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Working Papers

2009

1. Trends in the Level and Distribution of Income Support
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2008

2. Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
3. Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1991-2003: Preliminary Evidence from LEHD data
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
4. Welfare reform: the US experience
   Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation

2007

5. Estimating Marginal Returns to Higher Education in the UK
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2006

6. Handedness and Earnings
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics (2004) View citations
7. Welfare Work Requirements with Paternalistic Government Preferences
   Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics View citations
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006) View citations
   See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2006)

2003

8. The Negative Income Tax and the Evolution of U.S. Welfare Policy
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Perspectives (2003)
9. The Role of Non-Financial Factors in Exit and Entry in the TANF Program
   Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics View citations
10. The Role of Randomized Field Trials in Social Science Research: A Perspective from Evaluations of Reforms of Social Welfare Programs
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2002)

2002

11. Economic Effects of Means-Tested Transfers in the U.S
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics (2001) View citations
    See also Chapter (2002)
12. Milton Friedman, the Negative Income Tax, and the Evolution of US Welfare Policy
    Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics
13. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics (2001) View citations
    See also Chapter (2003)
14. Welfare Programs and Labor Supply
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Chapter (2002)

2001

15. Changing Caseloads: Macro Influences and Micro Composition
    JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research View citations
    See also Journal Article in Economic Policy Review (2001)
16. Productivity Growth and the Phillips Curve
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics (2001) View citations

2000

17. Taxation and the Labor Supply - Decisions of the Affluent
    Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics View citations
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1998) View citations
18. Welfare Benefits and Female Headship in US Time Series
    Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics View citations
    Also in Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty View citations
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2000)

1999

19. Demographic Change and Public Assistance Programs
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
20. The Decline of Welfare Benefits in the U.S.: The Role of Wage Inequality
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics (1998) View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1998)
21. The Effect of Pre-PRWORA Waivers on AFDC Caseloads and Female Earnings, Income, and Labor Force Behavior
    JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research View citations
22. Time Limits
    JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research View citations

1998

23. An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics (1998) View citations
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics (1997) View citations
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty View citations
24. Job Instability and Insecurity for Males and Females in the 1980s and 1990s
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
25. Trends in the Variances of Permanent and Transitory Earnings in the U.S. and Their Relation to Earnings Mobility
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations

1997

26. An Analysis of the Impact of Sample Attrition on the Second Generation of Respondents in the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations
27. Tax Rates and Work Incentives in the Social Security Disability Insurance Program: Current Law and Alternative Reforms
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    Also in Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty

1996

28. Selection Bias Adjustment in Treatment-Effect Models as a Method of Aggregation
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1995

29. A Structural Model of Multiple Welfare Program Participation and Labor Supply
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations
    Also in Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (1995) View citations
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty
    See also Journal Article in International Economic Review (1998)

1991

30. Framework for Analysis of Female Paid Labor; Supply in Islamic Emena Countries
    Center for Development Economics, Department of Economics, Williams College

1990

31. An Estimate of a Sectoral Model of Labor Mobility
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Working Papers, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University (1988)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1990)
32. The Effect of the Medicaid Program on Welfare Participation and Labor Supply
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (1992)

1988

33. Has State Redistribution Policy Grown More Conservative?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
34. Variable Earnings and Nonlinear Taxation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

1983

35. The Effect of Ignoring Heteroscedasticity on Estimates of the Tobit Model
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

Undated

36. Beyond single mothers: Cohabition, marriage, and the U.S. welfare system
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty View citations
37. Explaining Welfare Reform: Public Choice and the Labor Market
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty
    See also Journal Article in International Tax and Public Finance (1999)
38. State AFDC rules regarding the treatment of cohabitors: 1993
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty
39. The Effect of Welfare on Marriage and Fertility: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty View citations
40. The effect of work and training programs on entry and exit from the welfare caseload
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty View citations
41. The effectiveness of financial work incentives in DI and SSI: Lessons from other transfer programs
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty View citations
42. Trends in the covariance structure of earnings in the United States: 1969-1987
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty View citations

