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Tiebout, local school finance and the ineffciency of head taxes [PDF]

The literature on local public (school) finance has shown that the use of local head taxes to finance schools leads to an effcient allocation of households and pupils to districts (Tiebout, 1956; Hamilton, 1975; Calabrese et al., 2009).
Francisco Martínez-Mora
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Dog attacks on wild desert tortoises: A risk model

The Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.
Domestic dogs attack and severely injure wild desert tortoises at the urban and ex‐urban interface with deserts. Severe trauma to tortoises increased 4 times to shell and limbs and 16.5 times to the gular horn over the decades between the 1970s and 2000s. Tortoises were at exponential risk of severe trauma when living within 12 km of settlements, towns,
Andrea S. Carlson, Kristin H. Berry, Jeremy S. Mack   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Back to the Mission. Revisiting Slack in Nonprofits and Introducing Tappable Slack

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to and develops the previous literature on excess resources (“slack”) in nonprofit organizations through a conceptual analysis of the implications that the organizational distinctiveness of nonprofits carries for our understanding of slack in these organizations.
Marta Reuter, Ebba Henrekson, Filip Wijkström   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Definitions Matter: BIPOC Nonprofits and Racial Disparities in Nonprofit Funding

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) nonprofits have gained increased attention and funding; however, a lack of clear definition and identification persists. This ambiguity hinders our understanding of the BIPOC nonprofits population and racial disparities in nonprofit funding.
Shuyi Deng
wiley   +1 more source

Place Matters: Investigating the Social and Environmental Drivers of Hypertension in Nashville. [PDF]

Fam Community Health
Harvey M, Oliver MD, Brown T, Rassul D, Strickler T, Parrish J, Bass C.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Advancing Through Innovation: Oral Health Continuing Education for Behavioral Health Providers

Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
Adrienne Lapidos, Jennifer Cullen, Elena Flores, Danielle Rulli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional diversity in agricultural landscapes: evidence of long‐term clustering and multi‐scale effects of land use on avian communities

Oikos, EarlyView.
Functional diversity (FD) is an essential community property connecting biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and conservation objectives. In agricultural landscapes, avian communities, which play key functional roles, are facing large‐scale biodiversity erosion, largely due to land‐use changes.
Pietro Tirozzi, Olivia Dondina, Valerio Orioli, Luciano Bani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of potential dominant factors for brownfield landscape regeneration: A case study in Xi'an, China. [PDF]

PLoS One
Wei X, Maruthaveeran S, Shahidan MF, Sha T.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Special Collection: Protocols in Medical and Veterinary Entomology. [PDF]

J Insect Sci, 2020
Machtinger ET, Poh KC.
europepmc   +1 more source

Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well‐being and distress

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract We aimed to evaluate the mental health benefits and possible mechanisms of objective and subjective treescape exposures whilst also accounting for relationships with residential area greenspace in general. Independent variables were objective measures of residential neighbourhood tree cover density and woody linear features, and a subjective ...
Ian Alcock, David Sheffield, Piran C. L. White, Peter A. Coventry, Merryn L. Hunt, Miles Richardson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source