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...

To avoid excessive concentration of economic and financial power, Solomon recommends institutional and regulatory reform of the financial system by such means as nationwide banking, restrictions on federal deposit insurance, consolidation of financial regulation, balancing numerical standards...

The latest batch of numbers from the United States makes for a disturbing read. The growth rate of GDP has been adequate, but the current account deficit was 6.3 percent of GDP in the fourth quarter of 2004, and the terrible trade figures for January and February promise an even bigger deficit...

The SGP has been the focus of growing controversy within the eurozone. The ECB continues to argue that reforming the SGP by relaxing its rules would damage the credibility of the euro. The opposite, however, may be closer to reality. Relaxing the rules according to the measures already taken by...