We examine the dynamic evolution of incomes, both disposable and gross, for several groups in the PSID panel data at several points from 1968 to 1997. We employ the extended Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests of First and Second Order Stochastic Dominance (SD) as implemented by Maasoumi and Heshmati...

The phenomenon that married men earn a higher wage on average than unmarried men, the so-called marriage premium, is rather well established. However, the robustness of the marriage premium across the wage distribution and the underlying cause of the marriage premium are not well known. Focusing...

The distribution of pollution is of just as much concern as the level of pollution, particularly if the areas located in the upper tail of the distribution are not randomly assigned. The literature on ‘environmental discrimination’ typically finds that even conditional on various locational...

In this paper we focus primarily on the dynamic evolution of the world distribution of growth rates in per capita GDP. We propose new concepts and measures of "convergence," or "divergence" that are based on entropy distances and dominance relations between groups of countries over time. We...

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship is limited. Moreover, empirical studies that have been undertaken typically focus on education as a measure of child quality and have been...

Utilizing parametric and nonparametric techniques, we asses the role of a heretofore relatively unexplored `input' in the educational process, homework, on academic achievement. Our results indicate that homework is an important determinant of student test scores. Relative to more standard...