Journal Articles

2009

1. Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association: Editors' Introduction
   American Economic Review, 2009, 99, (2), viii-viii

2008

2. Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
   American Economic Review, 2008, 98, (2), 581-90

2006

3. Welfare work Requirements with Paternalistic Government Preferences
   Economic Journal, 2006, 116, (515), F441-F458 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2004

4. Introduction to the Symposium on the Econometrics of Matching
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86, (1), 1-3 View citations

2003

5. Causal Analysis in Population Research: An Economist's Perspective
   Population and Development Review, 2003, 29, (3), 448-458 View citations
6. Special issue on empirical analysis of social interactions
   Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2003, 18, (5), 499-499
7. The Negative Income Tax and the Evolution of U.S. Welfare Policy
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2003, 17, (3), 119-140 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2003)

2002

8. Trends in the Transitory Variance of Earnings in the United States
   Economic Journal, 2002, 112, (478), C68-C73 View citations

2001

9. A. B. Atkinson, The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State
   Journal of Comparative Economics, 2001, 29, (2), 386-388
10. Changing caseloads: macro influences and micro composition
    Economic Policy Review, 2001, (Sep), 37-51 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)
11. Estimations of Limited Dependent Variable Models with Dummy Endogenous Regressors: Simple Strategies for Empirical Practice: Comment
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2001, 19, (1), 20-23 View citations
12. Welfare reform four years later: progress and prospects - summary of observations and recommendations
    Economic Policy Review, 2001, (Sep), 3-5

2000

13. Welfare Benefits and Female Headship in U.S. Time Series
    American Economic Review, 2000, 90, (2), 373-377 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2000)

1999

14. Changes in Job Instability and Insecurity Using Monthly Survey Data
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1999, 17, (4), S91-126 View citations
15. Explaining Welfare Reform: Public Choice and the Labor Market
    International Tax and Public Finance, 1999, 6, (3), 289-315 View citations
    See also Working Paper

1998

16. A Structural Model of Multiple Welfare Program Participation and Labor Supply
    International Economic Review, 1998, 39, (3), 553-89 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1995)
17. The decline of welfare benefits in the U.S.: the role of wage inequality
    Journal of Public Economics, 1998, 68, (3), 421-452 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1999)

1995

18. Estimating Dynamic Models of Quit Behavior: The Case of Military Reenlistment
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1995, 13, (3), 499-523 View citations

1994

19. The Growth of Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1994, 25, (1994-2), 217-272 View citations
20. Welfare Dependence: Concepts, Measures, and Trends
    American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (2), 38-42 View citations

1993

21. Identification and estimation of dynamic models with a time series of repeated cross-sections
    Journal of Econometrics, 1993, 59, (1-2), 99-123 View citations

1992

22. Incentive Effects of the U.S. Welfare System: A Review
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1992, 30, (1), 1-61 View citations
23. The Effect of the Medicaid Program on Welfare Participation and Labor Supply
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1992, 74, (4), 615-26 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1990)

1991

24. A New Index to Value In-Kind Benefits
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1991, 37, (4), 387-408 View citations

1990

25. An Estimate of a Sectoral Model of Labor Mobility
    Journal of Political Economy, 1990, 98, (4), 827-52 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1990)
26. The Dynamics of Job Separation: The Case of Federal Employees
    Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1990, 5, (3), 245-62 View citations
27. The Dynamics of Job Separation: The Case of the Federal Employees: Reply
    Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1990, 5, (3), 269-72
28. The Econometrics of Kinked Budget Constraints
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1990, 4, (2), 119-39 View citations
29. The effect of the U.S. welfare system on marital status
    Journal of Public Economics, 1990, 41, (1), 101-124 View citations

