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2008

  • Speech Patterns and Racial Wage Inequality by Jeffrey Grogger , July  2008
  • The Effect of Computer Use on Child Outcomes by Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches , May  2008
  • The Impact of College Graduation on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk by Ofer Malamud and Abigail Wozniak , March  2008
  • School Tracking and Access to Higher Education Among Disadvantaged Groups by Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches , May  2008
  • Discovering One's Talent: Learning from Academic Specialization by Ofer Malamud , October  2007
  • Breadth vs. Depth: The Timing of Specialization in Higher Education by Ofer Malamud , October  2007
  • General Education vs. Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition by Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches , May  2008
  • On Shakespeare and Reasonable Doubt by Howard Margolis , April  2008
  • The Unbundled Executive by Christopher R. Berry and Jacob E. Gersen , March  2008
  • New Public Management Comes to America by Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , March  2008
  • Job Security Legislation and Job Duration: Evidence From the UK by Ioana Marinescu , January  2008
  • Are Judges Sensitive to Economic Conditions? Evidence from UK Employment Tribunals by Ioana Marinescu , January  2008
  • Reporting Bias in Studies of the Food Stamp Program by Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan , January  2008

2007

  • A Note on ‘Neglect Defaulting’ by Howard Margolis , April  2008
  • Consumption and Income Poverty for those 65 and Over by Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan , September  2007
  • The U.S. Earned Income Tax Credit, its Effects, and Possible Reforms by Bruce D. Meyer , August  2007
  • Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption by Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan , August  2007
  • Female Offenders Use of Social Welfare Programs Before and After Jail and Prison: Does Prison Cause Welfare Dependency? by Kristin F. Butcher and Robert J. LaLonde , November  2006
  • QRE, NSNX and the Paradox of Voting by Howard Margolis , December  2007
  • The Jackie (and Jill) Robinson Effect: Congresswomen and the Distribution of Federal Spending by Sarah Anzia and Christopher R. Berry , July  2007
  • Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance, and the Safety Net by Daniel G. Schroeder , May  2007
  • Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed Families by Marcos A. Rangel , June  2007
  • The Fiscal Consequences of Electoral Institutions by Christopher R. Berry and Jacob E. Gersen , May  2007
  • A Bridge to Somewhere: Mapping State and Congressional Ideology on a Cross-Institutional Common Space by Boris Shor, Christopher R. Berry, and Nolan McCarty , April  2007
  • Consumption Reponses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program by Hilary W. Hoynes and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach , March  2007
  • Wellbeing of Citizen Children of Immigrants in Relation to Food Stamps and WIC, 1998-2005 by Mariana Chilton , March  2007
  • Design Priorities and Disciplinary Perspectives: The Case of the US National Children's Study by Robert T. Michael and Colm O'Muircheartaigh , November  2006
  • Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State by Bruce D. Meyer and Wallace K. C. Mok , January  2007
  • School Finance Judgments and Spending on Education: A Review of the Evidence by Christopher R. Berry , January  2007
  • Accountability and Local Elections: Rethinking Retrospective Voting by Christopher R. Berry and William G. Howell , January  2007
  • Piling On: Overlapping Jurisdictions & the Fiscal Common-Pool by Christopher R. Berry , June  2008
  • The Community Reinvestment Act: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis by Christopher R. Berry and Sarah L. Lee , January  2007
  • Growing Pains: The School Consolidation Movement and Student Outcomes by Christopher R. Berry and Martin West , January  2007
  • School Consolidation and Inequality by Christopher R. Berry , January  2007
  • Matters of Life and Death: The Durability of Discretionary Programs 1970–2004 by Christopher R. Berry, Berry C. Burden, and William G. Howell , January  2007

