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Working Papers

2014

1. On the Robustness of Minimum Wage Effects: Geographically-Disparate Trends and Job Growth Equations
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (3)
   Also in Working Paper Series in Economics, University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics (2014) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article On the robustness of minimum wage effects: geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Springer (2015) View citations (25) (2015)

2013

2. Minimum Wage Increases in a Recessionary Environment
   GEMF Working Papers, GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra View citations (59)
   See also Journal Article Minimum wage increases in a recessionary environment, Labour Economics, Elsevier (2013) View citations (60) (2013)

2012

3. The Effect of Recent Increases in the U.S. Minimum Wage: Results from Three Data Sources
   Working Paper series, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis View citations (1)

2011

4. Minimum Wage Increases Under Straightened Circumstances
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (3)
5. Minimum Wage Increases in a Soft U.S. Economy
   Economics Series, Institute for Advanced Studies View citations (3)

2008

6. New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (7)
7. The Effect of Minimum Wages on Wages and Employment: County-Level Estimates for the United States
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (2)

2006

8. The impact of internal migration on married couples’ earnings in Britain, with a comparison to the United States
   ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research View citations (4)

1998

9. Minimum Wages and Poverty
   ZEW Discussion Papers, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research View citations (16)

1994

10. Changes in the Structure of Family Income Inequality in the United States and Other Industrial Nationa During the 1980s
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)

1993

11. Are OLS Estimates of the Return to Schooling Biased Downward? Another Look
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article Are OLS Estimates of the Return to Schooling Biased Downward? Another Look, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (1995) View citations (110) (1995)

1991

12. Changes in Earnings Differentials in the 1980s: Concordance, Convergence, Causes, and Consequence
    Economics Working Paper Archive, Levy Economics Institute View citations (2)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1991) View citations (3)
13. Omitted-Ability Bias and the Increase in the Return to Schooling
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (33)
    See also Journal Article Omitted-Ability Bias and the Increase in the Return to Schooling, Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press (1993) View citations (171) (1993)
14. The Distribution of Family Income: Measuring and Explaining Changes in the 1980s for Canada and the United States
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
    See also Chapter The Distribution of Family Income: Measuring and Explaining Changes in the 1980s for Canada and the United States, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1993) View citations (9) (1993)
15. Unobserved Ability, Efficiency Wages, and Interindustry Wage Differentials
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Unobserved Ability, Efficiency Wages, and Interindustry Wage Differentials, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (1992) View citations (62) (1992)

1990

16. Fertility Timing, Wages, and Human Capital
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article Fertility Timing, Wages, and Human Capital, Journal of Population Economics, Springer (1993) View citations (57) (1993)

1989

17. The Declining Economic Position of Less-Skilled American Males
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (50)

1988

18. Efficiency wages, inter-industry wage differentials, and the returns to ability
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

1987

19. The Effects of Technological Change on Earnings and Income Inequality inthe United States
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)

Journal Articles

2015

1. On the robustness of minimum wage effects: geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations
   IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4, (1), 1-16 View citations (25)
   See also Working Paper On the Robustness of Minimum Wage Effects: Geographically-Disparate Trends and Job Growth Equations, IZA Discussion Papers (2014) View citations (3) (2014)
2. The Relative Performance of Poisson and Negative Binomial Regression Estimators
   Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77, (4), 605-616 View citations (7)

2013

3. Minimum wage increases in a recessionary environment
   Labour Economics, 2013, 23, (C), 30-39 View citations (60)
   See also Working Paper Minimum Wage Increases in a Recessionary Environment, GEMF Working Papers (2013) View citations (59) (2013)
4. Ranking the performance of tennis players: an application to women’s professional tennis
   Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2013, 9, (4), 367-378

2012

5. Minimum Wages and Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities among Teens
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94, (3), 828-840 View citations (59)
6. The Effect of Minimum Wages on Labour Market Outcomes: County-Level Estimates from the Restaurant-and-Bar Sector
   British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50, (3), 412-435 View citations (49)
7. The prevalence and impact of misstated incomes on mortgage loan applications
   Journal of Housing Economics, 2012, 21, (2), 151-168 View citations (14)

2010

8. Internal migration and the earnings of married couples in the United States
   Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10, (1), 87-111 View citations (14)
9. The Impact of Internal Migration on Married Couples' Earnings in Britain
   Economica, 2010, 77, (307), 584-603 View citations (16)

2009

10. Do minimum wages raise employment? Evidence from the U.S. retail-trade sector
    Labour Economics, 2009, 16, (4), 397-408 View citations (66)

2007

11. Estimating wage differentials without logarithms
    Labour Economics, 2007, 14, (1), 73-98 View citations (69)
12. The role of information externalities and scale economies in home mortgage lending decisions
    Journal of Urban Economics, 2007, 61, (1), 71-85 View citations (11)

