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Economics

Can State Spending Increase Economic Opportunity?
Susan Mayer and Leonard Lopoo

All people may be created equal, but their futures are often a combination of luck, hard work, and their parents’ socioeconomic status. Although Horatio Alger tales fuel the American dream for millions, many people know that the playing field is not always as level as those optimistic stories imply. Children born to affluent families are more likely to grow up to be affluent adults while children born to less affluent families are more likely to end up poor themselves. Read more >>

Economics Research Areas
 

Development economics, Economic aging effects, Economic hardships, Economic segregation




Research in Brief
 

2008

The Fiscal Consequences of Electoral Institutions
Christopher Berry and Jacob Gersen

Job Loss at Mid-Life: Managers and Executives Face the ‘New Risk Economy’
Ariel Kalil, Ruby Mendenhall, Cassie Hart, and Laurel Spindel

2007

The Economic Costs of Poverty: Subsequent Effects of Children Growing Up Poor
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Harry Holzer, Greg Duncan, and Jens Ludwig

The Nature and Consequences of Marital Sorting by Parental Wealth
Kerwin Charles, Erik Hurst, and Liqian Ren

2006

The Divergence of Human Capital Levels across Cities
Christopher Berry and Edward Glaeser

The Economic Influence of Child Support on the Family: Evidence from Pre- and Post-Welfare Reform
Kathleen Ziol-Guest

Out of West Africa: Evidence on the Efficient Allocation of Resources within Farm Households
Marcos Rangel and Duncan Thomas

2005

Economic Analysis of Health Care Markets
Tomas Philipson

Work Costs and Nonconvex Preferences in the Estimation of Labor Supply Models
Bruce Meyer and Bradley Heim

2004

The Economic and Health Risk Trade-Offs of Swim Closures at a Lake Michigan Beach
Don Coursey

Economic Conditions, Parenting, and Educational Outcomes in Four Race/Ethnic Groups
Ariel Kalil and John Schneider

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

2003

Changes in Home Production and Trends in Economic Inequality
Susan Mayer and Peter Gottschalk

The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults
Susan Mayer, David Harding, Christopher Jencks, and Leonard Lopoo

Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed?
Susan Mayer and Leonard Lopoo

Trends in the Intergenerational Economic Mobility of Sons and Daughters
Susan Mayer and Leonard Lopoo

2002

How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect Children's Educational Attainment?
Susan Mayer

Impact Fees Linked to Rising Home Costs
Brett Baden and Don Coursey

Measuring Social Capital and its Economic Impact
John Durkin

2001

Income Inequality, Economic Segregation and Children's Educational Attainment
Susan Mayer

1998

An Economic Consideration of Same-Gender Marriage and Fertility
Adam A. Doty

The Rent/Commuting Tradeoffs of Black Middle-Class Households in Large Metropolitan Housing Markets
Mark Shroder


 
Research Features
 
2008
 
Conspicuous Consumption and Race
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst, and Nikolai Roussanov
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The Economics of Gay and Lesbian Families
Dan Black, Seth G. Sanders, and Lowell J. Taylor
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2007
 
Marital Sorting by Parental Wealth
Kerwin Charles, Erik Hurst , and Liqian Ren
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2005
 
The Effect of U.S. Immigration on Native-Born Self-Employment Rates and Earnings
Robert W. Fairlie and Bruce D. Meyer
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Measuring Changes in Economic Mobility Across Generations
Susan Mayer and Leonard Lopoo
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2004
 
The Economic costs of E. coli Beach Closings
Sharyl Rabinovici, Richard Bernknopf, Don L. Coursey, and Richard Whitman
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2000
 
How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect American Children's Educational Attainment?
Susan Mayer
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