This study uses an agent-based test bed (“AMES”)to investigate separation and volatility of locational marginalprices (LMPs) in an ISO-managed restructured wholesale powermarket operating over an AC transmission grid. Particular attentionis focused on the dynamic and cross-sectional response...

The paper draws upon the work of T.W. Schultz to show that human capital theory andlabor market adjustments have important implications for investing in people for the 21st Century.[...]

This paper gives an axiomatic characterization of the Atkinson indices of segregationfor the multigroup case using a small number of purely ordinal axioms. We showthat the symmetric Atkinson index represents the unique ordering that treats ethnicgroups symmetrically, that is invariant to...

We propose a set of axioms for the measurement of school-based segregation withany number of ethnic groups. These axioms are motivated by two criteria. The first isevenness: how much do ethnic groups’ distributions across schools differ? The secondis representativeness: how different are...