Public spending curbs threaten Israeli research projects

Lost Dollars Threaten Research in Public Academic Health Centers.

The decrease of federal and state support threatens long-term sustainability of research in publicly supported academic health centers. In weathering these financial threats, research at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has undergone 3 substantial changes: institutional salary support goes preferentially to senior faculty, whereas the young increasingly depend on grants; priv...

CURBS Research Symposium

Development spending. Economists rate greenhouse gas curbs a poor investment.

the petition. “It’s a misapplication of the statute ... [that] would likely have serious unintended and adverse consequences,” said AAU representative Theodore Poehler, vice provost for research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. “It would be a major deterrent to licensing inventions ... if potential licensees believe the government has authority” to control prices, added COGR ...

Public Spending on Health Services and Policy Research in Canada: A Reflection on Thakkar and Sullivan; Comment on “Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal”

Vidhi Thakkar and Terrence Sullivan have done a careful and thought-provoking job in trying to establish comparable estimates of public spending on health services and policy research (HSPR) in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Their main recommendation is a call for an international collaboration to develop common terms and categories of HSPR. This paper raises two additional q...

Immigration and Public Spending

Immigration and Public Spending We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical perspective. We distinguish between public spending on private goods and on public goods. Our model implies that whether immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily depends on native’s preferences for private versus public good spendin...