The impact of working wives\u27 income on household food consumption and expenditures

Economic theory has utilized price and income elasticities of demand in measuring and explaining household food purchase behavior. While these elasticity coefficients have explained quantity change measurements with respect to different income and price levels, a more accurate explanation of the resultant elasticity coefficient may be obtained if causes of variations between households of given income levels can be established. To obtain this added information, a more detailed analysis, with the inclusion of variables in addition to price and income constituents, would be required. An important source of additional income for households in the United States has been that earned by wives in the labor force. The 1960 Census of Population indicated that about 24 percent of all households in metropolitan Knoxville, Tennessee, had both the husband and wife gainfully employed. Results of this study indicate that approximately 26 percent of those households surveyed in Knoxville, Tennessee, had both the husband and wife in the labor force. The effect of the wives\u27 household income upon household food purchases with respect to poundage and expenditure per capita is the primary concern of this study

Letter from the editor

One of the most common symposium formats in this newsletter has been discussion of a newly published book of interest to the QMMR membership. The current issue introduces an adaptation of this recurrent format with the appearance of our first multi-book symposium

Making room for interpretivism? A pragmatic approach

Interpretivist scholars have carefully documented the minimal, at best, presence that interpretive philosophical perspectives and empirical methods have had in political science methods texts and curricula (Yanow and Schwartz-Shea 2002; Schwartz-Shea 2003). What are we to make of this absence? Is there a problem to be rectified here? Or an allocation decision justifiable in light of limited pedagogical time and resources?Given the profusion of philosophical perspectives and methods for accessing, generating, and analyzing data found in the social sciences as a whole, some absences are unavoidable in any single discipline. Thus, the fact of the relative absence of interpretivism in the methods training of political science graduate students cannot alone support arguments for (or against) giving it more room

The economic impact of the Department of Energy on the State of New Mexico Fiscal Year 1995

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provides a major source of economic benefits in New Mexico, second only to the activities of the U.S. Department of Defense. The agency`s far-reaching economic influence within the state is the focus of this report. Economic benefits arising from the various activities and functions of both the Department and its contractors have accrued to the state continuously for over 45 years. For several years, DOE/Albuquerque Operations Office (AL) and New Mexico State University (NMSU) have maintained inter-industry, input-output modeling capabilities to assess DOE`s impacts on the state of New Mexico and the other substate regions most directly impacted by DOE activities. One of the major uses of input-output techniques is to assess the effects of developments initiated outside the economy such as federal DOE monies that flow into the state, on an economy

The economic impact of Sandia National Laboratories on central New Mexico and the State of New Mexico, Fiscal year 1995

Central NM: funding was about $1.5 billion in FY95, yielding a total economic impact of$4.3 billion, about 10.5% of total economic activity in the region. Total personal income impact was over $1.1 billion in FY95, nearly 9$1.5 billion funding supported a total economic impact of $4.4 billion, about 5$1.15 billion or nearly 4% of personal income in the state. The employment multipler of 3.97 for the state meant that the 8,153 average employment level supported a total impact of 32,339; thus, in effect, one of every 23 jobs in the state was created or supported by SNL. About 75% of the jobs created indirectly by SNL in the central region and in the state occurred in the trade, services, and finance/insurance/real estate sectors

The Economic Impact of the Department of Energy on the State of New Mexico Fiscal Year 1995

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provides a major source of economic benefits in New Mexico, second only to the activities of the U.S. Department of Defense. The agency`s far-reaching economic influence within the state is the focus of this report. Economic benefits arising from the various activities and functions of both the Department and its contractors have accrued to the state continuously for over 45 years. For several years, DOE/Albuquerque Operations Office (AL) and New Mexico State University (NMSU) have maintained inter-industry, input-output modeling capabilities to assess DOE`s impacts on the state of New Mexico and the other substate regions most directly impacted by DOE activities. One of the major uses of input-output techniques is to assess the effects of developments initiated outside the economy such as federal DOE monies that flow into the state, on an economy