Hyphenated Americans. Economic Aspects

Americans misperceive racial economic equality.

The present research documents the widespread misperception of race-based economic equality in the United States. Across four studies (n = 1,377) sampling White and Black Americans from the top and bottom of the national income distribution, participants overestimated progress toward Black-White economic equality, largely driven by estimates of greater current equality than actually exists acco...

Economic Experts versus Average Americans

In 2012 the National Public Radio program Planet Money created a fake presidential platform based on the issues a small sample of economists, with different political views, agreed upon. In focus groups this platform found no support among the public at large. Is this just a feature of the particular selection made by NPR or is it a generalizable feature? If so, is this because ordinary people ...

Epidemiology and economic aspects

Descriptive epidemiology The measures employed are incidence and prevalence. A first step in descriptive epidemiology is to obtain a valid definition of what constitutes a “case.” Quite surprisingly, up to now, no widely employed diagnostic criteria have been developed for clinical and population based studies of psoriasis. The first diagnosis made by a physician and the first appearance of ski...

Economic Asp 6 . Economic Aspects of Automation

The increasing diffusion of automation in all sectors of the industrial world gives rise to a deep modification of labor organization and requires a new approach to evaluate industrial systems efficiency, effectiveness, and economic convenience. Until now, the evaluation tools and methods at disposal of industrial managers are rare and even complex. Easy-to-use criteria, possibly based on robus...

Economic Aspects of Personal Privacy