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The value of information conveyed from seller to buyer via advertising decays over time and across space. In consequence, the supply of advertising as specific, identifiable signals is shown to be a function of the durability of the signals conveyed. The general implication that price signalling and locational signalling will be conducted primarily by local vendors as opposed to national manufacturers is supported strongly by a sample of over 10,000 television commercials and 30,000 newspaper advertisements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We weave together two strands of the scientific literature: we have been presented with the proposition that economic freedom and corruption are linked to economic prosperity and with the proposition that economic prosperity is related to environmental degradation. The question we explore empirically is whether economic freedom and corruption are linked, albeit perhaps indirectly through economic prosperity, to environmental degradation. Using data from 152 countries, we estimate models of factors that influence species imperilment and, controlling for cross-border effects, find evidence across several taxa groups of a statistically significant relationship between economic freedom and species imperilment. However, we find consistent evidence of a similar relationship between corruption and species imperilment for only one taxa group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We analyzed data for 39 states to identify factors that influence sales of wildlife-related specialty license plates. Wildlife plate sales were not statistically influenced by specialty plate price, the number of other specialty plates available, or the requirement to display two plates. There was some evidence that sales of wildlife plates are positively related to per capita income. In addition, sales of wildlife plates appeared to be influenced positively by the percent of individuals who engage in wildlife-related recreation. We failed to observe strong ethnicity impacts on sales of wildlife plates, but did find consistent evidence that wildlife plate sales were related negatively to the percentage of the population in the 18-24 age range. Finally, there was evidence that sales of wildlife plates are significantly higher in the South than elsewhere in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investigates the impact of product type and product parity on the informational content of advertising. Comparison in the degree of influence between parity and product tangibility; Preference of advertisers to product type of advertising; Characteristics of product parity.

We investigate empirically the influence of homogeneity of populations in fixed geographic jurisdictions on the structure of religious clubs in these same jurisdictions. Using county-level data, we find that variation in the number of religous clubs is influenced strongly by measured heterogeneity in each county's population. Our findings support Tiebout's voting-with-the-feet model of competition in the supply of public goods, in a club context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a reply on the comment made by professor Otis W. Gilley on economics departments ranking in the U.S. made by the author. Variance of productivity in graduates; Derivation of faculty productivity; Type of criticism applicable to the rankings of economics departments; Fact that noneconomics department graduates as well as economics department graduates are well schooled enough to subsequently produce publishable research.

Services are generally thought to be less tangible to consumers than physical goods, a trait which may create communication difficulties for sellers of service products. To accommodate the special nature of service products and the generally greater perceived risk associated with them, many scholars argue that services marketers need to stress factual information in their advertisements. While this perspective has been advanced for years, little empirical research has been conducted to examine its adoption by practitioners. In this article we investigate the extent to which the advertisers of services emphasise specifically suggested factual information cues in their messages. Over 17,000 newspaper ads and 9,800 television ads were scrutinized to reveal that services advertisements do indeed provide various proposed factual cues and that their incidence increases as service products become more intangible in nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on our analysis of longitudinal data from the American Bar Association's National Survey of Career Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction, we report on the economic consequences of having a mentor. Specifically, we find that individuals who reported having a mentor in 1984 were more likely (in 1990) to have achieved partner status. However, we find no evidence of any statistically significant link between protegeship in 1984 and earnings in 1990. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the responses of respondents to a public opinion poll about the implications of attitudes about children learning to hunt for game management. The poll reveals that the changing deer population dynamics combined with changing patterns of human hunting may create conditions that make management of deer populations in the U.S. by the traditional means of public sector licensing of citizen hunters increasingly ineffective in a number of states. Factors that contribute to the decline population of hunters in the country are mentioned.