Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further …, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We …, therefore, use a unique example to examine this question empirically: the analysis of gender wage differentials. Here, the …

We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … Competitive Media Reporting. Exposure to fast-food restaurant advertising on television causes statistically significant increases …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …

, restrictions on purchase and use, providing information and restricting advertising. The chapter concludes with suggestions for …

of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …

This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional …

lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …