Between 1969 and 1985, the British Columbia hospital system allocated an increasing proportion of the province's total hospital days to elderly patients who stayed for 60 days or more. By 1985/86, long stay patients accounted for almost 50% of all days. In this paper, we explore the diagnoses...

This paper utilizes the Social Science Citation Index and G. J. Stigler and C. L. Friedland's 1985 Calendar of Great Economists to test several implications of an efficient market model of scientific research. Among the questions investigated are how fast an economist's work decays over time in...

Legal segregation was a fact of life for blacks in the American South during the first half of the present century. These laws are sometimes compared to South African apartheid. However, there seems to be one important difference: Jim Crow, unlike apartheid, did not directly hamper the ability...