Research indicates that engagement in community organizations is positively associated with health, particularly among aging populations, yet few studies have examined in detail the influence of community engagement (CE) on later health among African Americans. This study provides a longitudinal...

Largely absent in the congressional debate regarding U.S. welfare reform reauthorization are policy discussions aimed at preventing long-term welfare use for families at risk. This study examines three social science perspectives explaining the relationship between early poverty and health as a...

This dissertation consists of three essays, the first two on the foreign exchange market and the third on credit markets. Chapter 2 examines empirically the exchange rate–interest differential relationship in a co-integration framework. We test and estimate an error correction model (ECM) for...

We make a first step in the literature to analyse a hybrid model of credit rationing with simultaneous presence of adverse selection and moral hazard. Motivated by the observation that credit markets in less-developed countries are rather opaque owing to the lack of necessary institutions to...

This paper presents an experimental study of the alcohols–gasoline and gasoline–alcohols dual-fuel spark ignition (DFSI) combustion for knock suppression and higher engine efficiency using a gasoline engine with high compression ratio. Alcohols–gasoline DFSI is organized using a port fuel...