Economic inequality: The real cause of the urban school problemGreg J DuncanRichard J Murnane
To analyze issues of income distribution, most disaggregated macroeconomic models of the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) type specify a few representative household groups (RHG) differentiated by their endowments of factors of production. To capture "within-group" inequality, it is often assumed, ...
Monopoly,Rent-seeking,Inequality and Economic Growth:An Analysis Based on China's Real Estate 来自 知网 喜欢 0 阅读量: 26 作者: Y Gao 摘要: This paper systematically analyzes the problems about the frequent conflict of land requisition relocation,official corruption and the long-standing high ...
A first example comes in the form of a “biography” of money by a London-based debt fund manager, Felix Martin. Critical of dominant approaches to money in economics, his work is haunted by the occult. “The great temptation,” he writes, “has always been to think that coins and oth...
The largest wood-building project in the world is now in progress, covering an impressive 250,000 square meters. The project sets a sustainable example for the real estate market, which is essential because built structures contribute a sizeable 40% of the world's CO2 emissions. Furthermore,Sto...
Even a high ratio of debt to GDP isn’t especially worrisome if much of that debt comes from investments that put the economy on a path toward solid growth. One recent study from Columbia Teachers College, for example, shows that cutting high school dropout rates in half would generate $45...
I keep hearing that the economic meltdown has taken a huge toll on the stock portfolios of the rich. That’s true. But the rich haven’t lost nearly as much of their assets, proportionately, as everyone else. According to a report from the Bank of America Merrill Lynch (“The Myth of...
of a system is influenced not only by the immediate past but also by the distant past, which makes it possible to better predict its future. Fractional differential equations are used to improve the accuracy of epidemiological predictions35. For example, Khan and Atangana26considered a fractional ...
A Declaration of Homestead also protects the sale proceeds if the home is sold for up to one year after the date of the sale or on the date when a new home is purchased with the proceeds, whichever comes first. Additionally, if the home is damaged by a fire, for example, the insuranc...
Furthermore, if these model-based solutions are directly implemented on the plant, they may lead to violation of some key constraints. Unfortunately, this fact is too often overlooked by academic researchers. For example, there are several studies that propose to optimize the performance of WWTPs ...