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B Knight - American Economic Review, 2002 - JSTOR
Contrary to simple theoretical predictions, existing evidence suggests that federal grants do
not crowd out state government spending. A legislative bargaining model with endogenous
grants documents a positive correlation between grant receipts and preferences for public ...
B Knight⁎ - Journal of Public Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper tests for the capitalization of policy platforms into equity prices using a sample of
70 firms favored under Bush or Gore platforms during the 2000 US Presidential Election.
Two sources of daily data during the six months leading up to the election are ...
KL Antonovics… - 2004 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES A NEW LOOK AT RACIAL PROFILING:
EVIDENCE FROM THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT Kate L. Antonovics Brian
G. Knight Working Paper 10634 http://www.nber.org/papers/w10634 ...
B Knight… - National Tax Journal, 1999 - georgetown.edu
Abstract This paper examines the effect of rainy day funds on state savings behavior. We
find that states with rainy day funds have higher total balances than states without such
funds and also have higher balances after adoption than before adoption. Furthermore, ...
BG Knight - Journal of Public Economics, 2000 - Elsevier
B Knight - Journal of Public Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
Local public goods financed from a national tax base provide concentrated benefits to
recipient jurisdictions but disperse costs, creating incentives for legislators to increase own-
district spending but to restrain aggregate spending due to the associated tax costs. While ...
B Knight - The American economic review, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This paper investigates the role of proposal power in the allocation of
transportation projects across US congressional districts in 1991 and 1998. The evidence
supports the key qualitative prediction of legislative bargaining models: members with ...
B Knight - The Economic Journal, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates the relationship between representation in legislatures and the
geographic distribution of federal funds. In a legislative bargaining model, we demonstrate
that funds are concentrated in high representation areas, and two channels underlie this ...
[CITATION] Public funds and private capital markets: the investment practices and performance of state and local pension funds
JL Coronado, EM Engen… - National Tax …, 2003 - NTA-TIA NATIONAL TAX …
A Bateman… - 2003 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: Recognition of prior learning (RPL) and credit transfer policy in Australia from 1995
to 2001 was examined through a review of Australian research discourse and an analysis of
national data for the period. Selected findings were as follows:(1) RPL and credit transfer ...
S Coate… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper investigates the problem of optimal districting in the context of a simple
model of legislative elections. In the model, districting matters because it determines the seat-
vote curve, which describes the relationship between seats and votes. The paper first ...
R Durante… - 2009 - nber.org
This paper examines the impact of partisan control of the media on news content and
viewership by consumers with differing ideologies. We use data from Italy, where the main
private television network is owned by Silvio Berlusconi, the leader of the center-right ...
BAA Knight - 1983 - getcited.org
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CF Chiang… - The Review of Economic Studies, 2011 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between media bias and the influence of
the media on voting in the context of newspaper endorsements. We first develop a simple
econometric model in which voters choose candidates under uncertainty and rely on ...
This paper provides an investigation of the role of momentum and social learning in
sequential voting systems. In the econometric model, voters are uncertain over candidate
quality, and voters in late states attempt to infer the information held by those in early ...
[CITATION] Financial management for schools
B Knight - 1993 - Heinemann
B Knight… - Institutions, politics, and fiscal policy, 2000 - books.google.com
The fifty US states employ a wide variety of fiscal institutions designed to constrain state tax
and expenditure policy. Some, such as balanced budget requirements and supermajority
rules for tax increases, have been proposed for the federal government. Others, such as ...
K Bowman, B Clayton, A Bateman, B Knight… - 2003 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: Researchers examined the factors driving and impeding effective implementation
of recognition of prior learning (RPL) in Australia's vocational education and training sector.
The study relied on the following data collection activities: a literature review; an ...
B Knight, A Kusko… - State Tax Notes, 2003 - urban.org
Once again, states and localities are facing severe budgetary pressures and are being
forced to take actions to get their fiscal houses in order. Indeed, as measured in the National
Income and Product Accounts (NIPA), the sector ran a deficit of about $50 billion in its ...
BAA Knight - 1989 - getcited.org
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[CITATION] Delegated financial management and school effectiveness
B Knight - School-based management and school effectiveness. …, 1993
S Coate… - 2009 - nber.org
There are two main forms of government in US cities: council-manager and mayor-council.
