Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young women as 'shotgun weddings' are no longer necessary. Empirical evidence from the United States lends support to that hypothesis. This paper presents an alternative theory of...

This paper presents a model of 'tenancy rent control' where rent increases on, and evictions of, sitting tenants are prohibited but nominal rents for "new" tenants are unrestricted. If there is "any" inflation, landlords prefer to take short-staying tenants. If there is no way for landlords to...

We consider a model of 'tenancy rent control' where landlords are not allowed to raise the rent on sitting tenants nor to evict them, though they are free to set the nominal rent when taking on a new tenant. If there is any inflation in the economy, landlords prefer to take shortstaying tenants....

We consider a rent control regime where rent increases on, and eviction of, a sitting tenant are not allowed. However when an apartment becomes vacant the landlord is free to negotiate a new rent. Under such a regime, if inflation exists, landlords prefer to rent to short-staying tenants. Since...

This paper presents a model in which opportunity differences within society result in child labour, where 'opportunity' is broadly defined but can include school quality, access to higher paying jobs, access to information about the returns to education and actual discrimination. If opportunity...

This paper explores the question: is working as a child harmful to an individual in terms ofadult outcomes in earnings? Though an extremely important question, little is known aboutthe effect of child labor on adult outcomes...