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206: Social Security and Household Wealth Accumulation: New Microeconomic Evidence

Martin Feldstein and Anthony J. Pellechio

205: Structural Models of Interest Rate Determination and Portfolio Behavior in the Corporate and Government Bond Markets

Benjamin M. Friedman and V. Vance Roley

204: The Effect of Social Security on Early Retirement

Michael J. Boskin and Michael Hurd

203: Taxation, Inflation, and Monetary Policy

Eytan Sheshinski

202: Two Papers on the Recent Rise in U.S. Divorce Rate

Robert T. Michael

201: The Welfare Cost of Permanent Inflation and Optimal Short-Run Economic Policy

Martin Feldstein

200: Share-Tenancy and Family Size in the Brazilian Northeast

Anna L. Ozorio de Alneida

199: Family Migration Decisions

Jacob Mincer

198: The Economics of Migration: An Empirical Analysis with Special Referenceto the Role of Job Mobility

Ann P. Bartel

197: An Agricultural Time Series-Cross Section Data Set

Thomas Cooley, Stephen DeCanio and M. Scott Matthews

196: An Adaptive Nonlinear Least Square Algorithm

John E. Dennis, David M. Gay and Roy E. Welsch

195: Finding Leverage Groups

David Coleman

194: Cost-Benefit Analysis Under Uncertainty

David A. Graham

193: The Optimal Taxation of Foreign Source Investment Income

Martin Feldstein and David G. Hartman

192: The Pacific Basin in World Trade: Part III, An Analysis of Changing Trade Patterns, 1955-1975

Bert G. Hickman, Yoshimi Kuroda and Lawrence J. Lau

191: The Pacific Basin in World Trade: Part II, Constant-Price Trade Matrices, 1955-1975

Bert G. Hickman, Yoshimi Kuroda and Lawrence J. Lau

190: The Pacific Basin in World Trade: Part I, Current Price Trade Matrices, 1948-1975

Bert G. Hickman, Yoshimi Kuroda and Lawrence J. Lau

189: A System of Subroutines For Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares Computations

David Coleman, Paul W. Holland, Neil Kaden and Virginia Klema

188: Notes on the Public Debt and Social Insurance

Jerry Green

187: A Model of Social Security and Retirement Decisions

Eytan Sheshinski

186: Do Private Pensions Increase National Saving?

Martin Feldstein

185: Estimation of Permanent and Transitory Response Functions in Panels Data: A Dynamic Labor Supply Model

Lee Lillard

184: A Theory of the Production and Allocation of Effort

Gary Becker

183: The Government's Impact on the Labor Market Status of Black Americans: A Critical Review

Richard Butler and James Heckman

182: Export Prices and Exchange Rates

Irving B. Kravis, Robert Lipsey and Eliot R. J. Kalter

181: Price Behavior in the Light of Balance of Payments Theories

Irving B. Kravis and Robert Lipsey

180: An Economic Analysis of Children's Health and Intellectual Development

Linda N. Edwards and Michael Grossman

179: Identifying Identical Distributed Lag Structures by the Use of Prior SumConstraints

Benjamin M. Friedman and V. Vance Roley

178: Investors' Portfolio Behavior Under Alternative Models of Long-Term Interest Rate Expectations: Unitary, Rational, or Autoregressive

Benjamin M. Friedman and V. Vance Roley

177: Dummy Endogenous Variables in a Simultaneous Equation System

James Heckman

176: Export and Domestic Prices Under Inflation and Exchange Rate Movements

Irving B. Kravis and Robert Lipsey

175: Some Convergence Properties of Broyden's Method

David M. Gay

174: Educational Screening and Occupational Earnings

Edward Wolff and Joel Hay

173: Linear Regression Diagnostics

Roy E. Welsch and Edwin Kuh

172: Sample Selection Bias As a Specification Error (with an Application to the Estimation of Labor Supply Functions)

James Heckman

171: The Effect of Minimum Wage Legislation on Income Equality: A TheoreticalAnalysis

J. Huston McCulloch

170: The Austrian Theory of the Marginal Use And of Ordinal Marginal Utility

J. Huston McCulloch

169: Solving Systems of Non-Linear Equations by Broyden's Method with Projected Updates

David M. Gay and Robert B. Schnabel

168: Wage Differentials Are Larger Than You Think

Edward Lazear

167: Money And Income, Causality Detection

Cheng Hsiao

166: Industrial Demand for Energy

Robert Halborsen

165: Rosetak Document 4: Rank Degeneracies and Least Square Problems

Gene Golub, Virginia Klema and G. W. Stewart

164: Alternative Trade Strategies and Employment - Plan of Research for Country Studies

Anne O. Krueger

163: The Gains and Losses From Industrial Concentration

Sam Peltzman

162: Labor Quality, the Demand for Skill, and Market Selection

Sherwin Rosen

161: Middle-Age Job Mobility: Its Determinants and Consequences

Ann P. Bartel and George Borjas

160: Misintermediation and Business Fluctuation

J. Huston McCulloch

159: A Conic Algorithm for the Group Minimization Problem

Bruno Simeone

158: The Market for Lawyers: The Determinants of the Demand for and Supply ofLawyers

