Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being. A major finding from this literature is that people exhibit a "baseline" happiness that shows persistent strength over time, and twin studies have shown that genes play a significant role in...

This paper reviews a number of recent contributions that demonstrate that a blend of welfare economics and statistical analysis is useful in the evaluation of the citations received by scientific papers in the periodical literature. The paper begins by clarifying the role of citation analysis in...

Using information collected from American Economic Review publications of the last 100 years, we try to provide answers to various questions: Which are the top AER publishing institutions and countries? Which are the top AER papers based on citation success? How frequently is someone able to...

With its strong growth in exports, China is becoming increasingly competitive to Canadian exports in third markets. This is specially a concern in Canada's largest export market, the U.S., where China has quickly gained market share while Canada's has decreased. This paper asks the question; is...

It is widely believed that the Canadian and U.S. economies have become more integrated following the implementation of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement. In this study, we develop an integration index that combines a number of different measures of...

The development of high speed rail infrastructures in the US faces a great challenge given the concern of economic viability and political complexity. However, a deeper investigation reveals that most of these concerns and complexity issues can be explained from a cultural perspective, which...

This paper was presented at “Religion and the Rule of Law in Southeast Asia: Continuing the Conversation,” an international conference held in Hanoi, Vietnam on November 3-4, 2007. It briefly describes the faith based initiatives or “Charitable Choice” experiment currently underway in...

On any given night more 744,000 people are homeless in the United States, approximately 98,000 families. More than 40 percent of those who are homeless have served in the armed services and close to 30 percent are children. While the federal government has implemented various policies and...

The crisis since August 2007 provides an opportunity to observe the workings of good governance institutions under an extreme stress test and in radically different political settings. Institutions such as independent central banks, fiscal rules and regulatory oversight of public finances were...

This paper uses Taiwan's archival documents to reexamine the two Taiwan Strait crises and the characteristics of Chiang Kai-shek's strategic thinking. Section 2 examines the oscillation of U.S. policy concerning the ROC's offensive toward mainland China and the defense of the Da-chen islands...