1989

30. Demographic Behavior and the Welfare State: Econometric Issues in the Identification of the Effects of Tax and Transfer Programs
    Journal of Population Economics, 1989, 1, (4), 237-50 View citations
31. Estimating the Value of an In-Kind Transfer: The Case of Food Stamps
    Econometrica, 1989, 57, (2), 385-409 View citations

1988

32. Real Wages over the Business Cycle: Estimating the Impact of Heterogeneity with Micro Data
    Journal of Political Economy, 1988, 96, (6), 1232-66 View citations
33. The effect of food stamps on labor supply: A bivariate selection model
    Journal of Public Economics, 1988, 35, (1), 25-56 View citations

1987

34. The Estimation of Wage Gains and Welfare Gains in Self-selection
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1987, 69, (1), 42-49 View citations

1986

35. The Econometrics of Piecewise-Linear Budget Constraints: A Survey and Exposition of the Maximum Likelihood Method
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1986, 4, (3), 317-28 View citations
36. Work Incentives in the AFDC System: An Analysis of the 1981 Reforms
    American Economic Review, 1986, 76, (2), 219-23

1985

37. A problem with the negative income tax
    Economics Letters, 1985, 17, (3), 261-265 View citations
38. The Joint Choice of Retirement Age and Postretirement Hours of Work
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1985, 3, (2), 209-36 View citations
39. Unemployment insurance and the distribution of unemployment spells
    Journal of Econometrics, 1985, 28, (1), 85-101 View citations

1984

40. Profiles of Fertility, Labour Supply and Wages of Married Women: A Complete Life-Cycle Model
    Review of Economic Studies, 1984, 51, (2), 263-78 View citations
41. The Estimation of a Joint Wage-Hours Labor Supply Model
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1984, 2, (4), 550-66 View citations
42. The effects of grants-in-aid on state and local expenditures: The case of AFDC
    Journal of Public Economics, 1984, 23, (3), 279-305 View citations

1983

43. An Economic Model of Welfare Stigma
    American Economic Review, 1983, 73, (5), 1023-35 View citations

1982

44. A Computationally Efficient Quadrature Procedure for the One-Factor Multinomial Probit Model
    Econometrica, 1982, 50, (3), 761-64 View citations
45. The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment: The Case of Federal Supplemental Benefits
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1982, 64, (1), 1-11 View citations
46. The Tobit Model, Hours of Work and Institutional Constraints
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1982, 64, (3), 510-15 View citations

1981

47. Underreporting and Experimental Effects on Work Effort: Evidence from the Gary Income Maintenance Experiment
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1981, 63, (4), 581-89 View citations

1980

48. Disequilibrium econometrics and non-linear budget constraints
    Economics Letters, 1980, 5, (1), 49-52
49. The Uses of Tobit Analysis
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1980, 62, (2), 318-21 View citations

1979

50. The labor market replacement effect of a negative income tax
    Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1979, 33, (1), 85-94

1977

51. Labor Supply and the Payroll Tax: Note
    American Economic Review, 1977, 67, (5), 1004-05

Books

2003

1. Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States
   NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

Chapters

2007

1. The Econometrics of Data Combination
   Chapter 75 in Handbook of Econometrics, 2007, vol. 6B View citations

2003

2. Introduction to "Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States"
   A chapter in Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, 2003, pp 1-14
3. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
   A chapter in Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, 2003, pp 291-364 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2002)

2002

4. Economic Effects of Means-Tested Transfers in the U.S
   A chapter in Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 16, 2002, pp 1-36 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2002)
5. Welfare programs and labor supply
   Chapter 34 in Handbook of Public Economics, 2002, vol. 4, pp 2393-2430 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2002)

1999

6. New developments in econometric methods for labor market analysis
   Chapter 24 in Handbook of Labor Economics, 1999, vol. 3, Part A, pp 1367-1397 View citations

1984

7. Trends in Social Security Wealth by Cohort
   A chapter in Economic Transfers in the United States, 1984, pp 327-358 View citations

Editor

1. American Economic Review
   American Economic Association