increases as black and Hispanic county population rates increase and especially as black and Hispanic county poverty rates … award by 3 to 10 percent. An increase in the Hispanic county-poverty rate of 1 percentage point tends to raise awards by as … much as 7 percent although this effect is less well estimated. These effects imply that forum shopping for high-poverty …

Economists differ in their explanation of changes in the rate of U.S.economic growth in the latter half of the 20th … century-particularly for the "new economy" period from 1982-2000. Adherents of the Neoclassical Growth Model have emphasized … capital. Endogenous Growth theorists have emphasized upward shifts in production functions offsetting diminishing returns …