A Model of Later Nineteenth Century European Economic Development

Editada en la Fundación Empresa PúblicaEn este trabajo se desarrolla y estima un modelo para explicar los motivos por los cuales algunos países europeos prosperaron más rápidamente que otros en el período 1860- 1910. El modelo cuantifica por dos vías distintas los factores que contribuyeron a las diferencias de ingreso entre España y Gran Bretaña. Los determinantes que se consideran más significativos son los recursos naturales, la política económica y la herencia cultural reflejada en los niveles educativos.A model is developed and estimated to explain why some European countries were richer than others between 1860 and 1910 and why some increased their prosperity faster in the period. The model quantifies by two methods some of the contributors to the income gap between the economies of Spain and Britain in 1880 and 1910. Determinants of European nations' output per head included natural endowments (climate and coal deposits), economic policy (tariff protection and very marginally the gold standard), and cultural heritage as reflected in literacy. Measurement errors, country specific factors and perhaps variables not considered in this analysis account for less than half Spanish-UK income differences at the dates estimated.Publicad

Metal Dust Production

The object of this thesis is to study the production of metal dust by direct application of a mechanical force to a stream of molten metal

Brexit could be an opportunity for the Welsh economy

Brexit could be good for Wales, writes James Foreman-Peck (Cardiff Business School). EU models of regional aid relied on a stand-alone conception of the Welsh economy, but in fact the country is deeply interlinked with the neighbouring English regions and cities. In a European Free Trade Area like the one Britain originally wanted to create, Wales’ strengths – such as manufacturing productivity – could flourish in the long term

Foreword, Separate but Unequal: The Status of America\u27s Public Schools

This Symposium, convened by the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, was designed to address many of the issues raised by Donny Gonzalez, a student at a Washington, D.C. high school, on the subject of poverty and race and its effects on school-aged youth. Bringing together a diverse group of speakers and attracting a broad cross-section of the university and Ann Arbor communities, the Separate but Unequal Symposium addressed a range of issues, including: the ongoing relevance of integration, the role of charter schools and other alternative programs, and promising strategies for achieving greater educational equality. A theme linking these various topics was the question of what students could do to end separate and unequal schools in America

Alien Registration- Foreman, James H. (Madison, Somerset County)

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Predicting the Effects of Longitudinal Variables on Cost Schedule Performance

Determining accurate cost and schedule is a crucial step to planning acquisition expenditures but history has shown that estimates are routinely low. Several researchers have attempted to forecast cost and schedule growth; we pick up this stream of research with a new approach. Our data collection and analysis focused on bringing in new data sources and added longitudinal variables to account for changes that took place over time. We assessed cost and schedule parameters for 37 major acquisition programs between Milestones II and III, resulting in 172 input variables and 5 regression models, 2 for schedule slippage and 3 for cost growth. All five models passed statistical scrutiny and exhibited an Adjusted r2 in excess of 0.80. The primary discriminator was the inclusion of strictly qualitative variables, taken from Selected Acquisition Report narratives and change justifications. We called these soft variables and coded them on a scale of 1 to 5 in the categories of funding problems, political problems, technical challenges, and contractor cost growth. Models with and without soft variables are presented to demonstrate their relative benefit. Finally, implications and implementation examples provide users a path to what-if analysis and decision-making