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Results: 45 Studies on Economics (of 203 total)

Commerce: Economic Impact of Stadiums and Teams: The Case of Minor League Baseball

Personal, Consumer: Student Loans: Do College Students Borrow Too Much — or Not Enough?

Personal, Consumer: School and Residential Neighborhood Food Environment and Diet Among California Youth

Personal, Consumer: Market Structure, Competition from Assisted Living Facilities and Quality in the Nursing Home Industry

Personal, Consumer: Health Care as a “Market Good”? Appendicitis as a Case Study

Corporations: Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?

Personal, Consumer: Pew Research: Gender Reversal on Career Aspirations

Corporations: The Promise and Perils of Private Voluntary Regulation: Labor Standards and Work Organization in Two Mexican Garment Factories

Corporations: Casino Revenues and Retail Property Values: The Detroit Case

Personal, Consumer: Does Living in a Subprime Neighborhood Affect the Probability of Default?

Corporations: The Impact of Race and Interpersonal Dominance on Perceptions of Female Leaders

Personal, Consumer: Individual, Family and Neighborhood Characteristics and Children’s Food Insecurity

Urban Issues, Housing: Prenatal Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Exposure and Child Behavior at Age 6-7

Personal, Consumer: Endocrine Disruptors and Asthma-Associated Chemicals in Consumer Products

Commerce: The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Personal, Consumer: Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion

Commerce: Does March Madness Lead to Irrational Exuberance in the NBA Draft?

Personal, Consumer: Balancing Work and Family After Childbirth: A Longitudinal Analysis

Corporations: State of the News Media 2012

Urban Issues, Housing: Explaining Charter School Effectiveness

Corporations: Confidence in Banks, Financial Institutions and Wall Street, 1971-2011

Urban Issues, Housing: U.S. Justice Department: Does Neighborhood Watch Reduce Crime?

Urban Issues, Housing: U.S. Cities, Skills and Wages

Personal, Consumer: Higher Social Class Predicts Increased Unethical Behavior

Commerce: Online Display Advertising: Targeting and Obtrusiveness

Commerce: U.N. Report: Findings on e-Waste Problems in Africa

Corporations: Financial Performance of the Major Oil Companies, 2007-2011

Urban Issues, Housing: End of the Segregated Century: Racial Separation in America’s Neighborhoods, 1890-2010

Personal, Consumer: Women in the Labor Force: A Databook

Corporations: Gender Gap in Executive Compensation: The Role of Female Directors and Chief Executive Officers

Personal, Consumer: Male and Female Pathways through Four-Year Colleges: Disruption and Sex Stratification in Higher Education

Personal, Consumer: Women See Value and Benefits of College; Men Lag on Both Fronts

Corporations: CBO: 2012 Budget and Economic Outlook

Urban Issues, Housing: Economic Value of Opportunity Youth

Personal, Consumer: What Can We Learn From Analyzing Historical Data on Social Security Entitlements?

Personal, Consumer: Divorce and Women’s Loss of Health Insurance

Personal, Consumer: Effects of College Educational Debt on Graduate School Attendance and Early Career and Lifestyle Choices

Corporations: Minority Vulnerability in Privileged Occupations: African-American Financial Advisers in a Large Financial Services Firm

Personal, Consumer: Federal Student Loans: Patterns in Tuition, Enrollment and Federal Stafford Loan Borrowing Up to the 2007-08 Loan Limit Increase

Corporations: Automobiles on Steroids: Product Attribute Trade-Offs and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector

Commerce: Quantifying Global Transfers of Copyrighted Content Using BitTorrent

Urban Issues, Housing: Federal Report: Prescription Drug Abuse, 2011

Personal, Consumer: Rising Age Gap in Economic Well-being

Corporations: Private Equity and Employment

Urban Issues, Housing: Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

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