The Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago obtained a grant from the Illinois State Library to implement a statewide demonstration project that would provide consumer health information (CHI) using InfoTrac's Health Reference Center CD-ROM database. The goals of the project were to cooperate with targeted public libraries and clinics in providing CHI at the earl...

The release of the January 1987 Consumer Price Index (cpi) in February will introduce updated market baskets that reflect population distributions from the 1980 census of population and spending patterns from the 1982-84 Consumer Expenditure Survey . This release will be part of a 5-year program to update the cpi market basket and incorporate numerous technical enhancements . t Although the cpi...

This study examined the impact of declaring consumer bankruptcy on the physical and mental health of adult women and if outcomes differed depending on whether the filer received automatic debt discharge under Chapter 7 compared to a debt repayment plan with Chapter 13. Sample data consisted of women from the NLSY79 cohort who completed the age 40 and 50 health modules as of the most recent wave...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Adjusted for inflation, household income has been relatively flat since the mid-1990s, but the inflation rate of employer-sponsored health insurance has been greater than both household income growth and general inflation for 50 years. We estimated the effect on average family income if health insurance inflation matched the general inflation rate since 1996, and those...

Inclusion of nontraded goods prices has been shown to be partly responsible for slow convergence in price indices across major cities in the United States (Cecchetti et al 2002). Drawing upon insights provided by well known theories, this paper uses panel econometric methods to seek evidence in U.S. city level Consumer Price Index (CPI) data of a systematic long-run relationship between prices ...

We propose a restructuring of U. S. Federal debt. All debt should be perpetual, paying coupons forever with no principal. The debt should be composed of the following: 1) Fixedvalue, floating-rate, electronically transferable debt. Such debt looks like a money-market fund, or reserves at the Fed, to an investor. 2) Nominal perpetuities. This debt pays a coupon of $1 per bond, forever. 3) Indexe...

Prior research on regret has assumed a consideration set of only two-alternatives. The authors have relaxed that assumption and have developed hypotheses to examine the influence of the unawareness set and order effects in the measurement of consumer regret in a post-purchase evaluation. The results demonstrated that the brands consumers were previously unaware of, do indeed influence consumer ...

Counterfeit pharmaceutical products are a real threat to the health of patients, and to the reputation and commercial success of legitimate producers of genuine products. NIR chemical imaging provides a rapid method for detecting and comparing suspected counterfeit products with no sample preparation. With appropriate choice of operating conditions, multiple samples can be compared simultaneous...

Consumer research using Distinctiveness theory implies that targeted advertisements will be most effective in contexts where the targeted group is a numeric minority. This paper investigates the influence of social status in addition to numeric status. Results demonstrate that incorporating social dimensions increases the explanatory value of distinctiveness theory for consumer research. We dis...