This paper evaluates the impact of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program on neighborhood level labor and housing market outcomes over the period 1994-2000. Using four decades of Census data in conjunction with information on the proposed boundaries of rejected EZs, we find that neighborhoods receiving EZ designation experienced substantial improvements in labor market condi...

I come from a family of lawyers. When I was growing up, the only scientist in the family was my uncle, who was a physicist. But I was interested in science, and as a boy collected rocks and kept my “chemistry cabinet” in a spare room at my father’s law firm in Rome where I smelled up the place from time to time with failed experiments. When I finished high school at the Liceo Classico Torquato ...

This paper evaluates the impact of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program on neighborhood level labor and housing market outcomes over the period 1994-2000. Using four decades of Census data in conjunction with information on the proposed boundaries of rejected EZs, we find that neighborhoods receiving EZ designation experienced substantial improvements in labor market condi...

The debate about behavioral economics – the incorporation of insights from psychology into economics – is often framed as a question about the foundational assumptions of economic models. This paper presents a more pragmatic perspective on behavioral economics that focuses on its value for improving empirical predictions and policy decisions. I discuss three ways in which behavioral economics c...

Much existential philosophical theorizing and experimental psychological research is consistent with the notion that people experience arousal when committed beliefs are violated, and this prompts them to affirm other committed beliefs. People depend on meaning frameworks to make sense of their experiences, and when these expected associations are violated, the offending anomaly is often either...

tance, though it does not completely reverse it. Although the degree of TNF expression also correlates with insulin Bioinformatics: The Machine Learning Approach resistance in humans, data illustrating causality has not yet been produced. The most potent action of insulin is to supress lipolysis in fat cells: any event that interferes with insulin action in adipocytes would be expected to resul...

If forensic physical anthropology is the science of biological processes and related medico-legal investigations, then social cultural socio-legal investigations. This article lays out terms, definitions, application specialization in as it practised Australia. The objective this exercise to equip both anthropologists with a consilient model for joint engagement their parent discipline legal pr...

S Music and the Moving Image, May 31-June 2, 2013 NYU Steinhardt, Dept. Music and Performing Arts Professions, Program in Scoring for Film and Multimedia 1. FRIDAY, May 31, 9:30 11:00 AM Frederick Loewe Theatre Music Production Libraries: The Craft and the Business Doug Wood, President of Omnimusic & ASCAP Board Member Respondents: Ron Sadoff, Jeff Smith, Elisabeth Weis 2. Friday, May 31, 11:30...

The paper is devoted to the joint scientific and technological study on distance learning and support within the ENACTS project, which is a network of leading institutions from around Europe offering High Performance Computing systems and services together with key developments in the area of Grid computing. The first part describes the ENACTS project with an emphasis to the methodology for eva...

In a prospective study of U.S. Navy recruits (N = 5,491), we examined the relationship between childhood exposure to family violence (child physical abuse, CPA; child sexual abuse, CSA; and domestic violence, DV) and attrition. Overall, 55% of recruits experienced one or more forms of childhood family violence and 34% of recruits attrited within 4 years following enlistment. Considered separate...