Duncan (Greg J.), Yeung (Jean W.), Rodgers (Willard). - Lone-parent families in the US: Dynamics, economics Status and Developmental consequences More than one-third of all children born in th United States in the mid-1970s spent at least part of their childhoods living in female-headed...

A procedure is examined for adjusting observed values of a sample of entities toward the overall sample mean. This procedure provides estimators with lower expected mean square errors than the ordinary least-squares estimators, at the cost of accepting a slight bias. The procedure was applied to...