This paper considers the implications of using regression discontinuity methods (RDD) on pooled data to estimate the causal effect of education on earnings, in particular when exploiting changes in minimum school leaving age requirements. RDD methods estimate the return to schooling inclusive of the impact of lost (potential) labour market experience as a result of being in school for an additi...

This paper outlines the design methodology, sensor configuration and final implementation of the DriMix 4ics robot. The DriMix 4ics is an automated bartending robot whose gross motor functions can be controlled via color segmentation and recognition, while menu driven drink mixing commands are driven by Quick Response Code. The aim of the robot is simplify the ordeal of what at times can be com...

We use the ratio of growth in global military expenditures to gross domestic product (GDP) to capture ex ante expectations of political instability and explore the relation between this measure and returns. In a standard global asset pricing framework with 44 countries, this measure helps to explain cross-country return differences. Furthermore, emerging countries have greater exposure to inter...

GLOBAL DIVERSITY OF THE LUNAR CRUST: SCIENCE AND CHALLENGES OF LUNAR SAMPLE RETURN. K. H. Joy, J. Gross, T. Arai, S. A. Russell School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK, The American Museum of Natural History, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New York, NY 10024, USA, Planetary Exploration Research Centre, Chiba...

Stock price has been found to provide important information about future economic activities. Fama (1981), Fischer and Merton (1984), and Barro (1990), among many others, document a positive relation between stock market return and subsequent growth in investment and output. These findings are consistent with rational expectations asset pricing models, in which stock price is equal to the sum o...

abstract     the major constraints of agricultural production in the south western coastal areas of bangladesh are soil and water salinity of varying degrees, lack of fresh water for irrigation, slow soil drying pattern which are being augmented further due to climate change, requires suitable options of farming systems and component technologies. the major constraints and potentials of agricul...

Implementation credit rating for Corporates is influenced by Different circum-stances, systems, processes, and cultures in each country. In this study, we pro-posed a Factor analysis modified approach for determine important factors on real data set of 123 accepted corporate in Tehran Securities Exchange for the years 2009-2017 of diverse range of 52 variable. We estimated the priority score fo...

the aims of this study were to assess the energy and economic flows of biodiesel production from olive pomace oil using transesterification method with ultrasound waves. for this purpose biodiesel production from this feedstock were examined through a life-cycle process with considering five main stages of agricultural production, transportation, olive oil extraction, pomace oil extraction and ...

A research study was conducted at Peshawar to investigate the effect of Habek mint on the hematology, immunity and overall performance of broilers. One hundred and sixty day-old broiler chicks were purchased from a local hatchery and divided into four groups (A, B, C and D; each group representing four replicates with 10 chicks per replicate). Group A, B and C were respectively given Habek mint...

Six cowpea genotypes (Danila, IT96D-772, IT90K-277-2, IT95K-1091-3, IT96D-740, IT96D-757) were intercropped with a local millet cultivar using four row arrangements (1:1, 1:2, 2:2 and 2:4 millet to cowpea rows) in a field experiment conducted at Minjibir near Kano in the Sudan savanna ecological zone of Nigeria during the 1999 and 2000 wet seasons. Cowpea genotypes and row arrangement had no ef...