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Culture, gender, and feminist institutionalism
Institutional economics is a sociocultural discipline and policy science which draws on the idea that economies are best understood through an appreciation of history, real-world institutions, and socioeconomic interrelations. This book brings…
Household sorting as adaptation to hurricane risk in the United States
We employ a structural model of location choice to estimate household sorting across the U.S. in response to hurricane risk. Using spatially detailed projections of future hurricane energy, we simulate regional population shifts and welfare impacts…
Welfare policy and precarious lives: “Welfare reform” revisited
Although welfare reform has not been one of the most highly visible policy agendas for the Trump administration, restricting access to public assistance programs has been a part of proposals and actions in a number of areas. The Trump…
The spatial and time-varying contagion effect of foreclosures
We employ a Cox proportional hazard model to examine the effect of observed mortgage defaults within a neighborhood on homeowners’ strategic default decisions, using multiple datasets from the Fresno-Clovis metropolitan area in California between…
Does Blind Tasting Work? Another Look
A study entitled “Does Blind Tasting Work? Investigating the Impact of Training on Blind Tasting Accuracy and Wine Preference,” published in the Proceedings issues of this journal, analyzed the effects of training on blind wine tasting accuracy (Wang…
Rising profits with declining investment? An empirical investigation
The paper is a contribution to explaining the phenomenon of the slow investment growth in recent decades, which accompanied ever-rising profits. It investigates profit share and capacity utilization effects on the investment share of output for US…