scholarly journals Marital Matching, Economies of Scale, and Intrahousehold Allocations

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 823-837
Author(s):  
Laurens Cherchye ◽  
Bram De Rock ◽  
Khushboo Surana ◽  
Frederic Vermeulen
Keyword(s):  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Scale Economies ◽  
Preference Heterogeneity ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Preference Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Allocation Patterns

We propose a novel nonparametric method to empirically identify economies of scale in multiperson household consumption. We assume consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten scales. Our method (solely) exploits preference information revealed by a cross-section of household observations while accounting for fully unobserved preference heterogeneity. An application to data drawn from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics shows that the method yields informative results on scale economies and intrahousehold allocation patterns. In addition, it allows us to define individual compensation schemes required to preserve the same consumption level in case of marriage dissolution or spousal death.

scholarly journals How significant are the public dimensions of faculty work in review, promotion and tenure documents?

eLife ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan P Alperin ◽  
Carol Muñoz Nieves ◽  
Lesley A Schimanski ◽  
Gustavo E Fischman ◽  
Meredith T Niles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Careers ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
The Us ◽  
Public Evaluation ◽  
Work Done

Much of the work done by faculty at both public and private universities has significant public dimensions: it is often paid for by public funds; it is often aimed at serving the public good; and it is often subject to public evaluation. To understand how the public dimensions of faculty work are valued, we analyzed review, promotion, and tenure documents from a representative sample of 129 universities in the US and Canada. Terms and concepts related to public and community are mentioned in a large portion of documents, but mostly in ways that relate to service, which is an undervalued aspect of academic careers. Moreover, the documents make significant mention of traditional research outputs and citation-based metrics: however, such outputs and metrics reward faculty work targeted to academics, and often disregard the public dimensions. Institutions that seek to embody their public mission could therefore work towards changing how faculty work is assessed and incentivized.

Operation Thin Mint: Popular Geopolitics of Care and Post-9/11 Girlhood

Young ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Goerisch
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Girl Scouts ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
American Military ◽  
The Public ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
The Us ◽  
Girl Scout

In response to the events of 9/11, the Girl Scouts of San Diego created a service programme within the annual Girl Scout cookie sale called Operation Thin Mint, which sends cookies to soldiers serving overseas. Representations of American patriotism and national identity are featured prominently throughout the cookie sale as girls come to embody America’s role in overseas military conflicts, an embodiment of everyday geopolitical processes that frame the US military as protector of American innocence, ideals and values. Scouts come to engage with political and economic systems that position them beyond their communities as they ‘sell the nation’ to consumers as a form of care, blurring the boundaries between the public and private spheres as well as the local and global. Based on an in-depth ethnographic study on the Girl Scout cookie sale, this article will examine the complex gendered relationship between the American military, girls’ bodies and care.

Fostering Public-Private Partnership

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasaki Ponnusamy ◽  
N. Z. Jhanjhi ◽  
Mamoona Humayun
Keyword(s):  
Developing Nations ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government

This chapter intends to provide a review of cooperation between public and private sectors towards cybersecurity governance. With the partnership, government can have confidence towards the safety and protection of their national critical digital infrastructure. The goal of this chapter is achieved by analyzing some of the cybersecurity frameworks adopted by the developed and developing nations. The analysis is further carried out by investigating the public-private policy initiatives in their national cybersecurity framework. The chapter also investigates the effectiveness of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST) adopted by the US government.

scholarly journals Arguments to Apply Constitutional Guarantees in the Private Sector

Lentera Hukum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Md. Toriqul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organic Growth ◽  
The Us ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Us Constitution ◽  
Points Of View

Constitutional guarantees are such a body of interests or basic human rights which are inevitable for each human being. These rights are principally inherent, inalienable, and universal, and therefore, irrespective of race, sex, caste, color, or religion, everyone can enjoy them. Constitutional guarantees are distinct from all other rights and privileges because of at least two unique characteristics, such as intrinsic in nature, and inalienability. These guarantees are crucial in the state-individual relations, and recognized by major laws of the civilized nations, and often enshrined in the national constitutions. For instance, the US Constitution signifies the essence of these rights through the expression of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nonetheless, very often, many citizens across the globe are deprived of these rights on numerous pretends and grounds, and mostly, on the public-private dichotomy. This study examined contemporary legal and philosophical discourses as to whether the constitutional guarantees of human rights apply in the private sectors in Malaysia, India, and the United States. This study used doctrinal legal research methodology with a qualitative approach based on library resources. The findings of this study showed that constitutional guarantees, primarily human rights, are presumed to have been neither created nor made but originated like organic growth. Accordingly, no authority can take them away. By examining various logics from theological to socio-historical points of view and the theory of international law, this study concluded that constitutional guarantees, particularly the equal protection of the law, should apply horizontally to cover both public and private sectors. KEYWORDS: Constitutional Guarantees, Human Rights, Public-Private Sectors.