This paper develops a theory of fiscal policy determination under these two forms. The
theory predicts that expected public spending will be lower under mayor-council, but that ...
Abstract: Contrary to simple theoretical predictions, empirical research has found that state
government public spending is increased far more, often dollar-for-dollar, by federal grant
receipts than by equivalent increases in constituent private income. This anomaly has ...
N Gordon… - 2006 - nber.org
This paper examines the forces behind political integration through the lens of school district
consolidations, which reduced the number of school districts in the United States from
around 130,000 in 1930 to under 15,000 at present. Despite this large observed decline, ...
B Knight… - 2009 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: Understanding Australia's vocational education and training (VET) system can be
daunting for observers. This paper, written as a background paper for a visit from the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), describes Australia's ...
While the theoretical literature on non-cooperative legislative bargaining has grown
voluminous, there is little empirical work attempting to test a key prediction in this literature:
proposal power is valuable. This paper aims to fill this gap in the literature by investigating ...
N Gordon… - Journal of Public Economics, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper develops a spatial merger estimator to explain political integration generally and
then applies this method to a wave of school district mergers in the state of Iowa during the
1990s. Our estimator is rooted in the economics of matching and thus accounts for three ...
[CITATION] Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsements
CF Chang… - NBER Working Paper, 2008
N Gordon… - Public Finance Review, 2008 - pfr.sagepub.com
Abstract We examine the effects of both whole-grade sharing and administrative
consolidations of local school districts in Iowa in the 1990s, the majority of which were
induced by state fiscal incentives. We find no effects of either sharing or consolidation on ...
[CITATION] Are policy platforms capitalized into equity prices
B Knight - Evidence from the, 2004
B Knight - Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: …, 2006 - econ.brown.edu
Abstract Local public goods financed from a national tax base provide concentrated benefits
to recipient jurisdictions but disperse costs. In central legislatures, this common pool
situation creates incentives for legislators to increase own-jurisdiction spending but to ...
CF Chiang… - 2008 - Citeseer
Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between media bias and the influence of
the media on voting in the context of newspaper endorsements. We first develop a simple
econometric model in which voters choose candidates under uncertainty and rely on ...
KL Antonovics… - forthcoming, Review of Economics …, 2007 - stat.columbia.edu
... officers to neighborhoods. ∗Respectively, Department of Economics, University of
California, San Diego, email: kantonov@ucsd.edu, and Department of Economics,
Brown University, email: Brian Knight@brown.edu. † We thank ...
J Burns, T Cors, B Knight… - International journal of energy …, 2004 - Inderscience
Mobility technology is beginning to shift from gasoline-fuelled, internal combustion engines
to a variety of alternate fuels and powertrains, including hybrid and fuel cell vehicles. The
benefits and/or limitations of many of these technologies are not well characterised by a ...
[CITATION] The Cost of Running a School
BAA Knight… - 1977 - Scottish Centre for Studies in School …
[CITATION] Managing the honeypots
B Knight - Economics and the management of education, 1987
B Knight, T Peng… - Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on …, 1998 - ida.liu.se
Abstract This paper presents a new formalism for reasoning about change over time. The
formalism derives a clean separation between the notion of states and situations. It allows
more flexible temporal causal relationships than do other formalisms for reasoning about ...
B Knight - Equity in Vocational Education and Training: Research …, 2004 - ncver.edu.au
This chapter looks at how well the development of vocational learning in schools has
worked as a means of keeping young people engaged in education who otherwise might
have left school early. It complements the previous chapter which argues that, where the ...
Abstract: Applying insights from theoretical tax competition models, this study of
manufacturing investment and taxes in US states makes four contributions to the empirical
tax competition literature. First, while the existing empirical literature has assumed ...
S Coate… - 2005 - nber.org
This paper provides a welfare economic analysis of the problem of districting. In the context
of a simple micro-founded model intended to capture the salient features of US politics, it
studies how a social planner should allocate citizens of different ideologies across districts ...
N Gordon… - Retrieved May, 2005 - economics.sas.upenn.edu
Abstract The number of school districts in the United States has fallen from around 130,000
in 1930 to just under 15,000 at present. Despite this large observed decline, many districts
resisted consolidation before ultimately merging and others never merged, choosing to ...
