Abstract This paper demonstrates that conventional single regression estimators of voting preferences for groups within the electorate are unreliable when group-specific turnout rates are unknown. In this context, the relationship between voting choices and the composition of the electorate is...

This paper investigates interactions between co-worker productivity levels in a rich empirical context. Workers have unambiguous output measures, compensation that depends on individual and group output to differing degrees and potential peers beyond their immediate work group. Important...

This article explicitly compares the incentive and sorting theories of tournament per formance in road races. Regressions omitting controls for runner ability suggest that runners record faster times the greater the loss they would suffer from finishing below their pre race ranking. However, the...

This is the first paper to investigate the determinants of the demand for medical care in the People's Republic of China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health care spending, and price. A two-part model and a...

Conventional segregation indices indicate complete integration when the proportion of minorities in a metropolitan area is replicated in any subarea. However, this would not occur, even absent discrimination, because majorities and minorities have different distributions of other...