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Homepage:http://jenni.uchicago.edu
Postal address:James J. Heckman obtained the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2000. Department of Economics,University of Chicago, 1126 E. 59th Street,Chicago IL 60637
Workplace:American Bar Foundation (ABF), (more information at EDIRC)
Department of Economics, University of Chicago, (more information at EDIRC)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), (more information at EDIRC)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), (more information at EDIRC)
Geary Institute, University College Dublin, (more information at EDIRC)

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2008

  1. Dynamic policy analysis
    CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies Downloads View citations
  2. Earnings Functions and Rates of Return
    University of Western Ontario, CIBC Human Capital and Productivity Project Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, CIBC Human Capital and Productivity Project Downloads View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008) Downloads View citations
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2008) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Human Capital (2008)
  3. Econometric Causality
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2008) Downloads View citations
    CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2008) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in International Statistical Review (2008)
  4. Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models with Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Effects
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
    See Also Journal Article in Econometrica (2008)
  5. Instrumental Variables in Models with Multiple Outcomes: The General Unordered Case
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads
  6. Schools, Skills, and Synapses
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2008) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in Economic Inquiry (2008)
  7. Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2008) Downloads
  8. The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits
    Research Memoranda, Maastricht : ROA, Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt Downloads View citations
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    UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series, United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology (2008) Downloads View citations
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2008) Downloads View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008) Downloads View citations
  9. The Effect of Prayer on God's Attitude Toward Mankind
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads

2007

  1. A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006) Downloads View citations
  2. Early Childhood Intervention. Rationale, Timing and Efficacy
    Working Papers, Geary Institute, University College Dublin Downloads
  3. The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) Downloads View citations
  4. The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) Downloads View citations
  5. The Evolution of Inequality, Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Labor Earnings in the U.S. Economy
    PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania Downloads View citations
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2007) Downloads View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) Downloads View citations
  6. The Identification & Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Thresholds
    Working Papers, Geary Institute, University College Dublin Downloads
  7. The Identification and Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Thresholds
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads
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    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in International Economic Review (2007)
  8. The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    Working Papers, esocialsciences.com (2007) Downloads
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in Review of Agricultural Economics (2007)
  9. The Technology of Skill Formation
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    2004 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics (2004) Downloads View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2007)
  10. Use of instrumental variables in the presence of heterogeneity and self-selection: An application in breast cancer patients
    Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York Downloads

2006

  1. Bias Corrected Estimates of GED Returns
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (2006)
  2. Contributions of Zvi Griliches
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006) Downloads
  3. Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006) Downloads View citations
  4. The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (2006)
  5. The Evolution of Labor Earnings Risk in the US Economy
    2006 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics View citations
  6. Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2006) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2006)

2005

  1. Allander Series: Skill Policies for Scotland
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
  2. Dynamic Discrete Choice and Dynamic Treatment Effects
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2005) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2007)
  3. Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2005) Downloads View citations

    See Also Chapter (2006)
  4. Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2005) Downloads View citations

    See Also Chapter (2006)
  5. Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) Downloads View citations
    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2004) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Law & Economics (2005)
  6. Lessons from the Technology of Skill Formation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
  7. Nonparametric estimation of nonadditive hedonic models
    CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies Downloads View citations
  8. Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2004) Downloads View citations
    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2004) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in Oxford Economic Papers (2005)
  9. Skill Policies for Scotland
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo GmbH Downloads
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2004) Downloads View citations
  10. Structural Equations, Treatment Effects and Econometric Policy Evaluation
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2005) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in Econometrica (2005)

2004

  1. Four Parameters of Interest in the Evaluation of Social Programs
    Staff General Research Papers, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations
  2. Measuring Disparate Impacts and Extending Disparate Impact Doctrine to Organ Transplantation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  3. Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters in a Latent Variable Framework
    Staff General Research Papers, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations
    See Also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2003)