2006

  • Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption by Bruce D. Meyer and Wallace K. C. Mok , December  2006
  • Corruption Across Countries and Regions: Some Consequences of Local Osmosis by Raaj Sah , March  2006
  • A New Approach to Forecasting Food Stamp Caseloads by Jeffrey Grogger , November  2006
  • Do food stamps cause obesity? Evidence from immigrant experience by Neeraj Kaushal , October  2006
  • What Have Researchers Learned from Project STAR? by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach , August  2006
  • Cognition and Extended Rational Choice by Howard Margolis , September  2006
  • Some Patterns of Market Shares of Brands Within and Across Product Categories by Rajeev Kohli and Raaj Sah , December  2005
  • Evidence of the Effectiveness of Child Support and Visitation: Examining Food Insecurity among Children with Nonresident Fathers by Steven Garasky and Susan D. Stewart , February  2006
  • Are Economists Human? by Howard Margolis , February  2006
  • Unemployment Insurance Tax Burdens and Benefits: Funding Family Leave and Reforming the Payroll Tax by Patricia M. Anderson and Bruce D. Meyer , January  2006

2005

  • Breadth vs. Depth : The Effect of Academic Specialization on Labor Market Outcomes by Ofer Malamud , November  2005
  • Vocational Training versus General Education: Evidence from an Educational Reform in Romania by Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches , November  2005
  • Out of West Africa: Evidence on the Efficient Allocation of Resources within Farm Households by Marcos A. Rangel and Duncan Thomas , August  2006
  • Wason, Monty Hall, and Adverse Defaults by Howard Margolis , December  2005
  • Do School Lunches Contribute to Childhood Obesity? by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach , October  2005
  • Globalization in Theory: What's Missing from the Current Debate? by Lloyd Gruber , August  2005
  • Children's Reading and Math Skills: The Family's Two Constraints by Robert T. Michael , August  2005
  • The Impact of Incarceration in State Prison on the Employment Prospects of Women by Rosa Cho and Robert LaLonde , August  2005
  • Globalization and Redistribution: The Missing Link by Lloyd Gruber , August  2005
  • Testing for Racial Profiling in Traffic Stops from Behind a Veil of Darkness by Jeffrey Grogger and Greg Ridgeway , June  2005
  • Food Stamp and WIC Take-Up and the Relationship between Take-Up and TANF Recidivism Among Illinois TANF Leavers by Mairead Reidy, Meejung Chin, Duck-Hye Yang, and Robert M. Goerge , February  2005
  • Alimony Rights and Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources: Evidence from Brazil by Marcos Rangel , January  2005
  • Health Seeking Behavior in Northern KwaZulu-Natal by Anne Case, Alicia Menendez, and Cally Ardington , April  2005
  • Food Security Stability and Change Among Low-Income Urban Women by Andrew S. London and Ellen K. Scott , April  2005
  • Cognitive Anomalies and Experimental Economics by Howard Margolis , March  2005
  • The Material Well-Being of Single Mother Households in the 1980's and 1990's: What Can We Learn From Food Spending? by Thomas DeLeire and Helen Levy , September  2004

2004

  • The Health Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of Private Health Insurance by Anthony T. Lo Sasso and Bruce D. Meyer , January   2006

  • Three Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty by Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan , January   2006

  • Like Mother, Like Daugher? SES and the Intergenerational Correlation of Traits, Behaviors and Attitudes by Susan E. Mayer, Greg Duncan, and Ariel Kalil , September   2004

  • Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed? by Susan E. Mayer and Leonard M. Lopoo , September   2004

  • Bordeaux Wine Vintage Quality and Weather by Orley Ashenfelter, David Ashmore, and Robert LaLonde , July   2004

  • Should We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks? The Impact of Community College Retraining on Older Displaced Workers by Robert LaLonde , July   2004

  • Do Liberals Play Nice? The Effects of Party and Political Ideology in Public Goods and Trust Games by Lisa Anderson, Jennifer Mellor, and Jeffrey Milyo , June   2004

  • State Campaign Finance Laws and the Turnout Decision by David Primo and Jeffrey Milyo , March   2004

  • A Simple Solution for a Group Choosing a Restaurant by Tim Groseclose and Jeffrey Milyo , May   2004

  • The Relationship between Food Assistance, the Value of Food Acquired, and Household Food Security by Beth Osborne Daponte and Melvin Stephens, Jr. , March   2004

