This paper explores the relationship between political instability and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African nations. A more comprehensive measure of political instability than has previously been developed is used in combination with a simultaneous equations model and dynamic panel estimation...

An augmented Phillips curve model is employed to evaluate the hypothesis that the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike of 1981 marked the beginning of a structural change in U.S. labor relations, which increased the relative bargaining power of management. After...

This study uses a crash specific data set that is supplemented with location based socioeconomic data to estimate the impact of driver alcohol use on average crash severity. Logit estimates indicate that crashes in which the at-fault drivers had been drinking are more likely to result in a...

In this article, the analysis of of offsetting behavior is extended to evaluate the external costs of these behavioral responses. The author develops and tests the hypothesis that drivers respond to safer driving conditions by choosing types of behavior that carry the lowest risk for themselves...