The Girls' Circle is a support group for adolescent girls developed by Beth Hossfeld and Giovanna Taormina as a unique program that addresses the needs of girls by focusing on increasing connections, building empathic skills, and developing resiliency. The present study evaluates the effectiveness of the Girls' Circle intervention on improving social support, body image, locus of control, self-...

OBJECTIVES Cross-cultural comparisons in children's body composition, health-related fitness and physical activity (PA) are rare due to a shortage of comparable data, but such comparisons may help avert worrying global prevalence in childhood obesity, and declining fitness and PA. METHODS We drew samples of Canadian and English children (10 years, n=1630, 50% boys) and adolescents (15 years, ...

Despite the intensifying debate over the taxation of Internet commerce, the relevant issues have not been given a systematic treatment in the context of the literature on optimal taxation. This article presents such an analysis and investigates separately the taxation of business purchases of intermediate goods, the taxation of consumer purchases of final goods and services, and the various iss...

The publication of Charles Murray’s (1984) book Losing Ground has rekindled interest in the role ofgovernment in promoting economic equality using redistributive tax and expenditure programs. Murray concludes that spending on poverty programs may well have increased the number of poor people and that eliminating many of these programs might be a better antipoverty strategy. These conclusions re...

Using conŽ dential Ž rm-level panel data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, we examine how the bilateral trade  ows of U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) and their Canadian afŽ liates responded to U.S.-Canadian tariff reductions from 1983 to 1992. We Ž nd that Canadian afŽ liate sales to the United States are negatively correlated with Canadian tariffs, but U.S. parent sales to Canadian...