Journal of Human Resources

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Volume 40, issue 4, 2005

Affordability: Family Incomes and Net Prices at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities pp. 769-790

Catharine B. Hill, Gordon Winston and Stephanie A. Boyd

An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schooling pp. 791-821

Joseph Altonji, Todd Elder and Christopher R. Taber

The Behavioral Dynamics of Youth Smoking pp. 822-866

Donna Gilleskie and Koleman S. Strumpf

The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Family Incomes: A Nonparametric Analysis pp. 867-894

David Neumark, Mark Schweitzer and William Wascher

Student Responses to Merit Scholarship Retention Rules pp. 895-917

Christopher Cornwell, Kyung Hee Lee and David Mustard

Games and Discrimination: Lessons From The Weakest Link pp. 918-947

Kate Antonovics, Peter Arcidiacono and Randall Walsh

Medicare and the Health of Women with Breast Cancer pp. 948-968

Sandra L. Decker

Why Are the Returns to Schooling Higher for Women than for Men? pp. 969-988

Christopher Dougherty

The Living Arrangement Dynamics of Sick, Elderly Individuals pp. 989-1014

Benoit Dostie and Pierre Thomas Léger

Volume 40, issue 3, 2005

Promoting School Readiness in Oklahoma: An Evaluation of Tulsa's Pre-K Program

William T. Gormley, Jr. and Ted Gayer

Court Ordered Desegregation: Successes and Failures Integrating American Schools since Brown versus Board of Education

Sarah J. Reber

Relative Deprivation, Poor Health Habits, and Mortality

Christine Eibner and William Evans

Do Trust and Trustworthiness Pay Off?

Joel Slemrod and Peter Katuák

Do Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Matter?

Ronald Ehrenberg and Liang Zhang

Are Middle Schools More Effective?: The Impact of School Structure on Student Outcomes

Kelly Bedard and Chau Do

Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment

V. Joseph Hotz, Susan Williams McElroy and Seth G. Sanders

Estimating Long-Term Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: An Examination of the Siblings Approach

Helena Holmlund

Long-term Illness and Wages: The Impact of the Risk of Occupationally Related Long-term Illness on Earnings

Robert Sandy and Robert F. Elliott

Volume 40, issue 2, 2005

Retirement and the Evolution of Pension Structure

Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb

Welfare Reform and Health

Marianne Bitler, Jonah Gelbach and Hilary Hoynes

The Declining Relative Importance of Ability in Predicting Educational Attainment

Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Anna Vignoles

Social Security and Elderly Living Arrangements: Evidence from the Social Security Notch

Gary V. Engelhardt, Jonathan Gruber and Cynthia D. Perry

Estimating the Impact of Large Cigarette Tax Hikes: The Case of Maternal Smoking and Infant Birth Weight

Diana S. Lien and William Evans

On the Validity of Econometric Techniques with Weak Instruments: Inference on Returns to Education Using Compulsory School Attendance Laws

Luiz M. Cruz and Marcelo Moreira

Sex Preferences, Marital Dissolution, and the Economic Status of Women

Kelly Bedard and Olivier Deschenes

Racial Earnings Differentials and Performance Pay

John Heywood and Patrick L. O’Halloran

Reexamining the Returns to Training: Functional Form, Magnitude, and Interpretation

Harley Frazis and Mark A. Loewenstein

Gender Differences in Physician Pay: Tradeoffs Between Career and Family

Alicia C. Sasser

Smoking, Drinking, and Income

M. Christopher Auld

Do Husbands and Wives Pool Their Resources?: Further Evidence

Julie Hotchkiss

Volume 40, issue 1, 2005

The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in Wealth

Joseph Altonji and Ulrich Doraszelski

Welfare Reform When Recipients Are Forward-Looking

Christopher Swann

Importing the Poor: Welfare Magnetism and Cross-Border Welfare Migration

Terra McKinnish

Does Child Labor Decline with Improving Economic Status?

Eric Edmonds

How Much Do Medical Students Know About Physician Income?

Sean Nicholson

Specialty Selection and Lifetime Returns to Specialization Within Medicine

Jayanta Bhattacharya

Estimating the Effect of Income on Health and Mortality Using Lottery Prizes as an Exogenous Source of Variation in Income

Mikael Lindahl

Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed?

Susan Mayer and Leonard M. Lopoo

Rearranging the Family?: Income Support and Elderly Living Arrangements in a Low-Income Country

Eric Edmonds, Kristin Mammen and Douglas Miller

What Can Ex-Participants Reveal about a Program’s Impact?

