Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes...

This paper modeled the dynamic inter-relationships between average salary, bonus, and stock options granted to top executives of 700 U.S. firms using a merged ExecuComp and Compustat database. The effects of stock options granted and exercised on firms' share repurchases and research and...

This paper modeled the effects of firms' fundamentals such as total assets and long-term debt and of macroeconomic variables such as unemployment and interest rates on quarterly stock prices of over 3000 U.S. firms in 2000-07. The merged CRSP/Compustat database was augmented by macroeconomic...

The rapid economic growth in China has been accompanied by increases in internal migration as well as marital dissolution. Using longitudinal data from China Health and Nutrition Surveys covering over 19,000 individuals during 1989-2011, this paper modeled the inter-relationships between...