Person-organization fit is often measured by the congruence of a person's values and the values that he or she ascribes to the organization. A popular instrument used in this context is the Organizational Culture Profile (O'Reilly, Chatman, amp; Caldwell, 1991). The OCP scales its 54 items on...

The costs of comprehensively genotyping human subjects have fallen to the point where major funding bodies, even in the social sciences, are beginning to incorporate genetic and biological markers into major social surveys. How, if at all, should economists use and combine molecular genetic and...

We construct a weighted Euclidean distance that approximates any distance or dissimilarity measure between individuals that is based on a rectangular cases-by-variables data matrix. In contrast to regular multidimensional scaling methods for dissimilarity data, the method leads to biplots of...