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...authors conclude that “the value of a statistical life for prime-aged workers has a median value of about $7 million in the United States...
...authors conclude that “the value of a statistical life for prime-aged workers has a median value of about $7 million in the United States...
...focus its marketing dollars on just 12 of its 300 brands: Always feminine products; Bounty; Charmin toilet paper; Crest; Dawn dishwashing cleaner; Downy fabric softener; Gain and Tide laundry detergents; Herbal Essences, Head & Shoulders and Pantene shampoos; and Pampers. Why not, say, P&G's Iams pet-food line? Median household income for Hispanics is $33,000, compared with $48,000 for the non-Hispanic population; P&G's market research found that relative to the general population, Hispanics tended to spend less on their pets...
Thirty years ago, people like Michele, Ellen, Nathan, Corinne, Marcus and Jennie didn't exist, statistically speaking. Back then, the median age for an American woman to get married was 21. She had her first child at 22. Now it all takes longer. It's 25 for the wedding and 25 for baby. It appears to take young people longer to graduate from college, settle into careers and buy their first homes. What are they waiting for? Who are these permanent adolescents, these twentysomething Peter Pans? And why can't they grow...
Rather than limiting her work to nebulous ethnographic inquiry, Gullette draws on statistics and specific American domestic policies as well. She stresses that she is concerned with the median, not positive aging literature which can be exaggeratedly upbeat in an effort to balance the myth that personal growth can’t continue into...