Research on the role of gender on lawmaking in the U.S. Congress focuses primarily on whether female legislators provide more, or more effective, representation to women on policy issues important to the interests of women. This paper moves consideration of how the gender of representatives...

Firms routinely employ product costs in decision making. The question of how to design a cost system that is well-suited for this purpose has received considerable practitioner and academic interest. The design or, equivalently the required complexity, of cost systems has been hotly debated over...

The paper analyses the role of hysteresis in explaining the slow wage convergence between certain immigrant groups and native workers. Using the 1990 Integrated Public Use Microdata Samples (IPUMS), the analysis reveals that past earnings history in the country of origin has a relatively smaller...

An impact of increased variable renewable generation is the need for balancing authorities to procure more ancillary services. While demand response resources are technically capable of providing these services, current experience across the U.S. illustrates they are relatively minor players in...