Browsing by Classification "H"
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Access to Higher Education for Scottish rural communities : an exploratory analysis
(University of St Andrews, 2015-08-28) - ReportTraditional socio-economic factors cannot solely explain why state secondary schools located in Scottish rural communities tend to have (i) greater variation of progressions to Higher Education (HE) year on year than other ... -
Audience research and social media data : Opportunities and challenges
(2015-05) - Journal articleThe widespread adoption of social media platforms and other information and communication technology innovations not only pose new challenges for audience researchers but also provide exciting opportunities to re-invigorate ... -
The cost of political intervention in monetary policy
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews., 2001) - Working or discussion paperData from a unique monetary ‘experiment’ conducted in the UK during the period 1994-97 are used to investigate the cost of political intervention in monetary policy. The paper finds that the difference between government ... -
Ethnic differences in realising desires to leave urban neighbourhoods
(2016-08-09) - Journal articleSelective mobility into and out of urban neighbourhoods is one of the main driving forces of segregation. Earlier research has found group differences in who wants to leave or who leaves certain types of neighbourhoods. A ... -
European policies for social inclusion of Roma : Catch 22?
(2015-09-29) - Journal articleThe article analyzes contemporary political discourses with regard to social inclusion of Roma on the basis of comparison with achievements and failures in the previous historical period of the communist rule in Eastern ... -
Growing through subsidies
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews., 2001) - Working or discussion paperWe consider an overlapping generation model based on Matsuyama (1999) and show that, whenever actual capital accumulation falls below its balanced growth path, subsidising innovators by taxing consumers has stabilising ... -
Heterogeneous beliefs and instability
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews., 2001) - Working or discussion paperWhile Rational Expectations have dominated the paradigm of expectations formation, they have been more recently challenged on the empirical ground such as, for instance, in the dynamics of the exchange rate. This challenge ... -
Home-ing in on domestic energy research : 'house', 'home' and the importance of ontology
(2015-03) - Journal articleDomestic energy demand is a topical policy issue, with implications for climate change, energy vulnerability and security. Domestic energy demand varies considerably by country, climate, building type, and even when these ... -
The importance of housing and neighbourhood resources for urban microbusinesses
(2016-04-16) - Journal articleEconomic research has rarely considered the significance of the home and neighbourhood context of where business owners’ live for their business. Conversely, urban and neighbourhood research has overlooked how housing and ... -
A new version of the HBSC Family Affluence Scale - FAS III : Scottish qualitative findings from the international FAS Development Study
(2016-03) - Journal articleA critical review of the Family Affluence Scale (FAS) concluded that FAS II was no longer discriminatory within very rich or very poor countries, where a very high or a very low proportion of children were categorised as ... -
On the persistence of output fluctuations in high technology sectors
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews, 2000) - Working or discussion paperFatás (2000) argues that in a cross-section analysis of countries there exists a positive correlation between long-term growth rates and the persistence of output fluctuations. The current paper extends this line of ... -
On the possibility of organ markets and the performativity of economics
(2013) - Journal articleCallon’s ‘performativity thesis’ encourages us to explore how the boundaries of the economy are negotiated. This paper explores one such discussion: the contributions of economics to the debates over the introduction of ... -
Psychometric validation of the revised family affluence scale : a latent variable approach
(2015-10-18) - Journal articleThe aim was to develop and test a brief revised version of the family affluence scale. A total of 7120 students from Denmark, Greenland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Scotland and Slovakia reported on a list of 16 potential ... -
Renormalization method and its economic applications
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews., 2001) - Working or discussion paperThe purpose of this paper is to give new insights of the method of Helleman (1980) in the context of macrodynamics. This method explains how a difference equation can be locally studied from the Feigenbaum equation in ... -
The Short Attachment to Pets Scale (SAPS) for children and young people : development, psychometric qualities and demographic and health associations
(2016-03-01) - Journal articleThis study describes the development of the SAPS and investigates its reliability and validity within the context of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Survey (HBSC) which gathered data on representative samples ... -
Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent health 2002-2010 : a time-series analysis of 34 countries participating in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study
(2015-05-23) - Journal articleInformation about trends in adolescent health inequalities is scarce, especially at an international level. We examined secular trends in socioeconomic inequality in five domains of adolescent health and the association ... -
Staging the Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 on Russia Today and BBC World News : From soft power to geopolitical crisis
(2015-05) - Journal articleThis article compares how Russia Today (RT) and BBC World News (BBCWN) interacted with audiences on their social media platforms during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. From the outset, the sporting events were overshadowed ... -
Taxation, unemployment and working time in models of economic growth
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews., 2001-08) - Working or discussion paperThis paper combines collective bargaining over wages and working time with models of endogenous and neoclassical growth. Public expenditure is funded by taxes on capital and labour supplied by infinitely-lived households ... -
Tweeting the terror : modelling the social media reaction to the Woolwich terrorist attack
(2014-06) - Journal articleLittle is currently known about the factors that promote the propagation of information in online social networks following terrorist events. In this paper we took the case of the terrorist event in Woolwich, London in ... -
Universities and fundamental research: reflections on the growth of university-industry partnership
(School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews, 2002) - Working or discussion paperThe recent rise in university-industry partnerships has stimulated an important public policy debate regarding how these relationships affect fundamental research. In this paper, we examine the antecedents and consequences ...