The authors present first-year findings from New York City Social Indicators Survey (SIS) project. They begin with an overview of the issues that motivated the project and a brief summary of their measures and data-collection methods. The next sections use data collected in 1997 to tell the...

This paper was presented at the conference "Unequal incomes, unequal outcomes? Economic inequality and measures of well-being" as part of session 5, "Social indicators in New York City." The conference was held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on May 7, 1999. The authors address some of...

In the shadow of rising divorce and non-marital birth rates, nearly twothirdsof all American children today will live apart from at least one oftheir parents, usually the father. Clearly this astonishing proportion ofnon-resident fathers has serious implications for the economic,employment, and...

[...]This article develops a stylized game-theoretical model toanalyze banks’ intraday liquidity management behavior in anRTGS environment. It analyzes the strategic incentives under Envision an economy with two identical banks using an RTGSsystem operated by the central bank to settle...

This paper compares fourteen industrialized Western countries - matched to microdata available from LIS - with respect to a subset of public policies that traditionally fall under the umbrella of 'family policy.' The analysis focuses on policies that facilitate the employment of mothers:...

This paper uses data from fourteen industrialized countries, during the middle to late 1980's, to analyze the effect of national child care and maternity leave policies on employment. The results demonstrate a strong association between policy configurations and the employment patterns of women...