Martin Ravallion, Emanuela Galasso, Teodoro Lazo and Ernesto Philipp

Job Search, Search Intensity, and Labor Market Transitions: An Empirical Analysis

Hans Bloemen

Cost-Effectiveness of Targeted Reemployment Bonuses

Christopher J. O’Leary, Paul T. Decke and Stephen A. Wandner

Volume 39, issue 4, 2004

A Stock-Flow Analysis of the Welfare Caseload

Jacob Alex Klerman and Steven Haider

A Closer Look at the Employment Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Julie Hotchkiss

Social Norms and Sexual Activity in U.S. High Schools

Edward Castronova

The Relationship Between Marriage Market Prospects and Never-Married Motherhood

Derek Neal

Crime and Economic Incentives

Stephen Machin and Costas Meghir

Incomes and Outcomes in Early Childhood

Beck Taylor, Eric Dearing and Kathleen McCartney

Household Labor Supply and Welfare Participation in Sweden

Lennart Flood, Jorgen Hansen and Roger Wahlberg

Marital Matching and Earnings: Evidence from the Unmarried Population in Sweden

Robert A. Nakosteen, Olle Westerlund and Michael Zimmer

How do Financial Aid Policies Affect Colleges?: The Institutional Impact of the Georgia HOPE Scholarship

Bridget Long

What Do Self-Reported, Objective, Measures of Health Measure?

Michael Baker, Mark Stabile and Catherine Deri Armstrong

Household Childcare Choices and Women’s Work Behavior in Russia

Michael Lokshin

The Wage Expectations of European Business and Economics Students

Giorgio Brunello, Claudio Lucifora and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Volume 39, issue 3, 2004

Widows Waiting to Wed?: (Re)Marriage and Economic Incentives in Social Security Widow Benefits

Michael J. Brien, Stacy Dickert-Conlin and David A. Weaver

Health and Retirement: Do Changes in Health Affect Retirement Expectations?

Kathleen McGarry

Investigating the Patterns and Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Germany Following Reunification

Paul Frijters, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Michael Shields

Wedding Celebrations as Conspicuous Consumption: Signaling Social Status in Rural India

Francis Bloch, Vijayendra Rao and Sonalde Desai

Changes in Relative Wages and Family Labor Supply

Paul Devereux

What's Happened to the Price of College?: Quality-Adjusted Net Price Indexes for Four-Year Colleges pp. 723-745

Amy Schwartz and Benjamin Scafidi

Who Receives the College Wage Premium?: Assessing the Labor Market Returns to Degrees and College Transfer Patterns

Audrey Light and Wayne Strayer

Do Marital Status and Computer Usage Really Change the Wage Structure?

Harry Krashinsky

AFDC, SSI, and Welfare Reform Aggressiveness: Caseload Reductions versus Caseload Shifting

Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak

Reconsidering the Use of Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility as a Test for Credit Constraints

Nathan Grawe

Declining Bias and Gender Wage Discrimination? A Meta-Regression Analysis

Stephen B. Jarrell and T. Stanley

The Match Quality Gains from Unemployment Insurance

Mário Centeno

Volume 39, issue 2, 2004

Is There an Effect of Incremental Welfare Benefits on Fertility Behavior?: A Look at the Family Cap

Melissa Kearney

Why Public Schools Lose Teachers

Eric Hanushek, John Kain and Steven Rivkin

Intergenerational Linkages in Consumption Behavior

Andreas Waldkirch, Serena Ng and Donald Cox

The Impact of Welfare Benefits on Single Motherhood and Headship of Young Women: Evidence from the Census

Francine Blau, Lawrence Kahn and FJane Waldfogel

Time Limits and Welfare Use

Jeffrey Grogger

Minimum Wage Effects throughout the Wage Distribution

David Neumark, DMark Schweitzer and William Wascher

The Impact of Obesity on Wages

John Cawley

The Dynamics and Inequality of Italian Men’s Earnings: Long-term Changes or Transitory Fluctuations?

Lorenzo Cappellari

Is Your Love in Vain? Another Look at Premarital Cohabitation and Divorce

Michael Svarer

The Impact of Attrition on the Children of the NLSY79

Alison Aughinbaugh

The Racial Wage Gap: The Importance of Labor Force Attachment Differences across Black, Mexican, and White Men

Heather Antecol and Kelly Bedard

The Impact of School Reform on Student Performance Evidence: From the New York Network for School Renewal Project

Amy Schwartz, ALeanna Stiefel and ADae Yeop Kim

Volume 39, issue 1, 2004

Did Legalized Abortion Lower Crime?

Ted Joyce

The Impact of Teacher Training on Student Achievement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from School Reform Efforts in Chicago

Brian A. Jacob and Lars Lefgren

Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce

John Donohue and Steven Levitt

The Economic Consequences of Absent Parents

Marianne Page and Ann Stevens

Child Support Enforcement and Welfare Caseloads

Chien-Chung Huang, Irwin Garfinkel and Jane Waldfogel

Single Mothers and Their Child-Support Receipt: How Well Is Child-Support Enforcement Doing?

Elaine Sorensen and Ariel Hill

Parental Employment and Child Cognitive Development

Christopher Ruhm

Racial Differences in Patterns of Wealth Accumulation

Maury Gittleman and Edward Wolff

Absolute Income, Relative Income, Income Inequality, and Mortality

Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Magnus Johannesson

A Sibling Study of Stepchild Well-being

Eirik Evenhouse and Siobhan Reilly

What Happens To The Effects Of Government-Funded Training Programs Over Time?

David Greenberg, Charles Michalopoulos and Philip Robins