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Public spending on education: Its impact on students skipping classes and completing school
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Empirical results using cross-country data suggest that public spending on education increases the rate of students … skipping school but does not influence the rate of students completing school. This infers that public spending on education … leads to a deterioration in the effectiveness of education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568624
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How do neighbors influence investment in social capital? : Homeownership and length of residence
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper uses individual data from Japan to explore how the circumstances of where a person resides are related to the degree of their investment in social capital. Controlling for unobserved area-specific fixed effects and various individual characteristics, I found; (1) Not only that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611588
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Homeownership and investment for social capital in Japan: Dynamic Panel approach.
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper explores how the rate of home-ownership and income inequality are related to the formation of social capital using panel data from Japan during the period 19862006. I have used Dynamic Panel estimation to control unobserved prefecture-specific fixed effects and an endogeneity bias....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685375
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Factors Influencing Interregional Differentials in the Voter Participation Rate in the U.S., 2006
Cebula, Richard; Coombs, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
election, this study examines the roles played by income, unemployment, education, age, race, and labor force participation. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108623
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Gross In-Migration and Public Policy in the U.S. during the Great Recession: An Exploratory Empirical Analysis, 2008-2009
Cebula, Richard; Nair-Reichert, Usha; Coombs, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
preference for states with higher per pupil outlays on primary and secondary public education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109168
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Total State In-Migration and Public Policy in the United States: A Comparative Analysis of the Great recession and the Pre- and Post-Great Recession Years
Cebula, Richard; Nair-Reichert, Usha; Coombs, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
each state as the total outlay per pupil on primary and secondary public education minus the per capita property tax level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111657
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Comparison of the effects of homeownership by individuals and their neighbors on social capital formation: Evidence from Japanese General Social Surveys.
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper, using individual data from Japan, explores how the circumstances of where a person resides is related to the degree of their investment in social capital. Controlling for unobserved area-specific fixed effects and various individual characteristics, I found: (1) Not only is the rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557074
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How do neighbors influence investment in social capital? : Homeownership and length of residence
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper uses individual data from Japan to explore how the circumstances of where a person resides are related to the degree of their investment in social capital. Controlling for unobserved area-specific fixed effects and various individual characteristics, I found; (1) Not only that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008577647
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How are social ties formed? : Interaction of neighborhood and individual immobility
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using individual data from Japan, this paper investigates how a neighbor’s immobility is associated with individual investment in social capital. It is found that local homeownership has a positive effect on individual investment and that this effect for individual homeowners is about 2.5...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543022
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How do neighbors influence investment in social capital? : Homeownership and length of residence
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper uses individual data from Japan to explore how the circumstances of where a person resides is related to the degree of their investment in social capital. Controlling for unobserved area-specific fixed effects and various individual characteristics, I found; (1) Not only that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549618