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176: Marriage and Divorce in the U.S.: Testing for Cohort Size Effects

D.J. Macunovich

175: Do Young Women Trade Jobs for Marriage: A Skeptical View: A Response

D.J. Macunovich

174: Relative Income and Price of Time: Exploring their effcts on U.S. Fertility and Female Labor Force Participation, 1963-1993

D.J. Macunovich

173: Optimal Environmental Taxation

W.K. Jaeger

172: Training and the Growth in Wage Inequality

J. Constantine and D. Neumark

171a: Classroom Computer Simulation of the Alonso Model of the Household's Residential Location

R.E. Bolton

171: Radical Subjectivism and Prediction

T. Burczak

169: Regional Science and Regional Practice

R. Bolton and R.C. Jensen

167: Sector Specific Skills and the Returns to Senority: Evidence from Reemployment Following Job Displacement

L.G. Kletzer

166: Land Tenure Reform in East Africa: Good, Bad, or Unimportant?

T.C. Pickney and P.K. Kimuyu

165: The Missing Factor: Variations in the Income Effect of the Female Wage on Fertility in the U.S

D.J. Macunovich

164: A Review of Recent Developments in the Economics of Fertility

D.J. Macunovich

163: The Welfare Cost of Global Carbon Tax when Tax Revenues Are Recycled

W.K. Jaeger

162: What Power on Earth? Arthur Latham Perry's Reaction to Henry George

R. Bolton

161: Industry Wage Differentials and Wait Unemployment: Evidence from the 1988 Displaced Worker Survey

L. Kletzer

160: Industrial Mobility Following Job Displacement: Evidence from the Displaced Worker Surveys

L. Kletzer

159: Gender Issues in labor Markets and Household Behavior

Jere Behrman

158: Political Economy and Civil Society

Craufurd Goodwin

157: "Place Prosperity VS. People Prosperity" Revisited: an Old Issue with a New Angle

R. Bolton

156: AN EVALUATION OF THE BUTZ-WARD HYPOTHESIS ON COUNTERCYCLICAL FERTILITY: TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION

D.J. Macunovich

155: AN EVALUATION OF THE BUTZ-WARD HYPOTHESIS OF CONTERCYCLICAL FERTILITY

D.J. Macunovich

154: THE WEALTH MODEL: EFFICIENCY IN EDUCATION AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE FAMILY

J.R. Berhman, R.A. Pollak and P. Taubman

153: THE DRAWBACKS OF EXPORT DRAWBACKS

J. Berhman and S. Levy

152: THE POOR AND THE SOCIAL SECTORS DURING A PERIOD OF MACROECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR JAMAICA

J.R. Berhman and A.B. Deolaikar

151: UNOBSERVED HOUSEHOLD AND COMMUNITY HETEROGENEITY AND THE LABOUR MARKET IMPACT OF SCHOOLING: A CASE STUDY FOR INDONESIA

J.R. Berhman and A.B. Deolaikar

150: THE SYNTHESIS ECONOMIC FERTILITY MODEL: A LATENT VARIABLE INVESTIGATION OF SOME CRITICAL ATTRIBUTES

Barbara Wolfe and Jere Behrman

149: NUTRIENT INTAKE DEMAND RELATIONS: INCOME, PRICES, SCHOOLING

J.R. Berhman

148: SCHOOL REPETITION, DROPOUTS AND THE RETURNS TO SCHOOL: THE CASE OF INDONESIA

J.R. Behman and A.B. Deolaikar

147: WOMEN'S SCHOOLING AND NONMARKET PRODUCTIVITY: A SURVEY AND A REAPPAISAL

J.R. Berhman

146: THE DEBT CRISIS, STUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND THE RURAL POOR

Jere Behrman

145: MACROECONOMIC POLICIES AND RURAL POVERTY: ISSUES AND RESEARCH STRATEGIES

Jere Behrman

144: JOB DISPLACEMENT, 1919-1986: HOW HAVE BLACK WORKERS FARED RELATIVE TO WHITE WORKERS ?

