Working Papers

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Aughinbaugh, Alison

• “Neighborhoods, Test Scores, and Educational Outcomes” (with Donna S. Rothstein)
• “The Effect of High School Curriculum on College Decisions: A Comparison of the NLSY79 and the NLSY97”
• “Patterns of marriage and divorce in the NLSY79” (with Omar Robles and Hugette Sun)
• "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• "Reports of Income under Different Bracketing Techniques: Evidence from the NLSY79" (with Rosella M. Gardecki), Unpublished Working Paper, January 2005.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

Dey, Matthew S.

• "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 Unpublished Working Paper, September 2002.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 Unpublished Working Paper, August 2001.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

• "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.
• Other papers by Harley Frazis

Groen, Jeffrey A.

• "Time to the Doctorate and Labor Demand for New PhD Recipients," Cornell Higher Education Research Institute Working Paper 146, December 2012.
• "Choosing Size Classes for Industry Employment Estimates by Firm-Size Class" (with Lowell Mason), September 2012.
• Other papers by Jeffrey A. Groen

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.

• "Wage Compression and the Division of Returns to Productivity Growth: Evidence from EOPP" (with Harley Frazis). August 2009.
• Other papers by Mark A. Loewenstein

Mason, Lowell

• "Choosing Size Classes for Industry Employment Estimates by Firm-Size Class" (with Jeffrey Groen), September 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

• "Low Wage Workers, The Minimum Wage and Job Turnover" (with Rosemary Hyson). Unpublished working paper. March 2003.
• "Predictors and Payoffs of On-the-Job Search" (with Rosemary Hyson). Unpublished working paper. March 2003.
• "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. Revised version available on the SSRN.
• Other papers by Anne Polivka

Robles, Omar

• “Marriage trends from the NLSY79” (with Alison Aughinbaugh and Hugette Sun)
• “How did Premarital Testing Affect Marriage?”
• “Smoking and Childhood Hunger” (with Winnie Fung)
• “The Mortality Effects of Prenatal Testing Laws” (with Winnie Fung)
• "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.

 

Last Modified Date: January 2, 2013