The Surveys of Consumers has been conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan since 1946. Each month, 500 individuals are randomly selected from the contiguous United States (48 states plus the District of Columbia) to participate in the Surveys of Consumers. The...

In Umfragen ist es häufig notwendig, Persönlichkeitsmerkmale der Probanden zu erheben. Die vorhandenen und validierten Standardinstrumente der Persönlichkeitspsychologie sind aufgrund ihres Umfangs nur bedingt dazu geeignet, in personalwirtschaftlichen Studien ein-gesetzt zu werden. Wir...

In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production functions to data for Chinese farmsgrouped into each of four regions—North, Northeast, East, and Southwest—over 1995-1999.These frontier production functions are shown to have statistically different structures, and themarginal product...

Trends im Konsumverhalten der Haushalte, eine veränderte industrielleArbeitsteilung in Asien, neue Möglichkeiten der Informationsversorgungsowie die kommende Altengesellschaft haben das Interesse von Politikund Medien an dem nichtproduzierenden Sektor in Japan in den letztenJahren stark...

[...]In this paper, we first provide background information onprogram expenditures and a brief review of the literature. Next,we describe the housing provided under each program and ourmethodology for estimating costs. We then present our totalcost estimates along with estimates of the share of...

[...]Although our analysis compares outcomes before and afterPRWORA, it should be made clear that because the formalstate plan for welfare reform did not take effect until 1999, weare not really evaluating welfare reform in New York City.Instead, our results primarily reflect the net effect of...