K Bowman, B Knight, J Hargreaves, N Nguyen… - 2004 - voced.edu.au
Abstract: This paper makes the key points: that recognition of prior learning (RPL) is a widely
supported concept but the potential of RPL has not yet been delivered; that there is general
consensus that RPL is an individual assessment process/pathway; that while significant ...
BW Knight… - 1978 - getcited.org
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Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SPATIAL COMPETITION AND
CROSS-BORDER SHOPPING: EVIDENCE FROM STATE LOTTERIES Brian G. Knight
Nathan Schiff Working Paper 15713 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15713 ...
BAA Knight - Educational Management Administration & …, 1984 - ema.sagepub.com
Page 1. 15 Attitudes to Educational Finance Brian AA Knight Holyrood School,
Somerset What is it in the air of educational institutions which makes their inmates
suspend their real-world beliefs? Why do teachers and lecturers ...
[CITATION] lParochial interests and the centralized provision of local public goods: Evidence from congressional voting on transportation projects
B Knight - m Journal of Public Eco# nomics, 2004
RH Haverman, B Knight… - 1999 - Citeseer
Abstract Between the late 1960s and early 1990s, young workers experienced declining
average real wages and increasing labor market inequality. High-skilled youths—those with
a college degree—fare better in this new economy relative to youths with few skills and ...
S Coate… - 2006 - nber.org
This paper provides an empirical exploration of the potential gains from socially optimal
districting. As emphasized in the political science literature, districting matters because it
determines the seat-vote curve, which relates the fraction of seats parties obtain to their ...
[CITATION] The State and Local Sector: Problems and Prospects
B Knight, A Kusko… - State Tax Notes, 2003
[CITATION] Forthcoming. Partisan control, media bias, and viewer responses: Evidence from Berlusconi's Italy
R Durante… - Journal of the European Economic Association
J Borthwick, B Knight, A Bender… - 2001 - ncver.edu.au
Volumes 1 and 2 scope the provision of adult and community education in Australia; scope
the current collection of data at the national and State levels, including the purpose of the
data to assist in a statistics collection that measures achievement against objectives; ...
[CITATION] Socially Optimal Districting: a Theoretical and Empirical Exploration. Forthcoming
S Coate… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department.”
K Antonovics… - Review of Economics and Statistics
[CITATION] Local Management of Schools: Training Materials for Headteachers and Other School Staff, School Governors, and Local Authority Officers
BAA Knight… - 1989 - Longman
J Ma, B Knight… - 1996 - researchrepository.napier.ac.uk
# Edinburgh Napier University. Home. INSPIRING FUTURES. ...
[CITATION] Buy the right business-at the right price: the guide to small business acquisition
B Knight - 1990 - Upstart
[CITATION] Assessment for recognition of prior learning in technical and vocational education and training in Australia: where to from here
K Brian - 2006 - Adelaide: NCVER
[CITATION] Common Tax Pool Problems in Federal Systems.” In Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence. Cambridge, MA: MIT …
B Knight - 2006
R Haveman… - Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion …, 1998 - irp.wisc.edu
Abstract While overall employment in the United States has risen in the last 30 years, the
employment and earnings prospects for youths have fallen relative to those for older
workers. This deterioration in youth labor market conditions has been most pronounced ...
[CITATION] Partisan Control
R Durante… - Media Bias, and Viewer Responses, 2011
[CITATION] mThe Fiscal Impact of Political Integration: Evidence from School District Consolidationsnmimeo
N Gordon… - 2005
[CITATION] Fiscal Effects of Unfunded Mandates: Evidence from State Reimbursement Requirements
B Knight - University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mimeo, 1998
[CITATION] qGovernment Form and Public Spending: Theory and Evidence from US MunicipalitiesW. rWorking paper
S Coate… - 2009
B Knight - VOCAL: The Australian Journal of Vocational …, 2008 - vetnetwork.org.au
VOCAL Volume 7~ 2008–2009 131 influence on competency-based programs accredited
by the VET sector but much less influence on those accredited by the school sector,
although it is important to recognise that the development of competencybased training in ...
