Seven ways of dealing with the problem of missing data are examined in this paper in light of their expected consequences on the strength of association among treated variables. These seven approaches include the (1) delete cases, (2) delete items, (3) sample mean, (4) group mean, (5) pairwise...

The scarcity of development funds, combined with the magnitude of development needs, makes diffusion of innovations a crucial process for less developed countries. We reviewed the diffusion of innovation literature in an attempt to identify a general strategy for identifying diffusion that...

This article argues that the procedure used to calculate standardized coefficients in LISREL 6.1 is inappropriate. An alternative approach is proposed. The two approaches are compared empirically.

The proposition that poor housing and congested living conditions have a detrimental impact on health has been promulgated for at least 150 years. At a minimum, two major causal mechanisms are thought to be involved in the relationship between crowding and physical health. First, high levels of...

This paper examines the effect of one form of chronic stress--household crowding--on psychological well-being, as measured by multiple inverse indicators of psychological well-being. We rely on data from a large (n = 2017) random sample of households in Bangkok, Thailand, a context that has a...

We use the NYSE industrial index, the NYSE utility index, and the NASDAQ industrial index to examine the relationship between short-run and long-run volatility. We establish that the NASDAQ index has substantially more daily volatility than the NYSE indices. The initial examination shows that...

<title/> This article provides early results from a long-term evaluation of the turnaround strategies by poorly-performing local authorities in England. The history and theory behind central government interventions into local government is reviewed, focusing on the Comprehensive Performance Assessment...

type="main" <title type="main">Objective</title> <p>Natural resource policy has been a constant source of conflict between “Aboriginal” and “non-Aboriginal” stakeholders in Canada. We employ a historical institutionalist analysis to examine the extent to which changes to the Canadian Constitution in 1982 and...</p>

Business Angels are private individuals (or syndicates) who supply venture capital to businesses, mainly small start-up firms, in an informal investment market setting. This paper presents a preliminary analysis from the first phase of a research project that explores the emergence of Business...