the extensive research done on the interrelationship between different social factors such as social class, gender and age and different linguistic variables has shown that these factors have important effects on the way language is used. among these factors a special importance can be placed on age due to the role it plays in revealing different patterns of language use, such as the age-gradin...

This paper explores whether home buyers are inattentive to future energy costs. I exploit variation in energy costs in the form of fuel price changes in Massachusetts where there is significant overlap in the geographic and age distributions of oil-heated and gas-heated homes. I find that relative fuel price shifts cause relative changes in housing transaction prices consistent with full capita...

Article history: Variations in Earth's rates of s Received 29 September 2008 Received in revised form 2 December 2008 Accepted 2 December 2008 Available online 21 January 2009 Editor: R.D. van der Hilst

This paper explores how to measure successful aging in a manner consistent with the preferences of older persons about what matters in their lives. First it considers the extent to which existing objective and subjective measures of successful aging reflect those preferences. It is found that both objective and subjective measures may contradict preferences that are held unanimously by older pe...