2006

13. A Comparison of Unexplained Racial Disparities in Bank-Level and Market-Level Models of Mortgage Lending
    Journal of Financial Services Research, 2006, 29, (2), 125-147 View citations (6)

2004

14. Racial disparities in bank-specific mortgage lending models
    Economics Letters, 2004, 85, (3), 379-383 View citations (7)
15. The role of test scores in explaining race and gender differences in wages
    Economics of Education Review, 2004, 23, (6), 555-576 View citations (14)

2003

16. Education and earning in Europe: Edited by Colm Harmon, Ian Walker, and Niels Westergaard-Nielson. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001. ix+332 pp. Price: $95.00 (hardback)
    Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22, (4), 445-446
17. The effects of the welfare system on marital dissolution
    Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16, (3), 477-500 View citations (5)

2000

18. The effects of unemployment insurance on postunemployment earnings
    Labour Economics, 2000, 7, (1), 21-53 View citations (100)
19. Welfare Effects on the Marital Decisions of Never-Married Mothers
    Journal of Human Resources, 2000, 35, (1), 116-142 View citations (4)

1997

20. A Puzzling Aspect of the Effect of Advance Notice on Unemployment
    ILR Review, 1997, 50, (2), 268-288 View citations (5)
21. Misspecified skedastic functions in grouped-data models
    Economics Letters, 1997, 55, (1), 1-8 View citations (7)

1995

22. Are OLS Estimates of the Return to Schooling Biased Downward? Another Look
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1995, 77, (2), 217-30 View citations (110)
    See also Working Paper Are OLS Estimates of the Return to Schooling Biased Downward? Another Look, NBER Working Papers (1993) View citations (9) (1993)

1994

23. International Comparisons of Poverty
    American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (2), 371-74 View citations (18)
24. Statistical Bias Functions and Informative Hypothetical Surveys
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1994, 76, (5), 1084-1088 View citations (76)
25. The Declining Marital-Status Earnings Differential
    Journal of Population Economics, 1994, 7, (3), 247-70 View citations (30)
26. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1994, 8, (1), 181-190 View citations (21)
27. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act: Effects on Notice Provision
    ILR Review, 1994, 47, (4), 650-662 View citations (11)

1993

28. Fertility Timing, Wages, and Human Capital
    Journal of Population Economics, 1993, 6, (1), 1-30 View citations (57)
    See also Working Paper Fertility Timing, Wages, and Human Capital, NBER Working Papers (1990) View citations (13) (1990)
29. Omitted-Ability Bias and the Increase in the Return to Schooling
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1993, 11, (3), 521-44 View citations (171)
    See also Working Paper Omitted-Ability Bias and the Increase in the Return to Schooling, NBER Working Papers (1991) View citations (33) (1991)
30. The economic future of American families: Income and wealth trends: By and. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1991. xiv + 132 pp. Price: $31.50 (cloth), $15.25 (paper)
    Economics of Education Review, 1993, 12, (4), 368-369

1992

31. Labor markets in action: Essays in empirical economics: By. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989. 354 pp. US$35.00 (cloth)
    Economics of Education Review, 1992, 11, (1), 94-95
32. Unobserved Ability, Efficiency Wages, and Interindustry Wage Differentials
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1992, 107, (4), 1421-1436 View citations (62)
    See also Working Paper Unobserved Ability, Efficiency Wages, and Interindustry Wage Differentials, NBER Working Papers (1991) View citations (2) (1991)

1990

33. TRENDS IN POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES, 1967–84
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1990, 36, (1), 53-66 View citations (3)
34. Technology, education and productivity: Essays in applied econometrics: By. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. 378 pp. price: U.S.$39.95 (cloth).F
    Economics of Education Review, 1990, 9, (2), 193-194

1989

35. Interpreting the magnitude of changes in measures of income inequality
    Journal of Econometrics, 1989, 42, (1), 21-25 View citations (33)
36. Poverty Measurement: An Index Related to a Theil Measure of Inequality
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1989, 7, (4), 475-81 View citations (3)
37. Technical change and full employment: Edited by Christopher Freeman and Luc Soete. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. 279 pp. U.S.$55.00 (cloth)
    Economics of Education Review, 1989, 8, (3), 293-293

Chapters

1993

1. The Distribution of Family Income: Measuring and Explaining Changes in the 1980s for Canada and the United States
   A chapter in Small Differences That Matter: Labor Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada and the United States, 1993, pp 233-266 View citations (9)
   See also Working Paper The Distribution of Family Income: Measuring and Explaining Changes in the 1980s for Canada and the United States, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1991) View citations (6) (1991)