L.G. Kletzer

143: COMPLEX DEMOECONOMIC DYNAMICS

R.H. Day, K.H. Kim and D. Macunovich

142: APPLICATION OF GRANGER-SIMS CAUSALITY TESTS TO MONTHLY FERTILITY DATA, 1958-1984

D.J. Macunovich and Richard Easterlin

141: MONEY-BACK WARRANTIES VS. REPLACEMENT WARRANTIES: A SIMPLE COMPARAISON

D.P. Mann and J.P. Wissink

139: PERFORMANCE IN INTRDUCTORY COURSES: A PRODUCTION FUNCTION ANALYSIS

R. Sabot and J. Wakeman-Linn

138: WAGES AND THE INTENSITY OF LABOR EFFORT: EFFICIENCY WAGES VERSUS COMPENSATING PAYMENTS

D. Fairris and L.J. Alston

136: THE COSTS OF MISMANAGING COMMODITY BOOMS AND THE OPTIMAL POLICIES GIVEN UNCERTAINTY

C.B. Hill

135: RECENT TRENDS IN U.S. HIGHER EDUCATION COSTS AND PRICES: THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT FUNDING

M.S. McPherson, M.O. Schapiro and Gordon Winston

134: COMPENSATING PAYMENTS AND HAZARDOUS WORK IN UNION AND NONUNION SETTINGS

D. Fairris

133: HIDDEN ACTIONS AND HIDDEN CHARACTERISTICS IN WARRANTY MARKETS

D.P. Mann and J.P. Wissink

132: MONEY-BACK CONTRACTS WITH DOUBLE MORAL HAZARD

D.P. Mann and J.P. Wissink

131: EARNINGS AFTER JOB DISPLACEMENT: JOB TENURE, INDUSTRY, AND OCCUPATION

L.G. Kletzer

130: AN ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION OF A SENSE OF PLACE

R. Bolton

129: RETURNS TO SENIORITY AFTER PERMANENT JOB LOSS

L. Kletzer

128: SHOPFLOOR RELATIONS IN THE POSTWAR CAPITAL-LABOR ACCORD

D. Fairris

127: GRADE INFLATION AND COURSE CHOICE

J. Wakeman-Linn and R. Sabot

126: INTEGRATING ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL MODELS: SOME PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS

R. Bolton

125: QUALITY DISCRIMINATION AND BIDIRECTIONAL QUALITY DISTORSION GENERATING THE DUPUIT OUTCOME

P. Srinagesh and R. Bradburd

124: DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMMERCIAL POLICIES, EMPLOYMENT AND THE CURRENT ACCOUNT ASSUMING OPTIMIZING BEHAVIOR IN AN INTERTEMPORAL FRAMEWORK

C.B. Hill

123: THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT TRADE POLICIES IN OPEN ECONOMY MACROECONOMIC MODELS

C.B. Hill

122: MYOPIC DISCOUNTING: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

Gordon Winston and R.G. Woodburry

121: MONETARY POLICY AND ENDOGENOUS CREDIT RATIONING

J. Wakeman-Linn

120: DETERMINANTS OF THE RE-EMPLOYMENT PROBABILITIES OF DISPLACED WORKERS: DO WORKERS DISPLACED FROM HIGH-WAGE INDUSTRIES HAVE LONGER DURATIONS OF UNEMPLOYMENT?

L. Gladstein Kletzer

119: ALTERNATIVE NOTIONS OF CREDIT MARKET EQUILIBRIUM: THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR MONETARY POLICY

J. Wakeman-Linn

118: PROFITS, CONCENTRATION AND RAW MATERIALS-BASED MANUFACTURING

D.R. Ross

117: QUALITY DISTORSION BY A DISCRIMINATING MONOPOLIST

P. Srinagesh and R.M. Bradburd

115: FAMILY ABILITY TO PAY: A LIFETIME PESPECTIVE

M.S. McPherson

114: HOW CAN WE TELL IF FEDERAL STUDENT AID IS WORKING?

M.S. McPherson

113: SOCIO-ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF RELATIVE INCOME AND RELATIVE COHORT SIZE

M.O. Schapiro

rp-116: ON THE APPLICATIBILITY OF SHEPHARD'S LEMMA WHEN CAPITAL IS OPTIMALLY IDLE

P. Srinagesh, D.R. Ross and Gordon Winston