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The Economic Value of College Majors
(2015-05)
The Economic Value of College Majors uses Census Data to analyze wages for 137 college majors to detail the most popular college majors, the majors that are most likely to lead to an advanced degree, and the economic benefit ...
The Online College Labor Market: Where The Jobs Are
(2014-04)
The Online College Labor Market: Where the Jobs Are finds that more than 80 percent of job openings for workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher are posted online. This report analyzes the demand for college talent in ...
Hyponatremia is Associated with Increased Osteoporosis and Bone Fractures in Diabetics with Matched Glycemic Control: Supplemental Materials
(2018-12-04)
Purpose
Patients with diabetes mellitus are at increased risk for bone fragility fracture secondary to multiple mechanisms. Hyperglycemia can induce true dilutional hyponatremia. Hyponatremia is associated with gait ...
Pennsylvania: Degrees of Value
(2016-01)
This report on Pennsylvania’s 14-university State System, which serves more than 100,000 students, shows a 10-percent increase in the number of Bachelor’s degrees awarded between 2009 and 2014. The analysis reveals that ...
Failure to Launch: Structural Shift and the New Lost Generation
(2013-09)
Failure to Launch includes an analysis of labor force participation, employment, and earnings for young adults in their 20s and older adults in their 50s, 60s, and 70s between 1980 and 2012.
Six Million Missing Jobs: The Lingering Pain of the Great Recession
(2015-12)
The economy continues to add jobs at a steady pace and the Federal Reserve Board is considering its first interest rates hike since the beginning of the recession. Six Million Missing Jobs: The Lingering Pain of the Great ...
The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Household Welfare in a Developing Country with Imperfect Labour Markets
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014)
I develop an empirical methodology to assess the distributional impact of trade-induced price shocks when labour markets are imperfect. The proposed methodology relates exogenous variations in prices to changes in household ...
How the Sufficiency Minimum Becomes a Social Maximum
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)
This article argues that, under likely empirical conditions, sufficientarianism leads not to an easily achievable duty to maintain a social minimum but to the onerous duty of maintaining a social maximum at the sufficiency ...
Iran and Regional Security Dynamics in the Middle East: Trends and Prospects
(International Studies Journal, 2012)
For some time now, observers of the international relations of the Middle East have tried to decipher emerging security dynamics in the region in the aftermath of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. Clearly, the Iraq ...
Islamic Law of Paternity between Classical Legal Texts and Modern Contexts: From Physiognomy to DNA Analysis
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
This paper investigates the extent to which reliance on DNA analysis for paternity verification conflicts with the Islamic law of paternity. More particularly, it seeks to examine the extent to which DNA testing can be ...