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Public understanding of solar radiation management
(IOP Publishing, 2011)
We report the results of the first large-scale international survey of public perception of geoengineering and solar radiation management (SRM). Our sample of 3105 individuals in the United States, Canada and the United ...
Are There Managerial Practices Associated with Service Delivery Collaboration Success?: Evidence from British Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
Little empirical work exists measuring if interagency collaborations delivering public services produce better outcomes, and none looking inside the black box at collaboration management practices. We examine whether there ...
A Solution to Overoptimistic Forecasts and Fiscal Procyclicality: The Structural Budget Institutions Pioneered by Chile
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
Historically, many countries have suffered a pattern of procyclical fiscal policy: spending too much in booms and then forced to cut back in recessions, thereby exacerbating the business cycle. This problem has especially ...
How Can Commodity Exporters Make Fiscal and Monetary Policy Less Procyclical?
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
Fiscal and monetary policy each has a role to play in mitigating the volatility that stems from the large trade shocks hitting commodity-exporting countries. All too often macroeconomic policy is procyclical, that is, ...
Association between Income and the Hippocampus
(Public Library of Science, 2011)
Facets of the post-natal environment including the type and complexity of environmental stimuli, the quality of parenting behaviors, and the amount and type of stress experienced by a child affects brain and behavioral ...
Boundary Work for Sustainable Development: Natural Resource Management at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
(National Academy of Sciences, 2011)
Previous research on the determinants of effectiveness in knowledge systems seeking to support sustainable development has highlighted the importance of “boundary work” through which research communities organize their ...
How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star
(MIT Press, 2011)
In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to classrooms within their schools from kindergarten to third grade. This article evaluates the long-term impacts of STAR by linking ...
The Unintended Consequences of Successful Resource Mobilization: Financing Development in Vietnam
(United Nations Development Programme and the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program, 2011)
The total amount of development finance generated by Vietnam has been exceptionally high from all significant sources using all standard measures of comparison. However, there are many potential unintended consequences of ...
A Lesson from the South for Fiscal Policy in the US and Other Advanced Countries
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Two decades ago, many people had drawn a lesson from the 1980s: Japan's variant of capitalism was the best model. Other countries around the world should and would follow it. Japan's admired institutions included relationship ...
Oversight is a Many-Splendored Thing: Choice and Proportionality in Regulating and Supervising Microfinance Institutions
(World Scientific Publishing, 2011)
The Handbook of Microfinance showcases an expansive collection of works from leading academics and field practitioners. In an attempt to understand the enormous gap between the limited number of clients that are currently ...