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Postal address:Department of Economics Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218
Workplace:Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, (more information at EDIRC)

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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 Downloads

2008

  1. 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 Downloads
  2. 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 Downloads
  3. Welfare reform: the US experience
    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation Downloads

2007

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

2006

  1. Handedness and Earnings
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics (2004) View citations
  2. 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) Downloads View citations

    See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2006)

2003

  1. The Negative Income Tax and the Evolution of U.S. Welfare Policy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Perspectives (2003)
  2. 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
  3. 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 Downloads View citations
    Also in CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2002) Downloads

2002

  1. Economic Effects of Means-Tested Transfers in the U.S
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics (2001) View citations

    See also Chapter (2002)
  2. Milton Friedman, the Negative Income Tax, and the Evolution of US Welfare Policy
    Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics
  3. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics (2001) View citations

    See also Chapter (2003)
  4. Welfare Programs and Labor Supply
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    See also Chapter (2002)

2001

  1. 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)
  2. Productivity Growth and the Phillips Curve
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    Also in Economics Working Paper Archive, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics (2001) View citations

2000

  1. 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) Downloads View citations
  2. 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 Downloads View citations

    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2000)

1999

  1. Demographic Change and Public Assistance Programs
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
  2. The Decline of Welfare Benefits in the U.S.: The Role of Wage Inequality
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
    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)
  3. 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
  4. Time Limits
    JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research View citations

1998

  1. 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 Downloads 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) Downloads View citations
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty Downloads View citations
  2. Job Instability and Insecurity for Males and Females in the 1980s and 1990s
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics Downloads
  3. 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 Downloads View citations

1997

  1. 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 Downloads View citations
  2. 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 Downloads
    Also in Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty Downloads

1996

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

1995

  1. 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) Downloads View citations
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty Downloads

    See also Journal Article in International Economic Review (1998)

1991

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

1990

  1. An Estimate of a Sectoral Model of Labor Mobility
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations
    Also in Working Papers, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University (1988) Downloads

    See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1990)
  2. The Effect of the Medicaid Program on Welfare Participation and Labor Supply
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (1992)

1988

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

1983

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

Undated

  1. 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 Downloads View citations
  2. Explaining Welfare Reform: Public Choice and the Labor Market
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty Downloads
    See also Journal Article in International Tax and Public Finance (1999)
  3. State AFDC rules regarding the treatment of cohabitors: 1993
    Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty Downloads
  4. 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 Downloads View citations
  5. 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 Downloads View citations
  6. 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 Downloads View citations
  7. 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 Downloads

2008

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

2006

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

2004

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

2003

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

2002

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

2001

  1. A. B. Atkinson, The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2001, 29, (2), 386-388 Downloads
  2. Changing caseloads: macro influences and micro composition
    Economic Policy Review, 2001, (Sep), 37-51 Downloads View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)
  3. 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
  4. Welfare reform four years later: progress and prospects - summary of observations and recommendations
    Economic Policy Review, 2001, (Sep), 3-5 Downloads

2000

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

1999

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

1998

  1. 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)
  2. The decline of welfare benefits in the U.S.: the role of wage inequality
    Journal of Public Economics, 1998, 68, (3), 421-452 Downloads View citations
    See also Working Paper (1999)

1995

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

1994

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

1993

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

1992

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

1991

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

1990

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

1989

  1. 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
  2. Estimating the Value of an In-Kind Transfer: The Case of Food Stamps
    Econometrica, 1989, 57, (2), 385-409 Downloads View citations

1988

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

1987

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

1986

  1. 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
  2. Work Incentives in the AFDC System: An Analysis of the 1981 Reforms
    American Economic Review, 1986, 76, (2), 219-23 Downloads

1985

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

1984

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

1983

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

1982

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

1981

  1. 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 Downloads View citations

1980

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

1979

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

1977

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

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 Downloads View citations

2003

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

2002

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

1999

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

1984

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

Editor

  1. American Economic Review
    American Economic Association
 
 
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