The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on average to about half as much time as is spent on paid employment. Women bear the brunt of this burden, a difference that is driven in part by the gender differential in wages....

Studies of college attrition typically assume that all attrition is permanent. We use data from the 1990/94 Beginning Postsecondary Survey to distinguish between long-term dropout and short-term stopout behavior in order to test that assumption. We find significant differences between those who...

<title>ABSTRACT</title> This paper discusses various ways that public universities may finance the use of technology. It then suggests reasons why administrators in public urban universities should use technology fees to finance the cost of current and future computer technology. The authors believe that...