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Working Papers

2025

1. Economic Development in the 21st Century
   GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER (2025)
   Working Papers, The George Washington University, The Center for Economic Research (2025)

2021

2. Economics and American Judaism in the 21st Century
   Working Papers, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy

2018

3. Modelling Economic Development: The Lewis Model Updated
   Working Papers, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy

2014

4. Immigrants and Religion
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (1)

2013

5. Competition vs. Monopoly in the Religious Marketplace: Judaism in the United States and Israel
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER

2010

6. Economics and Religion
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (4)
7. Egalitarian Religion and Economics
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (1)
8. How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER

2006

9. The Economic Determinants of Ethnic Assimilation
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (21)
   See also Journal Article The economic determinants of ethnic assimilation, Journal of Population Economics, Springer (2009) View citations (47) (2009)

2005

10. An Economic Perspective on Religious Education: Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio
    IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (3)
    See also Chapter An economic perspective on religious education: complements and substitutes in a human capital portfolio, Research in Labor Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited (2006) (2006)

2003

11. History of Historical Statistics of the United States
    IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER
12. Immigrant Religious Adjustment: An Economic Approach to Jewish Migrations
    IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (3)

1981

13. Distribution of income in Thailand
    ILO Working Papers, International Labour Organization

Journal Articles

2009

1. The economic determinants of ethnic assimilation
   Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22, (4), 859-880 View citations (47)
   See also Working Paper The Economic Determinants of Ethnic Assimilation, IZA Discussion Papers (2006) View citations (21) (2006)

1993

2. Religion as a determinant of marital stability
   Demography, 1993, 30, (3), 385-404 View citations (99)

1992

3. The impact of immigrants on the macroeconomy
   Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1992, 37, (1), 279-316 View citations (30)

1990

4. On Marriage-Specific Human Capital: Its Role as a Determinant of Remarriage
   Journal of Population Economics, 1990, 3, (3), 193-213 View citations (29)

1989

5. The Impact of Immigration on the Human Capital of Natives
   Journal of Labor Economics, 1989, 7, (4), 464-86 View citations (31)

1988

6. Prosperity Without Progress: Manila Hemp and Material Life in the Colonial Philippines. By Norman G. Owen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Pp. xxii, 312. $30.00
   The Journal of Economic History, 1988, 48, (3), 769-770
7. The Philippine Economy and the United States: Studies in Past and Present Interactions. Edited by Norman G. Owen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, 1983. Pp. xvi, 208. $13.95 paper
   The Journal of Economic History, 1988, 48, (3), 768-769

1986

8. The efficiency-wage hypothesis: Applying a general model of the interaction between labor quantity and quality
   Journal of Development Economics, 1986, 20, (2), 311-323 View citations (7)
9. World Bank Staff working paper, no. 661. user charges for education: The ability and willingness to pay in Malawi: Jee-Peng Tan, Kiong Hock Lee and Alain Mingat. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1984. pp. 98. Price: $5.00 (paper)
   Economics of Education Review, 1986, 5, (3), 330-331

1985

10. The Elasticity of Substitution Revisited: The Effects of Secular Changes in Labor Force Structure
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1985, 3, (4), 490-507 View citations (5)

1984

11. Analysis
    Challenge, 1984, 27, (4), 51-55
12. The impact of education policy on economic development: Quantity, quality and earnings of labor
    Economics of Education Review, 1984, 3, (2), 121-130 View citations (1)

1983

13. Analysis of Earnings from Household Enterprises: Methodology and Application to Thailand
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1983, 65, (4), 658-62 View citations (11)
14. Asia - The Political Economy of Productivity: Thai Agricultural Development, 1880–1975. By David Feeny. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1982. Pp. x, 238. $28.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 1983, 43, (1), 326-328

1982

15. The Value of a Housewife's Time
    Journal of Human Resources, 1982, 17, (3), 413-425 View citations (5)

1977

16. On estimating earnings functions for LDCs
    Journal of Development Economics, 1977, 4, (1), 67-78 View citations (10)

Chapters

2023

1. Competition versus Monopoly in the Religious Marketplace: Judaism in the United States and Israel
   Chapter 6 in THE ECONOMICS OF RELIGION, 2023, pp 147-155

2006

2. An economic perspective on religious education: complements and substitutes in a human capital portfolio
   A chapter in The Economics of Immigration and Social Diversity, 2006, pp 449-467
   See also Working Paper An Economic Perspective on Religious Education: Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio, IZA Network @ LISER (2005) View citations (3) (2005)