We model how student choices to rush a fraternity, and fraternity admission choices, interact with signals firms receive about student productivities to determine labormarket outcomes. The fraternity and students value wages and fraternity socializing values. We provide sufficient conditions under which, in equilibrium, most members have intermediate abilities: weak students apply, but are reje...

Sexual violence is a serious problem on college campuses. Nearly twenty-five percent of men report perpetrating some form of sexual violence during their first four years of college. This study examined how dynamics related to membership in all male groups (e.g., fraternities) interacted with alcohol use to predict sexual violence, specifically whether membership in a fraternity affected the re...

Abstract Epistemic states of uncertainty play important roles in ethical and political theorizing. Theories that appeal to a “veil ignorance,” for example, analyze fairness or impartiality terms certain ignorance. It is important, then, scrutinize proposed conceptions ignorance explore promising alternatives such contexts. Here, I study Lerner’s probabilistic egalitarian theorem the setting imp...

Objective Two hypotheses were tested: 1. People from privileged backgrounds had better survival than those from less privileged backgrounds. 2. The advantages of privilege were vitiated by fraternity membership. Methods A 55-year retrospective cohort study of survival since 1960 of 945 graduates of Yale College followed to 2015. Results The survival of graduates of private secondary schools...

relationship between income inequality and health has been independently discovered several times by people who appeared not to know of each other's work. 1,2 When I first published on the subject 3 I too was unaware of Rodgers' paper 4 until George Davey Smith pointed it out to me. Rodgers introduced an income distribution term into his regressions simply to take account of the well-known curv...

This study examines whether male support groups, specifically fraternities, supports the victimization of women, and the extent of its relationship to alcohol use. 119 self-administered questionnaires were analyzed. Among male subjects, 93.3% were Whites with an average age of 20.5 years; approximately 22% of this sample were members of fraternities. After analysis of data, the hypothesis, w...