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Working Papers

2022

1. Is Our Fiscal System Discouraging Marriage? A New Look at the Marriage Tax
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (2)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022) View citations (3)

2020

2. The Dynamics of the Smoking Wage Penalty
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   Also in FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2020)

2018

3. State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   Also in FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2018) View citations (1)

2017

4. Losing Public Health Insurance: TennCare Disenrollment and Personal Financial Distress
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (8)

2016

5. Killer Debt: The Impact of Debt on Mortality
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (7)

2014

6. Do Minimum Wages Really Increase Youth Drinking and Drunk Driving?
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (14)
7. Impact of first-birth career interruption on earnings: evidence from administrative data
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (3)
8. The gap between the conditional wage distributions of incumbents and the newly hired employees: decomposition and uniform ordering
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

2013

9. Even one is too much: the economic consequences of being a smoker
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (3)

2012

10. A closer look at nonparticipants during and after the Great Recession
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (15)

2011

11. A decomposition of the black-white differential in birth outcomes
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (2)
12. To work or not to work: the economics of a mother's dilemma
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

2010

13. Assessing the impact of education and marriage on labor market exit decisions of women
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (3)

2008

14. Working with children? the probability of mothers exiting the workforce at time of birth
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (2)

2007

15. Cigarette smoking and food insecurity among low-income families in the United States, 2001
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (2)
16. Does disability explain state-level differences in the quality of Medicare beneficiary hospital inpatient care?
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
17. Evidence of demand factors in the determination of the labor market intermittency penalty
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (1)
18. The role of labor market intermittency in explaining gender wage differentials
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (25)
    See also Journal Article The Role of Labor Market Intermittency in Explaining Gender Wage Differentials, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2007) View citations (24) (2007)

2006

19. Earnings on the information technology roller coaster: insight from matched employer-employee data
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
    Also in FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2005) View citations (1)
20. Smoking: taxing health and Social Security
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
    See also Journal Article Smoking: taxing health and Social Security, Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2007) (2007)
21. The push-pull effects of the information technology boom and bust: insight from matched employer-employee data
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (2)

2005

22. Freshman learning communities, college performance, and retention
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Freshman Learning Communities, College Performance, and Retention, Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals (2006) View citations (4) (2006)

2004

23. Wage gains among job changers across the business cycle: insight from state administrative data
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (4)

2003

24. Female labor force intermittency and current earnings: a switching regression model with unknown sample selection
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Female labour force intermittency and current earnings: switching regression model with unknown sample selection, Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals (2005) View citations (17) (2005)
25. The influence of year-end bonuses on colorectal cancer screening
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (2)
26. The ups and downs of jobs in Georgia: what can we learn about employment dynamics from state administrative data?
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (2)

2002

27. Incorporating insurance rate estimates and differential mortality into net marginal Social Security tax rate calculations
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (3)
28. Why choose women's work if it pays less? A structural model of occupational choice
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (7)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Industry-Level Sources for Solid US Employment Growth: Running on Empty or More Room to Run?
   Policy Hub, 2024, 2024, (8), 19

2022

2. Pink and Poverty Taxes on Marriage
   Policy Hub, 2022, 2022, (12)

2021

3. Where Are They Now? Workers with Young Children during COVID-19
   Policy Hub, 2021, 2021, (10)

2020

4. Where There's Smoke...: The Wage Impact of Smoking
   Policy Hub, 2020, 2020, (11), 8

2008

5. When things still don't add up
   EconSouth, 2008, 10, (1)

2007

6. Smoking: taxing health and Social Security
   Economic Review, 2007, 92, (Q 3), 27-41
   See also Working Paper Smoking: taxing health and Social Security, FRB Atlanta Working Paper (2006) (2006)
7. The Role of Labor Market Intermittency in Explaining Gender Wage Differentials
   American Economic Review, 2007, 97, (2), 417-421 View citations (24)
   See also Working Paper The role of labor market intermittency in explaining gender wage differentials, FRB Atlanta Working Paper (2007) View citations (25) (2007)

2006

8. Freshman Learning Communities, College Performance, and Retention
   Education Economics, 2006, 14, (2), 197-210 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper Freshman learning communities, college performance, and retention, FRB Atlanta Working Paper (2005) View citations (1) (2005)

2005

9. Female labour force intermittency and current earnings: switching regression model with unknown sample selection
   Applied Economics, 2005, 37, (5), 545-560 View citations (17)
   See also Working Paper Female labor force intermittency and current earnings: a switching regression model with unknown sample selection, FRB Atlanta Working Paper (2003) View citations (3) (2003)
10. Ill winds can’t blow U.S. economy off course
    EconSouth, 2005, 7, (Q4)
11. It's who you are and what you do: explaining the IT industry wage premium
    Economic Review, 2005, 90, (Q 3), 37-45 View citations (2)
12. The quality of preventive and diagnostic medical care: why do southern states underperform?
    Economic Review, 2005, 90, (Q 1), 59-67

2003

13. At What Level of Labor-Market Intermittency Are Women Penalized?
    American Economic Review, 2003, 93, (2), 233-237 View citations (6)

2002

14. Southeastern economy still feeling recession's effects
    EconSouth, 2002, 4, (Q4), 8-23