Working Papers

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Aughinbaugh, Alison
  • "The Effects of High School Math Curriculum on College Attendance: Evidence from the NLSY97" presented Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting (2008)
  • "Attrition in the NLSY97" (with Rosella M. Gardecki) presented at Conference on 10th Anniversary of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (2008)
  • "The Relationship between Cooperativeness and Unit Non-Response among Participants in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979" (with Rosella M. Gardecki) presented at Conference on Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys (2006)
  • "Reports of Income under Different Bracketing Techniques: Evidence from the NLSY79" (with Rosella M. Gardecki), Unpublished Working Paper, January 2005.
  • Other papers by Alison Aughinbaugh
Choi, Eleanor
  • Small Business and Entrepreneurship during an Economic Recovery Conference, November 2011. The Declining Average Size of Establishements (Dec. 2011 version) and Slides
  • "The Declining Average Size of Establishments: Evidence and Explanations," (with James Spletzer), Working Paper, May 2011.
  • "Does the Internet Help the Unemployed Find Jobs?" Working Paper, November 2010.
  • "Structural Labor Supply Model and Wage Prediction Errors," Working Paper, November 2010.
  • "Evaluating a Structural Model of Labor Supply and Welfare Participation: Evidence from State Welfare Reform Experiments," Working Paper, January 2010.
Dey, Matthew S.
  • "Manufacturers Outsourcing to Employment Services," (with Sue Houseman and Anne Polivka). Working Paper at W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. December 2006.
  • "Welfare and Mobility Effects of Employer-Provided Health Insurance." Unpublished Working Paper, September 2002.
  • "Household Bargaining and Labor Market Dynamics" (with Chris Flinn). Unpublished Working Paper, August 2001.
  • Other papers by Matthew S. Dey
Frazis, Harley
  • "How Responsive are Quits to Benefits?" (with Mark Loewenstein), BLS Working Paper 426, August 2009.
  • "Wage Compression and the Division of Returns to Productivity Growth: Evidence from EOPP" (with Mark Loewenstein), BLS Working Paper 398, August 2006.
  • "What Do Male Nonworkers Do? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey" (with Jay Stewart), November 2005.
  • "How Does Nonmarket Production Affect Earnings Inequality? Evidence from the American Time-Use Survey" (with Jay Stewart), BLS Working Paper 393 (also Levy Institute Working Paper 454), May 2006 (earliest version October 2004).
  • Other papers by Harley Frazis
Groen, Jeffrey A.
Handwerker, Elizabeth Weber
  • "What happens to the employers involved in Mass Layoffs?" (with Lowell Mason), Working Paper, May 2011
  • "Variation in the Cost of Job Loss by Worker Skill: Evidence Using Matching Data from California, 1991-2000," (with Till von Wachter), Working paper, January 2011
  • "The role of Establishments (and the jobs therein) in Wage Inequality" (with James Spletzer). Presented at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in November 2011.
  • "Measuring the impact of college cost shocks on parents' labor supply" (with Emily Isenberg), March 2010.
  • "Estimating the "True" Cost of Job Loss: Evidence Using Matched Data from California 1991-2000" (with Andrew Hildreth and Till von Wachter). CES Working Paper 09-14.
  • Other papers by Elizabeth W. Handwerker
Loewenstein, Mark A.
Mason, Lowell
  • "Choosing Size Classes for Industry Employment Estimates by Firm-Size Class" (with Jeffrey Groen), July 2012.
  • "Domestic Employment in Multinational Companies" (with Elizabeth Weber Handwerker and Mina Kim), Working Paper, July 2011
  • "What happens to the employers involved in Mass Layoffs?" (with Elizabeth Weber Handwerker), Working Paper, May 2011
Pierret, Charles R.
  • "Employment before Age 16: Does It Make a Difference?" (with Patricia L. Gladden) May 2008, Presented at NLSY97 Tenth Anniversary Conference.
  • "The Impact of Family Structure Transitions on Youth Achievement: Evidence from the Children of the NLSY79" (with Donna S. Rothstein and Alison A. Aughinbaugh) July 2002. Presented at the American Economic Association Meetings in January 2002.
  • Other papers by Charles R. Pierret
Polivka, Anne
  • "Using Earnings Data from the Monthly Current Population Survey" Revised version presented at Southern Economics Meetings, 2000, Original Version presented at American Economics Association Meeting 2000.
  • Other papers by Anne Polivka
Robles, Omar
  • "Suicide Due to Low-Quality Marriage." Working Paper, September 2010.
  • "Predicting Loan Default Using Psychology and Behavioral Experiments" (with Sendhil Mullainathan and Dean Karlan) Working Paper, September 2010.
  • "Comment on Changing the Price of Marriage." Working Paper, June 2010.
  • "The Health Consequences of Repealing Premarital Blood Testing." Working Paper, June 2010.
  • "Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania." (with Erica Field and Maximo Toreno). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4):140-69.
Rothstein, Donna S.
  • "Neighborhoods, Test Scores, and Educational Outcomes." (with Alison Aughinbaugh) January 2012. Unpublished paper.
  • "Breastfeeding and Child Obesity." October 2011. Unpublished paper. Presented at the Southern Economic Association meetings in 2011.
  • Other papers by Donna S. Rothstein
Sun, Hugette
  • "Child Support Policy and Divorce." Working Paper, December 2009.
  • "Does Trade Liberalization Affect Labor Market Churning?" (with Mina Kim and Shintaro Yamaguchi) Working Paper, June 2009.
  • "Child Support Policy and Fertility." Working Paper, October 2008.
  • "Child Support Guidelines and the Work Incentives of Married Mothers." (with John Hore) Working Paper, September 2008.

 

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