B. Peter Pashigian

157: Efficient Estimation of a Dynamic Error-Shock Model

Cheng Hsiao and Peter Robinson

155: Foreign Competition and the UK

Arthur Lake

154: Multicollinearity: Diagnosing its Presence and Assessing the Potential Damage It Causes Least Squares Estimation

David Belsley

153: Economics of Marital Instability

Gary Becker, Elisabeth M. Landes and Robert T. Michael

152: Optimal Tax Theory: Econometric Evidence and Tax Policy

Michael J. Boskin

151: Some Lessons from the New Public Finance

Joseph Stiglitz and Michael J. Boskin

150: Dynamic Aspects of Earnings Mobility

Lee Lillard and Robert Willis

149: Age, Education and Occupational Earnings Inequality

Edward Wolff and Dennis M. Bushe

148: Who is the Family's Main Breadwinner? The Wife's Contribution to Full Income

Reuben Gronau

147: Factors Affecting Divorce: A Study of the Terman Sample

Robert T. Michael

146: Legal Precedent: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

William Landes and Richard Posner

145: Intergenerational Externalities

Edward Lazear

144: Optimal Income Redistribution When Individual Welfare Depends Upon Relative Income

Michael J. Boskin and Eytan Sheshinski

143: The Distribution of Earnings Profiles in Longitudinal Data

George Borjas and Jacob Mincer

142: Estimation of Econometric Model Using Nonlinear Full Information Maximum Likelihood: Preliminary Computer Results

David Belsley and Kent D. Wall

141: Family Background and Optimal Schooling Decision

Edward Lazear

140: A Multiplicative Model of Investment in Human Capital

Yoram Weiss

139: Treatment Decision-Making in Catastrophic Illness

Kenneth E. Warner

138: Experience, Vintage and Time Effects in the Growth of Earnings: AmericanScientists, 1960-1970

Yoram Weiss and Lee Lillard

137: Leisure, Home Production and Work--The Theory of The Allocation of Time Revisited

Reuben Gronau

136: Price Behavior in Primary Manufacturing Industries, 1958-1973

Joel Popkin

135: Taxation, Saving and the Rate of Interest

Michael J. Boskin

134: The Demand for Pediatric Care: An Hedonic Approach

Fred Goldman and Michael Grossman

133: Toward a More General Theory of Regulation

Sam Peltzman

132: Health, Family Structure, and Labor Supply

Donald Parsons

131: Exports and Foreign Investment in Manufacturing Industries

Robert Lipsey and Merle Yahr Weiss

130: Rosepack Document 3: Guidelines for Writing Semi-Portable Fortran

Neil Kaden and Virginia Klema

129: A Survey of Recent Research in Health Economics

Michael Grossman

128: A Note on Optimal Smoothing for Time Varying Coefficient Problems

Thomas Cooley and Kent D. Wall

127: Identification Theory for Time Varying Models

Thomas Cooley and Kent D. Wall

126: Transnational Activity and Market Entry in the Semiconductor Industry

Arthur Lake

125: On Modifying Singular Values to Solve Possible Singular Systems of Non-Linear Equations

David M. Gay

124: Representing Symmetric Rank Two Updates

David M. Gay

123: Child Endowments, and the Quantity and Quality of Children

Gary Becker and Nigel Tomes

122: The Market for Optometric Services in the United States

Douglas Coate

121: Analysis of Longitudinal Earnings Data: American Scientists 1960-70

Lee Lillard and Yoram Weiss

120: From Bismark to Woodcock: The "Irrational" Pursuit of National Health Insurance

Victor Fuchs

119: Interequation Constraint and the Specification of Dynamic Structure

Kent D. Wall

118: The International Transfer of Semi-Conductor Technology Through U.S. Based Firms

William F. Finan

117: Job Mobility and Earnings Growth

Ann P. Bartel

116: Notes on the Tax Treatment of Human Capital

Michael J. Boskin

115: The Production of Health Services in Fee for Service, for Profit Health Practices: The Case of Optometrists

Douglas Coate

114: On the Measurement of Benefits in an Urban Context: Some General Equilibrium Issues

Paul Courant and Daniel L. Rubinfeld

113: Random Directed Graph Distributions in the Triad Census in Social Networks

Stanley S. Wasserman

112: A Beta-Logistic Model for the Analysis of Sequential Labor Force Participation by Married Women

James Heckman and Robert Willis

111: Confidence Regions for Robust Regression

Roy E. Welsch

110: The Independent Judiciary in an Interest-Group Perspective

William Landes and Richard Posner

109: Notes on Automating Stem and Leaf Displays

David C. Hoaglin and Stanley S. Wasserman

108: Are Health Workers Underpaid?

Victor Fuchs

107: Social Security and Retirement Decisions

Michael J. Boskin

106: Parametric Integer Programming the Right Hand Side Case

Roy A. Marsten and Thomas Morin