This paper reports the results of a survey regarding the instances of plagiarism reported by journal editors in the economics profession. The survey finds that nearly 24% of responding editors encounter one case of plagiarism in a typical year. In addition, the survey reveals that less than 19% of responding journals have a formal policy regarding plagiarism. Moreover, there is a great deal of variance in what is considered plagiarism and what an appropriate response to plagiarism should be. A majority of editors believe that the economics profession would benefit from a professional code of ethics.

In spite of the common wisdom that poverty breeds terrorism, econometric tests usually find that terrorism is influenced by population and various measures of democratic freedom, but not per capita GDP. Unlike previous studies, we use a data set containing separate measures of domestic and transnational terrorism and estimate models allowing for a nonlinear relationship between terrorism and poverty. When we account for the nonlinearities in the data and distinguish between the two types of terrorist events, we find that poverty has as a very strong influence on domestic terrorism and a small, but significant, effect on transnational terrorism.

Although poverty research has a very long history in the social sciences, serious debate on the sufficiency of economic growth to eliminate poverty was rekindled by the inception of the “War on Poverty” by the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations during the early 1960s. Forty years later, the measurement of growth’s effect on poverty remains an important input to the policy question of whether, how much, and how govern ment efforts should address poverty reduction. Early work by Henry J. Aaron (1967) found that poverty among certain groups seemed highly sensitive to economic growth, while other groups were barely affected. Subsequent researchers have realized that poverty has a spa tial as well as a demographic dimension, and more recent work has examined poverty by “race and region” using disaggregated time series. The present study further refines the examination of poverty by racial/ethnic group and region by investigating the impact of economic progress on poverty across black, Hispanic, and white populations measured over 35 years at the level of the census region. To our knowledge, this is the first research to study all three of these groups using regional data. A regional analysis is important because the North, Midwest, South, and West have had different industrial structures and different economic histories over the last three decades. As shown in Figure 1, regional poverty rates of blacks and Hispanics relative to whites are quite different. Moreover, regional differences exist in the levels and growth rates of real per capital GDP, in the secular decline in manufac turing, and in the pattern of the unemployment rate. In addition to economic events, we control Non-White Poverty and Macroeconomy: The Impact of Growth

Market Structure and Racial Earnings: Evidence from Job-Changers by Jacqueline Agesa, Richard U. Agesa and Gary A. Hoover. Published in volume 91, issue 2, pages 169-173 of American Economic Review, May 2001

Using state-level data from 1980-2010 we examine whether economic freedom, as measured by the Economic Freedom of North America Index, has had any impact in increasing or decreasing the ratio of median income for black households to the median income of white households. To our knowledge, there has been no research on racial income disparities and the role that economic freedom might have in alleviating or exacerbating the problem. We find evidence that economic freedom is associated with an increase in the racial income gap.