SROI in the pay for success context: Are they at odds?

The Pay For Success (PFS) and Social Impact Bond (SIB) movements to date have focused heavily on shorter-term outcomes that can be monetized and show clear savings to government entities. In part, this focus derives from the need to specify contract payments based on a narrow set of well measured outcomes (e.g., avoided days in jail and foster care, decreased use of behavioral health services). Meanwhile efforts to measure the social return on investment (SROI) of interventions have sought to expand the view of relevant outcomes to include domains that lend themselves less clearly to monetization. This paper explores the intersection between these two movements with illustrations from a SIB initiative underway focused on homeless families with children in foster care. Challenges and potential for SROI in a third-party payor environment will be discussed as well as opportunities to better leverage the strengths of both types of initiative.     

文物返还国际争议解决的合作与交流原则

文物返还国际争议体现了不同利益之间的紧张关系,一方倾向于将文物留存在国内,而另一方则极力主张文物的自由流转。解决文物返还国际争议,应遵循国际合作原则,寻求建立一种以共享和交流为主要方式的互惠性的安排机制,从而协调相互冲突的利益需求。     

审美价值视阈内情感的缺失与回归

自人类步入近代社会以来,以精确化和数字化为手段,以功利和效率为最终目标的工具理性的肆虐与胜利不自觉地在消解着审美存在的意义,更是不断地驱逐其中所蕴含的重要的情感因素,这导致了审美价值的失落以及一些人情感生活"荒漠化"的严重后果。因此,从审美价值本身、现代工业文明以及审美文化的视角反思这一社会现象,对于真正情感的回归和审美价值的实现都有着重要的意义。     

铁骑刀光中的西秦长歌——评东乡族作家马自祥的长篇历史小说《阿干歌》

东乡族作家马自祥的长篇历史小说《阿干歌》,＂以小说造史＂的形式,通过历史复原、艺术想象与文化寻根多元互融的创作构建,再现了五胡十六国时期雄阔瑰奇的西秦历史画卷,浓墨重彩地刻画了乞伏鲜卑卓尔不凡的人物群像,并以荡气回肠的阿干悲歌贯穿始终,多层面演绎了这一古老歌谣与日后传承的民间艺术＂花儿＂的渊源关系。     

个人教育收益率的估计与比较: 一个半参数方法

 本文运用一种变系数部分线性模型扩展了传统的明瑟人力资本收入函数,并提出了对明瑟函数中“平行性”假设的一种检验方法,以分析个人教育收益率如何受到工龄等因素的影响。通过对1991、2000以及2004等年度国家统计局城镇居民收入调查数据的分析,揭示出近二十年来我国城镇居民中不同工龄的人们的教育收益率存在明显区别,其中人教育收益率最高的始终是在1980年代中后期参加工作的群体。对导致我国教育收益率这种特殊现象的原因作了分析。     

Is money the main reason mothers return to work after childbearing?

Women’s reasons for returning to work after childbearing are complex, often including a mix of financial and other reasons related to their preferences, choices and constraints regarding employment; various qualitative studies have explored this decision-making process. This paper also considers how these decisions about returning to work are made, but uses quantitative techniques to analyse how reasons for return to work vary with factors such as women’s timing of return to work, what types of jobs they had previously worked in, or returned to, and what type of leave they used. This enables an examination of which women feel more constrained in their labour market options by returning to work sooner than preferred, and also their reasons for returning. Analysis is based on the 2005 Parental Leave in Australia Survey, a survey nested in the Wave 1.5 collection of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). Mothers had children aged between 15 and 29 months at this time, and 56 per cent of these mothers had returned to work.     

河南省上市公司资本结构与绩效研究

以河南省上市公司为样本,用资产负债率和负债与股东权益比作为财务杠杆的代表变量,净资产收益率和总资产收益率作为公司绩效的代表变量,分析研究公司资本结构与资产结构、成长性、公司规模、获利能力和风险之间的相关性,以及公司绩效与资本结构之间的相关关系。研究结果显示公司资产结构和获利能力对资本结构有显著的影响,资本结构对公司绩效无显著影响。     

中国持美国国债的利息收入估算：２０００～２０１１

根据中美两国官方数据,估算2000年以来的十余年中国持有的美国国债,其分别不计复利和计年复利的名义利息收入;扣除通货膨胀因素和汇率因素后的实际利息收入;与投资于股票、黄金等相比较,投资回报率的大小等。并相应思考了两个问题:如何看待中美经济关系的相互重要性、如何完善中国外汇储备管理的体制和方式?     

论余光中的散文观

余光中重诗轻文,把散文视作诗的附庸。他心目中的现代散文是"讲究弹性、密度和质料的一种新散文"。这对于抑制过于随便、松散乃至轻浮的散文有所裨益,但也有明显的偏颇,即未能把握散文美的特质———自然。诗笔可用于散文,但失去了节制,便适得其反。他的散文创作意在实践以诗为文的理念,其成就,说明以诗为文作为一种艺术追求无可非议;其局限,说明散文中的诗质应有所节制。余光中后来对散文美有所认识,提出了"本位散文"的概念,但因为重诗轻文的理念未能根本改变,故而所作"本位散文"成就十分有限。