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This paper compares the life satisfaction and working hours of Latin Americans and U.S. Americans using the AmericasBarometer and General Social Survey. While there are many common determinants of happiness, hours worked is not among them. Differences in cultural values, especially the distinction between collectivism (familism) and individualism that has long been a foundation of social development theory, may be why married Latin American males are less happy than married U.S. American males when working longer hours. The distinction is not apparent among females or the unmarried. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents an obituary for geographer Paul Wheatley who died on October 30, 1999 in Michigan.

Focuses on the fertility boom and bust cycles in Concord, Massachusetts from 1800 to 1990. Decline in fertility during the eighteenth century due to the decline of frontier conditions characterized by economic and demographic expansion; Characteristics of the state of boom and bust cycles in the nineteenth century.

An exceptionally early and rapid fertility decline was achieved in Concord, Massachusetts by 1815. This decline was succeeded by a new demographic regime characterized by remarkable cyclical responsiveness to macroeconomic and macropolitical events. The evidence for declining fertility during the eighteenth century is consistent with so-called Malthusian-Frontier explanations of colonial-era demography, whereas the nineteenth-century responsiveness to economic and political change reveals a much earlier onset of Easterlin fertility cycles than has previously been postulated. The transition from the first to the second regime followed the emergence of a market economy in rural Massachusetts in the decade after the American Revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the differentiation introduced into the central place hierarchy by metropolitan influences with improvement of highways and extension of commuting range in Washington. Development of population; Specialization of the business pattern within the metropolitan community; Paucity of highway-oriented and urban arterial business types.

Focuses on the relationship between metropolitan labor market participation and regional development in the U.S. Description of the labor market map in the country; Implications of differences in commuting behavior; Discussion on regional policy alternatives.

Abstract: Four phases of interest in the distribution of city sizes are identified and current conflict in the literature is shown to be a consequence of poorly-selected units of observation. When urban regions are properly defined, US urban growth obeys Gibrat’s Law and the city size distribution is strictly Zipfian rank-size with coefficient q =1.0. Care has to be taken with definition of the largest urban-economic regions, however; the fit in the upper tail of the distribution is best when they are recognized to be megalopolitan in scale. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Despite numerous and long-standing research to indicate that behavioral procedures can produce large gains in academic skill development, the techniques are seldom used in regular education. This can be a major problem when a consultant believes a behavioral intervention is required. Major reviews on programs that work in education have omitted reference to behavioral technology and prospective regular education teachers seldom experience in-depth courses on behavioral procedures despite the fact that the procedures have become increasingly more practical. Possible reasons for this situation include bias on the part of journal editors, the pervasive influence of psychodynamic psychology, and the association of the behavioral approach with nonhuman research and back wards of hospitals. In order to overcome this situation, we suggest that behavioral consultants (a) make greater use of their technology, (b) increase the scope of their research, and (c) forage in unexplored fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]