Crime and punishment: the role of student body characteristics in schools’ disciplinary behaviours

Discretion in schools’ discipline choices can provide an efficient and effective misconduct management structure, but could lead to discipline based on unrelated factors. Consequently, schools’ disciplinary decisions can significantly limit students’ access to education by removing students from familiar learning environments. We investigate schools’ disciplinary decisions for serious misconducts and show that punishments are more severe in schools that do not report misconducts to local law enforcement agencies. Moreover, we show that schools that report fewer misconducts to law enforcement impose more severe punishments when the student body is characterized as having a higher proportion of minority students, lower socioeconomic status students and a higher proportion of students who are below the 15th percentile of standardized test scores. These results suggest that between-school punishment differentials are associated with student body traits.     

House Prices,Wealth and Consumption: New Evidence from Australia and Canada

Over the past two decades, a number of countries have experienced appreciation in house prices at the same time that aggregate consumption has increased. This paper tests alternative hypotheses for this phenomenon by using repeated household surveys from Australia and Canada to identify the transmission mechanism that links consumption and household wealth. The empirical analysis suggests that neither a direct wealth effect nor a common causal factor likely accounts for the observed correlation between wealth and consumption in these two countries. Rather, indirect factors such as collateral effects arising from relaxation of credit constraints are a more likely explanation.     

Conditional convergence in US disaggregated petroleum consumption at the sector level

We test for convergence in disaggregated petroleum consumption at the sector level for the United States using the recently proposed GARCH unit root test, suitable for high frequency data. We find evidence of convergence for just over half of the series, including total petroleum consumption in each sector and approximately three quarters of the disaggregated petroleum consumption series in transportation.     

Does deflation affect household spending? The case of the Netherlands

This article investigates the impact of deflation on real private consumption and residential investment by Dutch households during the 1980–2013 period. We estimate theoretically founded consumption and investment equations and show that a fall in the general price level significantly negatively affects both growth in real consumption and residential investment. The impact on residential investment is more delayed, but stronger.     

中国专利密集型制造业及其行业特征的实证分析

在明确专利密集型制造业内涵的基础上,以2008-2013年的中国制造业相关数据为研究对象,认定了属于专利密集型制造业的大类行业。据此,进一步分析了中国专利密集型制造业在市场结构、技术特质和开放性等方面的行业特征,结果显示：包括仪器仪表及文化办公用品制造业、专用设备制造业、通信设备、计算机及其他电子设备制造业、医药制造业等在内的12个行业属于专利密集型制造业,占制造业行业数量的42.86%,贡献了43.85%的销售收入和46.9%的就业岗位。进一步分析其行业特征发现,相对于非专利密集型制造业,中国专利密集型制造业的行业竞争更为激烈,盈利能力更强,且在技术上表现为更高的技术研发效率和技术依赖度,同时其技术进步呈现出明显的劳动节约倾向。值得注意的是,外资对专利密集型制造业的影响呈明显的弱化态势,中国企业尤其是非国有企业已经开始主导国内专利密集型产业的市场。     

公共消费的理论创新与政策选择

公共消费包括政府自身消费和社会性消费,以公共风险为逻辑基础,并兼具经济和社会双重属性,既有利于维护经济稳定平衡,是可持续发展的基础;又有利于促进社会公平正义,是国民素质和社会文明程度提高的保障。目前理论界对公共消费问题的探讨大多基于经济视角,基于经济与社会双重视角审视公共消费理论,应树立“消费者主权”意识,明确我国公共消费政策方向。     

“十二五”职业教育国家规划教材中高职英语类教材对比研究

通过对“十二五”职业教育国家规划教材中的若干种高职英语教材的编写理念、结构、内容、形式和编写团队进行对比研究,直观地呈现教材编写者的编写理念和编写方法,并结合自身教学实践提出针对性的建议,为教师如何挑选适合高职学生的英语教材提供有益的参考,从而更好地发挥教材在教学中的作用,服务于教学实践。     

CEO特征对公司研发投资的影响——基于上市公司2010-2014年数据的实证研究

以2010—2014年中国沪深两市A股上市公司为研究样本,运用多元回归模型和普通最小二乘法,研究CEO特征对公司研发投资的影响。研究发现：在非国有控股企业中,CEO年龄、CEO学历、CEO任期、CEO是否变更与研发投资存在正相关关系,并且相关关系较为显著。在国有控股企业中,CEO年龄、CEO任期与研发投资存在正相关关系,CEO学历、CEO是否变更与研发投资存在负相关关系,但是相关关系均不显著。本文研究意义表现在：从国有控股企业和非国有控股企业的角度,为基于CEO特征的人才任用提供参考。本文研究创新表现在：基于CEO特征的差异,对国有控股企业和非国有控股企业进行了区别分析。     

Marketplace orchestration of taste: insights from the Bridgewater Hall

ABSTRACT

The aim of this paper is to explore how a concert hall can orchestrate and shape individuals’ classical music tastes. The paper is based on an 8-month ethnography at the Bridgewater Hall concert venue in Manchester. Our emergent findings illustrate how classical music tastes are influenced via the spatial meanings of the concert hall. These meanings include various physical, historical and sociocultural aspects that are revealed in the context of the Bridgewater Hall. Our study contributes to various streams of consumer culture theory research and opens up avenues for future research on the interrelationships of space and place with taste.