Publishes graduate and undergraduate student essays and articles on all areas of economics research. The essays cover current developments in pure and applied economics. This is the official journal of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international honor society in economics.
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- Hispanic workers and employer sponsored health insurance. (March 2007)
- Quit lying and address the controversies: there are no dogmata, laws, rules or standards in the science of economics. (March 2007)
- Human capital and economic growth: evidence from developing countries *. (March 2007)
Hispanic workers and employer sponsored health insurance.
By Paringer, Lynn
(March 2007)
I. BACKGROUND
Forty-five million Americans currently lack health insurance. Most of these individuals reside in households in which at least one family member works (Collins et al., 2004). Nearly 70 percent of insured Americans obtain their coverage through their own employer or the employer of another family member. Yet, there is mounting evidence that this system is on the verge of collapse. Between 2000 and 2004 employer-sponsored health insurance fell from 68% to 64% for...
Quit lying and address the controversies: there are no dogmata, laws, rules or standards in the science of economics.
By Becker, William E.
(March 2007)
I. Introduction
The "No Child Left Behind" K-12 education initiative is associated with The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The NAEP Economics Framework project website http://www. naepecon2006.org/projoverview.asp states that its advisory panel "assures that the assessment specifications meet recognized technical standards." This pre-college thinking has permeated advice on the teaching of economics at the post-secondary levels:
...Human capital and economic growth: evidence from developing countries *.
By Vinod, Hrishikesh D.
(March 2007)
I. Introduction
The traditional Solow (1956) theory of economic growth does not explicitly measure the role of human capital. He found that the increased use of capital explained 12.5 percent of the change in gross output per man-hour while the concept of technical change explained the 'residual' 87.5 percent. Later it was realized that much of this residual might be due to human capital. Hence researchers developed augmented Solow models, which contain human capital as...
