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Testing the imports-as-market-discipline hypothesis
(Elsevier, 1993-08)
It has long been believed that intensified international competition forces domestic firms to behave more competitively. Using Turkish data spanning the course of a dramatic trade liberalization, this notion is tested.
The Role of Husbands’ and Wives’ Emotional Expressivity in the Marital Relationship
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-05)
The current investigation was designed to examine the role of positive and negative emotional expressivity in the marital relationship. Data from 58 married couples were used to assess spouses’ levels of emotional expressivity ...
Does it pay to move from welfare to work?
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002)
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act requires welfare recipients to lookfor work and has made it more difficult for nonworking recipients to remain on the welfare rolls. In addition,the ...
Linking recycling behavior to waste management planning: A case study of office workers in Taiwan
(Elsevier, 1993-10)
In recent years, planners have become increasingly involved in issues related to solid waste and the need to develop comprehensive waste management programs. Policy options have been suggested for reducing consumption--an ...
Model fertility schedules revisited: The log-multiplicative model approach
(Elsevier, 1991-12)
This paper reconsiders Coale and Trussell's (1974) specification of model fertility schedules by age. It formally presents model fertility schedules within the framework of categorical data analysis. Specifically, births ...
Probabilistic Thinking and Early Social Security Claiming.
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2006-09)
This study analyzes the extent to which an individual’s survival expectations influence his or her decision to claim social security benefits at an early age. We find that subjective survival probabilities capture meaningful ...
What a person thinks upon learning he has chosen differently from others: Nice evidence for the persuasive-arguments explanation of choice shifts
(Elsevier, 1975-09)
Small shifts in choice occur even without discussion, when individuals merely know each other's preference. This appears to support an interpersonal comparison explanation of group induced shifts in choice and to refute ...