Previous research has found that, after controlling for test scores, measured black-white wage gaps are small but unemployment gaps remain large. This paper complements this previous research by examining the incidence of employer-provided benefits from the same premarket perspective. However,...

This paper develops a model of traffic stops and subsequent searches in which police officers use information about the race of drivers to maximize a well defined objective. The model provides a behavioral foundation absent from Grogger and Ridgeway’s (2006) elegantly simple test and, by...

Written for presentation at the 2011 ASABE Annual International Meeting Sponsored by ASABE Gault House, Louisville, Kentucky August 7 – 10, 2011

Paper presented at Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders 11th Annual Conference, Providence, RI, June 27, 2013

This study investigates the rate of returns to private investment in education in urban China, focusing on gender differences. It shows that in general females have higher rates of returns to schooling than males after taking account of sample selection bias and the endogeneity of schooling,...

The purpose of this thesis is to give a brief description of the potato marketing system, showing the place of the local concerns in the system, describing them and their business practices; to give a complete accounting system for local concerns; to state difficulties encountered in applying...