The racial gap in the value of owner occupied housing has narrowed substantially since 1940, but this narrowing has not been even over time or across space. The 1970s stand out as an unusual decade in which the value gap did not narrow despite continued convergence in the observed...

Although shocks to the number of economics bachelor's degrees have persistent effects, the series eventuallv reverts to a stationarv mean, which has been about 2.2 percent of the bachelor's degrees in the United States from 1948 to 1993.

<DIV>The rise of America from a colonial outpost to one of the world’s most sophisticated and productive economies was facilitated by the establishment of a variety of economic enterprises pursued within the framework of laws and institutions that set the rules for their organization and operation.<BR>...</div>