American prosperity in the second half of the 1980s together with the booming economy of the 1990s created the impression that American households have done well, particularly in terms of wealth acquisition. In this paper, we develop the concept of “asset poverty” as a measure of economic...

American prosperity in the second half of the 1980s together with the booming economy of the 1990s created the impression that American households have done well, particularly in terms of wealth acquisition. In this paper, we develop the concept of “asset poverty” as a measure of economic...

In this paper we present a model designed to relate the detailed occupational and industrial demands imposed on the economy by several types of water resource investment. This detail provides the basis for adjusting the market cost of such public investments under the employment conditions...

This is a critique of the Arthur Maass article on Benefit Cost Analysis.

The rapid reduction in Aid to Families with Dependent Children caseloads during its last two years, and the continued decline of participation following its replacement by Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, raise the question of how families who no longer receive cash assistance are...

Fundamental changes in labor market patterns among U.S. prime-age men over the past two decades have been the focus of numerous recent research studies and media accounts. Increases in wage inequality and in male joblessness are the most important of these changes; assertions of an increase in...

While the Help for Working Parents (HWP) proposal represents a fundamental and costly change in the nation's safety net for poor families with children, it contains a variety of attributes that should give us pause. Its presumptions regarding the expectations for women's work should be made...

We develop a willingness to pay model for assessing the value of political demonstrations and apply this model.

This is a comment on an article on the revenue maximization hypothesis by William Baumol