The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is analyzed in terms of its effects on the employment and wages of disabled men using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The results indicate that, as early as 1990, employment rates of men with disabilities decreased...

Passage of the Chicago School Reform Act by the Illinois legislature in 1988 has brought sustained attention to the central features of the reform: the creation of elected councils for each of the 550 schools with the power to hire and fire the principal, to contribute to and approve the...

The relationship between parenting style and adolescent functioning was examined in a sample of 302 African American adolescent girls and their mothers who live in impoverished neighborhoods. Although previous research has found that authoritative parenting, as compared to authoritarian,...

This report has used an exhaustive inventory of existing economic research in an attempt to summarize the monetary values for natural resources in the Palos-Orland region. The values for the resources examined in this study are obtained by calibrating the list of resources in the region with...

While the study of comparative bureaucratic organization within the advanced, industrial democracies has made significant progress in recent years (Moe and Caldwell, 1994), we have a much thinner understanding of the causes and consequences of bureaucratic structure in the developing world. This...

In the UK, dismissed workers can sue their ex-employers for unfair dismissal. This paper investigates whether judges deciding on such cases are sensitive to economic conditions faced by firms and workers. In bad times, getting fired is more costly for workers, while at the same time firms find...

The field of public management is a significant area of teaching and research in schools of public policy. Within these schools, there is general recognition that public management mediates the relationship between the ideas of policy analysts and the decisions of policy makers, on the one hand,...

I examine a model in which a bureaucrat performs a project for multiple legislative principals. The cost of the project is publicly observable but the bureaucrat’s (exogenous) effeciency and (endogenous) cost reducing activities are not. The principals can each perform a costly audit of the...

Over six million children who reside with a single mother and have a father who lives elsewhere are food insecure. This study examines the effectiveness of two aspects of nonresident father involvement, in-person visitation and financial contributions, in reducing food acquisition problems using...

Contrary to the prevailing view that federal programs are immortal, we show that program death is commonplace and seek to explain why. We develop a simple model of distributive politics, which we call "probabilistic universalism." Our theory suggests that differences in the ideological...