scholarly journals Is subjective knowledge the key to fostering Sustainable behavior? Mixed evidence from an education intervention in Mexico.

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Redman
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Declarative Knowledge ◽  
Education Intervention ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Subjective Knowledge ◽  
Sustainable Behavior ◽  
Using Data ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact

Educational interventions are a promising way to shift individual behaviorstowards Sustainability. Yet as this research confirms, the standard fare ofeducation, declarative knowledge, does not work. This study statisticallyanalyzes the impact of an intervention designed and implemented in Mexicousing the *Educating for Sustainability (EfS) *framework which focuses onimparting procedural and subjective knowledge about waste throughinnovative pedagogy. Using data from three different rounds of surveys wewere able to confirm 1) the importance of subjective and proceduralknowledge for Sustainable behavior in a new context, 2) the effectivenessof the *EfS* framework and 3) the importance of *changing* subjectiveknowledge for changing behavior. Yet, while the impact was significant inthe short term, one year later most if not all of those gains hadevaporated. Interventions targeted at subjective knowledge will work, butmore research is needed on how to make behavior change for Sustainabilitydurable.

scholarly journals Center-Based Child Care and Differential Improvements in the Child Development Outcomes of Disadvantaged Children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Anne Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Additional Time ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Development Outcomes ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Research finds center-based child care typically benefits children of low socio-economic status (SES) but few studies have examined if it also reduces inequalities in developmental disadvantage. Objective I test if the length of time in center-based care between ages one and three years associates with child development scores at age three years, focusing on the impact for groups of children in the lower tercile of child development scores and in the lower SES tercile. Method Using data from 1,606 children collected in a nationally representative Chilean survey, I apply a value-added approach to measure gains in child development scores between age one and three years that are associated with length of time in center-based child care. Results Disadvantages at age one year were associated with lower child development scores at age three years. No benefits of additional time in center-based care were found for the non-disadvantaged group, but positive associations were found between more time in center-based care and child development outcomes for children with the SES disadvantage only. Center-based care was not associated with child development trajectories of children with lower child development scores at age one year, no matter their SES status. Conclusions There is evidence that Chilean center-based child care reduces SES inequality in child development scores between ages one and three years, but only if children already were not low-scorers at age one year.

The Role of Internet Utilization Among SMEs on Household Welfare in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Ariska N. Rini ◽  
Lienggar Rahadiantino
Keyword(s):  
Internet Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Household Welfare ◽  
Capita Expenditure ◽  
Household Heads ◽  
Using Data ◽  
One Year ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact

The Internet has a significant influence on poverty alleviation and economic growth. Internet involvement in small-medium enterprises (SMEs) has the opportunity to create a better level of welfare. Using data from the fifth wave of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), this study aims to analyze the impact of internet utilization on household welfare among two groups, household enterprises with internet use for business and without internet use for business. The results of the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method mention that household enterprises with internet for business purposes have higher household per capita expenditure, food consumption, and non-food expenditure than household enterprises without internet use. Another interesting result finds that household enterprises are likely to use the internet only if household heads at a young age and business establish less than one year.

scholarly journals The impact of participation in employment-based retirement savings plans on material hardship

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-428
Author(s):  
BRADLEY T. HEIM ◽  
SHANTHI P. RAMNATH
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Retirement Savings ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
Material Hardship ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

AbstractTo contribute to a retirement plan (barring an increase in income), an individual must either reduce consumption or increase debt. Using data from the 2004 wave of the Survey of Income and Program Participation, we examine the extent to which contributing to 401(k)-type accounts leads to an increase in short-term financial difficulties, particularly among low-income individuals. After instrumenting for plan take-up, we find that contributing to a 401(k) plan appears to have a small positive impact on the presence of any material hardship and debt holding among the lowest income quintiles, though that effect diminishes further up the income distribution.

Terrorism and tourism in Israel

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1343-1352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Karl ◽  
Gordon Winder ◽  
Alexander Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Time Lag ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Event Tourism ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Terrorist Event ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

While the relation between terrorism and tourism has been an important topic for tourism research, the questions whether terrorism affects tourism immediately and how long after a terrorism event tourism recovers are, as yet, not clearly answered. The aim of this article is to better understand the magnitude and temporal scale of the impact of terrorism on tourism. To this end, a research model differentiating between short-term and long-term effects of terrorism on tourism is developed and analyzed for the destination Israel using data on tourists from Germany. The results show both short-term and long-term impacts with a time lag between the terrorist event and the beginning of tourism decline of 1 or up to 6 months. An economic influence on the development of tourist arrivals was not detected, but seasonality plays an important role in the relationship between terrorism and tourism.