2003

  1. Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  2. Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2003) Downloads View citations
  3. Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) Downloads View citations
  4. Human Capital Policy
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) Downloads View citations
  5. Identifcation and Estimation of Hedonic Models
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo GmbH Downloads
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2003) Downloads View citations
    CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2002) Downloads View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (2004)
  6. Instrumental Variables, Local Instrumental Variables and Control Functions
    IDEI Working Papers, Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse Downloads View citations
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    CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2002) Downloads View citations
  7. Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  8. Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  9. Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2003) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in Pacific Economic Review (2004)
  10. Simulation and Estimation of Hedonic Models
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo GmbH (2003) Downloads View citations
  11. Simulation and Estimation of Nonaddative Hedonic Models
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  12. The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
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    University of Western Ontario, CIBC Human Capital and Productivity Project Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, CIBC Human Capital and Productivity Project (2003) Downloads View citations
    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2003) Downloads View citations
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2003) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (2004)
  13. The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2003) Downloads View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2004)
  14. Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2003) Downloads View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2004)

2002

  1. China's Investment in Human Capital
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Economic Development and Cultural Change (2003)
  2. Flexibility and Job Creation: Lessons for Germany
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  3. Identifying hedonic models
    CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2002)
  4. Learning-By-Doing Vs. On-the-Job Training: Using Variation Induced by the EITC to Distinguish Between Models of Skill Formation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  5. Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2002) Downloads View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2002) Downloads View citations
  6. Testing for Moral Hazard on Dynamic Insurance Data
    THEMA Working Papers, THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise Downloads View citations
  7. The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2002) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2002)
  8. The Performance of Performance Standards
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2002) Downloads View citations

2001

  1. Autobiography
    Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee Downloads

2000

  1. Identification and SQRT N Efficient Estimation of Semiparametric Panel Data Models with Binary Dependent Variables and a Latent Factor
    Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers, Econometric Society Downloads View citations
  2. Identifying the Role of Cognitive Ability in Explaining the Level of and Change in the Return to Schooling
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2001)
  3. Instrumental Variables, Selection Models, and Tight Bounds on the Average Treatment Effect
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  4. Interview with the 2000 Laureates in Economics, James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden
    Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee Downloads
  5. Local Instrumental Variables
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  6. Microdata, Heterogeneity and the Evaluation of Public Policy
    Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee Downloads
  7. Policies to Foster Human Capital
    Working Papers, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago Downloads View citations
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    JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research (2000) View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1999) Downloads View citations

    See Also Journal Article in Research in Economics (2000)
  8. Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters in a Latent Variable Framework with an Application to Estimating the Returns to Schooling
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  9. The Cost of Job Security Regulation: Evidence from Latin American Labor Markets
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  10. Treatment Effects for Discrete Outcomes when Responses to Treatment Vary Among Observationally Identical Persons: An Application to Norwegian
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations

1999

  1. Accounting for Heterogeneity, Diversity, and General Equilibriumin Evaluating Social Programs
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  2. Causal Parameters and Policy Analysis in Economcs: A Twentieth Century Retrospective
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2000)
  3. General Equilibrium Cost Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  4. Micro Data and General Equilibrium Models
    Discussion Papers, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics View citations
    See Also Chapter (1999)
  5. The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  6. The Pre-Program Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Implications for Simple Program Evaluation Strategies
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  7. Training Effects on Employment when the Training Effects are Heterogenous: an Application to Norwegian Vocational Rehabilitation Programs
    Norway; Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Department of Economics, University of Bergen View citations

1998

  1. Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Econometrica (1998)
  2. Evaluating the Welfare State
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  3. Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Review of Economic Dynamics (1998)
  4. General Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1998)
  5. Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
  6. Meritocracy in America: An Examination of Wages Within and Across Occupations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
  7. Social Action, Private Choice, and Philanthropy: Understanding the Sources of Improvements in Black Schooling in Georgia, 1911-1960
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
  8. Substitution and Dropout Bias in Social Experiments: A Study of an Influential Social Experiment
    UWO Department of Economics Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2000)
  9. Tax Policy and Human Capital Formation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1998)
  10. Understanding the Role of Cognitive Ability in Accounting for the Recent Rise in the Economic Return to Education
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations

1997

  1. The Sensitivity of Experimental Impact Estimates: Evidence from the National JTPA Study
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations

1996

  1. Cognitive Ability, Wages, and Meritocracy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  2. Linear Probability Models of the Demand for Attributes with an Empirical Application to Estimating the Preferences of Legislators
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  3. What Do Bureaucrats Do? The Effects of Performance Standards and Bureaucratic Preferences on Acceptance into the JTPA Program
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations

1995

  1. Ashenfelters Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Implication for Simple Program Evaluation Strategies
    UWO Department of Economics Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations
  2. Does Measured School Quality Really Matter? An Examination of the Earnings-Quality Relationship
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  3. Instrumental Variables: A Cautionary Tale
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  4. Randomization as an Instrumental Variable
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  5. The Schooling Quality-Earnings Relationship: Using Economic Theory to Interpret Functional Forms Consistent with the Evidence
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations

1994

  1. Accounting for Dropouts in Evaluations of Social Experiments
    University of Chicago - Economics Research Center, Chicago - Economics Research Center View citations
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    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1994) Downloads View citations
  2. Econometric Mixture Models and More General Models for Unobservables in Duration Analysis
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  3. Making the Most Out Of Social Experiments: Reducing the Intrinsic Uncertainty in Evidence from Randomized Trials with an Application to the JTPA Exp
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations

1993

  1. Assessing Clinton's Program on Job Training, Workfare, and Education in the Workplace
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  2. Determinants of Young Male Schooling and Training Choices
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations

1991

  1. Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Literature (1991)
  2. Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  3. The Nonequivalence of High School Equivalents
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (1993)

1989

  1. Choosing Among Alternative Nonexperimental Methods for Estimating the Impact of Social Programs: The Case of Manpower Training
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
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    University of Chicago - Economics Research Center, Chicago - Economics Research Center (1988) View citations
  2. Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks: A Study of South Carolina
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1989)
  3. Forecasting Aggregate Period Specific Birth Rates: The Time Series Properties of a Microdynamic Neoclassical Model of Fertility
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
  4. THE THIRD BIRTH IN SWEDEN
    Working Papers, Yale - Economic Growth Center
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Population Economics (1990)
  5. The Impact of Government on the Economic Status of Black Americans
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations

1982

  1. Are Unemployment and Out of the Labor Force Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (1983)
  2. Heterogeneity and State Dependence
    NBER Reprints, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
  3. Models for the Analysis of Labor Force Dynamics
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  4. New Methods for Analyzing Structural Models of Labor Force Dynamics
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (1982)
  5. New Methods for Estimating Labor Supply Functions: A Survey
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations

1978

  1. Labor Supply Estimates For Public Policy Evaluation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations

1977

  1. Dummy Endogenous Variables in a Simultaneous Equation System
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
    See Also Journal Article in Econometrica (1978)
  2. Sample Selection Bias As a Specification Error (with an Application to the Estimation of Labor Supply Functions)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
  3. The Government's Impact on the Labor Market Status of Black Americans: A Critical Review
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations

1975

  1. A Beta-Logistic Model for the Analysis of Sequential Labor Force Participation by Married Women
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1977)

1974

  1. Estimation of a Stochastic Model of Reproduction: An Econometric Approach
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
  2. Measuring the Effect of an Anti-Discrimination Program
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
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    Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section. Downloads

1972

  1. Estimating Labor Supply Functions
    Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section. Downloads

1971

  1. The Estimation of Income and Substitution Effects in a Model of Family Labor Supply
    Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section. Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Econometrica (1974)

Undated

  1. New Evidence on the Timing and Spacing of Births
    University of Chicago - Population Research Center, Chicago - Population Research Center Downloads View citations
    See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1985)

Journal Articles

2008

  1. AN ASSESSMENT OF CAUSAL INFERENCE IN SMOKING INITIATION RESEARCH AND A FRAMEWORK FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
    Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46, (1), 37-44 Downloads
  2. Earnings Functions and Rates of Return
    Journal of Human Capital, 2008, 2, (1), 1-31 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2008)
  3. Econometric Causality
    International Statistical Review, 2008, 76, (1), 1-27 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2008)
  4. EconomicDynamics Interviews James Heckman and Flavio Cunha on Skill Formation and Returns to Schooling
    EconomicDynamics Newsletter, 2008, 9, (2) Downloads
  5. INTRODUCTION
    Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46, (1), 1-1 Downloads
  6. Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models With Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Effects
    Econometrica, 2008, 76, (5), 1191-1206 Downloads
    See Also Working Paper (2008)
  7. SCHOOLS, SKILLS, AND SYNAPSES
    Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46, (3), 289-324 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2008)

