Most Recent Articles from American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The

• Stereotypes, Asian Americans, and wages: an empirical strategy applied to computer use at work 

  I Introduction ASIAN AMERICANS have long been labeled as a "model minority" who use high investment in education (Xie and Goyette 2003; Kao...

  04/01/09 by Sanae Tashiro Cecilia A. Conrad · More from publication

• Do higher real minimum wages lead to more high school dropouts? Evidence from Maryland across races, 1993-2004 

  I Introduction THE EXTENDED PERIOD without increases in the federal minimum wage from September 1, 1997 to July 24, 2007 meant that the real...

  04/01/09 by Stephanie O. Crofton William L. Anderson Emily C. Rawe · More from publication

• Home ownership and school outcomes of children: evidence from the PSID Child Development Supplement 

  I Introduction POLICYMAKERS and academic researchers have argued that owning a home has many social benefits. In the United States, most...

  04/01/09 by Lisa L. Mohanty Lakshmi K. Raut · More from publication

• An introduction to destructive coordination 

  Introduction THE CONCEPT OF "mode of coordination" captures the way in which the economy is embedded in a society. An analysis in terms of the...

  04/01/09 by Mehrdad Vahabi · More from publication

• Determinants of intercountry Internet diffusion rates 

  I Introduction EVER SINCE THE RELEASE of the first graphical web browser in 1993, the Internet has experienced exponential growth. Today,...

  04/01/09 by Phanindra V. Wunnava Daniel B. Leiter · More from publication

• Art museum attendance, public funding, and the business cycle 

  I Introduction VIRTUALLY ALL MUSEUMS in the United States, especially art museums, face major problems funding all of their many functions. (1)...

  04/01/09 by Sarah J. Skinner Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. John D. Jackson · More from publication

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