Title IX has undoubtedly increased athletic opportunities for young high school and college women. What is less well understood is whether Title IX has had the unintended consequence of decreasing educational opportunities for young women relative to men. This paper examines the relationship between a university's compliance with Title IX via the proportionality standard and the subsequent admi...

The experience shows the evaluative judgements obtained through perceptive testing may contain unintended preferences made by listeners with no apparent motivation.An advantage for additional interpretation adjustments is if a general trend in such a distortion and its main direction can be detected. .In experiments devoted to finding out sound qualities that motivate the Czech listener to divi...

We specify and estimate retirement models for singles and married couples and estimate these on data from the Dutch Socio-Economic Panel. We perform some simulations and find strong effects of retirement options in determining the retirement behavior within different household types. Model estimates are used to simulate the effect of relevant retirement policies across subgroups. We find that t...

We review recent work in which compactifications of string and M theory are constructed in which all scalar fields (moduli) are massive, and supersymmetry is broken with a small positive cosmological constant, features needed to reproduce real world physics. We explain how this work implies that there is a “landscape” of string/M theory vacua, perhaps containing many candidates for describing r...

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This article discusses unexpected consequences of idealistic conceptions about the modernization of power grids. We will focus our analysis on demand-response policies based on automatic decisions by the so-called smart home appliances. Following the usual design approach, each individual appliance has access to a universal signal (e.g. grid frequency or electricity price) that is believed to i...

This paper enquires into the nature of the act of communication between two or more persons. It proposes that such acts are best conceived of as moral, as related to the performative consequences of the acts in question. Given this, the paper then asks what applicability phrases like ‘overload’ might have, and whether quantitative techniques have a role other than as a heuristic in understandin...

We estimate the effect of a price floor regulation implemented in the Canadian province of Quebec beginning in 1997 and find that it substantially reduced the entry and exit of stations in local Quebec markets. We show that as a result of the policy, competition was higher and prices were lower in Quebec compared with a control group of unregulated markets in the neighboring province of Ontario...

In this paper, using data from a set of exploratory interviews, we inductively develop an integrative framework identifying key enablers and inhibitors that influence the process of use and adoption of hybrid wireless devices by subjects who participated in threeweek long trial studies. A number of intended as well as unintended consequences of the use and adoption of the technology also emerge...