Journal of Human Resources

1966 - 2025

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Volume 38, issue 4, 2003

Does Child Support Enforcement Reduce Divorce Rates?: A Reexamination

Bradley Heim

New Estimates for Wage Rate Inequality Using the Employment Cost Index

Michael K. Lettau

The Labor Market Effects of Disability Discrimination Laws

Kathleen Beegle and Wendy A. Stock

Using Experiments to Evaluate Performance Standards: What Do Welfare-to-Work Demonstrations Reveal to Welfare Reformers?

John Pepper

The Response of Worker Effort to Piece Rates: Evidence from the Midwest Logging Industry

M. Ryan Haley

Evaluation of Swedish Youth Labor Market Programs

Laura Larsson

The Effectiveness of Catholic Primary Schooling

Christopher Jepsen

Marriage and Economic Incentives: Evidence from a Welfare Experiment

Wei-Yin Hu

Restricted Work, Workers’ Compensation, and Days Away from Work

Geetha M. Waehrer and Ted R. Miller

Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector

Christopher Ruhm and Carey Borkoski

Volume 38, issue 3, 2003

Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market

Stephen Trejo

Do Living Wage Ordinances Reduce Urban Poverty?

David Neumark and Scott Adams

Children’s Health and Maternal Work Activity: Estimates under Alternative Disability Definitions

Elizabeth Powers

Cinderella Goes to School: The Effects of Child Fostering on School Enrollment in South Africa

Frederick J. Zimmerman

Understanding Educational Outcomes of Students from Low-Income Families: Evidence from a Liberal Arts College with a Full Tuition Subsidy Program

Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd Stinebrickner

The Longitudinal Structure of Earnings Losses among Work-Limited Disabled Workers

Kerwin Kofi Charles

The Effect of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment in Canada: A Panel Study

Terence Yuen

Evaluating the Labor Market Performance of Veterans Using a Matched Comparison Group Design

Barry Hirsch and Stephen L. Mehay

An Economic Model of Locus of Control and the Human Capital Investment Decision

Margo Coleman and Thomas DeLeire

Income Losses of Women and Men Injured at Work

Leslie I. Boden and Monica Galizzi

Enhancing the Quality of Data on Income: Recent Innovations from the HRS

Michael Hurd, F. Juster and James Smith

Volume 38, issue 2, 2003

Introduction to the JHR’s Special Issue on Cross-National Comparative Research Using Panel Surveys

James Smith, Frank Stafford and James Walker

Understanding Differences in Household Financial Wealth between the United States and Great Britain

James Banks, Richard Blundell and James Smith

Economic Shocks, Wealth, and Welfare

Elizabeth Frankenberg, James Smith and Duncan Thomas

Wealth Dynamics in the 1980s and 1990s: Sweden and the United States

N. Anders Klevmarken, Joseph Lupton and Frank Stafford

What Do We Learn from Recall Consumption Data?

Erich Battistin, Raffaele Miniaci and Guglielmo Weber

Health, Wealth, and the Role of Institutions

Michael Hurd and Arie Kapteyn

Does Money Matter?: A Comparison of the Effect of Income on Child Development in the United States and Great Britain

Alison Aughinbaugh and Maury Gittleman

Why Are Child Poverty Rates Higher in Britain than in Germany?: A Longitudinal Perspective

Stephen Jenkins and Christian Schluter

Volume 38, issue 1, 2003

Retaking the SAT

Jacob Vigdor and Charles T. Clotfelter

Gender Differences in Salary and Promotion for Faculty in the Humanities 1977–95

Donna Ginther and Kathy J. Hayes

Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out of Welfare?

Jorgen Hansen and Magnus Lofstrom

Testing Becker’s Prediction on Assortative Mating on Spouses’Wages

Junsen Zhang and Pak-Wai Liu

Charitable Giving by Married Couples Who Decides and Why Does it Matter?

James Andreoni, Eleanor Brown and Isaac Rischall

Do the Returns to Community Colleges Differ between Academic and Vocational Programs?

