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Examines the relationship between male U.S. Navy recruits' background characteristics and successful outcomes in the form of completion of obligated service, promotion, or retention. Concludes that high school graduates, recruits with higher test scores, African-American and Hispanic recruits, and those admitted through the Navy's Delayed Entry Program are most likely to have successful outcomes. (SG)

The relationship between recruit background characteristics for males enlisting in the U.S. Navy and successful outcomes - competition of obligated service, promotion, and retention beyond the initial enlistment contract - is explored. Findings show that characteristics associated with contract completion are also generally predictive of promotion and retention. Regular high school diploma graduates, higher test scores, black or Hispanic recruits, and recruits who enter the Navy through the Delayed Entry Program are found most likely to have successful outcomes.

A neoclassical model of industrial behavior in a monocentric urban setting gives rather static predictions re radial relocation direction. Familiarity with what a factory produces, as well as demand conditions and economic traits of the urban setting, is necessary to predict relocation.

The effect is examined of a binding housing share constraint on monocentric urban form and household location decisions. New calculations and comparative statics are offered for each effect. The comparative static results are generally ambiguous, but do permit determination of some circumstances within which households or the urban boundary will expand out or in with relaxation of the restraint. New calculations suggest that households will select more distant locations and that monocentric cities will have more distant boundaries, relative to equilibria that are not constrained. Simulations show that the incentive for having a ceiling on the total of housing expenditure and commuting versus housing expenditures alone is probably not significant, given the assumed relative size of commuting expenses.