WG Gale… - Brookings Papers on Economic …, 2010 - en.scientificcommons.org
B Knight - Regional anesthesia, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
1. Reg Anesth. 1997 Sep-Oct;22(5):485-6. Comment on case report of Kabeer and Hardy. Knight
B. Comment on Reg Anesth. 1996 May-Jun;21(3):249-52. PMID: 9338917 [PubMed - indexed
for MEDLINE]. Publication Types: Case Reports; Comment; Letter. MeSH Terms. ...
R Alto, I Isaacs, B Knight… - 2000 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: This book provides an overview of vocational-technical education and training
(VTET) in the 10 member countries of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education
Organisation (SAMEO). The book begins with an introduction explaining the objectives ...
JR Hines Jr, WG GALE… - Brookings Papers on Economic …, 2010 - JSTOR
State and local expenditure and tax revenue respond less to the business cycle than do
federal spending and revenue, thereby reducing the countercyclicality of total government
expenditure and revenue. This paper considers forces responsible for the cyclical pattern ...
M Cully, B Knight, P Loveder, R Mazzachi… - 2009 - deewr.gov.au
1 Background Instead of a conventional executive summary, NCVER begins with a reflective
discussion of its major findings from the country comparisons and their relationship to the
governance and architecture of Australia's vocational education and training (VET) system ...
BG Knight - Journal of Public Economics, 2007 - econpapers.repec.org
By Brian G. Knight; Erratum to "Are policy platforms capitalized into equity
prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential.
[CITATION] Recognition of prior learning in the vocational education and training sector
B Kaye, B Clayton, A Bateman, B Knight… - 2003 - Retrieved 9/3/2008, from NCVER …
[CITATION] Early Hunter-gatherer Occupations in the Southern Playas and Animas Valleys, Hidalgo County, New Mexico
BD Knight - 2003 - New Mexico State University
C Lowry, B Knight, C Browning… - 2000 - stormingmedia.us
Abstract: Between August 29 and October 16, 1999, archaeologists from Geo-Marine,
Inc.(GMI) conducted an archaeological survey of 4,690 acres on Melrose Air Force Range.
The survey was conducted on several parcels located on the southeastern portion of the ...
S Coate… - The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2010 - ideas.repec.org
< p> The market for pets in the US is important economically and socially. Pets differ from
standard economic goods in significant ways, and the market displays a number of
interesting problems, most notably pet overpopulation. Despite this, the market has been ...
B Knight - 202.14.81.230
Vocational education and training in schools (VET in schools) is a relatively small
component of the broader education and training system in Australia, and must be viewed in
this wider context1. Although there have been recent significant developments in the ...
B Knight - DAKOTA CONFERENCE, 2011 - augie.edu
South Dakota's first poet laureate, Badger Clark, grew up in 1890's Deadwood, just two
decades after the last great gold rush in America. By his day the streets were no longer a
muddy quagmire, and the wooden shacks hastily thrown up in the heat of gold fever had ...
[CITATION] When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation? When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?(pp. 1037-1078)
D Acemoglu, N Netzer, F Scheuer, B Knight… - Journal of Political …, 2010 - JSTOR
B Knight - 1992 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: Questions that must be addressed to ensure successful implementation of financial
delegation to the schools are presented in this paper. The features necessary to successfully
introduce increased financial delegation to the schools are described. Key questions are ...
[CITATION] Echolocation: Stories
BK Knight - 2002
L Brian Knight - EDUCATION, 1989 - Taylor & Francis
In today's wodd of revolutionary educational change new materials which address the
current issues will be eagerly sought after. However, immediately two problems arise in that
new materials can be rapidly dated and that some new materials hastily produced to fill ...
[CITATION] Spending power
B Knight - 1988
S Coate… - Working Papers, 2009 - arts.cornell.edu
Abstract This paper considers the problem of pet overpopulation. It develops a tractable
dynamic model whose positive predictions square well with key features of the current US
market for pets. The model is used to understand, from a welfare economic perspective, ...
I Palacios-Huerta… - Econometric Society 2004 North …, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
This paper is concerned with the dynamics of competition in American political campaigns,
in particular with how the type of message a candidate sends is affected by the stage of the
campaign, the status of the candidate, and the competitiveness of the race. The paper ...