Role of Agri-Food Value Chains in Bolstering Small and Marginal Farmers in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-150
Author(s):  
Dipanjan Kashyap ◽  
Sanjib Bhuyan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Consumer Demand ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Food Value

India's agri-food value chains have been evolving over the last few decades to cater to the growing consumer demand for healthy, safe, and nutritious food. These value chains are increasingly getting integrated from production to marketing to cater to such demand. While large and/or commercial farmers have easy access to such modern food value chains, small and marginal farmers in India and other developing countries alike are unable to take advantage of the same. Focusing on improving the agri-food value chains, particularly for perishables, makes a strong case in India given most Indian farmers are small and marginal farmers and are unable to take advantage of economies of scale. It is encouraging that both public and private sector entities are getting engaged in connecting Indian farmers directly to the supply chains of various crops. However, more needs to be done to make the processes, particularly in the public sector, the least bureaucratic and more farmer-focused so that small and marginal farmers in particular, benefit widely.

scholarly journals Concentration in the airline industry: Evidence of economies of scale?

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahren Johnston ◽  
John Ozment
Keyword(s):  
Airline Industry ◽  
Concentration Ratio ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Scale Economies ◽  
Early Experience ◽  
Air Transportation ◽  
Industry Output ◽  
The Us ◽  
Reduced Costs ◽  
New Entrants

The early experience of the airline industry under deregulation was very much as expected, with increased competition and new entrants offering highly competitive rates. However, there are approximately 130 airlines operating today, and the industry remains more heavily concentrated than it was prior to deregulation. This study reports on concentration in the US airline industry between 1970 and 2009, as measured by the Hcrfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) and Concentration Ratio, together with changes in industry costs. The results show a trend of industry-wide reduced costs per available seat mile that is negatively correlated with the increased level of industry output over the last 30 years and increased concentration, which demonstrate the need for more research into the question of scale economies in air transportation.

Border Tuner and Teeter-Totter Wall: Two works of participatory public pedagogy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather G. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
National Debate ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
A Site ◽  
Dominant Narratives

This article looks at two socially engaged art works, Teeter-Totter Wall by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello and Border Tuner by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer that challenge dualistic notions of self and other, public and private, and national and multinational. Each work proffers a perspective of the US-Mexico border that counters those communicated through national political rhetoric and common in popular media reporting. This article not only recognizes these works as art but also as public pedagogy, or works accessible to the broader public and community that function to teach us something or to reframe or expand our understanding and to question or resist dominant narratives. In addition to questioning totalizing narratives, this article considers intersecting notions of the public on the border. Recognizing that the border occupies simultaneous and varied notions of the public in terms of being a site of local culture, a symbol of national debate, a firestorm of divisive rhetoric and an international marker of global politics and economics, this article considers how differing sites of public pedagogy function.

Making Enemies: the Mainstream Media Spectacle and US Foreign Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 138-156
Author(s):  
Gerald Sussman
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The Us ◽  
Media Spectacle

Abstract As Herbert Schiller long ago observed, the mainstream (corporate) media (MSM) in the US have long been instruments of state power. However, since the nineteenth century, the reading public has relied on the news media as a pillar, albeit flawed, of a liberal democratic society. While the public still regards a “free press” as essential to democracy, it no longer has confidence that the mainstream media deserve that status. Trust levels in the MSM have plummeted since the 1970s, reflecting a larger pattern of distrust of public and private institutions in general, including the US Congress. Even many media professionals themselves do not see the US as defending the freedom of investigative journalism. Moreover, the quality of corporate media, more owner-concentrated than ever, has declined, often to the level of tabloid spectacle, as profit-oriented news departments try to compete with a wide array of 24/7 news platforms, including those coming from social media. The era of neoliberalism has all but eliminated the public service ideology behind news and public affairs reporting, and concurrently there has emerged a crisis of state legitimacy that threatens the foundations of the liberal democratic order.

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