This dissertation explores the ways in which medical experts conceptualized the impact of the contraceptive pill on women's psyches over the course of the 1960s. Analyzing journal articles, popular books, institutional archives, pill packages and advertisements, the project traces representations…

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Behavior toward uncertain future inflation gives rise
to large diffuse externalities which result in market
failure and require introduction of legal restraints --
mandatory wage—price controls. Models of wage-profit
conflict and consumer vs. consumer rivalry are set out
in which…

One of the best documented relationships in economics is the link between education and
income: higher educated people have higher incomes. Advocates argue that education provides
skills, or human capital, that raises an individual‘s productivity. Critics argue that the documented

Using data from the NLSY (1979-1991) and from the PSID (1981-1987), l seek to determine whether
there is any net positive return to tenure with the current employer once we control for industry-specific
capital. Using data from the PSID, Topel…

This paper presents new evidence on the reasons for the recent decline in
the fraction of unemployed workers who receive unemployment insurance benefits.
Using samples of unemployed workers from the March Current Population Survey,
we estimate the fraction of unemployed…

This paper uses two data sets to examine the impact of the potential
duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on the duration of
unemployment and the time pattern of the escape rate from unemployment in the
United States. The first…

More than one million new immigrants currently enter the United States every year. In this paper
I use 1990 Census data to study the effects of immigrant inflows on the local labor market
opportunities of natives and older immigrants. I…

This paper presents a method for assessing the impact of external,
national, and sectoral shocks on Canadian employment fluctuations at the
national, industry, and provincial levels. Special attention is given to the
contribution of sectoral shocks to aggregate employment fluctuations.…