A “brer rabbit” case for reverse mandated benefits

Reverse mandated benefits is a government-mandated policy that requires employees to provide their employers with benefits that workers would not provide otherwise. Of course, only those benefits would be mandated that are worth more to employers than they cost, as determined by political authorities. My case for such a policy argues that it is at least as sensible as policies mandating that employers provide benefits to their employees that would not be provided otherwise.     

投资扩张的经济学分析

我国经济运行的态势良好,但存在的问题也不少。其中,投资盲目扩张的冲动较强是个主要矛盾。投资 受预期的影响,非理性预期是投资盲目扩张的一个充分必要条件。将科学发展观引入理性预期的概念之中,能够 提高投资决策和投资行为的科学性。建立健全正式的和非正式的制度安排,发展科学教育事业和提高全民的文化 素质,有利于形成信息的充分性和对称性。     

Going to Pieces: Paul Monette and the Fragments of the Tribe

Author of the highly acclaimed Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (1988) and winner of the 1992 National Book Award for his autobiography Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, Paul Monette died of complications from AIDS in Los Angeles on February 12, 1995. His most recent work, Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise (1994), is his third volume in a trilogy of autobiographical writing on growing up gay, coming-out, and living with AIDS. A graduate of Phillips Academy and Yale University, Monette received a number of awards for his writing and his work as an outspoken voice in the battle against AIDS, including the National Book Award, three Lambda Literary awards, the PEN Center West Freedom to Write Award, and three honorary doctorate degrees, from Wesleyan University, the City University of New York, and the State University of New York at Oswego. A memorial service was held for Monette on Sunday, February 19, 1995, at the Directors Guild of America on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Paul Monette was 49.     

大学创新与科学学派形成

在世界科技发展的历史长河中,几乎所有重大科学的发现和科学理论的提出都与科学学派有关。有学派才会有科学观点的碰撞,才会产生新思想的火花。学派与创新总是行影相随。科学学派为创新活动提供了最基本的动力和发展平台。中国大学的学派建设任重而道远,在一些仍处于学科群的创建和分支扩展阶段的学科研究领域,中国大学的学者们完全有可能抓住机遇,创建在国际上有影响的学派。     

短保质期变质产品的两次订货策略研究

一类短保质期变质产品,如生鲜蔬菜、水果等,增加其库存展示量能为顾客提供更多的拣选机会,从而刺激顾客增加购买量.对此,在综合分析已有变质库存基本模型的基础上,建立了一个更能准确反映当前存货水平和需求率、变质率的关系的库存模型.考虑到计划期可能不是最优订货周期的整数倍,从一般意义上研究了基于保质期约束和计划期可修正的变质产品最后两次订货策略.结论表明,最优订货周期须超过一个保质期.在计划期的一定变动范围内,订货周期越短越有利于增加利润和增强经营的社会外部性,并在计划期的上界达到最优;超过计划期的合理变动范围,则须将不完整订货周期控制在一个保质期内,且越接近保质期越好,否则随着计划期延长,变质量增加而利润却逐渐降低.     

Was there compression of disability for older Americans from 1992 to 2003?

Medical advances and the growth of the elderly population have focused interest on trends in the health of the elderly. Three theories have been advanced to describe these trends: compression of morbidity, expansion of morbidity, and dynamic equilibrium. We applied multistate life table methods to the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey to estimate active and disabled life expectancy from 1992 to 2003, defining disability as having difficulty with instrumental activities of daily living or activities of daily living. We found increases in active life expectancy past age 65 and decreases in life expectancy with severe disability. These trends are consistent with elements of both the theory of compression of morbidity and the theory of dynamic equilibrium.     

Using age and spatial flow structures in the indirect estimation of migration streams

This article outlines a formal model-based approach for inferring interregional age-specific migration streams in settings where such data are incomplete, inadequate, or unavailable. The estimation approach relies heavily on log-linear models, using them to impose some of the regularities exhibited by past age and spatial structures or to combine and borrow information drawn from other sources. The approach is illustrated using data from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. and Mexico censuses.     

As low birth weight babies grow,can well-educated parents buffer this adverse factor? A research note

This research note combines two national Taiwanese data sets to investigate the relationships among low birth weight (LBW) babies, their parents' educational levels, and their future academic outcomes. We find that LBW is negatively correlated with the probability of such children attending college at age 18; however, when both parents are college or high school graduates, such negative effects may be partially offset. We also show that discrimination against daughters occurs, but only for daughters who were LBW babies. Moreover high parental education can buffer the LBW shock only among moderately LBW children (as compared with very LBW children) and full-term LBW children (as compared with preterm LBW children).     

Race,military service,and marital timing: Evidence from the NLSY-79

I use data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine the relationship between military service and marital timing for white men and black men during the 1980s. I use information about active-duty and reserve-duty service as well as veteran status to implement strong controls for selectivity. I find that active-duty military service increases the probability of first marriage for both whites and blacks. In part, this relationship is due to positive selectivity into the military and, for whites, to greater income and economic stability. Above and beyond the effects of selectivity, income, and economic stability, the effect of active-duty military service is particularly strong for black men.