The objective is to estimate the effect on one’s weight decades later of choosing a blue collar job as his/her initial job. OLS and probit models are estimated, using dummy variables for overweight and obesity as the dependent variables. Various two stage models treat occupational choice to be...

This study investigates the relationship between free agent salaries and contract length in Major League Baseball (MLB) to examine whether players trade-off returns to performance for additional job security. This study is the first to conduct a comprehensive, multiperiod study of salary...

Using four large micro data sets, this paper examines the returns to investments in education by registered nurses during the period 1970-84. Wage models are estimated by a maximum likelihood technique that accounts for selection bias. No wage difference existed between associate and diploma...

By applying econometric analyses to case data from two states, Falaris, Link and Staten identify the economic incentives influencing the probability of litigation in workers' compensation cases, and the probability that a contested case is pursued to verdict.

In their study of physician and hospital utilization in 1969, Davis and Reynolds found that Medicare had failed to eliminate major racial and income-related inequities in the use of medical services by the elderly. Our analysis-which takes advantage of more recent data, an improved model...