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Every school-age child in San Antonio's Edgewood school district was eligible for a large,privately-funded tuition voucher from 1998 to 2008. This paper evaluates the impact ofthis voucher program on residential property values in the Edgewood district. Based onrealtor data (multiple listing service), the findings reveal that during the period of thevoucher program there was a 9.87% increase in house prices during the early years ofthe program, although an increase of only 1.10% during the later years when eligibilityrequirements were tightened.

Bennett and DiLorenzo have called the rapidly rising levels of off-budget spending "underground government," which they viewed as an end-run around voter-enacted limitations on spending, taxation, and debt. Marlow and Joulfaian argue that high levels of off-budget spending occur for the same reasons as high levels of on-budget spending. In this article, state data are used to develop two econometric models of off-budget spending. The models are used to test the hypotheses of Bennett and DiLorenzo, and Marlow and Joulfaian, and to develop new ones. Many of the significant variables have not been included in any previous models, and some of them have policy-making implications.

Because new land uses may preclude existing or potential future uses, the net economic impact of a particular policy may be substantially less than its gross impact. One way to estimate the differences is with an analog region. A case study illustrates how an analog region estimates the net economic impact of Grand Teton National Park on Teton County, WY. Approximately one-third of the economic activity attributed to the park would still be present in the absence of the park.

THIS IS a study of the initial encounter between a psychiatric outpatient clinic and the persons who come to it seeking help. In the idiom of clinic culture, the help-seeker is identified from the start as a patient. We prefer to identify him as an applicant. He is seen by one or more agents—staff members who are assigned responsibility for the evaluation and screening of applicants. He becomes a patient when he and the agent reach a joint decision to embark upon a course of treatment. Many applicants, the majority, do not receive treatment.1-4 We shall use the term applicancy to refer to the proceedings which begin with the first contact between applicant and clinic, and which end either with the onset of treatment or with termination of the relationship by one or both parties. We present here some theoretical notions about applicancy and some empirical findings regarding the careers

I BEG to thank your reviewer of my book for the suggestions he has made in NATURE of December 20 (p. 169), and should like to point out to him that he must have overlooked some remarks contained therein, when he says:—

WILL you kindly pardon my again troubling you with an explanation ?

As a review of my little manual on “Deviation,” &c., has appeared in NATURE for October 17th, in which I am accused of having “written with looseness and inaccuracy,” perhaps you will kindly allow me a small space to answer my critic. He has selected a most unfortunate example to bear out his assertion; and I contend for the accuracy of my statement. “Vertical iron, at the same place, will produce the same deviation in whatever direction the ship's head may be.” Here I do not pretend to say (as my reviewer insinuates), that the whole deviation is the same in every position of the ship's head; but I maintain that that part due to vertical iron remains constant for the same place until a change of secular variation becomes cognisable. I am at a loss to discover either looseness, inaccuracy, or substitution of cause for effect in what follows, and I am inclined to think, if any exists, it must be on the part of my reviewer