Governmental facilities for such services as education, health, and transportation are often small, of poor quality, and overcrowded, even when the costs are spread among all taxpayers. We also find that governments may subsidize private facilities providing the same services, or may charge admission fees at public facilities. We explain these phenomena with a model which considers two types of...

One bishop in the nineteenthcentury Anglican Church, whenever asked to say Grace before a public dinner, was wont to pronounce: ‘For this food, for our friendship and for all the happiness cricket brings to the World, Thank God.’ Implicitly, the Bishop was hypothesizing that subjective wellbeing is a function of engagement in sport, and it is this possibility that we address in this chapter. Th...

Introduction. The purpose of the educational process at school is to promote a pro-fitness lifestyle, which means that after completing education school graduates should be able to engage in different forms of physical activity on a regular basis for the aim of health enhancement. Adolescents with positive attitudes to physical education are more active and tend to opt for more PE lessons at sc...

The physical movement and the athletic movement and, furthermore, the whole of the physical activity, are distinct from other activities due to the organization on the basis of which it is practiced, to the way it is conducted and implemented and to the objectives which it involves. The legal entities in general and the ones of the sports sector in particular have been constituted so as to cove...

We present unique audit-study evidence on health care quality in rural India, and find that most private providers lacked medical qualifications, but completed more checklist items than public providers and recommended correct treatments equally often. Among doctors with public and private practices, all quality metrics were higher in their private clinics. Market prices are positively correlat...

The beneficial effects of diversified income portfolios are well documented in previous research on non-profit organizations. This study examines how different types of organizational missions affect the level of revenue diversification of organizations in one industry, a question that was neglected in previous research. Based on contingency theory, it is assumed that different missions are ass...