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Working Papers

2008

1. How Hurricanes Affect Employment and Wages in Local Labor Markets
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
2. How Opportunity Costs Decrease the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

2007

3. Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
4. How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations

2006

5. Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
6. Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
   See Also Chapter (2007)

2005

7. Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? A Nonparametric Assessment
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
8. Globalization and International Conflict: Can FDI Increase Peace?
   Working Papers Rutgers University, Newark, Department of Economics, Rutgers University, Newark View citations
9. Medical Interventions among Pregnant Women in Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Insurance: A Propensity Score Analysis
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
   See Also Journal Article in Applied Economics (2006)
10. The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

2004

11. How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
12. How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations

2003

13. Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
    See Also Journal Article in Review of Economics of the Household (2003)
14. What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data?
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

1998

15. The Effects of Price Changes on Alcohol Consumption in Alcohol-Experienced Rats
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

1994

16. Measuring Ignorance in the Market: A New Method with an Application to Physician Services
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Journal Articles

2008

1. How Hurricanes Affect Wages and Employment in Local Labor Markets
   American Economic Review, 2008, 98, (2), 49-53

2007

2. How trade affects international interactions
   Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 2007, 2, (2), 60-68
3. THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT
   Defence and Peace Economics, 2007, 18, (5), 415-429

2006

4. Medical interventions among pregnant women in fee-for-service and managed care insurance: a propensity score analysis
   Applied Economics, 2006, 38, (13), 1513-1525
   See Also Working Paper (2005)

2005

5. Conflict and Trade: An Economics Approach to Political International Interactions
   Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 2005, 5, (2), 3
6. Medicaid Coverage and Medical Interventions During Pregnancy
   International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2005, 5, (3), 255-271

2004

7. Conflict and trade: the relationship between geographic distance and international interactions
   The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2004, 33, (4), 491-509 View citations

2003

8. Labor Economics Mincer-Style: A Personal Reflection
   Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1, (4), 363-366
9. Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Life Cycle Earnings Distribution
   Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1, (4), 273-304
   See Also Working Paper (2003)
10. Perceptions of female faculty treatment in higher education: which institutions treat women more fairly?
    Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22, (1), 59-67

1998

11. Employee labor market information: comparing direct world of work measures of workers' knowledge to stochastic frontier estimates
    Labour Economics, 1998, 5, (2), 231-242 View citations

1997

12. Why Democracies Cooperate More and Fight Less: The Relationship between International Trade and Cooperation
    Review of International Economics, 1997, 5, (3), 295-309 View citations

1996

13. Panel Estimates of a Two-Tiered Earnings Frontier
    Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1996, 11, (2), 169-78 View citations

1995

14. Discerning Discrimination: Does Interviewing Firms Make a Difference?
    Eastern Economic Journal, 1995, 21, (3), 393-398 View citations
15. Earnings over the Life Cycle: What Do Human Capital Models Explain?
    Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 1995, 42, (3), 267-89

1994

16. Male-Female Wage Differentials in Taiwan: A Human Capital Approach
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1994, 42, (2), 351-74
17. Panel estimates of the gender earnings gap: Individual-specific intercept and individual-specific slope models
    Journal of Econometrics, 1994, 61, (1), 23-42 View citations

1993

18. Why the Gender Gap in Wages Narrowed in the 1980s
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1993, 11, (1), 205-28 View citations

1987

19. A Two-tiered Earnings Frontier Estimation of Employer and Employee Information in the Labor Market
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1987, 69, (2), 296-302 View citations
20. Panel Estimates of Union Effects on Wages and Wage Growth
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1987, 69, (3), 527-31
21. Residual Differences by Sex: Perspectives on the Gender Gap in Earnings
    American Economic Review, 1987, 77, (2), 143-51 View citations

1986

22. Union effects on wages and wage growth
    Economics Letters, 1986, 21, (3), 297-303

1985

23. A new approach for measuring wage ignorance in the labor market
    Journal of Economics and Business, 1985, 37, (3), 267-276 View citations

1981

24. Occupational Self-Selection: A Human Capital Approach to Sex Differences in Occupational Structure
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1981, 63, (1), 60-69 View citations

1978

25. Sex differences in college major
    Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1978, 31, (4), 498-508 View citations

1975

26. Differences in Expected Post-school Investments as a Determinant of Market Wage Differentials
    International Economic Review, 1975, 16, (2), 451-70 View citations

1974

27. Family Investment in Human Capital: Earnings of Women
    Journal of Political Economy, 1974, 82, (2), S76-S108 View citations

Chapters

2007

1. Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute
   Elsevier
   See Also Working Paper (2006)