[CITATION] STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL INSTITUTIONS
L McGranahan, K Baicker… - Proceedings …, 1998 - National Tax Association-Tax …
B Knight - National Centre for Vocational Education Research ( …, 2012 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: This paper traces the evolution of Australia's apprenticeship and traineeship
system since permanent European settlement in 1788. The system was imported from Great
Britain; it has evolved and diverged in some areas but retains many of the features of the ...
B Knight - 2000 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: This publication provides a detailed description of Australia's vocational education
and training system (VET), including key facts and figures. The eight sections of the report
cover the following topics:(1) introduction to Australia;(2) overview of the education and ...
R Inderst, E Papaioannou, G Siourounis… - The Economic …, 2008 - res.org.uk
We present a simple model of personal finance in which an incumbent lender has an
information advantage vis-à-vis both potential competitors and households. In order to
extract more consumer surplus, a lender with sufficient market power may engage in' ...
B Knight - Public Money & Management, 1983 - Taylor & Francis
Heads of even the largest secondary schools are given little training or help in management.
As Rodney Lord's article in our last issue showed, spending often takes little account of real
priorities. An up‐to‐date, computerised, school‐based accounting system would help.
B Knight, D Knight… - 2010 - books.google.com
A book-and-video introduction to Microsoft's Business Intelligence tools< p> If you are just
starting to get a handle on Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) tools, this book and
accompanying video provides you with the just the right amount of information to perform ...
[CITATION] Designing the School Day: A Do-it-yourself Manual
BAA Knight - 1991 - Longman School Management …
G de Clippel,
K Eliaz… - 2011 - cepr.org
A key issue in arbitration, which resolves disputes among parties, involves the procedure for
selecting an arbitrator. We take an implementation-theoretic approach and provide
theoretical, empirical and experimental analyses of this problem. Our findings highlight the ...
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES STATE GUN POLICY AND
CROSS-STATE EXTERNALITIES: EVIDENCE FROM CRIME GUN TRACING Brian
G. Knight Working Paper 17469 http://www.nber.org/papers/w17469 ...
[CITATION] Jazz catalogue
B Knight - 1967 - Jazz Journal, ltd.
B Knight - Journal of economic literature, 2004 - dialnet.unirioja.es
... Volatile States: Institutions, Policy, and the Performance of American State Economies (Book).
Autores: Brian Knight; Localización: Journal of economic literature, ISSN 0022-0515, Vol. 42,
Nº 2, 2004 , págs. 555-556. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
B Knight - Copyright Notice, 2005 - Citeseer
In the last tutorial in this series of Reporting Services tutorials we added conditional
formatting to the report. Now that we've created our first report and have added a bit of flare
to it, let's go ahead and make it even cleaner. In this very quick demonstration, we'll go ...
B Knight… - New England Public Policy Center Working …, 2010 - ideas.repec.org
This paper investigates competition between jurisdictions in the context of cross-border
shopping for state lottery tickets. We first develop a simple theoretical model in which
consumers choose between state lotteries and face a trade-off between travel costs and ...
A Bateman… - recognition-for-assessors-ron.swsi. …
This work has been produced by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research
(NCVER) with the assistance of funding provided by the Australian National Training Authority
(ANTA). It is published by NCVER under licence from ANTA. Apart from any use permitted ...
B Knight - The Economic Journal, 2008 - res.org.uk
This article investigates the relationship between representation in legislatures and the
geographic distribution of federal funds. In a legislative bargaining model, we demonstrate
that funds are concentrated in high representation areas, and two channels underlie this ...
[CITATION] Spending power: video and booklet for School Governors about finance and local management of schools
B Knight - 1990
P Angle, MJ Ansermino, D Ansley, JF Asenjo… - Can J Anesth/J Can …, 2009 - Springer
Angle, Pamela / TORONTO Ansermino, Mark J. / VANCOUVER Ansley, David / VANCOUVER
Asenjo, Juan-Francisco / MONTREAL Ashraf, Fayad / OTTAWA Aubrun, Frédéric / PARIS
Badner, Neal / LONDON Bagshaw, Sean M. / EDMONTON Bainbridge, Daniel / LONDON ...
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