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UNINA9910456715303321 |
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Autore |
Loadman John |
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Titolo |
The Hancocks of Marlborough [[electronic resource] ] : rubber, art and the industrial revolution : a family of inventive genius / / John Loadman and Francis James |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
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1-282-34673-3 |
9786612346736 |
0-19-157441-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Inventors - England - Marlborough |
Rubber industry and trade - Great Britain - History |
Industrial revolution - Great Britain - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Family Tree; 1. Marlborough, Wiltshire-Roots; 2. The Hancocks Gather in London; 3. From Seawater to Steam; 4. Life, Death, and Bankruptcy; 5. The Family, the Law, and the End of a Dream; 6. Life's Ups and Downs; 7. A New Industry; 8. Gutta Percha Comes to Town; 9. The Great Hose Controversy; 10. The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations; 11. Back to the Courts; 12. A Life of Ease(?); 13. Death and Dispositions; 14. Marlborough Cottage and the Great Aunts; 15. The Hancock Legacy; 16. James Lyne Hancock & Co. |
Epilogue: Thoughts on a DynastyReferences and Source Documents; Notes; Appendix I: The 14 patents of Thomas Hancock 'for the treatment and application of INDIA RUBBER'; Appendix II: Mechanical applications of vulcanized India rubber as described by Thomas Hancock; Appendix III: The evolution of the rubber industry of today; Bibliography; Index |
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This book began with the aim of telling the almost forgotten story of |
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Thomas Hancock, the rubber developer who in his own day was acknowledged as one of the great scientific pioneers of the Industrial Revolution. But as research progressed, it was clear that Thomas and his five brothers, the Hancocks of Marlborough, together constituted a unique family which made a tremendous yet virtually unknown contribution to nineteenth-century science and art. Walter designed and ranthe first steam carriages to carry passengers on the common roads of England and so began the age of mechanized transport. T |
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UNINA9910957183603321 |
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Autore |
Bornhorst Fabian |
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Titolo |
How Good Are Ex Ante Program Evaluation Techniques? The Case of School Enrollment in PROGRESA / / Fabian Bornhorst |
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Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009 |
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9786612843976 |
9781462331550 |
1462331556 |
9781451873344 |
1451873344 |
9781452733920 |
1452733929 |
9781282843974 |
1282843974 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Collana |
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School attendance - Mexico - Evaluation - Econometric models |
Economic assistance, Domestic - Mexico - Evaluation - Econometric models |
Poor - Mexico - Evaluation - Econometric models |
Aggregate Factor Income Distribution |
Aging |
Demography |
Economics of the Elderly |
Economics of the Handicapped |
Education |
Education: General |
Income economics |
Income |
Labor economics |
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Labor Economics: General |
Labor |
Labour |
Macroeconomics |
Non-labor Market Discrimination |
Population & demography |
Population aging |
Wages |
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General |
Mexico |
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Intro -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Ex Ante Evaluation: Theory -- A. A Model of Occupational Choice -- B. Estimation and Identification -- C. Impact Simulation -- III. Ex Ante Evaluation: Results -- A. Estimation of the Earnings Vector -- B. Estimation of the Choice Model -- C. Impact Simulation -- IV. The Benchmark: Ex post Analysis -- A. Pre-Program Differences -- B. Difference Estimation -- V. Comparison of Results and Discussion -- VI. Concluding Remarks -- VII. References -- VIII. Appendix -- A. Key Elements of PROGRESA -- B. Data Description -- C. Method for Drawing Choice-consistent Residuals -- D. Bootstrap Mechanism -- Tables -- 1: Weekly Earnings and Per Capita Household Income -- 2: Reported Status -- 3: Sample Means -- 4: Estimation of Earnings Equation -- 5: Actual and Imputed Earnings -- 6: Estimation of the Multinomial Logit Model -- 7: Accuracy of Model Prediction (K=1) -- 8: Estimation of Structural Parameters (K=1) -- 9: Accuracy of Model Prediction (K=0.5) -- 10: PROGRESA Transfer Scheme -- 11: Estimated Transition Matrix -- 12: Pre-Program Differences: Boys -- 13: Pre-Program Differences: Girls -- 14: Difference Estimator: Boys -- 15: Difference Estimator: Girls -- 16: Simulation, D and DD Estimates, and Sensitivity to K -- 17: Transition to Secondary School -- Figures -- 1: Enrollment Ratio: Actual Effect of PROGRESA, D and DD Estimator -- 2: Simulated effect and D estimate. |
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This paper evaluates a microsimulation technique by comparing the simulated outcome of a program with its actual effect. The ex ante evaluation is carried out for a conditional cash transfer program, where poor households were given money if the children attended school. A model of occupational choice is used to simulate the expected impact of the program. The results suggest that the transfer would indeed increase school attendance and do more so among girls than boys. While the simulated effect tends to be larger than the actual effect, the latter lies within bootstrapped confidence intervals of the simulation. |
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