Household Expenditures, Wages, Rents

We provide new evidence from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 Decennial Census of Housing that the expenditure share on housing is constant over time and across U.S. metropolitan areas (MSA). Consistent with this observation, we consider a basic model in which identical households with Cobb-Douglas preferences for housing and numeraire consumption choose an MSA in which to live and MSAs differ with respect to income earned by residents. We compute constant-quality wages and rental prices for a sample of 50 U.S. MSAs. Given estimated wages, the calibrated model predicts that rental prices should be more dispersed than observed. That is, the model suggests that rental prices are too low in many high-wage MSAs in the year 2000.household expenditures, housing prices, Cobb-Douglas utility

What’s really going on in housing markets?

Most of the public concern about housing markets is based on claims that house prices have increased at historically anomalous rates and that house prices have outpaced incomes. The first claim is based on inaccurate historical data. The second is linked to relaxed credit constraints. House prices are likely to fall further, but not for the reasons usually proposed.Housing - Prices

The Rent-Price Ratio for the Aggregate Stock of Owner-Occupied Housing

We construct a time series of the rent-price ratio for the owner- occupied stock of housing, starting in 1960:1, by merging micro data from the last five Decennial Censuses of Housing with price indexes for house prices and rents.House Prices, Housing, Rents, CMHPI, Capitalization Rates

Digital dating : online dating profiles of older and younger gay, lesbian, and heterosexual adults

Online dating is a common way for older, gay, and lesbian adults to find a romantic partner, yet little is known about their dating motivations and self-presentations. Adults of different ages, genders, and sexual orientations may have different approaches to dating and presenting themselves online. Adults’ profiles are likely to differ based on evaluations of the desires of potential partners, as well as individuals own stage in life and place in their broader social environment. Using a mixed method approach in three studies, this dissertation examines thousands of dating profiles randomly sampled from two popular dating websites and various regions of the US. The first two studies examine the dating profiles of older and younger gay, lesbian, and heterosexual adults. Study 1 explores the extent to which adults emphasize the “self” versus connections to others. Study 2 examines the degree to which adults discuss and display their bodies and sexuality. Study 3 utilizes a separate dataset of older gay, lesbian, and heterosexual adults and focuses on common profile content and potential regional differences in profile content. Results revealed that older adults were more focused on close social ties in their profiles, while younger adults were focused on the self and were more likely to post different types of photographs. Further, older adults were just as likely as younger adults to discuss sexuality in their profiles, but less likely to display their bodies in photographs. Gay and lesbian adults were more likely to emphasize friendships, while heterosexual adults focused more on family. Gay men and heterosexual women seemed to craft their profiles to appeal to men’s desire for physical attractiveness and sexuality, using photos to display their bodies. Conversely, heterosexual men and lesbian women presented themselves as focused on others, perhaps to appeal to the communal nature associated with women. With regard to regional environment, older gay and lesbian adults residing in environments with low structural support for LGBT people were most likely to emphasize a desire for shared experiences, potentially reflecting feelings of disconnectedness to their environments. Findings suggest that despite the scripted nature of dating profiles, adults with different characteristics may have distinct motivations when seeking a romantic partner.Human Development and Family Science

Granitic Domes of the Mohave Desert, California

Several granitic areas in the Mohave Desert region of southeastern California have been degraded to smooth dome-like forms, to which Lawson has given the name, panfans. They have diameters of from 3 to 6 or 8 miles and heights of from 500 to 2,000 feet over the adjacent lower land. One of the best examples is shown in Plate 12. The well graded convexity of these masses, the steepest declivity of which seldom measures more than 4° or 5°, is flanked by the long, aggraded, concave slopes of their detritus. In some instances the domes are elongated into arches, 10 or 15 miles in length. Many other areas, granitic and non-granitic, less completely and less symmetrically degraded, exhibit bold or subdued residual forms surmounting their smoothly degraded flanks. The most perfect domes or arches result from the undisturbed degradation of upheaved granitic masses which have been worked upon, according to their original form, 1 chiefly by one or the other of two somewhat unlike erosional processes, both of which are merely modifications of ordinary erosional processes appropriate to the dry climate where their action takes place

Strategies for Thriving: A Qualitative Study of Black Teachers who participated in Morehead State University\u27s Teacher Preparation Program

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the College of Education at Morehead State University by LaRaissa Davis-Morris on October 30, 2018