Becker's (1965) theory of time use assumes that the household has a particular time endowment per time, which is spent on the production of goods produced at home.
Economists' early studies of non-cognitive (a.k.a. 'soft' or 'character') skills, such as locus of control, personality traits, self-esteem, resilience, etc., typically focused on estimating the returns to particular skill endowments.
The determinant of when a technique or a combination of them is used is what I call variable geography of livelihood opportunities, which refers to the different sets of subsistence activities afforded by the island's different geographical regions and their particular resource endowments.
In particular, she said, the endowment hopes to encourage a public media sector for gaming.
In particular, she said the endowment hopes to help build a public media sector for gaming, which is now almost entirely commercially driven.
The arts endowment in particular has been a past target of conservatives on the grounds that it financed obscene and inappropriate projects and drew the government into the subjective area of artistic merit.
In this work, we have investigated the iPSCs biology of aging, focusing in particular on the mitochondrial endowment in relation to short- versus long-term maintenance of iPSCs in culture.
Given one's particular circumstances, one's endowments and limits, there are choices to be made.
Mr. Hall, who made his fortune in grain, left a $7.5 million endowment but no particular mandate for the type of collection to be built.
Endowment experts follow Harvard and Yale in particular because Yale has had the best performance with its endowment investments over the last decade, with Harvard a close second.