  • Environmental Values, Ethics and Support for Environmental Policy: A Heuristic, and Psychometric Instruments to Measure their Prevalence and Relationships by Ronald B. Meyers , March   2004

  • Early Marriage and HIV Risks in Sub-Saharan Africa by Shelley Clark , March   2004

  • Ineligible Parents, Eligible Children: Food Stamps Receipt, Allotments and Food Insecurity among Children of Immigrants by Jennifer Van Hook and Kelly Stamper Balistreri , February   2004

  • An Economic Perspective on Sex, Marriage, and the Family in Contemporary United States by Robert T. Michael , February   2004

  • The Interaction between Food Stamps and Welfare Programs: An Empirical Model of Program Dynamics in the Cleveland Metropolitan Area, 1992-2003 by Laura Leete and Neil Bania , January   2004

  • Dietary Intake and Food Security Among Migrant Farm Workers in Pennsylvania by Katherine Cason, Sergio Nieto-Montenegro, America Chavez-Martinez, Nan Ly, and Anastasia Snyder , January   2004

  • Market Shares: Some Power Law Results and Observations by Raaj Sah and Rajeev Kohli , January   2004

2003

  • Power Politics and the Institutionalization of International Relations by Lloyd Gruber , December   2003
  • Social Capital and Contributions in a Public Goods Experiment by Lisa Anderson, Jennifer Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo , December   2004
  • Being There With Thomas Kuhn by Howard Margolis , November   2004
  • Campaign Finance and Political Efficacy: Evidence from the States by David M. Primo and Jeffrey D. Milyo , November   2003
  • Labor Market Costs of Illness: Prevalence Matters by Thomas DeLeire and Willard Manning , September   2003
  • Generalized Modeling Approaches to Risk Adjustment of Skewed Outcomes Data by Willard G. Manning, Anirban Basu, and John Mullahy , September   2003
  • Monty Hall Again? by Howard Margolis , April   2004
  • State Social Capital and Individual Health Status by Jennifer M. Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo , September   2003
  • Income Inequality, Social Capital and Mortality: Re-examining the State-Level Data by Jeffrey Milyo and Ira Parnerkar , August   2003
  • Inequality, Group Cohesion, and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis by Lisa R. Anderson, Jennifer M. Mellor, Jeffrey Milyo , March   2003
  • Family Influences on Children's Verbal Ability by Robert T. Michael , March   2003
  • Cognition and extended (nsnx) rational choice: some early results by Howard Margolis , May   2004
  • Contingent Valuation Studies in the Arts and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography by Douglas Noonan , February   2003
  • Making a List and Checking it Twice: The List as a Tool of Historic Preservation by J. Mark Schuster , February   2003
  • Sub-National Cultural Policy Where the Action is? by J. Mark Schuster , February   2003
  • Class Struggle: Some Diluting Effects of Inter-Generational Mobility by Raaj Sah and Philippe Penelle , January   2003

 

2002

  • An Experimental Comparison of Collective Choice Procedures for Excludable Public Goods by Sean Gailmard and Thomas R. Palfrey , December   2002
  • Multiple Principals and Outside Information in Bureaucratic Policy Making by Sean Gailmard , December   2002
  • An Assessment of Some Mechanisms Linking Economic Inequality and Infant Mortality by Susan E. Mayer and Ankur Sarin , December   2002
  • Altruism and Darwinian Rationality by Howard Margolis , November   2002
  • The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations: Within- and Between-Patent Competition in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry by Frank R. Lichtenberg and Tomas J. Philipson , October   2002
  • Wason's Puzzle and Real Problems by Howard Margolis , October   2002
  • On the Importance of Full versus Partial Age-Adjustment in Ecological Studies of Social Determinants of Mortality by Jeffrey Milyo and Jennifer M. Mellor , October   2002
  • Emotions Matter: Making the Case for the Role of Young Children's Emotional Development for Early School Readiness by C. Cybele Raver , July   2002
  • Ready to Enter: What Research Tells Policymakers About Strategies to Promote Social and Emotional School Readiness Among Three- and Four-Year-Olds by C. Cybele Raver and Jane Knitzer , July   2002
  • How Do Cohabiting Couples With Children Spend Their Money? by Thomas DeLeire and Ariel Kalil , April   2002
  • The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination by Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson , April   2002
  • Individual Health Status and Minority Racial Concentration in U.S. States and Counties by Jennifer M. Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo , February   2002

