What effect does managerial structure have on technological style? In this paper I will examine the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to investigate that question.
The "official" history of Silver Spring is well known. Local residents repeat the story of Francis Preston Blair's discovery of a spring flecked with mica …
In the 1830s and 1840s cities and towns throughout the United States looked to railroads to bring them prosperity. Yet decisions to build railroads were …
In 1893, the Cataract Construction Company, after four years of deliberation, decided that the power generated by its turbines at Niagara Falls would be transmitted …
Museums and universities should work together to increase historical knowledge and disseminate it among a wider public. Both have much to gain, for their capabilities …
Inventors, the purchasers of patent rights, and the users of patented goods all have economic interests in the framing and interpretation of patent law. These …
Technological representations, I argue, make it easier to bring technological actions under the control of authority. Thus, technological representations allow and encourage the situating of …
New technologies pose new challenges for archivists not only because they change the material nature of archives, but also because they change ideas about information …
The place of industry, a quintessentially modem enterprise, is less certain in today's postmodern world. Are we in a postindustrial era? An epoch of de-industrialization? …
This case study examines the curatorial challenges of producing a very large exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History from 1999 to 2003. …
Recently, genetic association findings for nicotine dependence, smoking behavior, and smoking-related diseases converged to implicate the chromosome 15q25.1 region, which includes the CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 cholinergic nicotinic …
Background: HIV counseling and testing is considered an important component of HIV prevention and treatment. This paper examines the characteristics of young males and females …
Background: After more than 25 years, public health programs have not been able to sufficiently reduce the number of new HIV infections. Over 7,000 people …
Although forests have diminished globally over the past 400 years, forest cover has increased in some areas, including India in the last two decades. Aggregate …
This paper develops a growth model characterized by ability-biased technological transition in which the evolution of technology, education attainment, and wage inequality is consistent with …
We present a model where groups attempt to influence policies using both bribes (plata, Spanish for silver) and the threat of punishment (plomo, Spanish for …
This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human …
Several recent papers in the literature have reformulated the nature of equilibrium in Tiebout models by assuming an exogenous number of communities, inflexible community boundaries, …
Standard models of tax incidence have no explicit public sector. For property taxes at least, this is not an innocent assumption. The local public sector …
This paper uses data for eight manufacturing industries in 1970 and 1987 to test for and characterize dynamic production externalities in cities. We find evidence …
In an economy experiencing endogenous economic growth and exogenous population growth, we explore two main themes: how urbanization affects efficiency of the growth process and …
This paper examines unintended effects of air quality regulation, using plant data for 1963-92. A key regulatory tool since 1978 is the annual designation of …
This paper examines strategic behavior of developers who, through offering different congested public-good packages and revenue/fiscal schemes, compete for residents who are differentiated by income. …
It is argued that people's neighborhood social interaction is strongly affected by the presence of a parent or adult child in the neighborhood. Although only …
Analyses of neighborhood racial composition in 1980-2000 demonstrate that in multiethnic metropolitan regions there is an emerging pathway of change that leads to relatively stable …
A novel method for location analysis at the individual level is used to analyze the determinants of proximity to non-Hispanic whites separately for Asians, blacks, …
This article investigates whether a market for unsafe sexual activity exists among nonmarital, noncommercial sexual relationships in a high HIV/AIDS environment. The exchange of money …
Many observers believe that wealthy men play a disproportionate role in the continuing spread of HIV/AIDS infection in sub-Saharan Africa through their involvement in informal …
BACKGROUND: Neighborhood characteristics have been associated with poor maternal and child health outcomes, yet conceptualization of potential mechanisms is still needed. Census data have long …
OBJECTIVES: A recent study found that lung cancer may be associated with exposures encountered in the electrical utility industry. To further evaluate this possibility, data …
The two principal methods of evaluating environmental health risks are observational epidemiologic studies of exposed populations and laboratory studies of the effects of agents on …
Since 1978, the People's Republic of China has embarked on a great economic and social transformation - the transition to a market-oriented economy. Social scientists …
BACKGROUND: In South Africa, HIV prevalence among youth aged 15-24 is among the world's highest. Given the urgent need to identify effective HIV prevention approaches, …
The impact of protease inhibitors (PIs) on emergency department (i.e., emergency room (ER)) visits and hospitalizations was examined among a cohort of human immunodeficiency virus …
We assessed the effect of lower genital tract infections on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) RNA shedding in the female genital tract. Bacterial vaginosis …
Objective. Our objective was to determine antiretroviral drug concentrations and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) RNA rebound in cervicovaginal fluid (CVF) in relation to blood plasma …
OBJECTIVES: Incarceration rates in the United States have tripled over the past two decades and have increased even more rapidly among women than men. To …
I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct macroeconomic estimates of the proximate effect of health on GDP per …
This paper examines whether the Solow growth model is consistent with the international variation in the standard of living. It shows that an augmented Solow …
We model growth and technology transfer in a world where technologies are specific to particular combinations of inputs. Unlike the usual specification, our model does …
Between 1950 and 1990, the aggregate population of central cities in the United States declined by 17 percent despite population growth of 72 percent in …
This study exploits the quasi-random assignment of air pollution changes across counties induced by federally mandated air pollution regulations to identify the impact of particulate …
A salient theme in D. Gale Johnson’s work is the importance of agricultural development for general prosperity and for economic diversification (e.g., Johnson 2000). Johnson …
We examine the mapping of the distribution of ability onto earnings in a hierarchical job assignment model. Workers are assigned to a continuum of jobs …
BACKGROUND: A genome wide association study found significant association of a sequence variant, rs7566605, in the insulin-induced gene 2 (INSIG2) with obesity. However, the association …
BACKGROUND: Few studies have described heterogeneity in Schistosoma japonicum infection intensity, and none were done in Philippines. The purpose of this report is to describe …
A double‐blind placebo‐controlled study of the concurrent administration of albendazole and praziquantel was conducted in >1500 children with high prevalences of geohelminths and schistosomiasis. The …
BACKGROUND: Many studies have addressed the relationship between iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and cognitive impairment, but none have evaluated the role of non-iron deficiency anemia …