2007

  1. Comments on Are Protective Labor Market Institutions at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Review of the Evidence by David Howell, Dean Baker, Andrew Glyn, and John Schmitt
    Capitalism and Society, 2007, 2, (1), 5 Downloads
  2. Dynamic discrete choice and dynamic treatment effects
    Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 136, (2), 341-396 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2005)
  3. Identifying and Estimating the Distributions of Ex Post and Ex Ante Returns to Schooling
    Labour Economics, 2007, 14, (6), 870-893 Downloads View citations
  4. THE IDENTIFICATION AND ECONOMIC CONTENT OF ORDERED CHOICE MODELS WITH STOCHASTIC THRESHOLDS
    International Economic Review, 2007, 48, (4), 1273-1309 Downloads
    See Also Working Paper (2007)
  5. The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children*
    Review of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 29, (3), 446-493 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2007)
  6. The Technology of Skill Formation
    American Economic Review, 2007, 97, (2), 31-47 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2007)
  7. Use of instrumental variables in the presence of heterogeneity and self-selection: an application to treatments of breast cancer patients
    Health Economics, 2007, 16, (11), 1133-1157 Downloads View citations

2006

  1. Bias-Corrected Estimates of GED Returns
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24, (3), 661-700 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2006)
  2. Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America’s Future Workforce
    World Economics, 2006, 7, (3), 17-41 Downloads
  3. Reply to Byatt et al. by Nicholas Stern
    World Economics, 2006, 7, (2), 153-157 Downloads
  4. Selective Counteroffers
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24, (3), 385-410 Downloads View citations
  5. The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24, (3), 411-482 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2006)
  6. The Roles of High School Completion and GED Receipt in Smoking and Obesity
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24, (3), 635-660 Downloads View citations
  7. Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88, (3), 389-432 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2006)

2005

  1. China's human capital investment
    China Economic Review, 2005, 16, (1), 50-70 Downloads View citations
  2. Estimating treatment effects for discrete outcomes when responses to treatment vary: an application to Norwegian vocational rehabilitation programs
    Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 125, (1-2), 15-51 Downloads View citations
  3. Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors
    Journal of Law & Economics, 2005, 48, (1), 1-39 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2005)
  4. Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings
    Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57, (2), 191-261 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2005)
  5. Structural Equations, Treatment Effects, and Econometric Policy Evaluation
    Econometrica, 2005, 73, (3), 669-738 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2005)

2004

  1. Identification and Estimation of Hedonic Models
    Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112, (S1), S60-S109 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2003)
  2. Selection bias, comparative advantage and heterogeneous returns to education: evidence from China in 2000
    Pacific Economic Review, 2004, 9, (3), 155-171 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2003)
  3. The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22, (2), 243-298 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2003)
  4. The effect of schooling and ability on achievement test scores
    Journal of Econometrics, 2004, 121, (1-2), 39-98 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2003)
  5. Using Matching, Instrumental Variables, and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86, (1), 30-57 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2003)

2003

  1. 2001 Lawrence R. Klein Lecture Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice
    International Economic Review, 2003, 44, (2), 361-422 Downloads
  2. Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard In Insurance: Can Dynamic Data Help to Distinguish?
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003, 1, (2-3), 512-521 Downloads View citations
  3. China's Investment in Human Capital
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2003, 51, (4), 795-804 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2002)
  4. Conditioning, causality and policy analysis
    Journal of Econometrics, 2003, 112, (1), 73-78 Downloads
  5. Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters in a Latent-Variable Framework
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 85, (3), 748-755 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2004)
  6. Some Brief Remarks on the Life and Work of Jacob Mincer
    Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1, (4), 245-247 Downloads

2002

  1. Identifying Hedonic Models
    American Economic Review, 2002, 92, (2), 304-309 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2002)
  2. The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post--secondary Schooling
    Economic Journal, 2002, 112, (482), 705-734 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2002)
  3. The Schooling Of Southern Blacks: The Roles Of Legal Activism And Private Philanthropy, 1910-1960
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002, 117, (1), 225-268 Downloads View citations

