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Kindness of neighbors: how much can we depend on charity?
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Banking in the age of information technology
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Farming in the shadow of suburbia
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What a waste: the generation and disposal of trash imposes costs on society and the environment: should we be doing more?
In 1987, the Mobro 4000 garbage barge from Long Island focused public attention on trash. Have we disposed of the problem?
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Women's labor market involvement and family income mobility when marriages end
The last 30 years have seen a dramatic change in women's social and economic status in the United States, particularly in their labor market activity. When women were less involved and less successful in the labor market, many of them gained access to market income only or primarily through marriage or cohabitation with a working man. As a result, women and children were especially vulnerable to the death of a partner, separation, or divorce. ; In this article, the authors examine three decades of data on the relationship between women's labor market activity and the income mobility of ...
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When the Economy Goes South
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Til death do u$ part.
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Making the numbers
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Issues in economics: are lifetime incomes growing more unequal?: looking at new evidence on family income mobility
Since most people judge their well-being by comparison with others, widening inequality of lifetime incomes may threaten our standing as a "land of opportunity."
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Get me headquarters!
New England has shown continued success in attracting and retaining large corporate headquarters. What is less clear is whether the benefits they bring are as great as in the past.