The following investigation of post secondary education will proceed via three subdisciplines of modem economic analysis: first, by way of well-known techniques used in the study of public finance (welfare economics); second through models connected with the economic theory of organization; and third through the approach of ʺpublic choiceʺ (the economics of politics). There are important areas ...

*Bureau of Public Assistance, Technical Training Service. Miss Lally, formerly welfare consultant with UNRRA in England, France, and Germany, was technical adviser to the United States representative at the Social Commission meetings. Vital decisions on pressing emergent problems and the necessity for laying the foundation for long-range planning for international organization in the social fie...

Animal welfare science is a relatively new scientific discipline, evolving mostly from within veterinary medicine over the latter half of the twentieth century into an independent specialty in its own right. Originally, the field of study was heavily focused on animal behavior (ethology), but it has emerged into a truly multiand inter-disciplinary science, encompassing such sciences as behavior...

Perhaps before establishing the Psychology and Counseling Organization of Iran by the Parliament in 2003, the biggest threat to this discipline was the practice of unprofessional people. On this basis, the biggest opportunity for this discipline was establishing this organization by the parliament as the supreme legislative body in the country. On 14/11/2012 counseling centers regulation was in...

This paper discusses how researchers and others have analyzed the services histories of persons who have experienced homelessness, as well as their imputed costs. This research has been used both to make visible the ways in which the clients of mainstream social welfare systems (health, corrections, income maintenance and child welfare) become homeless and, complementarily, the impact of people...

We study the consequences of hospital competition for Medicare beneficiaries’ heart attack care from 1985 to 1994. We examine how relatively exogenous determinants of hospital choice such as travel distances influence the competitiveness of hospital markets, and how hospital competition interacts with the influence of managed-care organizations to affect the key determinants of social welfare—e...

Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK Trends over a Quarter Century Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to a series of humanitarian emergencies. This pape...