practices between schools. Tentative analyses also indicate that counselors reduce students' uncertainty about their own … individual preferences at least to the same extent as uncertainty about objective measures such as employment prospects. …

with the hypothesis that illegal immigrants are risk-averse agents who transfer more money to their home country as a … mechanism to insure themselves against higher degrees of uncertainty within their host countries. Furthermore, this finding …

variability in returns to schooling is forecastable. This has important implications for using measured variability to price risk …

Although economic agents routinely face various types of economic uncertainty, their effects are often unclear and hard … to assess, in part due to the absence of suitable measures of uncertainty. Because of the numerous and very substantial … their periods of uncertainty, moreover, these countries have experienced sharply falling fertility rates. Some have argued …

earnings variability are due to uncertainty and which components are due to components of human diversity that are forecastable …

Optimal layoff rules in closed form are derived for all workers in a firm that downsizes under uncertainty and faces … aircraft building company that went bankrupt in 1996 shows that workers with high uncertainty associated with higher than …