Due to the low risk of not insuring a healthy child for a short, finite period of time, it's plausible that SCHIP mandatory wait periods, where a child must forgo private insurance for several months before enrolling in SCHIP, do not provide enough incentive for parents to keep their children...

In this article, the authors present a new way of identifying the set of industries that may constitute a region’s economic base. The authors focus on the differences among regions in their regional employment shares (the percentage of total employment in a particular region attributable...

n 1998, Don Nichols returned regularly to Iowa from his life and job in Washington, D.C., to be with his dying father and to oversee his parents' investments. A veteran investor and investment author, Nichols found that managing the portfolio entrusted to him brought a larger understanding of...

In this paper, I briefly sketch how the New Economy forces of globalization and technology have affected Wisconsin?s manufacturing in the recent past, and I note the challenges these forces will pose in the future. The first step in recognizing these challenges is to understand if there really...