Donald Snyder
Biographic Data
| ID | 4080428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Snyder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Snyder |
| SIGNATURE | SNYDER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Old Dominion University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-4411-9209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Measuring Judicial Appeasement of the United States Supreme Court
The interpersonal dynamics of political elites remain somewhat shrouded within extant literature. In this paper, we propose a new measure of “appeasement,” using analyses of Supreme Court opinions. Appeasement operationalizes the level of strategic concession-making that individual justices display in their responses to majority opinions. Analyzing a corpus of over 9,000 non-majority opinions between 1946 and 2011, we use a machine learning model…
New thinking on the financial crisis
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand understanding of the current global financial crisis in light of other large‐scale financial crises. Design/methodology/approach The phenomenon of large‐scale financial crisis has not been modeled well by neo‐classical general equilibrium approaches; the paper explores whether evolutionary and complex systems approaches might be more useful. Previous empirical work and current data are coalesced to i…
Foreign Aid and Domestic Savings
Economic Effects of Revolution
Econometric studies of household saving behaviour in developing countries
This article surveys recent attempts to measure and analyze household savings behaviour in developing economies. Studies of the relationships between savings and current income, permanent income, wealth, interest rates, the price level, household demographic characteristics, occupation, income distribution, direct taxation, and other factors are reviewed and evaluated. Notes The author is Assistant Professor of Economics at Old Dominion Universit…
Economic Determinants of Family Size in West Africa
The economic theory of fertility postulates that income and prices, broadly defined, are important determinants of family size. What follows is an attempt to test this theory against the behavior of 717 predominantly urban households in Sierra Leone. Husband’s education is used as a proxy for income; the “price” of a child is accounted for by wife’s education and wife’s wage rate. Other important variables are wife’s age, a measure of child “qual…
A comment on Schnaiberg's measure of fertility and child dependency
This comment discusses some potential difficulties in the construction and use of a new fertility variable proposed in a recent issue of Population Studies, and considers one possible remedy
Economic Determinants of Family Size in West Africa
The economic theory of fertility postulates that income and prices, broadly defined, are important determinants of family size. What follows is an attempt to test this theory against the behavior of 717 predominantly urban households in Sierra Leone. Husband’s education is used as a proxy for income; the “price” of a child is accounted for by wife’s education and wife’s wage rate. Other important variables are wife’s age, a measure of child “qual…
Econometric studies of household saving behaviour in developing countries
This article surveys recent attempts to measure and analyze household savings behaviour in developing economies. Studies of the relationships between savings and current income, permanent income, wealth, interest rates, the price level, household demographic characteristics, occupation, income distribution, direct taxation, and other factors are reviewed and evaluated. Notes The author is Assistant Professor of Economics at Old Dominion Universit…
Economic Determinants of Family Size in West Africa
The economic theory of fertility postulates that income and prices, broadly defined, are important determinants of family size. What follows is an attempt to test this theory against the behavior of 717 predominantly urban households in Sierra Leone. Husband’s education is used as a proxy for income; the “price” of a child is accounted for by wife’s education and wife’s wage rate. Other important variables are wife’s age, a measure of child “qual…
A comment on Schnaiberg's measure of fertility and child dependency
This comment discusses some potential difficulties in the construction and use of a new fertility variable proposed in a recent issue of Population Studies, and considers one possible remedy
Economic Effects of Revolution
Foreign Aid and Domestic Savings
New thinking on the financial crisis
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand understanding of the current global financial crisis in light of other large‐scale financial crises. Design/methodology/approach The phenomenon of large‐scale financial crisis has not been modeled well by neo‐classical general equilibrium approaches; the paper explores whether evolutionary and complex systems approaches might be more useful. Previous empirical work and current data are coalesced to i…
Measuring Judicial Appeasement of the United States Supreme Court
The interpersonal dynamics of political elites remain somewhat shrouded within extant literature. In this paper, we propose a new measure of “appeasement,” using analyses of Supreme Court opinions. Appeasement operationalizes the level of strategic concession-making that individual justices display in their responses to majority opinions. Analyzing a corpus of over 9,000 non-majority opinions between 1946 and 2011, we use a machine learning model…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Download (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (2 works) · Fertility (2 works)