Masih and Masih (1996) recently presented an analysis of crime in a temporal Granger-causal framework, and explored empirically some of the determinants of crime in Australia using annual data over the period 1963-90. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role exerted by earnings...

Most applied economists use the almost ideal demand system or AIDS to model demand without knowing the consequences of alternative estimation procedures. In this paper, Monte Carlo experiments are undertaken to evaluate the performance of several estimation methods of AIDS. Based on the measures...

While many studies of income inequality in the United States focus of the significance of declining marginal tax rates in the 1980s, very little research to date has considered the effect of government regulations which have increased dramatically during the time of marked increases in the Gini...