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Working Papers

2024

Cultural Transmission, Technology, and Treatment of the Elderly
Papers, arXiv.org
Demography, Human Capital Investment, and Lifetime Earnings for Women and Men
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Also in Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics (2024)
See also Journal Article Demography, Human Capital Investment, and Lifetime Earnings for Women and Men, Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan (2024) (2024)
Firm Survival and Gender Composition of Employment: Evidence from Vietnam
Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics
Wine as an Investment
Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics

2022

Technology, Tradition, and Treatment of the Elderly
Economics Working Paper Archive at Hunter College, Hunter College Department of Economics

2014

Comparing Standard Regression Modeling to Ensemble Modeling: How Data Mining Software Can Improve Economists' Predictions
Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics
See also Journal Article Comparing Standard Regression Modeling to Ensemble Modeling: How Data Mining Software Can Improve Economists’ Predictions, Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan (2016) (2016)
Convergences in Men's and Women's Life Patterns: Lifetime Work, Lifetime Earnings, and Human Capital Investment
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (6)

2013

Changing Technologies of Household Production: Causes and Effects
Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2012

Closing the Gender Gap: What Would It Take?
Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics
Do Babysitters Have More Kids? The Effects of Teenage Work Experiences on Adult Outcomes
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (4)
Also in Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics (2012) View citations (4)
Gender and the Economic Impacts of War
Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics
Neoclassical Models of Imperfectly Competitive Labor Markets
Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics
The Great Recession’s Impact on Men
Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
Also in Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics (2012)

2011

A Key Global Challenge: Reducing Losses due to Gender Inequality
Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
The Role of Technological Change in Increasing Gender Equity with a Focus on Information and Communications Technologyy
Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2008

Accommodating Families
Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics
See also Chapter Accommodating Families, Chapters, Edward Elgar Publishing (2009) (2009)
Affirmative Action in America: Procedures and Outcomes
Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics
Earnings inequality within and across gender, racial, and ethnic groups in four Latin American Countries
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)

2002

What About Us? Men’s Issues in Development
Wesleyan Economics Working Papers, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics View citations (1)

1996

The Effects of Child-Bearing on Married Women's Labor Supply and Earnings: Using Twin Births as a Natural Experiment
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (16)
See also Journal Article The Effects of Childbearing on Married Women's Labor Supply and Earnings: Using Twin Births as a Natural Experiment, Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press (1999) View citations (107) (1999)

1986

Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)

Journal Articles

2024

Demography, Human Capital Investment, and Lifetime Earnings for Women and Men
Eastern Economic Journal, 2024, 50, (3), 259-277
See also Working Paper Demography, Human Capital Investment, and Lifetime Earnings for Women and Men, IZA Discussion Papers (2024) (2024)

2018

The Care Economy in Post-Reform China: Feminist Research on Unpaid and Paid Work and Well-Being
Feminist Economics, 2018, 24, (2), 1-30 View citations (10)

2016

Comparing Standard Regression Modeling to Ensemble Modeling: How Data Mining Software Can Improve Economists’ Predictions
Eastern Economic Journal, 2016, 42, (3), 387-398
See also Working Paper Comparing Standard Regression Modeling to Ensemble Modeling: How Data Mining Software Can Improve Economists' Predictions, Wesleyan Economics Working Papers (2014) (2014)

2009

35th Anniversary Issue of the Eastern Economic Journal
Eastern Economic Journal, 2009, 35, (1), 1-1

2007

A Human Capital-Based Theory of Postmarital Residence Rules
The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2007, 23, (1), 208-241 View citations (13)
See also Working Paper A Human Capital-Based Theory of Post Marital Residence Rules, Wesleyan Economics Working Papers (2005) (2005)
Law and Economics: Alternative Economic Approaches to Legal and Regulatory Issues
Feminist Economics, 2007, 13, (2), 224-226
Marriage, Specialization, and the Gender Division of Labor
Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25, (4), 763-793 View citations (34)
See also Working Paper Marriage, Specialization, and the Gender Division of Labor, Wesleyan Economics Working Papers (2005) View citations (2) (2005)

