THE RATIONALE FOR MINNESOTA REGIONALIZATION

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

REGIONALIZATION IN THE UPPER MIDWEST--THE ABC'S OF AN INCREMENTAL EVOLUTION

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

POPULATION GROWTH--IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH?

Labor and Human Capital,

REGIONAL PLANNING: COMMON SENSE OR NONSENSE?

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

MINNESOTA'S REGIONAL SYSTEMS

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

REGIONALISM AS A NEW BASIS FOR PLANNING

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

Time series analysis of migratory stabilization: a research technique for quantifying individual and group patterns of cyclic migration, with special reference to sub-Saharan Africa

Africa Studies Institute Seminar series. Pater presented, 1967. Marked 'Additional Seminar paper" Reprinted from AFRICAN STUDIES : a quarterly journal devoted to the study of African cultures, government, and languages, volume 26, number 3, 1967. Published by the Witwatersrand University Pres

Africans in South African Industry: the Human Dimension

African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented March, 197

The Effectiveness of Insurance Fraud Statutues: Evidence from Automobile Insurance

Insurance fraud, which adds an estimated $85 billion per year to the total insurance bill in the U.S., is an extremely serious problem for consumers, regulators, and insurance companies. This paper analyzes the effects of state legislation and market conditions on automobile insurance fraud from 1988 to 1999, a period representing a substantial increase in the enactment of antifraud legislation. Our empirical results show that the laws have mixed effects; two laws have no statistically significant effect on fraud. The strongest evidence of fraud mitigation effects are associated with mandatory Special Investigation Units, classification of insurance fraud as a felony, and mandatory reporting of professionals to licensing authorities. However, laws requiring insurers to report potentially fraudulent claims to law enforcement authorities increase fraud, which may reflect some substitution from more efficacious private efforts to less productive state activity. Many underlying characteristics of the market also affect fraud.Insurance Fraud, Automobile Insurance, Moral Hazard

Sexual well-being and diurnal cortisol after prostate cancer treatment.

Sexual dysfunction and psychological distress are common after prostate cancer. Research has not examined the role of neuroendocrine markers of stress (e.g. cortisol). This study examines whether sexual functioning or sexual bother is associated with diurnal cortisol. Men treated for prostate cancer completed the University of California-Los Angeles Prostate Cancer Index and provided saliva samples four times daily for cortisol assessment. Higher sexual bother, but not sexual functioning, was associated with steeper cortisol slope. Better sexual functioning, and not sexual bother, was significantly associated with the cortisol awakening response. Assessment of stress and stress-reducing interventions might be warranted in sexual rehabilitation after prostate cancer