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S (English) MAUREEN BAKER, Department of Sociology,University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019,Auckland, New Zealand. Medically Assisted Conception: RevolutionizingFamily or Perpetuating a Nuclear and GenderedModel? New reproductive technologies have the potentialto radicalize family life, as they could blur kinshiplines, separate biological and social parenthood,and e...

Efforts to anticipate how climate change will affect future food availability can benefit from understanding the impacts of changes to date. We found that in the cropping regions and growing seasons of most countries, with the important exception of the United States, temperature trends from 1980 to 2008 exceeded one standard deviation of historic year-to-year variability. Models that link yiel...

Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980 Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in differences of average wages among major industry groups parallels increases in wage and income inequality not only between rural and urban sectors but within the urban economy as well. Research on the trend has focuse...

This paper characterizes Federal Reserve policy since 1980 as one that actively manages short-term nominal interest rates in order to control inflation and evaluates this policy using a dynamic, stochastic, sticky-price model of the United States economy. The results show that the Fed’s policy insulates aggregate output from the effects of exogenous demand-side disturbances and, by calling for ...