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Discriminatory behavior in New York restaurants: 1950 and 1981
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1983-07)
Survey techniques are combined with behavioral observations in this attempt to replicate a 1950 baseline study in order to examine trends in racial discrimination. In the 1950 study, treatment of black and white couples ...
Stationary equilibrium transition rules for an overlapping generations model with uncertainty
(Elsevier, 1985-02)
An overlapping generations model incorporating random production shocks is studied. Households have finite life spans. Futures markets are incomplete. Agents have full information in one case, and receive only a limited ...
Maintaining Response Rates In Longitudinal Studies
(Sage Publications, 1980)
A recognized problem in mounting longitudinal surveys concerns the costs and difficulties in maintaining response rates over time. This article details the techniques used to minimize response loss in a longitudinal study ...
Intergenerational preference differences and optimal national saving
(Elsevier, 1980-02)
This paper investigates the problem facing national planners who realize that their successors may employ different social welfare criteria for determining economic policies than they do. In such a situation, we show that ...
Obtaining Respondent Cooperation in Family Panel Studies
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS, 1982)
Problems of maintaining respondent rapport in surveys are exacerbated when respondents are asked to participate repeatedly over time or when several members of a family are interviewed. This article details the techniques ...
Self-esteem and delinquency revisited
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1981-12)
A recent investigation by Rosenberg and Rosenberg used longitudinal data from the Youth in Transition study to explore the causal relationships between delinquency and self-esteem. The present study is based on the same ...
Empty nest, cohort, and employment in the well-being of midlife women
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1989-02)
Whether the empty-nest experience has positive or negative consequences for women's well-being at midlife may depend on their historical cohort membership and employment status. In this study, it was posited that the empty ...
Dynamic determinacy and the existence of sunspot equilibria
(Elsevier, 1989-02)
This paper relates the existence of stationary sunspot equilibria in the vicinity of a conventional stationary state to the phase diagram surrounding the latter. We find that the local condition required for a unique ...
Sex Differences in Measurement Error in Status Attainment Models
(Sage Publications, 1980)
This article investigates sex differences in the accuracy of young adults' retrospective reports of parental status using Joreskog's general framework for the simultaneous covariance structure analysis of multiple populations. ...