Terrorism and Patriotism: On the Earnings of US Veterans following September 11, 2001

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Dávila ◽  
Marie T Mora
Keyword(s):  
September 11 ◽  
Community Surveys ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Us Veterans ◽  
Relative Earnings ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

Using data from the 2000 census and the 2001-08 American Community Surveys, this paper examines the impact of 9/11 on the earnings of US veteran men. Our hypothesis is that the surge in patriotism after 9/11 improved their relative earnings, but this earnings effect was short-lived. In addition, we further consider whether this effect was equally felt across race/ethnicity and along regional dimensions. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find a significant short-term improvement in the relative earnings of US veteran men following 9/11. However, additional analyses suggest that this earnings effect did not evenly occur across demographic and geographic dimensions.

scholarly journals Restoring Democracy to the Workplace? An Analysis of Union Membership Patters Before and After the Employment Contracts Act

1970 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Cregan ◽  
Chris Rudd ◽  
Stewart Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Employment Contracts ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Before And After ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact

This paper investigates the impact of the Employment Contracts Act on trade union membership. Two separate surveys of labour market participants lvere conducted in Dunedin on the eve of the legislation and one year later. The findings demonstrated that for these samples, trade union membership in aggregate was not based on compulsion before the legislation and remained at a similar level a year later. Democracy was not restored to the workplace it was already apparent there. This implies that changes in the industrial relations system had already taken place prior to the legislation and it is suggested that these findings are explicable if the effect of the exigencies of the recession on both parries is taken account of In the ensuing discussion, reasons for the persistence of the same level of union membership after the legislation were considered. It was demonstrated that most members li'anted the union to act as their bargaining agent and felt few pressures regarding their choice of employment contract. In other words, employers did not utilise the provisions of the Act to weaken union membership, at least in the short term.

scholarly journals Beyond Short-Term Learning Gains: The Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia After Three Years

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio Romero ◽  
Justin Sandefur
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Child Safety ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Learning Gains ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Results

Abstract Outsourcing the management of ninety-three randomly-selected government primary schools in Liberia to eight private operators led to learning gains of .18σ after one year, but these effects plateaued in subsequent years (reaching .2σ after three years). Beyond learning gains, the program reduced corporal punishment (by 4.6 percentage points from a base of 51%), but increased dropout (by 3.3 percentage points from a base of 15%) and failed to reduce sexual abuse. Despite facing similar contracts and settings, some providers produced uniformly positive results, while others present trade-offs between learning gains, access to education, child safety, and financial sustainability.

Conflict and Public Opinion: Rallying Effects of the Persian Gulf War

1994 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas M. McLeod ◽  
William P. Eveland ◽  
Nancy Signorielli
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Persian Gulf War ◽  
Conflict Theory ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Using Data ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
The Impact

This study examines the dissipation of “rally effects” in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War using data from a panel of 167 New Castle County (Delaware) respondents interviewed during the war and one year later. Public support for the war and confidence in the president, Congress, and the military declined significantly. Hostility toward antiwar protesters also diminished. The study combines the “rally around the flag” literature from political science and functional conflict theory from sociology to explain the impact of this major external conflict on support for government institutions and intolerance for elements perceived as a potential threat.

scholarly journals Studi Komparatif Tingkat Pendapatan Antara Usaha Kelapa dan Pinang pada Perkebunan Rakyat Desa Sungai Beras Kabupaten Tanjab Timur

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Akhmadi Akhmadi ◽  
Etty Siswati ◽  
Nurrasyidah Putri
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Areca Nut ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Business Income ◽  
Factors Of Production ◽  
Using Data ◽  
One Year ◽  
Production Period

This type of research is quantitative research that is research using data expressed in numerical form on parts and phenomena and their relationships. This research usually aims to develop and use mathematical models, theories or hypotheses related to natural phenomena. This research is a survey and interview directly to the owners of coconut and areca nut business and records everything that the writer needs in connection with the problem of the writer. In this study using data analysis methods, namely qualitative data analysis. Qualitative data is data in the form of not numbers but with words that can be used to describe, complete and explain and strengthen quantitative data directly in the field. (Sugiyono, 2011: 23). production costs are all costs associated with the goods produced, wherein there are elements of raw material costs, direct labor costs and factory overhead costs. Based on the time period, production can be divided into short-term and long-term. In the short term the company during its production period can add one factor of production while other factors of production are considered constant. This means that some factors of production cannot be added. Whereas in the long run, companies can change or add to all factors of production they use. The initial investment of a coconut plantation business is Rp.37,004,000 which is calculated before the production period of 7 (seven) years and the initial investment of areca nut plantation is Rp.34,750,000 which is calculated before the production period for 4 (four) years, for production costs in one the coconut plantation business year is obtained at Rp.5,600,000 and the production cost of the areca nut business in one year is Rp.108,200,000, the comparison between the coconut plantation business income and the areca nut business revenue is obtained for the income of the coconut plantation business income for one year of Rp. .14,400,000 and the results of areca nut business revenue for one year amounted to Rp. 110,200,000 So, it can be concluded that the biggest income is in the nut business compared to the coconut business.

scholarly journals The Costs of Involuntary Job Loss: Impact on Workers' Employment and Earnings

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Dixon ◽  
David C. Maré
Keyword(s):  
Job Loss ◽  
Displaced Workers ◽  
Involuntary Job Loss ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Using Data ◽  
One Year ◽  
Annual Earnings ◽  
Matched Comparison ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the employment and earnings of affected workers, using data from the Survey of Families, Incomes and Employment (SoFIE) for the 2002–09 period. It focusses on employees who had been working in their job for at least one year before the job loss. The impact of displacement is estimated by using a propensity score matching approach to select similar non-displaced workers and compare their employment and earnings with those of displaced workers. We find that the employment rate of displaced workers was on average 27 percentage points lower 0–1 years after displacement, 14 percentage points lower 1–2 years after, and 8 percentage points lower 2–3 years after, than that of the matched comparison group. The average wage of re-employed displaced workers was 12 percent lower 0–1 years after displacement, 11 percent lower 1–2 years after and 7 percent lower 2–3 years after. Other impacts include increases in unemployment and self-employment, reductions in average weekly hours, and reductions in weekly and annual earnings.

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