(with Jesse Rothstein). “Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap.” NBER Working Paper #12078, March 2006. Forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics.
(with Alan B. Krueger). “Would the Elimination of Affirmative Action Affect Highly Qualified Minority Applicants? Evidence from California and Texas.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 58 (April 2005).
(with Alan Krueger). "Trends in Relative Black-White Earnings Revisited." American Economic Review 83 (May 1993).
Immigration
(with Ethan G. Lewis). "The Diffusion of Mexican Immigrants During the 1990s: Explanations and Impacts.” In George Borjas, editor, Mexican Immigration. University of Chicago Press, 2007.
“Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?" Economic Journal 115 (November 2005).
“Canadian Emigration to the United States.” In Charles Beach, editor, Canadian Immigration Policy for the 21st Century. Kingston, Ontario: John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, 2003.
"Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration." Journal of Labor Economics 19 (January 2001).
(with John E. DiNardo). “Do Immigrant Inflows Lead to Native Outflows?” American Economic Review 90 (May 2000).
(with John E. DiNardo and Eugena Estes). "The More Things Change: Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s." In George J. Borjas, editor, Issues in the Economics of Immigration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
(with Kristin Butcher). ). "Immigration and Wages: Evidence from the 1980s." American Economic Review 81 (May 1991).
(with Joseph Altonji). "The Effects of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Less-Skilled Natives." In John Abowd and Richard B. Freeman, editors., Immigration, Trade and Labor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
"The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43 (January 1990).
Wage Structures, Skill, and Technology
(with John E. DiNardo). “Skill Biased Technical Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles.” Journal of Labor Economics 20 (October 2002).
(with Francis Kramarz and Thomas Lemieux). Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment: A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France." Canadian Journal of Economics 32 (August 1999).
(with Dean Hyslop). "Does Inflation 'Grease the Wheels of the Labor Market'?" In Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer, editors, Reducing Inflation: Motivation and Strategy. University of Chicago Press, 1997.
(with Thomas Lemieux). "Wage Dispersion, Returns to Skill, and Black-White Wage Differentials." Journal of Econometrics 74 (October 1996).
(with Thomas Lemieux). "Changing Wage Structure and Black-White Wage Differentials." American Economic Review 84 (May 1994).
Unemployment and Labor Supply
(with Raj Chetty and Andrea Weber). “Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor Market.” NBER Working Paper #12639, October 2006.
Forthcoming in Quaterly Journal of Economics.
(with Raj Chetty and Andrea Weber). “The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?” American Economic Review, May 2007.
(with Phillip Levine). "Extended Benefits and the Duration of UI Spells: Evidence from the New Jersey Extended Benefit Program." Journal of Public Economics 78 (October 2000).
(with Thomas Lemieux). "Adapting to Circumstances: The Evolution of Work, School, and Living Arrangements Among North American Youth." In David Blanchflower and Richard Freeman, editors, Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
(with Thomas Lemieux). “Recent Trends in the Economic Status of North American Youth”. Annual Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association (December 1997).
(with W. Craig Riddell). "Unemployment in Canada and the United States: A Further Analysis". In B. Curtis Eaton and Richard Harris, editors, Trade, Technology, and Economics: Essays in Honour of Richard G. Lipsey. Brookfield MA: Edward Elgar, 1997.
"Intertemporal Labor Supply: An Assessment." In Christopher Sims, editor, Advances in Econometrics, Sixth World Congress. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
(with Phillip Levine). "Unemployment Insurance Taxes and the Cyclical Properties of Employment and Unemployment." Journal of Public Economics 53 (January 1994).
(with W. Craig Riddell). "A Comparative Analysis of Unemployment in the United States and Canada." In David Card and Richard B. Freeman, editors, Small Differences that Matter: Labor Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada and the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
(with Rebecca Blank). "Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There An Explanation?" Quaterly Journal of Economics 106 (November 1991).
"Labor Supply with a Minimum Hours Threshold." Carnegie Rochester Conference on Public Policy 33 (Autumn 1990).
(with John Abowd). "On the Covariance Structure of Earnings and Hours Changes." Econometrica 57 (March 1989).
(with John Abowd). "Intertemporal Labor Supply and Long Term Employment Contracts." American Economic Review 77 (March 1987).
(with Orley Ashenfelter). "Why Have Unemployment Rates in Canada and the United States Diverged?" Economica 53 (Supplement 1986).
