The last ten or fifteen years have seen a quiet revolution in criminology and criminal justice. There has been a vast improvement in the quality and quantity of data, and in the availability of that data to decisionmakers. Sufficient information is now available so that basic indicators related to criminal justice issues can be measured with a degree of precision that was not only unknown a few...

Pulsed resource subsidies can have profound effects on recipient communities. The effects of resource pulses are often mediated by increases in the density of consumer populations. Here we investigate several mechanisms linking experimental pulses of seaweed deposition to population-level responses in the brown anole Anolis sagrei. Subsidized lizards grew approximately 30% faster than lizards i...

" Equality of opportunity * " 1 2 by 3 John E. Roemer 4 and 5 Alain Trannoy 6 7 1. Introduction 8 In the welfarist tradition of social-choice theory, egalitarianism means equality of 9 welfare or utility 1. Conservative critics of egalitarianism rightly protest that it is highly 10 questionable that this kind of equality is ethically desirable, as it fails to hold persons 11 responsible for the...

By exploring the export performances and specialization patterns of China and India, we assess their trade competitiveness and complementarity vis-à-vis each other as well as with the rest of the world. Our analysis indicates that (i) India faces tough competition from China in the third markets especially in clothing, textile and leather products; (ii) there is a moderate potential for expandi...

" Equality of opportunity * " 1 2 by 3 John E. Roemer 4 and 5 Alain Trannoy 6 7 1. Introduction 8 In the welfarist tradition of social-choice theory, egalitarianism means equality of 9 welfare or utility 1. Conservative critics of egalitarianism rightly protest that it is highly 10 questionable that this kind of equality is ethically desirable, as it fails to hold persons 11 responsible for the...

Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity – one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also to differences in opportunities faced by people with different pre-determined characteristics, such as race or ...

Robert Sugden has recently elaborated upon the case for a normative standard of freedom as “opportunity” that is supposed to cope with the problem of how to realign normative economics – with its traditional rational choice orientation – with behavioral economics. His standard, though, presupposes that people respond to uncertainty about their own future preferences by dismissing any kind of se...

A s sports medicine clinicians, we spend a lot of time around athletes during their daily routines. These daily encounters by athletic trainers, physical therapists, and physicians in the training room and on the field often provide us with an opportunity to improve the experience of athletes entrusted to our care. Along with this opportunity, more importantly, comes the responsibility to inter...