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223: Is the Proportion of College Workers in “Non-College” Jobs Increasing?

Peter Gottschalk and Michael Hansen

222: Do Minimum Wage Increases Lower the Probability that Low-Skilled Workers Will Receive Fringe Benefits?

Anne Royalty

221: When Gender Trumps Money: Bargaining and Time in Household Work

Michael Bittman, Paula England, Nancy Folbre and George Matheson

220: Saving Puzzles and Saving Policies in the United States

Annamaria Lusardi, Jonathan Skinner and Steven Venti

219: Producing Human Services: Why Do Agencies Collaborate?

Laurence E. Lynn and Carolyn J. Hill

218: Changing Caseloads: Macro Influences and Micro Composition

Robert Moffitt and David Stevens

217: Welfare Reform and Child Well-being

Greg Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

216: Immigrants and Wealth Stratification In The U.S

Lingxin Hao

215: Child Support Enforcement: Incentives and Well-Being

Irwin Garfinkel, Theresa Heintze and Chien-Chung Huang

214: The Earned Income Tax Credit and Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare

V. Joseph Hotz, Charles H. Mullin and John Scholz

213: The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidy Receipt by Low-Income Families

David Blau and Erdal Tekin

212: Does Participation in Multiple Welfare Programs Improve Birth Outcomes?

Michael Brien and Christopher Swann

211: Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence From the National Educational Longitudinal Survey

Robert Fairlie and Alexandra M. Resch

210: Measuring Poverty in the NLSY97

Carolyn J. Hill and Robert T. Michael

209: Income Inequality, Economic Segregation and Children's Educational Attainment

Susan Mayer

208: Changes in Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

207: Earnings Growth among Young Less-Educated Business Owners

Robert Fairlie

206: The Effects of Welfare Reform: The Living Conditions of Single Mothers in the 1980s and 1990s

Bruce Meyer and James Sullivan

205: Does the Decline in Food Stamp Use by Rural Low-Income Households Represent Less Need or Less Access? Evidence from New Data on Food Insecurity and Hunger

Mark Nord

204: Precautionary Saving and the Accumulation Of Wealth

Annamaria Lusardi

203: Explaining Why So Many Households Do Not Save

Annamaria Lusardi

202: Prospects for 'Job Matching' in the Welfare-to-Work Transition: Labor Market Capacity for Sustaining the Absorption of Mississippi's TANF Recipients

Frank Howell

201: The Interaction of Welfare-Use and Employment Dynamics In Rural and Agricultural California Counties

Henry Brady, Mary H. Sprague, Fredric C. Gey and Michael L. Wiseman

200: Can Boosting Minority Car-Ownership Rates Narrow Inter-Racial Employment Gaps

Steven Raphael and Michael Stoll

199: Changes in Child Social Program Participation in the 1990s: Initial Findings from Illinois

Robert M. Goerge and Bong Joo Lee

198: Effects of Higher Minimum Wages on Teen Employment and School Enrollment

Mark D. Turner and Berna Demiralp

197: Employer Demand for Welfare Recipients By Race

Harry Holzer and Michael Stoll

196: The Effects of Welfare Reform in Rural Minnesota: Experimental Findings from the Minnesota Family Investment Program

Lisa Gennetian, Cindy Redcross and Cynthia Miller

195: Approaching the Limit: Early Lessons from Welfare Reform

Sheldon Danziger

194: Location and the Low Income Experience: Analyses of Program Dynamics in the Iowa Family Investment Program

Helen Jensen, Shao-Hsun Keng and Steven Garasky

193: Academic and Behavioral Outcomes among the Children of Young Mothers

Judith Levine, Harold Pollack and Maureen E. Comfort

192: The Relationship between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Locations, Changing Welfare Policies, and the Employment of Single Mothers

Signe-Mary McKernan, Robert Lerman, Nancy Pindus and Jesse Valente

191: The Short Term Impacts of Welfare Reform in Persistently Poor Rural Areas

Mark Harvey, Gene Summers, Kathleen Pickering and Patricia Richards

190: Small Towns and Welfare Reform: Iowa Case Studies and Families and Communities

Cynthia Needles Fletcher, Jan L. Flora, Barbara J. Gaddis, Mary Winter and Jacquelyn S. Litt

189: Where All the Counties Are Above Average: Top Down Versus Bottom Up Perspectives of Welfare Reform

Ann Tickamyer, Julie White, Barry Tadlock and Debra Henderson

188: Reducing Food Stamp and Welfare Caseloads in the South: Are Rural Areas Less Likely to Succeed Than Urban Centers?

Mark Henry, Willis Lewis, Lynn Reinschmiedt and Darren Hudson

187: Rural America in Transition: Poverty and Welfare at the Turn of the 21st Century

Daniel Lichter and Leif Jensen

186: Income Mobility and Exits from Poverty of American Children, 1970-1992

Peter Gottschalk and Sheldon Danziger

185: On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility

Peter Gottschalk and Enrico Spolaore

184: Whose Job Is It? Employers' Views on Welfare Reform

Greg Owen, Ellen Shelton, Amy Bush Stevens, Justine Nelson-Christinedaughter, Corinna Roy and June Heineman

183: The Impact of Welfare Reform Across Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas: A Nonparametric Analysis

Bradford Mills, Jeffrey Alwang and Gautam Hazarika

182: Food Stamps in Rural America: Special Issues and Common Themes

Sheena M. McConnell and James C. Ohls

181: The Effect of Welfare Reform on the Incomes and Earnings of Low-Income Families: Evidence from the Current Population Survey

Laura Stander Connolly

180: Geographic Differences in AFDC and Food Stamp Caseloads in the Welfare Reform Era

James Ziliak and David Figlio

179: Car Ownership, Employment, and Earnings

Steven Raphael and Lorien Rice

178: The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Labor Market Experience of Workers with Disabilities: Evidence from the SIPP

Edward J. Schumacher and Marjorie Baldwin

177: Taxes, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Marital Status

Dan Rosenbaum

176: Mediators of Income Effects on Young Children's Development

W. Jean Yeung and Miriam R. Linver

175: Family Structure, Father-Child Closeness and Social-Behavioral Outcomes for Children

Marcia J. Carlson

174: The Effect of Child Support Enforcement on Noncustodial Fathers' Participation in the Underground Economy

Lauren M. Rich