In this paper, I test for evidence of an intra-household flypaper effect by evaluating the impact of an educational fee reduction reform in rural China on different categories of household expenditures, including spending on individual children. Using data that preand post-dated the reform, I exploit cohort comparisons, the variation in the extent of educational fee reductions across different ...

Analysts have used a variety of statistical distributions to model losses due to operational risks [Embrechts, Cruz] or insurance claims [Hogg and Klugman]. In contrast, the normal distribution is the undisputed queen of capital market models. This paper examines an alternative family of distributions, the conic moment family, for application to capital market models. We answer the following qu...

El objetivo de este artículo es probar la presencia del efecto flypaper y asimetría reemplazo fiscal en los municipios Colombia para el periodo 2000-2017. Se consideró un estudio todas las categorías otro solo categoría sexta. Los siguientes datos fueron utilizados: operaciones efectivas caja, categorización e indicadores población. Debido a características datos, se realizó una estimación econ...

In this issue, Kamhawi et al. (2004) describe the identification of an insect galectin as the receptor for the stage-specific Leishmania adhesin lipophosphoglycan (LPG). This interaction is critical for parasite survival in the midgut of its sand fly vector. The results open new avenues for studies of insect immunity, transmission binding vaccines, and host-parasite coevolution.