(with Orley Ashenfelter). "Time Series Representations of Economic Variables and Alternative Models of the Labor Market." Review of Economic Studies, 69 (September 1982).
Health Insurance
(with Lara D. Shore-Sheppard). “Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions.” Review of Economic and Statistics, 86 (August 2004).
(with Andrew K. G. Hildreth and Lara Shore-Sheppard). “The Measurement of Medicaid Coverage in the SIPP: Evidence from California, 1990-1996.” Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 22 (October 2004).
(with Brian McCall). "Is Workers' Compensation Covering Uninsured Medical Costs? Evidence from the 'Monday Effect'". Industrial and Labor Relations Review 49 (July 1996).
Minimum Wages
(with Alan Krueger). “A Re-analysis of the Effect of the New Jersey Minimum Wage with Representative Payroll Data.” American Economic Review 90 (December 2000).
(with Alan Krueger). "Time-Series Minimum Wage Studies: A Meta-Analysis." American Economic Review 85 (May 1995).
(with Alan Krueger). "Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania." American Economic Review 84 (September 1994).
"Do Minimum Wages Reduce Employment? A Case Study of California, 1987-89." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 46 (October 1992).
"Using Regional Variation in Wages to Measure the Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 46 (October 1992).
"Minimum Wages and the Teenage Labor Market: A Case Study of California, 1987-89." Annual Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association (December 1990).
Welfare and Training Programs (including SSP)
(with Dean R. Hyslop). “Estimating the Effects of a Time-Limited Earnings Subsidy for Welfare Leavers.” Econometrica, 73 (November 2005).
(with Philip Robins). "How Important Are Entry Effects in Financial Incentive Programs for Welfare Recipients? Experimental Evidence from the Self-Sufficiency Project." Journal of Econometrics 125 (March-April 2005).
with Charles Michalopoulos and Philip K. Robins). “When Financial Incentives Pay for Themselves: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment for Welfare Recipients.” Journal of Public Economics 89 (January 2005).
“Welfare Reform and the Labor Market Outcomes of Women.” In Paul Ong and James R. Lincoln, editors, The State of California Labor. Berkeley CA: Institute of Industrial Relations, 2001.
(with Rebecca M. Blank and Philip K. Robins). “Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families.” In Rebecca M.. Blank and David Card, editors, Finding Work: Jobs and Welfare Reform. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.
(with Philip Robins). "Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Self-Sufficiency Project". In Solomon Polachek, editor, Research in Labor Economics vol. 17. Greenwich Connecticut: JAI Press, 1998.
(with Rebecca Blank). "Poverty, Income, and Growth: Are They Still Connected?" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2 (Fall) 1993.
(with Daniel Sullivan). "Measuring the Effect of Subsidized Training Programs on Movements In and Out of Employment." Econometrica 56 (May 1988).
(with Orley Ashenfelter). "Using the Longitudinal Structure of Earnings to Estimate the Effect of Training Programs." Review of Economic and Statistics 67 (November 1985).
Unions and Collective Bargaining
(with Sara de la Rica). “Unions and Wage Inequality.” Journal of Labor Research,25 (Fall 2004).
(with Thomas Lemieux and W. Craig Riddell). “Unions and the Wage Structure.” In John T. Addison and Claus Schnabel, editors, The International Handbook of Trade Unions. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003.
"The Effect of Unions on Wage Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 54 (January 2001).
"Deregulation and Labor Earnings in the Airline Industry." In James Peoples, editor, Regulatory Reform and Labor Markets. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
"The Effect of Unions on the Structure of Wages: A Longitudinal Analysis." Econometrica 64 (July 1996).
(with Craig Olson). "Bargaining Power, Strike Durations, and Wage Outcomes: An Analysis of Strikes in the 1880s." Journal of Labor Economics 13 (January 1995).
"Strikes and Wages: A Test of An Asymmetric Information Model." Quaterly Journal of Economics 105 (August 1990).
"Unexpected Inflation, Real Wages, and Employment Determination in Union Contracts." American Economic Review 80 (September 1990).
"Strikes and Bargaining: A Survey of the Recent Empirical Literature." American Economic Review 80 (May 1990).
"Longitudinal Analysis of Strike Activity." Journal of Labor Economics 6 (April 1988).
"Efficient Contracts with Costly Adjustment: Short Run Employment Determination for Airline Mechanics." American Economic Review 76 (December 1986).
