Assessing the importance of borrowing constraints for college entry is key for education policy analysis in the U.S. economy. I present a computable dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and incomplete markets that allows me to measure the fraction of households constrained in their college entry decision. College education is financed by family transfers and public sub...

I. Qualifications My name is Geoffrey R. Loftus. I am a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. My area of expertise, in which I have been working for 30 years, is human perception and memory. Over the past ten years, I have qualified as an expert in perception and memory in approximately 120 criminal cases in nine states, federal courts in six cities, and U.S. Milit...

Spotlight on Cancer Informatics is a new feature of Cancer Informatics designed to help build a sense of community among informatics researchers attempting to at once provide informatics services to cancer studies while simultaneously conducting independent research that leads to advances in informatics solution. Individuals are “Spotlighted” at the invitation of the Editor-in-Chief. To be cons...

The present study analyzed the profile of dental researchers receiving grants related to their productivity in research from the Brazilian National Research and Development Council (CNPq). Data collection was carried out in March 2008, using the Brazilian database for curriculum vitae (Lattes Format). There were 144 researchers registered in the database and linked to 25 institutions. These res...

From habit, we scientists tend to count, and nowhere is this more in display than when a curriculum vitae is in hand. I had occasion recently to look over my cumulative publication list, starting with the first entry in 1984. I was startled to see that I have had 117 coauthors during the course of my career to date. This fact prompted me to give some thought to aspects of coauthorship and share...

I am the Holbrook Working Professor of Economics at Stanford University, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Principal of Market Design Inc. I am an expert on auctions, microeconomic theory, and industrial organization. I previously was the Castle Krob Career Development Associate Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and I was a Sl...

The ?Humanae Vitae,? meaning ?Of Human Life? and subtitled ?On the Regulation of Birth,? was an encyclical promulgated in Rome, Italy, on 25 July 1968 by Pope Paul VI [6]. This encyclical defended and reiterated the Roman Catholic Church?s stance on family planning [7] and reproductive issues such as abortion [8], sterilization [9], and contraception [10]. The document continues to have a contr...