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Breaking barriers or locked out? Class-based perceptions and experiences of postsecondary education
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008)
This article provides an overview of objective and subjective class differences in experiences of postsecondary education. Using the metaphor of a funnel, it argues that cumulative disadvantage results when first-generation ...
Again Greene: The Economics of the NAB Case
(1986-10-05)
Commonly in antitrust cases against trade associations, the courts have made decisions based on a rule of reason, evaluating the harm caused by the association rather than proscribing per se a given activity. Had Judge ...
Contradictions in the American dream: High educational aspirations and perceptions of deteriorating institutional support
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017-02)
Has the Wedding Between Economics and Anthropology Been Cancelled? Economic Theory and Polygamy
(1989-01)
This paper uses data from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of the Human Relations Area Files to test implications of family economic theory related to multiple marriage. As the theory predicts, actions which interfere ...
Rezoning the Afterlife: Religion and Property Rights in the Middle Ages
(1987-08)
This paper reviews an economic theory of religion and uses the theory to explain changes in attitudes toward hell, heaven, and divine retribution in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. The hypothesis is straightforward. ...
Half-Lives and Half-Truths, Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War. by Barbara Rose Johnston
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2010-12)
Effect of oil on recruitment from the seed bank of two tidal freshwater wetlands
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; SPB Academic Publishing bv ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-03)
The effect of oil spills on the recruitment of freshwater tidal wetland species was determined using soil seed bank samples collected in early March from two New Jersey Delaware River marshes. Samples were exposed to ...
American Commercial Television and the Federal Communications Commission
(1984-04)
The Federal Communications Commission receives political support from commercial television stations and from television viewers. The main regulatory tool of the FCC is its power to assign television channels to communities ...
Some Issues in Granting Park Concessions in Smaller Countries
(1985-07)
If parks have particular characteristics, park managers should grant firms exclusive right to provide products or services within the park. Thus, contrary to the usual case, the manager is wise to allow monopoly provision ...