At present, county level annual poverty rates for broad age groups at different poverty thresholds are not readily available. Unlike the 2000 census, the 2010 census did not collect income data to allow calculation of poverty rates, and future decennial censuses will not. Thus, there is a need...

The present study prospectively tracks 999 juvenile delinquents (499 females) released from New York State correctional facilities in the early 1990s and describes their engagement in two socially problematic behaviors in early adulthood: child maltreatment and crime. By age 28, nearly...

This paper examines the effect of trade secrets protection on stock price crash risk. Using an experimental setting with the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA), we find that firms headquartered in states with the UTSA tend to have higher stock price crash risk. The results are robust to...