This paper is the concluding chapter of a book that analyzes the relationship between markets, organizations, and sex-based wage inequality. The cornerstone of the analysis is a set of four case studies of organizations that were sued for sex discrimination in pay, and which included data on...

We ask two related questions relevant to current public policy debates concerning personal bankruptcy: What are the important influences in determining bankruptcy chapter choice, and do new incentives embedded in a major legal change have their anticipated impact? Chapter choice models,...

Some characterize public opinion as fickle, volatile, or subject to abrupt change. Yet, empirical evidence from Page and Shapiro (1992) reveals the opposite. This study re-examines the issue of public opinion stability because the six-percentage point criterion Page and Shapiro used ignored the...

What happens when democratic principles become understood and enacted through a particular conception of rationalisty? Does the linking of democracy with instrumental rationality improve citizens' access to public decisions or change the terms by which they participate in these? I examine these...

Most policy proposals addressing the school-to-work transition have focused on broad, national strategies for change. However, forging successful connections between youth and the labor market depends upon the individual actions and interactions of employers, students, and schools. In...

This paper uses the High School and Beyond data on the sophomore cohort to examine the effects of high school grades on long-term earnings. It finds that high school grades do have a strong and significant effect on earnings nine years after high school for both men and women, those with and...

This research examined an attitudinal explanation of the gender gap, by which differences in the attitudes that men and women hold on social and political issues and in the positions that candidates take on these issues can produce gender gaps in voting. Two experiments portraying a hypothetical...

Drawing upon little-used data on the activities and attainments of fathers from the early waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we assess how paternal characteristics affect the adult success of children raised in two-parent families. Consistent with other research is our finding...

Complaints and geographic mobility--that is, "voice: and "exit"--are potential responses to "dissatisfaction" in the market for publicly provided municipal services, as in other markets. We find that reported dissatisfaction with public services can be used to predict both. Furthermore,...

Claims as to the sacredness of lands, or features of lands, as well as of objects, are increasingly part of the discourse in environmental struggles. These claims are frequently advanced by American Indian people, and by groups working in concert with American Indian people, but they are also...