Data from the 1993 National Survey of Small Businesses (NSSBF) is used to analyse the factors affecting the provision of pensions and health insurance by small businesses. The race of the business owner is found to impact the provision of taxadvantaged fringe benefits, even after accounting for...

Introduction -- Elements of Nonlinear Programming -- Elements of Graph Theory -- Programs with Network Structure -- Near-Network and Large-Scale Programs -- Normative Network Models and Their Solution -- Nash Games -- Network Traffic Assignment -- Spatial Price Equilibrium on Networks -- Network...

This article examines the relationship between personal discount rates and sexual behaviors in a sample of teenagers and young adults. We find that higher discount rates (an indication of less willingness to forego current consumption for future consumption) are significantly associated with a...