“Relative mobility” measures how a child’s ranking in the income distribution compares to her parents'. “Absolute mobility” measures something entirely different. The economics blogosphere as well as ...

When you make a trade, there will be trading costs, but what’s the best way to measure those costs? The basic principle in TCA is to compare your achieved execution price to some observed benchmark, ...

In this volume, Spiegler and coworkers present their work on very low-birth weight infants (VLBW), they analysed at what age parents start complementary food in these infants, they determined risk ...

Data from medical research are typically summarized with various types of outcome measures. We present three arguments in favor of absolute over relative outcome measures. The first argument is from ...