Works
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(with Orley Ashenfelter). "Time Series Representations of Economic Variables and Alternative Models of the Labor Market." Review of Economic Studies , 69 (September 1982).
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"Cost of Living Escalators in Major Union Contracts." Industrial and Labor Relations Review , 37 (October 1983).
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"Microeconomic Models of Wage Indexation." Annual Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association (December 1984).
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(with Orley Ashenfelter). "Using the Longitudinal Structure of Earnings to Estimate the Effect of Training Programs." Review of Economics and Statistics 67 (November 1985).
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"An Empirical Model of Wage Indexation Provisions in Union Contracts." Journal of Political Economy 94 (June 1986).
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(with Orley Ashenfelter). "Why Have Unemployment Rates in Canada and the United States Diverged?" Economica 53 (Supplement 1986).
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"The Impact of Deregulation on the Employment and Wages of Airline Mechanics." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 39 (July 1986).
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"Efficient Contracts with Costly Adjustment: Short Run Employment Determination for Airline Mechanics." American Economic Review 76 (December 1986).
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(with John Abowd). "Intertemporal Labor Supply and Long Term Employment Contracts." American Economic Review 77 (March 1987).
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(with Daniel Sullivan). "Measuring the Effect of Subsidized Training Programs on Movements In and Out of Employment." Econometrica 56 (May 1988).
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"Longitudinal Analysis of Strike Activity." Journal of Labor Economics 6 (April 1988).
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(with John Abowd). "On the Covariance Structure of Earnings and Hours Changes." Econometrica 57 (March 1989).
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"The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43 (January 1990).
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"Strikes and Bargaining: A Survey of the Recent Empirical Literature." American Economic Review 80 (May 1990).
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"Unexpected Inflation, Real Wages, and Employment Determination in Union Contracts." American Economic Review 80 (September 1990).
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"Strikes and Wages: A Test of An Asymmetric Information Model." Quarterly Journal of Economics 105 (August 1990).
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"Minimum Wages and the Teenage Labor Market: A Case Study of California, 1987 ‐ 89." Annual Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association (December 1990).
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(with Kristin Butcher). "Immigration and Wages: Evidence from the 1980s." American Economic Review 81 (May 1991).
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(with Rebecca Blank). "Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There An Explanation?" Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 (November 1991).
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(with Alan Krueger). "School Quality and Black ‐ White Relative Earnings: A Direct Assessment." Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (February 1992).
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(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).
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"Using Regional Variation in Wages to Measure the Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 46 (October 1992).
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"Do Minimum Wages Reduce Employment? A Case Study of California, 1987 ‐ 89." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 46 (October 1992).
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(with Alan Krueger). "Trends in Relative Black ‐ White Earnings Revisited." American Economic Review 83 (May 1993).
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(with Rebecca Blank). "Poverty, Income, and Growth: Are They Still Connected?" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity , 2 (Fall) 1993.
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(with Phillip Levine). "Unemployment Insurance Taxes and the Cyclical Properties of Employment and Unemployment." Journal of Public Economics 53 (February 1994).
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"Intertemporal Labor Supply: An Assessment." In Christopher Sims, editor, Advances in Econometrics, Sixth World Congress . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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(with Thomas Lemieux). "Changing Wage Structure and Black ‐ White Wage Differentials." American Economic Review 84 (May 1994).
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(with Richard Freeman). "Small Differences that Matter: Canada Versus the United States." In Richard B. Freeman, editor, Working Under Different Rules . New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1994.
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(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).
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(with Craig Olson). "Bargaining Power, Strike Durations, and Wage Outcomes: An Analysis of Strikes in the 1880s." Journal of Labor Economics 13 (January 1995).
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(with Alan Krueger). "Time ‐ Series Minimum Wage Studies: A Meta ‐ Analysis." American Economic Review 85 (May 1995).
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"Earnings, Schooling, and Ability Revisited." In Solomon Polachek, editor, Research in Labor Economics , volume 14. Greenwich Connecticut: JAI Press, 1995.
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"The Effect of Unions on the Structure of Wages: A Longitudinal Analysis." Econometrica 64 (July 1996).
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(with Brian McCall). "Is Workers' Compensation Covering Uninsured Medical Costs? Evidence from the 'Monday Effect'". Industrial and Labor Relations Review 49 (July 1996).
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(with Thomas Lemieux). "Wage Dispersion, Returns to Skill, and Black ‐ White Wage Differentials". Journal of Econometrics 74 (October 1996).
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(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).
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"Deregulation and Labor Earnings in the Airline Industry." In James Peoples, editor, Regulatory Reform and Labor Markets . Norwell, Master of Arts: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
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(with Thomas Lemieux). “Recent Trends in the Economic Status of North American Youth”. Annual Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association (December 1997).
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(with Alan Krueger). "School Resources and Student Outcomes." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 559 (September 1998).
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"The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings". In Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, editors, Handbook of Labor Economics Volume 3A. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999.
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(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).
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(with John E. DiNardo). “Do Immigrant Inflows Lead to Native Outflows?” American Economic Review 90 (May 2000).
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(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).
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“Welfare Reform and the Labor Market Outcomes of Women.” In Paul Ong and James R. Lincoln, editors, The State of California Labor . Berkeley California: Institute of Industrial Relations, 2001.