"The Impact of Deregulation on the Employment and Wages of Airline Mechanics." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 39 (July 1986).
"An Empirical Model of Wage Indexation Provisions in Union Contracts." Journal of Political Economy 94 (June 1986).
"Microeconomic Models of Wage Indexation." Annual Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association (December 1984).
"Cost of Living Escalators in Major Union Contracts." Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 37 (October 1983).
Education
(with A. Abigail Payne). "School Finance Reform, the Distribution of School Spending, and the Distribution of SAT Scores." Journal of Public Economics 83 (January 2002).
(with Thomas Lemieux). "Education, Earnings, and the Canadian G.I. Bill." Canadian Journal of Economics 34 (May 2001).
“Estimating the Return to Schooling: Progress on Some Persistent Econometric Problems.” Econometrica 69 (September 2001).
(with Thomas Lemieux). “Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis.” Quaterly Journal of Economics 116 (May 2001).
(with Thomas Lemieux). “Going to College to Avoid the Draft: The Unintended Legacy of the Vietnam War.” American Economic Review 91 (May 2001).
(with Thomas Lemieux). “Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post-War Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s?” In Jonathan Gruber, editor, Risky Behavior Among Youth: An Economic Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
"The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings". In Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, editors, Handbook of Labor Economics Volume 3A. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999.
(with Alan Krueger). "School Resources and Student Outcomes." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 559 (September 1998).
(with Alan Krueger). "School Resources and Student Outcomes: An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South Carolina". Journal of Economic Perspectives 10 (Fall 1996).
(with Alan Krueger). "Labor Market Effects of School Quality: Theory and Evidence". In Gary Burtless, editor, The Link Between Schools, Student Achievement, and Adult Success. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1996. A longer version of this paper is contained in National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 5450, February 1996.
"Earnings, Schooling, and Ability Revisited." In Solomon Polachek, editor, Research in Labor Economics, vol. 14. Greenwich Connecticut: JAI Press, 1995.
"Using Geographic Variation in College Proximity to Estimate the Return to Schooling". In L.N. Christofides, E.K. Grant, and R. Swidinsky, editors, Aspects of Labor Market Behaviour: Essays in Honour of John Vanderkamp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.
(with Alan Krueger). "Does School Quality Matter: Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States." Journal of Political Economy 100 (February 1992).
(with Alan Krueger). "School Quality and Black-White Relative Earnings: A Direct Assessment." Quaterly Journal of Economics 107 (February 1992).
Miscellaneous
(with David S. Lee). “Regression Discontinuity Inference with Specification Error.” Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming 2007.
(with Richard B. Freeman). “What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?” In Richard Blundell, David Card, and Richard B. Freeman, editors, Seeking a Premier League Economy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 2004
(with Orley Ashenfelter). “Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement Flows?” American Economic Review 92 (September 2002).
UNPUBLISHED PAPERS
(with Dean Hyslop). “The Dynamic Effects of an Earnings Subsidy for Long-term Welfare Recipients: Evidence from the SSP Applicant Experiment.” NBER Working Paper 12774, December 2006.
(with Brian McCall). “ "When to Start a Fight and When to Fight Back: Workers' Compensation Liability Denials and Disputes." NBER Working Paper 11918, January 2006.
(with Carlos Dobkin and Nicole Maestas). “ “The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization and Health: Evidence from Medicare”. NBER Working Paper No. 10365, March 2004 (revised November 2005).
MOLDY OLDIES
"Supply and Demand in the Labor Market." Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Working Paper Number 228, November 1987.
(with Orley Ashenfelter). "Using Longitudinal Data to Measure Minimum Wage Effects." Center for Labour Economics, London School of Economics Discussion Paper, September 1981.
(with Enrico Moretti). “Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? Touch-Screen Voting and the 2004 Presidential Election.” Review of Economic and Statistics, forthcoming 2007.
(with A. Abigail Payne and Martin Dooley). “School Competition with Publicly-Funded Catholic Schools: Evidence on Student Mobility and Achievement.” Unpublished Manuscript, UC Berkeley Department of Economics, December 2006.
(with Pablo Ibarraran, Ferdinando Regalia, David Rosas and Yuri Soares). “The Labor Market Impacts of Youth Training in the Dominican Republic: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation.” NBER Working Paper 12883, February 2007.
"The Effect of Unions on the Level and Distribution of Wages: A Longitudinal Analysis." Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Working Paper Number 287, July 1991, revised March 1995.