Machiavellianism is associated with higher levels of occupational prestige and higher incomes. For men with below-average educations, Machiavellianism is inversely related to occupational attainment, and unrelated to income. Machiavellianism appears to have a facilitative effect upon women's attainment, but no evidence of an interaction effect was…

While static economic theory predicts that most income transfer programs will lead to reductions in the labor supply of program beneficiaries, the theory has nothing to say about the magnitude of such reductions. In order to predict the magnitude of such reductions the labor supply schedule of potential beneficiaries must be known. In three…

This is the second report on height and weight of U.S. children, six to 11 years old, from Cycle II of the Health Examination Survey. The first report analyzed and discussed data on height and weight by age, sex, race, and geographic region. This second report carries the analysis and discussion of height and weight data further by considering…

Research was conducted to re-emphasize the importance of functional differences among jobs by showing how they help to better explain the income and status differences that are the main concern of recent stratification research. Status attainment, social class, and vocational psychological approaches to occupational and social differences were…