Economics Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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With and without the tracks: how railroad access impacts gas price elasticity
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-03)Since 2011, gas prices have fallen 43%, raising the question of how different communities adjust their vehicle miles traveled. Data from the National Household Travel Survey’s EPA fuel economy database and the Energy ... -
Joint aggregation over money and credit card services under risk
(Economics Bulletin, 2016-11-29)We present a measurement of the correlation between the spins of t and ¯t quarks produced in proton–antiproton collisions at the Tevatron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96TeV. We apply a matrix element technique ... -
Second Trimester Sunlight and Asthma: Evidence from Two Independent Studies
(MIT Press, 2017-04-25)One in 12 Americans suffers from asthma, and its annual costs are estimated to exceed $50 billion. Yet the root causes of the disease remain unknown. A recent hypothesis posits that maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy ... -
Defunding women’s health clinics exacerbates Hispanic disparity in preventive care
(Elsevier, 2017-07-01)To prevent abortions, many states have cut funding for women’s health, reducing access, including to preventive care. Merging BRFSS data with clinic locations from a network of women’s health clinics, this paper estimates ... -
Are Race, Ethnicity, and Medical School Affiliation Associated with NIH R01 Type Award Probability for Physician Investigators?
(Association of American Medical Colleges, 2012-11)PURPOSE: To analyze the relationship among NIH R01 Type 1 applicant degree, institution type, and race/ethnicity, and application award probability. METHOD: The authors used 2000–2006 data from the NIH IMPAC II grants ... -
The British Sugar Planters and the Atlantic World, 1963-1775
(The University Presses of Florida, 1973) -
Introduction
(Caribbean Universities Press, 1974) -
The Role of the Scots in the Economy and Society of the West Indies
(The New York Academy of Sciences, 1977) -
Strategies of Slave Subsistence: The Jamaican Case Reconsidered
(Indiana University Press, 1995) -
Slavery and Antislavery Literature
(University of Kansas, 1963) -
Eric Williams and Capitalism and Slavery: A Biographical and Historiographical Essay
(Cambridge University Press, 1987) -
The Slave Trade to Jamaica, 1702-1808
(Heinemann Educational Books, 1983) -
Exploitative Systems: Slavery, Commerce and Industry
(The University of Wisconsin Press, 1985) -
Planters and Merchants: The Oliver Family of Antigua and London, 1716-1784
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Changing Sugar Technology and the Labour Nexus in the British Caribbean, 1750-1900, with Special Reference to Barbados and Jamaica
(Brill, 1989)Author examines the pattern and direction of technological change in the cane sugar industry of Barbados and Jamaica, and analyses the impact of this change on the employment, productivity, and welfare of workers engaged ... -
The Condition of the Slaves on the Sugar Plantations of Sir John Gladstone in the Colony of Demerara, 1812-49
(Brill, 2002)Reconstructs the business activities of the Scottish-born Liverpool merchant and plantation owner John Gladstone, placed within the context of slavery and the abolition of slavery, and the general colonial history of British ... -
Freedom's Crucible: The Underground Railroad in Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas, 1854-1864, A Reader
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1998) -
The Impact of Women’s Health Clinic Closures On Preventive Care
(American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016)We examine the impact of women’s health clinic closures on women’s preventive care use in Texas and Wisconsin using a unique policy context, data on clinic street addresses, and confidential respondent ZIP codes from the ... -
Significant Placebo Results in Difference-in-Differences Analysis: The Case of the ACA’s Parental Mandate
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015-11-09)The Affordable Care Act (ACA) lets young adults stay on their parents’ insurance. Several papers use age–time difference-in-differences strategies to argue this causes health insurance and labor effects. I show that ...