Condom Use in the Presence of HIV Risk: The Role of Economic and Epidemiological Variables
Thomas Yim, Gerard Russo, Sumner La Croix
Objectives- Public health officials have recommended universal condom use to prevent HIV infection, yet condom use varies widely across different demographic groups. We compute the benefits of condom...
The Hawaiian Home Lands Program: Return to the Land or Bureaucratic Cage?
Sumner La Croix, Louis A. Rose
Cook's contact with Hawaii in 1778 initiated a tragic decline in the Hawaiian population and sweeping changes in social, economic, and political institutions prompted by Hawaii's integration with the...
Globalization and SMEs: A Comment on Three Asian Experiences
This paper briefly discusses three case studies (Choi and Tcha 2005; Lin 2005; Motohashi 2005) of responses by small and medium-size manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan to...
The Tradition of Change in Japan
Magnus Blomstrum, Byron Gangnes, Sumner La Croix
Japan's slow growth in the 1990s has raised concerns that Japanese political and economic institutions are not responding effectively to domestic problems and increased global competition. But...
The Tradition of Change in Japan
Magnus Blomstrum, Byron Gangnes, Sumner La Croix
Japan's slow growth in the 1990s has raised concerns that Japanese political and economic institutions are not responding effectively to domestic problems and increased global competition. But...
Decomposing and Analyzing Korea’s Declining GDP Growth: Some Cautions and Suggestions
Chin Hee Hahn and Sukha Shin (2007) have developed new decompositions of Korean economic growth from 1990 to 2004. They find that Korea’s declining GDP growth has been accompanied by a sharp...
Out analysis focuses on the effect of U.S. government pressure on Korea to adopt product patents for chemical and pharmaceutical products. American pressure began in November 1985 and ended with the...
Economic Education’s Roller Coaster Ride In Hawaii, 1956-2006
Kimberly Burnett, Sumner La Croix
During the early 1960s a few of Hawaii’s public high schools began to offer economics courses, and they gradually became popular social studies electives. By 1999, over 46% of public high school...
Small State, Giant Tax Credits: Hawaii’s Leap into High Technology Development
Andrew Kato, Sumner La Croix, James Mak
In 2001, the State of Hawaii established a 100 percent tax credit to promote investment in several targeted high technology industries. We chronicle the evolution of Hawaii’s high technology tax...