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The relationship between income and material hardship
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008)
This paper examines the relationship between income and the extent of material hardship and explores other factors that might affect hardship. Using panel data from the Women's Employment Study, we examine the incidence ...
"Chocolate city, vanilla suburbs:" Will the trend toward racially separate communities continue?
(Elsevier, 1978-12)
Almost a decade ago, the Kerner Commission warned that this country was moving toward two societies--one white and one black. Data on residential segregation indicate clear-cut boundaries for these two societies--large ...
A Generalization Error for Q-Learning
(2005-07)
Planning problems that involve learning a policy from a single training set of ?nite horizon trajectories arise in both social science and medical ?elds. We consider Q-learning with function approximation for this setting ...
Response to Borg and Bergermaier
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1981-09)
The influence of parental resources on the timing of the transition to marriage
(Elsevier, 1992-09)
This paper studies the relationship of parental resources to the marital transitions of children. It extends past research by explicitly distinguishing various dimensions of parental resources and by taking parental ...
Lorenz curves, inequality, and social welfare under changing population composition
(Elsevier, 1988-04)
This paper analyzes the effects of population growth and other demographic changes on the distribution of income by examining Lorenz curves and generalized Lorenz curves produced from combinations of income distributions. ...
Declining inequality in schooling in Brazil and its effects on inequality in earnings
(Elsevier, 1991-11)
Household survey data demonstrate that Brazilian males born between 1925 and 1963 experienced steady increases in mean schooling and significant declines in schooling inequality. The variance in years of schooling increased ...