2001

  1. Accounting for Heterogeneity, Diversity and General Equilibrium in Evaluating Social Programmes
    Economic Journal, 2001, 111, (475), F654-99 Downloads View citations
  2. Econometrics and empirical economics
    Journal of Econometrics, 2001, 100, (1), 3-5 Downloads View citations
  3. Identifying The Role Of Cognitive Ability In Explaining The Level Of And Change In The Return To Schooling
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001, 83, (1), 1-12 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2000)
  4. Micro Data, Heterogeneity, and the Evaluation of Public Policy: Nobel Lecture
    Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 109, (4), 673-748 Downloads View citations
  5. Policy-Relevant Treatment Effects
    American Economic Review, 2001, 91, (2), 107-111 Downloads View citations
  6. SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS
    The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (02), 517-517 Downloads
  7. The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Black, Hispanic, and White Males
    Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 109, (3), 455-499 Downloads View citations
  8. The Importance of Noncognitive Skills: Lessons from the GED Testing Program
    American Economic Review, 2001, 91, (2), 145-149 Downloads View citations
  9. Three observations on wages and measured cognitive ability
    Labour Economics, 2001, 8, (4), 419-442 Downloads View citations

2000

  1. Causal Parameters And Policy Analysis In Economics: A Twentieth Century Retrospective
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, 115, (1), 45-97 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1999)
  2. Policies to foster human capital
    Research in Economics, 2000, 54, (1), 3-56 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2000)
  3. Response to Eissa
    Research in Economics, 2000, 54, (1), 81-82 Downloads
  4. Response to the discussants
    Research in Economics, 2000, 54, (1), 71-74 Downloads
  5. Substitution And Dropout Bias In Social Experiments: A Study Of An Influential Social Experiment
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, 115, (2), 651-694 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1998)
  6. The relationship between treatment parameters within a latent variable framework
    Economics Letters, 2000, 66, (1), 33-39 Downloads View citations
  7. Understanding Black-White Wage Differentials, 1960-1990
    American Economic Review, 2000, 90, (2), 344-349 Downloads View citations

1999

  1. Human capital formation and general equilibrium treatment effects: a study of tax and tuition policy
    Fiscal Studies, 1999, 20, (1), 25-40 Downloads View citations
  2. On Policies To Reward The Value Added By Educators
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1999, 81, (4), 720-727 Downloads View citations
  3. The Pre-programme Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Programme. Implications for Simple Programme Evaluation Strategies
    Economic Journal, 1999, 109, (457), 313-48 Downloads View citations

1998

  1. Accounting For Dropouts In Evaluations Of Social Programs
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1998, 80, (1), 1-14 Downloads View citations
  2. Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data
    Econometrica, 1998, 66, (5), 1017-1098 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1998)
  3. Detecting Discrimination
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1998, 12, (2), 101-16 Downloads View citations
  4. Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explanations With A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings With Heterogeneous Agents
    Review of Economic Dynamics, 1998, 1, (1), 1-58 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1998)
  5. General-Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy
    American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (2), 381-86 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1998)
  6. Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts of American Males
    Journal of Political Economy, 1998, 106, (2), 262-333 Downloads View citations
  7. Matching as an Econometric Evaluation Estimator
    Review of Economic Studies, 1998, 65, (2), 261-94 Downloads View citations
  8. Tax Policy and Human-Capital Formation
    American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (2), 293-97 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1998)
  9. What should be our human capital investment policy?
    Fiscal Studies, 1998, 19, (2), 103-119 Downloads View citations

1997

  1. Assessing the Performance of Performance Standards in Public Bureaucracies
    American Economic Review, 1997, 87, (2), 389-95 Downloads View citations
  2. Making the Most Out of Programme Evaluations and Social Experiments: Accounting for Heterogeneity in Programme Impacts
    Review of Economic Studies, 1997, 64, (4), 487-535 Downloads View citations
  3. Matching as an Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme
    Review of Economic Studies, 1997, 64, (4), 605-54 Downloads View citations
  4. The Value of Quantitative Evidence on the Effect of the Past on the Present
    American Economic Review, 1997, 87, (2), 404-08 Downloads View citations

