I will try to address three questions in this paper: Why is regulatory rigidity so Common and persistent given that it is seemingly disfunctional? What are its costs? What does the existence of regulatory rigidity imply for developing countries who are now trying to foster private entreprise and...

The structural adjustment programs of these three countries, like those of many others throughout the world in recent years, have greatly changed previous balances between the state and the private sector, capital and labor, and domestic versus world market influences on the economy. This...

Zimbabwe is in the six year of an economic structural adjustment program (ESAP) begun September 1990. This paper utilizes a survey of 54 Balck-owned non-microenterprises manufacturing businesses to examine the impact of Zimbabwe's ESAP on its black entrepreneurs.

This research tests a bargaining model of household fertility decision-making. Using unstructured interviews conducted in Brazil in 1990 and 1992-93, and an econometric analysis of the 1984 PNAD .5 percent sample of Brazilian households, we examine the impact of husband-wife bargaining fertility.

This paper estimates the effect of attending historically black college and universities (HBCUs) on future wages of black students.

Students' intellectual, social and personal development is highly influenced by peers during the college years. These changes can be understood in terms of social comparison theory, which outlines the consequences for group dynamics of people's need to evaluate their opinions and abilities....

This paper describes the economic structure of a college or university, presents national data on the size and distribution of student subsidies, and demonstrates the often-perverse effects they create for public policies and expectations that ignore them.

In this paper I use data from Williams College to implement a quasi-experimental empirical strategy aimed at measuring peer effects in academic outcomes. In particular, I use data on individual student's grades, SAT scores, and the SAT scores of their roommates. I argue that first year roommates...