Drawing on a survey undertaken in Shanghai, it is found that, after controlling for the effects of individual characteristics, migrants living in the suburbs not only earn less than their counterparts in the central city, but are also less likely to construct inter-group and diverse social ties to aid future prospects.
Alternatively, the impact of disease and climate may have been more indirect, with European colonists less (more) likely to settle in the tropical (temperate) regions, and more (less) likely to construct "extractive" institutions there (Acemoglu et al. 2001).
In addition, he said, with no weather-related delays to endure in a modular factory and no subcontractors to wait for, a modular house takes less time to construct than a stick-built one.
But as General Powell grapples with the diplomatic consequences, including restive European allies and the prospect of renewed tensions with Russia and China, he may be less eager to construct the system than Mr. Rumsfeld.
Jack Davis, president of Smart Growth for Louisiana, which opposes the new medical center, said the arbitration ruling should spur the state to rebuild the old Charity, which he said would be faster and less expensive to construct.
In the 1980s some cities in the United States began adopting light rail transit; the trackage for this modern electric trolley system was less expensive to construct than that for elevated or underground metropolitan train systems.
I'm certainly not suggesting that people or societies today are somehow less likely to construct such horrors because they have grown morally better over time.
Cicconetti et al. [19] further evaluated the internal fragmentation of the burst constructed in different directions, that is, vertical direction or horizontal direction, and subsequently selected the direction that experienced less fragmentation to construct the burst.
Evapotranspiration (ET) covers have gained interest as an alternative to conventional covers for the closure of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills because they are less costly to construct and are expected to have a longer service life.
