Indeed, as shown by a simple yet nifty study by Marc Orlitzky, recently published in Business Ethics Quarterly, articles published on this topic in Management journals report a statistical relationship between the two variables which is about twice as big as the ones reported in Economics, Finance, or Accounting journals.

FORBES: Publication Bias (or, Why You Can't Trust Any of the Research You Read)

The results are not directly comparable with those of last year's list, both because we added a new type of data and because the Office of Management and Budget has reconfigured its metropolitan statistical areas. (To be considered a metro area, OMB requires at least one urbanized area of 50, 000 people.) Essex County, for example, wasn't even considered for a spot in the 2005 edition.

FORBES: Most Overpriced Places In The U.S. 2006

As part of the CRI, the CDC and state public health personnel assess local emergency-management plans, protocols and capabilities for 72 Metropolitan Statistical Areas and four non-MSA large cities.

FORBES: America's Most And Least Disaster-Ready Cities

To compile our list of cities where home prices are still getting hammered, we teamed up with Local Market Monitor and dug down into data for more than 300 metro areas (metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, as defined by the Office of Management and Budget) across the United States.

FORBES: Cities Where Home Prices Are Still Tumbling

It looks at the market fundamentals in the country's 25 most populated metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs or metros), geographic entities defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget used by federal agencies in collecting, tabulating and publishing federal statistics.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In order to shed some light on the complete, factual story, we generated a statistical analysis, which was created using information from the Congressional Budget Office, the White House Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Financial Management Service, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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The Office of Management and Budget and the Economics and Statistics Administration within the Department of Commerce worked together with federal statistical agencies to create Women in America in support of the Council on Women and Girls.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House