better educational and labor market outcomes. In this paper, we use the difference in the timing and strength of the housing boom across cities to examine whether recent high school graduate...

A test of nonfinancial measures used as part of a management-incentive program by a U.S.-based, full-service hotel chain found that improvements in the nonfinancial measures were followed shortly by increases in revenue and profit. The two nonfinancial measures are customer satisfaction as measured by guests’ comment card indications of likelihood to return and level of complaints. The lag betw...