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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 ...
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 ...
Statistical Challenges in Combining Information from Big and Small Data Sources
(2015-11-19)
Social Media, electronic health records, credit card transactional and administrative data, web scraping, and numerous other ways of collecting information have changed the landscape for those interested in addressing ...
Promises kept: enforcement and the role of rotating savings and credit associations in an economy
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-05)
Rotating savings and credit associations (roscas) are a popular form of informal finance in developing countries. This paper examines the rosca's ability to enforce its terms of membership and the implications that this ...
Economists, Recessions, and Profits
(2010-03)
Mainstream economists were puzzled by the global depression (the so-called Great Recession) that started late in 2007. In the Unites States, after an almost unanimous consensus of the economic profession and the Republican ...
A note on changes in black racial attitudes in Detroit: 1968–1976
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publ. Co ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-10)
Statistical evidence of falling profits as a cause of recession: A short note
(SAGE, 2012)
Data on 251 quarters of the U.S. economy show that recessions are preceded by declines
in profits. Profits stop growing and start falling four or five quarters before a recession. They strongly recover immediately after ...