We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in “4” are sold at a 2.2% discount and those ending in “8” are sold at a 2.5% premium in comparison to houses with other addresses. These price effects are found either in neighborhoods with a higher than average percentage of Chinese residents, consistent with cultural preferences, or in repeated transactions, consistent with speculative behavior. (JEL D03, R2, Z1)

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A re opposite gender friends in high school a distraction or do they promote better academic achievement? Students spend a large amount of time with their school friends (Fuligni and Stevenson 1995;Gager, Cooney, and Call 1999), yet we know little about how the composition of their school friendship networks affects them. Understanding friendship network gender composition speaks to the single-sex education debate to the extent that changes in class and school gender composition affect both the formation of and interactions with opposite gender school friends.The single-sex versus mixed gender education debate has received renewed attention in the wake of Title IX regulations that eased constraints on single-sex education within the US public school system (Jackson 2012). Single-sex classes and schools may make it easier for educators to address gender gaps in achievement (Fortin, Oreopoulos, and Phipps 2013;Bertrand and Pan 2013;Ku and Kwak 2013) and traits such as competitiveness (Gneezy, Niederle, and Rustichini 2003;Niederle and Vesterlund 2010) that have been shown to affect labor market outcomes (Buser, Niederle, and Oosterbeek 2012). Identifying how the gender composition of a * Department of Economics, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, 1014 Greene St, Columbia, SC 29208 (e-mail: andrew.hill@moore.sc.edu). I wish to thank Nicole Fortin for providing many hours of advice and supervision, Thomas Lemieux and Craig Riddell for very helpful suggestions,

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Eportfolio is a concept and practice that provides creative opportunities using technology for profiling a person's achievements, career aspirations and contribution to learning and teaching in their academic institution and professions [1]. Our experiences at Australian Catholic University (ACU) indicated that adoption and implementation of Eportfolio technology in a multiple campus environment posed significant challenges when switching from a pilot to a university-preferred hosting service product. Staff and student artefact profiling using an Eportfolio hosting system in a decentralised university environment identified a different interpretation of the University vision, pedagogy, expected usage and support culminating in change management implementation issues. The aim of our paper is to consider and accommodate feedback from the global community to inform new approaches and methods that could be explored to streamline and improve communication, change management and adoption of new technologies in our context.