A study considered effects of class size and other class-specific variables (missing student questionnaires and attrition) on learning of college economics. Beginning class size was significant and negatively correlated to learning economics--partly since students in larger classes were significantly more likely to withdraw before taking the…

Develops a model of ideal minority representation to assess whether or not an employer's current personnel policies are consistent with a random hiring policy. The model is then applied to a case alleging sex discrimination in the hiring practices of a university academic department. Appended are 12 references. (MLF)

Responds to critique by Dometrius and Sigelman of Becker and Williams' model of ideal or random flow of people from preselection pool of applicants to postselection work force. Shows that critics' two claims are wrong, because they did not use relative measures of female representation in work force, and they base their modification of his model…

Explores the implications for student behavior of different standards. Shows that competition between students does stimulate academic effort provided students are appropriately rewarded for achieving and argues that stratifying students into groups in which each has a chance for success may be preferred to the setting of a single national…

In assessing sex-discrimination suit damages, debate rages over the type and number of variables included in a single-equation model of the salary-determination process. This article considers single- and multiple-equation models, providing 36 different damage calculations. For University of Minnesota data, equalization cost hinges on the…