Andrew Gill and Duane E. Leigh

Unemployment Duration Competing and Defective Risks

John Addison and Pedro Portugal

Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Heather Antecol, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Stephen Trejo

The Effects of Health Events on the Economic Status of Married Couples

Stephen Wu

Volume 37, issue 4, 2002

Introduction to the JHR's Special Issue on Designing Incentives to Promote Human Capital pp. 693-695

Eric Hanushek, James Heckman and Derek Neal

# Incentives and Organizations in the Public Sector: An Interpretative Review pp. 696-727

Avinash Dixit

Distortion and Risk in Optimal Incentive Contracts pp. 728-751

George Baker

Limitations in the Use of Achievement Tests as Measures of Educators' Productivity pp. 752-777

Daniel M. Koretz

The Performance of Performance Standards pp. 778-811

James Heckman, Carolyn Heinrich and Jeffrey Smith

Performance Incentives with Award Constraints pp. 812-845

Pascal Courty and Gerald Marschke

Would School Choice Change the Teaching Profession? pp. 846-891

Caroline Hoxby

Returns to Seniority among Public School Teachers pp. 892-912

Dale Ballou and Michael Podgursky

Teacher Performance Incentives and Student Outcomes pp. 913-927

Randall Eberts, Kevin Hollenbeck and Joe Stone

Volume 37, issue 3, 2002

Shared Caregiving Responsibilities of Adult Siblings with Elderly Parents pp. 441-478

Tennille J. Checkovich and Steven Stern

An Analysis of the Crime as Work Model: Evidence from the 1958 Philadelphia Birth Cohort Study pp. 479-509

Jenny Williams and Robin Sickles

Income Inequality and Health Status in the United States: Evidence from the Current Population Survey pp. 510-539

Jennifer Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo

The Determinants of Donative Revenue Flows from Alumni of Higher Education: An Empirical Inquiry pp. 540-569

Brendan Cunningham and Carlena K. Cochi-Ficano

Estimating Welfare Effects Consistent with Forward-Looking Behavior. Part I: Lessons from a Simulation Exercise pp. 570-599

Michael Keane and Kenneth I. Wolpin

Estimating Welfare Effects Consistent with Forward-Looking Behavior. Part II: Empirical Results pp. 600-622

Michael Keane and Kenneth I. Wolpin

Workers' Compensation, Moral Hazard and the Composition of Workplace Injuries pp. 623-652

Denis Bolduc, Bernard Fortin, France Labrecque and DPaul Lanoie

Simulating the Longitudinal Effects of Changes in Financial Aid on Student Departure from College pp. 653-679

Stephen L. DesJardins, Dennis A. Ahlburg and Brian McCall

SFamily Background and the Estimated Return to Schooling: Swedish Evidenc pp. 680-692

Sveinn Agnarsson and Paul Carlin

Volume 37, issue 2, 2002

Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates among Working-Aged Men and Women with Disabilities pp. 231-250

John Bound and Timothy Waidmann

A Cohort Analysis of the Association between Work Hours and Wages among Men pp. 251-274

John Pencavel

Stayers as "Workers" and "Savers": Toward Reconciling the Pension-Quit Literature pp. 275-308

Richard A. Ippolito

The Productivity of Outpatient Treatment for Substance Abuse pp. 309-335

Mingshan Lu and Thomas G. McGuire

Back to School: Federal Student Aid Policy and Adult College Enrollment pp. 336-352

Neil S. Seftor and Sarah Turner

Market Forces and Sex Discrimination pp. 353-380

Judith K. Hellerstein, David Neumark and Kenneth Troske

Assessing the Effect of Public Policy on Worker Absenteeism pp. 381-409

Per Johansson and Mårten Palme

Racial Matching among African-American and Hispanic Physicians and Patients pp. 410-428

Martha Harrison Stinson and Norman K Thurston

The Causal Effect of Family Structure on Labor Force Participation among Japanese Married Women pp. 429-440

Masaru Sasaki

Volume 37, issue 1, 2002

The Retirement Behavior of Married Couples: Evidence from the Spouse's Allowance pp. 1-34

Michael Baker

State-Level Estimates of Minimum Wage Effects: New Evidence and Interpretations from Disequilibrium Methods pp. 35-62

David Neumark and William Wascher

The Impact of Host-Country Schooling on Earnings: A Study of Male Immigrants in the United States pp. 63-105

Bernt Bratsberg and James F. Ragan

Joint Labor Supply and Childcare Choice Decisions of Married Mothers pp. 106-128

Lisa M. Powell

The Impact of Employer-Provided Health Insurance on Dynamic Employment Transitions pp. 129-162

Donna Gilleskie and Byron F. Lutz

Family Structure and Female Labor Supply in Mexico City pp. 163-191

Xiaodong Gong and Arthur van Soest

An Analysis of Occupational Change and Departure from the Labor Force: Evidence of the Reasons that Teachers Leave pp. 192-216

Todd Stinebrickner

Housework and Wages pp. 217-229

Joni Hersch and Leslie Stratton