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"The Effect of Unions on Wage Inequality in the United States Labor Market." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 54 (January 2001).
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"Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration." Journal of Labor Economics 19 (January 2001).
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(with Thomas Lemieux). “Going to College to Avoid the Draft: The Unintended Legacy of the Vietnam War.” American Economic Review 91 (May 2001).
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(with Thomas Lemieux). “Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort ‐ Based Analysis.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 116 (May 2001).
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“Estimating the Return to Schooling: Progress on Some Persistent Econometric Problems.” Econometrica 69 (September 2001).
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(with Thomas Lemieux). "Education, Earnings, and the Canadian G.I. Bill." Canadian Journal of Economics 34 (May 2001).
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(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).
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(with Orley Ashenfelter). “Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement Flows?” American Economic Review 92 (September 2002).
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(with John E. DiNardo). “Skill Biased Technical Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles.” Journal of Labor Economics 20 (October 2002).
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(with Lara D. Shore ‐ Sheppard). “Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions.” Review of Economics and Statistics , 86 (August 2004).
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(with Dean R. Hyslop). “Estimating the Effects of a Time ‐ Limited Earnings Subsidy for Welfare Leavers.” Econometrica , 73 (November 2005).
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“Is the New Immigration Really So Bad? “ Economic Journal 115 (November 2005).
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(with Sara de la Rica). “The Effect of Firm ‐ Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer ‐ Employee Data.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review , October 2006.
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(with Raj Chetty and Andrea Weber). “The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?” American Economic Review , 97 (May 2007).
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(with Enrico Moretti). “Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? Touch ‐ Screen Voting and the 2004 Presidential Election.” Review of Economics and Statistics , 89 (November 2007).
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(with Raj Chetty and Andrea Weber). “Cash ‐ on ‐ Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor Market.” Quarterly Journal of Economics , 122 (November 2007).
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(with Jesse Rothstein). “Racial Segregation and the Black ‐ White Test Score Gap.” Journal of Public Economics , 91 (December 2007).
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(with Alexandre Mas and Jesse Rothstein). “Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation.” Quarterly Journal of Economics , 123 (February 2008).
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(with Rebecca Blank). “The Changing Incidence and Severity of Poverty Spells Among Female ‐ Headed Families.” American Economic Review 98 (May 2008).
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(with Carlos Dobkin and Nicole Maestas). “The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization: Evidence from Medicare”. American Economic Review , 98 December 2008.
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“How Immigration Affects United States Cities.” In Robert Inman, editor Urban Enigma: City Problems, City Prospects . Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2009.
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(with Brian McCall). "When to Start a Fight and When to Fight Back: Workers' Compensation Liability Denials and Disputes." Journal of Labor Economics , 27 (April 2009).
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“Immigration and Inequality”. American Economic Review 99 May 2009.
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(with Carlos Dobkin and Nicole Maestas). “Does Medicare Save Lives?” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124 (May 2009).
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(with Kevin Hallock and Enrico Moretti). “The Geography of Giving: The Effect of Corporate Headquarters on Local Charities.” Journal of Public Economics , 94 (April 2010).
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(with A. Abigail Payne and Martin Dooley). “School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly ‐ Funded Catholic Schools.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics , 2 (October 2010)
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(with Jochen Kluve and Andrea Weber). “Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta ‐ Analysis.” Economic Journal Features , November 2010.
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(with Michael Ransom). “Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior.” Review of Economics and Statistics , January 2011.
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(with Gordon B. Dahl). “Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior.” Quarterly Journal of Economics , March 2011.
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“Origins of the Unemployment Rate: The Lasting Legacy of Measurement without Theory.” American Economic Review , May 2011.
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(with Stefano Della Vigna and Ulrike Malmendier. “The Role of Theory in Field Experiments”. Journal of Economic Perspectives , Summer 2011.
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(with Christian Dustmann and Ian Preston). “Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities.” Journal of the European Economic Association , February 2012.
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(with Ana Rute Cardoso). "Can Compulsory Military Service Increase Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics , forthcoming 2012.
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(with Alexandre Mas, Enrico Moretti, and Emmanuel Saez). "Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction.” American Economic Review , forthcoming 2013.
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(with Laura Giuliano). “Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends.” Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming 2013.
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(co ‐ authored with Alan B. Krueger; edited by Randall Akee and Klaus Zimmerman). Wages, School Quality, and Employment Demand . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
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(co ‐ edited with Orley Ashenfelter) Handbook of Labor Economics (volumes 4a ‐ 4b). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011.
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(co ‐ edited with Alan Auerbach and John Quigley). Poverty, the Distribution of Income, and Public Policy . New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.
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(co ‐ edited with Richard Blundell and Richard B. Freeman) Seeking a Premier Economy . Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 2004.
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(co ‐ edited with Rebecca M. Blank) Finding Work: Jobs and Welfare Reform. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.
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(co ‐ edited with Orley Ashenfelter) Handbook of Labor Economics Volumes 3a ‐ 3c. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999.
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(co ‐ authored with Alan B. Krueger) Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
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(co ‐ edited with Richard B. Freeman). Small Differences that Matter: Labor Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada and the United States . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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