2006

INTRODUCTION / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN US UNIVERSITIES AND THE WORLD / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN UK UNIVERSITIES / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN CHINA'S UNIVERSITIES
Feminist Economics, 2006, 12, (3), 427-474 View citations (1)

2005

Choices and changes: critical moments in careers and families
Regional Review, 2005, (Q 1), 16-21
Timing constraints and the allocation of time: The effects of changing shopping hours regulations in The Netherlands
European Economic Review, 2005, 49, (1), 9-27 View citations (26)
See also Working Paper Timing Constraints and the Allocation of Time: The Effects of Changing Shopping Hours Regulations in the Netherlands, IZA Discussion Papers (2004) View citations (6) (2004)

2004

Where We Are Now and Future Possibilities
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2004, 596, (1), 221-225
Women as labor force participants: effects of family and organizational structure
Conference Series ; [Proceedings], 2004, (Mar) View citations (2)

2003

Do Women and Non-economists Add Diversity to Research in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics?
Eastern Economic Journal, 2003, 29, (4), 575-591 View citations (1)
Exploring the relationship between price and quality for the case of hand-rolled cigars
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2003, 43, (1), 169-189 View citations (6)
Recent Trends in U.S. Earnings Inequality by Gender
Journal of Income Distribution, 2003, 12, (3-4), 3-3

2002

Calculation of returns to job tenure revisited
Applied Economics Letters, 2002, 9, (7), 473-477 View citations (1)

2001

Modeling and Measurement of Transitions between Income Categories
Social Science Quarterly, 2001, 82, (4), 676-679
The Rate of Return on Investment in Wine
Economic Inquiry, 2001, 39, (3), 337-50 View citations (38)
The effects of child-bearing on women's marital status: using twin births as a natural experiment
Economics Letters, 2001, 70, (1), 133-138 View citations (10)

2000

The effects of internal migration on the relative economic status of women and men
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2000, 29, (3), 291-304 View citations (24)

1999

Labor force participation
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 1999, 39, (5), 597-610 View citations (13)
Measuring Returns on Investments in Collectibles
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1999, 13, (4), 193-212 View citations (74)
The Effects of Childbearing on Married Women's Labor Supply and Earnings: Using Twin Births as a Natural Experiment
Journal of Human Resources, 1999, 34, (3), 449-474 View citations (107)
See also Working Paper The Effects of Child-Bearing on Married Women's Labor Supply and Earnings: Using Twin Births as a Natural Experiment, NBER Working Papers (1996) View citations (16) (1996)

1998

Kellogg's Six-Hour Day. By Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 261. $24.95, paper
The Journal of Economic History, 1998, 58, (1), 274-275

1997

What Data Do Economists Use? The Case of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations
Feminist Economics, 1997, 3, (2), 127-130 View citations (2)

1996

Do Men Whose Wives Work Really Earn Less?
American Economic Review, 1996, 86, (2), 268-73 View citations (46)

1992

Race, Gender, and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States. By Teresa Amott and Julie Matthaei. Boston: South End Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 433. $40.00, cloth; $16.00, paper
The Journal of Economic History, 1992, 52, (3), 738-739
Spillover effects from government employment
Economics Letters, 1992, 39, (1), 101-104 View citations (13)

Chapters

2015

Convergences in Men’s and Women’s Life Patterns: Lifetime Work, Lifetime Earnings, and Human Capital Investment☆The authors would like to thank the participants of the IZA Workshop on Gender Convergence in April 2014 and the seminar participants at Middlebury College, Wesleyan University and the IAFFE Annual Conference for helpful comments. The authors also would like to thank the editors Sol Polachek and Kostas Tatsiramos and two anonymous referees for their helpful suggestions on this paper
A chapter in Gender Convergence in the Labor Market, 2015, vol. 41, pp 1-33

2009

Accommodating Families
Chapter 11 in Labor and Employment Law and Economics, 2009
See also Working Paper Accommodating Families, Wesleyan University, Department of Economics (2008) (2008)

2004

Timing Constraints and the Allocation of Time
A chapter in The Economics of Time Use, 2004, pp 19-42