Mass Deportations Would Impoverish US Families and Create Immense Social Costs

Discounting of Long Term Costs: What Would Future Generations Prefer Us to Do?

Decisions with intergenerational consequences may leave future generations worse off (i.e., not be Pareto optimal) if costs and benefits are not discounted correctly. We point out that this happens if the conventional social discount rate is applied to intergenerational costs: with this rate the justification of intergenerational costs (benefits of a project are invested and the proceeds can co...

Social Capital among Indian and Iranian Youth and their Families

Employment and Exile: U.S. Criminal Deportations, 19082005

This study documents and explains historical variation in U.S. criminal deportations. Results from time-series analyses suggest that criminal deportations increase during times of rising unemployment, and this effect is partly mediated by an elevated discourse about immigration and labor. An especially strong association between deportations and unemployment emerges from 1941 through 1986, a pe...

Factors Influencing Social Media Usage in the US

Given the immense shifts the social networking sites and applications have brought about, a considerable number of researchers in the field of communication studies have turned to study different aspects of social media usage and factors influencing it. This study gathered data from 33318 US non-institutionalized citizens over 18 including 17079 females and 16239 males; they were members of web...

How Would God Have Us Practice Preventive Medicine

Preventive medicine is widely popular today. The government hopes through it to solve its rising health care bill. Private industry, which pays the bulk of health insurance premiums, has the same hopes. Physicians are finding in the popular concept an opportunity to protect their incomes while in good conscience protecting their patients' health. Christians are proponents of it because it seems...