OBJECTIVES This project aims to answer a critically important question of public policy: Does effective child support enforcement lead to a change in the incidence of abortion across the United States? METHODS Using state-level data collected from 1978–2003 from a variety of sources, we employ fixed effects regression analysis to examine whether financial security as measured by five types of...

Factors Affecting Public-Private Sector's Support for the Elementary Schools M.H. Hassani Shalmaani, Ph.D. Factors affecting the public-private sector's support for elementary education were identified perusing related legislations, documents, and programs. To validate these factors a sample of 432 elementary school principals was given the list of factors of which 8 were confirme...

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of anti-smoking legislation in public places and public support for smoking ban. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in public places such as market, bus/railway station, workplaces and hospitals in Udaipur, India. Informed consent was obtained. The questionnaire comprised of details about their agreement with the current ...

When cultural economists look at the public support for the arts, they distinguish between two aspects: the positive issue where one analyses the extent of support by the government, and the normative issue whether or not the arts should be publicly supported and, if so, to what extent. In the second case, the cultural economist desires to inform the public about an appropriate policy, a welfar...

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to study legal and organizational principles public finance management. Methodology research. To achieve this goal, following tools research methods were used: dialectical - determine initial conditions content finance; analytical when processing literary Internet sources; causal institutional support finances; abstract-logical generalize presented materia...