The purpose of this paper is to measure the effect of childhood sexual abuse on economic outcomes amongst Canadian women. The paper is motivated by a simple utility maximizing model in which we assume that individuals invest 'effort’ into two activities: the development of social...

The purpose of this paper is to test for price parity across different species of whitefish in the European Union. Price parity is defined by a system of cointegrated prices and would be evidence of a single European market for whitefish. Whitefish are of interest because EU fishers receive the...

The purpose of this note is to empirically demonstrate that the choice of summary statistic used in specifying the Dickey-Fuller test equation can determine the outcome of a test for stationarity. A reasonable empirical practice would be to evaluate stationarity over different lagged...

This paper reports the results of a more recent study of quota compliance in the U.K. fishery that was investigated in an earlier article in this journal (Hatcher et al. 2000). The study collected more detailed data on fishermen’s perceptions and experience of enforcement and sought to measure...

In the early 1970s, the herring stocks in the Northeast Atlantic were nearly fished to extinction. This collapse is usually attributed to technological advances in the fishery, particularly the introduction of fish finding equipment and the power block. In this paper we investigate the empirical...