1996

  1. Human Capital Pricing Equations with an Application to Estimating the Effect of Schooling Quality on Earnings
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1996, 78, (4), 562-610 Downloads View citations
  2. Randomization as an Instrumental Variable: Notes
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1996, 78, (2), 336-41 Downloads View citations
  3. The Economics of Eligibility Rules for a Social Program: A Study of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)--A Summary Report
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1996, 29, (s1), 99-104 View citations
  4. The Empirical Foundations of Calibration
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996, 10, (1), 87-104 Downloads View citations

1995

  1. Assessing the Case for Social Experiments
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995, 9, (2), 85-110 Downloads View citations
  2. Lessons from the Bell Curve
    Journal of Political Economy, 1995, 103, (5), 1091-1120 Downloads View citations

1993

  1. The Nonequivalence of High School Equivalents
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1993, 11, (1), 1-47 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1991)
  2. What Has Been Learned about Labor Supply in the Past Twenty Years?
    American Economic Review, 1993, 83, (2), 116-21 Downloads View citations

1992

  1. Haavelmo and the Birth of Modern Econometrics: A Review of The History of Econometric Ideas
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1992, 30, (2), 876-86 Downloads View citations

1991

  1. Continuous versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1991, 29, (4), 1603-43 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1991)
  2. Identifying the Hand of the Past: Distinguishing State Dependence from Heterogeneity
    American Economic Review, 1991, 81, (2), 75-79 Downloads View citations

1990

  1. Self-selection and the Distribution of Hourly Wages
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1990, 8, (1), S329-63 Downloads View citations
  2. The Central Role of the South in Accounting for the Economic Progress of Black Americans
    American Economic Review, 1990, 80, (2), 242-46 Downloads View citations
  3. The Empirical Content of the Roy Model
    Econometrica, 1990, 58, (5), 1121-49 Downloads View citations
  4. The Relationship between Wages and Income and the Timing and Spacing of Births: Evidence from Swedish Longitudinal Data
    Econometrica, 1990, 58, (6), 1411-41 Downloads View citations
  5. The Third Birth in Sweden
    Journal of Population Economics, 1990, 3, (4), 235-75 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1989)
  6. Varieties of Selection Bias
    American Economic Review, 1990, 80, (2), 313-18 View citations

1989

  1. Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks: A Study of South Carolina
    American Economic Review, 1989, 79, (1), 138-77 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1989)

1988

  1. Empirical tests of labor-market equilibrium: An evaluation
    Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1988, 28, (1), 231-258 Downloads View citations

1987

  1. The Importance of Bundling in a Gorman-Lancaster Model of Earnings
    Review of Economic Studies, 1987, 54, (2), 243-55 Downloads View citations

1986

  1. A Test for Subadditivity of the Cost Function with an Application to the Bell System: Erratum
    American Economic Review, 1986, 76, (4), 856-58 Downloads View citations
  2. A dynamic model of aggregate output supply, factor demand and entry and exit for a competitive industry with heterogeneous plants
    Journal of Econometrics, 1986, 33, (1-2), 237-262 Downloads View citations

1985

  1. A Simultaneous Equations Linear Probability Model
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1985, 18, (1), 28-37 Downloads View citations
  2. Alternative methods for evaluating the impact of interventions: An overview
    Journal of Econometrics, 1985, 30, (1-2), 239-267 Downloads View citations
  3. Erratum
    Journal of Econometrics, 1985, 27, (1), 137-138 Downloads
  4. Heterogeneity, Aggregation, and Market Wage Functions: An Empirical Model of Self-selection in the Labor Market
    Journal of Political Economy, 1985, 93, (6), 1077-1125 Downloads View citations
  5. New Evidence on the Timing and Spacing of Births
    American Economic Review, 1985, 75, (2), 179-84 Downloads View citations
    See Also Working Paper

1984

  1. A Method for Minimizing the Impact of Distributional Assumptions in Econometric Models for Duration Data
    Econometrica, 1984, 52, (2), 271-320 Downloads View citations
  2. A Test for Subadditivity of the Cost Function with an Application to the Bell System
    American Economic Review, 1984, 74, (4), 615-23 Downloads View citations
  3. Comments on the Ashenfelter and Kydland papers
    Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1