The growing commercial activities of nonprofit charities, hospitals, educational institutions, arts organizations, day-care centers, nursing homes, and religious organizations have led many to question the legitimacy of the nonprofit designation and the concomitant tax and regulatory advantages...

In what ways, if any, does the behavior of government and nonprofit organizations differ? This paper examines evidence from two industries‹nursing homes and mentally handicapped facilities‹to determine whether government and nonprofit organization behavior differs in identifiable dimensions,...

This paper investigates the links between family events and changes in mother-reported behavior problems for children in middle childhood, using data from the merged mother-child supplement of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The family events considered here are divorce/separation,...

This paper examines the inherent and growing tension between the social mission of Academic Health Centers (AHCs), to provide collective-type services, which cannot be sold profitably, and the means of financing those services, which involves provision of saleable private-type services. It finds...

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native-born workers. These studies generally overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self-employed. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants,...

In this paper we use the variance across siblings in school characteristics to estimate the effects of school inputs on wages. The analysis uses sibling pairs from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience of Young Men and Young Women. We find that teacher's salary,...

Vital statistics indicate that the fertility rate in East Germany dropped sharply after German unification; moreover, it has not yet rebounded but remains stable at a low level. This paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to examine births in the former German Democratic...

This research is based on the first random survey to address whether women who are experiencing, or who have experienced, domestic violence have lower employment rates than women who have not. Standardized interviews of 824 English- and Spanish-speaking adult women living in a low-income...

How should the criminal justice system address the disproportionate number of poor people who are punished for crime? The answer depends on the nature of the relationship both between poverty and crime and between criminal punishment and social justice. Crimes committed by poor parents often...

The mechanisms by which social ties and networks help actors transcend the limitations of their internal capabilities is a key component of a theory of social organization. One key mechanism concerns how the competencies and resources of one actor in a network are transferred to another actor...