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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. The Macroeconomic Effects of Wartime Fiscal Policy in the United States -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Historical War Episodes -- 2.3 The Model Economy -- 2.4 Model Calibration and Welfare Cost Calculation -- 2.5 Economic Analysis of Government Policies -- 2.6 Summary and Conclusions -- III. The Macroeconomic Effects of World War II Monetary Policy: Price Controls, Rationing, and Inflation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Monetary Policies During U.S. Wars and Design of Counterfactual Policy -- 3.3 World War II Rationing and Price Controls -- 3.4 The Model Economy -- 3.5 Calibrating the Model with Price Controls -- 3.6 Economic Analysis of Monetary Policies -- 3.7 Summary and Conclusions -- Appendix A - Solution Technique -- Appendix B - Model Calibration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

"We build a new quarterly dataset of aggregate hours worked consistent with standard NIPA constructs for 14 OECD countries over the last fifty years. We find that cyclical features of labor markets across countries differ markedly from the accepted empirical facts reported in the literature based on either just U.S. hours data, or based on cross-country employment data. We document that total hours worked in many OECD countries are about as volatile as output, that a relatively large fraction of labor market adjustment takes place along the intensive margin outside the United States, and that the volatility of total hours relative to output volatility has increased over time in almost all countries. We use these data to re-assess productivity and labor wedges during the Great Recession and during prior recessions. We find that the Great Recession in many OECD countries is a significant puzzle in that labor wedges are quite small, while those in the U.S. Great Recession - and those in previous European recessions - are much larger. These new data indicate that understanding cyclical labor fluctuations in OECD countries requires understanding why hours fluctuate so much more than previously considered, how and why labor markets changed so much in the last few years, why cyclical adjustment of hours per worker in countries with large firing costs is not even larger than observed, and why the Great Recession differs so much across countries"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

An overview of intimate partner violence among Latinos / Joanne Klevens -- Domestic violence in the African American community : moving forward to end abuse / Tricia B. Bent-Goodley -- Domestic violence in Asian cultures / Qiang Xu and Allen Anderson -- Domestic violence among Native Americans / Julie C. Abril -- Domestic violence in Sub-Saharan Africa / Godpower O. Ok ereke, Peter Racheotes, and Josephine Kahler -- Physical child abuse, neglect, and domestic violence : a case studies approach / Mark A. Winton and Elizabeth M. Rash -- The response of child welfare agencies to domestic violence / Melanie Shepard and Gina Farrell

Temperate-zone forests have been shaped by fire, wind and grazing over thousands of years. This book provides a major contribution to the study of their dynamics by considering three important themes: • The combined influence of wind, fire and herbivory on the successional trajectories and structural characteristics of forests • The interaction of deciduous and evergreen tree species to form mosaics which, in turn, influence the environment and disturbance regime • The significance of temporal and spatial scale with regard to the overall impact of disturbances These themes are explored via case studies from the forests in the Lake States of the USA (Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan) where the presence of large primary forest remnants provides a unique opportunity to study the long-term dynamics of near-boreal, pine and hardwood-hemlock forests. The comparability of these forests to forests in other temperate zones allows generalizations to be made that may apply more widely

"Between 1929 and 1933, real output per adult fell over 30 percent and total factor productivity fell 18 percent.This productivity decrease is much larger than expected from just extrapolating the productivity decrease that typically occurs during recessions.This paper evaluates what factors may have caused this large decrease, including unmeasured factor utilization, changes in the composition of production, and increasing returns.I find that these factors combined explain less than one-third of the 18 percent decrease, and I conclude that the productivity decrease during the Great Depression remains a puzzle"--Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis web site