2001

  • Can Government Collect Resources Without Hurting Investors: Taxation of Returns From Assets by Raaj Sah and Kenji Wada , November   2001
  • Wealth-Loss to Investors from the Taxation of Investment Returns by Raaj Sah , May   2001
  • Expertise, Subversion, and Bureaucratic Discretion by Sean Gailmard , December   2001
  • Public Management by Laurance E. Lynn , November   2001
  • Gender, Occupation Choice and the Risk of Death at Work by Thomas DeLeire and Helen Levy , September   2001
  • Living Arrangements of Single-Mother Families: Variations, Transitions, and Child Development Outcomes by Ariel Kalil, Thomas DeLeire, Rukmalie Jayakody, Meejung Chin , September   2001
  • Children's Cognitive Skill Development in Britain and the United States by Robert T. Michael , July   2001
  • How Economic Segregation Affects Children's Educational Attainment by Susan E. Mayer , July   2001
  • How the Growth in Income Inequality Increased Economic Segregation by Susan E. Mayer , June   2001
  • Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed? by Susan E. Mayer and Leonard M. Lopoo , June   2001
  • Environmental Issues in Newly Industrializing Economies: A View from North America by George S. Tolley , June   2001
  • Social Services and the State: The Public Appropriation of Private Charity by Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , May   2001
  • Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment by Boris F. Blumberg and Gerard A. Pfann , April   2001
  • The Value of Pain Relief by Carina Furnée, Marius Kemler, and Gerard A. Pfann , April   2001
  • Downsizing by Gerard A. Pfann , April   2001
  • Medical Privacy and Research by Norman M. Bradburn , March   2001
  • Producing Human Services: Why Do Agencies Collaborate? by Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Carolyn J. Hill , March   2001
  • Economic Limits on "Rational" Democratic Redistribution by Casey B. Mulligan , March   2001
  • Good Things Come in 3’s: Single-Parent Multigenerational Family Structure and Adolescent Adjustment by Thomas DeLeire and Ariel Kalil , March   2001
  • The Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers by Louis S. Jacobson, Robert J. LaLonde, and Daniel G. Sullivan , February   2001
  • Average Marginal Tax Rates Revisited: A Comment by Casey B. Mulligan and Justin G. Marion , February   2001
  • Middle Alternatives, Acquiescence, and the Quality of Questionnaire Data by Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Jon A. Krosnick, and Armen Helic , December   2000
  • Measuring Social Capital and its Economic Impact by John T. Durkin, Jr. , February   2001
  • Trade Capital, Human Capital And Economic Development by John T. Durkin, Jr. , February   2001

2000

  • Policies to Foster Human Capital by James Heckman , February   2000
  • Measuring Poverty in the NLSY97 by Carolyn J. Hill and Robert T. Michael , November   2000
  • Income Inequality, Economic Segregation and Children's Educational Attainment by Susan E. Mayer , November   2000
  • The Empirical Frequency of a Pivotal Vote by Casey B. Mulligan and Charles G. Hunter , October   2000
  • The California Overtime Experiment: Labor Demand and the Impact of Overtime Regulation on Hours of Work by Jay Bhattacharya, Thomas DeLeire, and Thomas MaCurdy , October   2000
  • The Myth of the Bureaucratic Paradigm: What Traditional Public Administration Really Stood For by Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. , October   2000
  • Tax Policy and Market Structure by Gerard A. Pfann and Hans L. van Kranenburg , October   2000
  • Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover, and Worker Displacement by Gerard A. Pfann and Daniel S. Hamermesh , Oct