Introduced into the Social Security program in 1939, spouse and survivor benefits have important implications for the retirement experience of women. At the end of 2005, 12.9 million women Social Security beneficiaries aged 62 or older (59 percent) received at least part of their benefit as wives or widows of entitled workers.1 For these women, a spouse or widow benefit provided a larger paymen...

Exhibitions Dates to note are: Sunday, 21st November 1999. West of England Creepy Crawly Show, Newton Abbot racecourse, Devon. Sunday, 5th December 1999. Midlands Entomological Fair. At Kettering Leisure Village. Open 1030-1630. Admission: £2.00 adults, £1.00 children and OAPs. The venue is just off junction 8 of the A14 and is usually well signposted. Sunday 16th April 2000. Midlands Entomolog...

We provide an introduction to and overview of the volume on Models of the Strategic Formation of Networks and Groups. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: A14, D20, J00. ∗Dutta is at the Indian Statistical Institute, 7 SJS Sansanwal Marg, New Delhi 110016, India ([email protected]). Jackson is at the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA (...

In Brodeur, Cook, and Heyes (2020) we present evidence that instrumental variable (and to a lesser extent difference-in-difference) articles are more p-hacked than randomized controlled trial regression discontinuity design articles. We also find no (i) published in the top five journals different; (ii) “revise resubmit” process mitigates problem; (iii) things improving through time. Kranz Pütz...

We develop a model where workers, anticipating the possibility of unemployment, invest in connections to access information about available jobs. The investment in connections is high when the job separation rate is moderate, otherwise the investment in connections is low. The response of network investment to labor market conditions generates novel predictions. In particular, the probability t...