Joint Center for Poverty Research
Working Papers

Policy and Governance

Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenthood: Recent Evidence and Future Directions
Author: Rebekah Levine Coley, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

An Assessment of Relationship Between Growth and Inequality Using Micro Data from Thailand
Author: Hyeok Jeong

An Optimization Model for Location of Subsidized Housing in Metropolitan Areas
Author: Michael P. Johnson, Arthur P. Hurter

Can Anti-Poverty Programs Improve Family Functioning and Enhance Children's Well-Being?
Author: Aletha C. Huston, Greg Duncan, Robert Granger, Vonnie McLoyd

Challenging Instruction for "All Students": Policy, Practitioners, and Practice
Author: James P. Spillane

Child Support Enforcement: Incentives and Well-Being
Author: Irwin Garfinkel, Theresa Heintze, Chien-Chung Huang

Concealed-Gun-Carrying Laws and Violent Crime: Evidence from State Panel Data
Author: Jens Otto Ludwig

Contracting Welfare Reform: Uncertainties of Capacity-Building Within Disjointed Federalism
Author: Evelyn Brodkin, Carolyn Fuqua, Katarina H. Thoren

Did the Medicaid-Eligibility Expansions Increase the Reporting of Children's Health Problems? Evidence from the SIPP
Author: Elizabeth Powers

Does the Minimum Wage Affect Welfare Caseloads?
Author: Jane Millar, Marianne E. Page, Joanne Spetz

Effects of Higher Minimum Wages on Teen Employment and School Enrollment
Author: Mark D. Turner, Berna Demiralp

Employee-Based versus Employer-Based Subsidies to Low-Wage Workers: A Public Finance Perspective
Author: Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Evaluating In-Work Benefit Reform: The Working Families Tax Credit in the U.K.
Author: Richard Blundell, Alan Duncan, Julian McCrae, Costas Meghir

Events that Trigger Poverty Entries and Exits
Author: Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe

Experimenting With Welfare Reform: The Political Boundaries Of Policy Analysis
Author: Evelyn Brodkin, Alexander Kaufman

Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families
Author: Rebecca M. Blank, David Card, Philip K. Robins

Governance And Performance: The Influence of Program Structure and Management on Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Program Outcomes
Author: Carolyn J. Heinrich, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution
Author: Erzo F.P. Luttmer

How Safe Is the Local Safety Net? Fiscal Distress, Public Spending, and the Budgetary Repercussions of Capital Convictions
Author: Katherine Baicker

Income Mobility and Exits from Poverty of American Children, 1970-1992
Author: Peter T. Gottschalk, Sheldon Danziger

Informal Family Insurance and the Design of the Welfare State
Author: Rafael Di Tella, Robert MacCulloch

Insuring Consumption Against Illness
Author: Paul Gertler, Jonathan Gruber

Investigating Policy's 'Practical' Meaning: Street-Level Research on Welfare Policy
Author: Evelyn Brodkin

Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence From the National Educational Longitudinal Survey
Author: Robert W. Fairlie, Alexandra M. Resch

Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects
Author: Bruce D. Meyer, Dan T. Rosenbaum

Means And Ends: A Comparative Study Of Empirical Methods For Investigating Governance And Performance
Author: Carolyn J. Heinrich, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

Medicaid, Census, and the CPS: What They Reveal about Child Undercount and Poverty
Author: Beth Osborne Daponte, Lara J. Wolfson

Notes on How Economists Think . . .
Author: Robert A. Pollak

On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility
Author: Peter T. Gottschalk, Enrico Spolaore

Policies to Foster Human Capital
Author: James J. Heckman

Producing Human Services: Why Do Agencies Collaborate?
Author: Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Carolyn J. Hill

Program Redesign by States in the Wake of Welfare Reform: Making Sense of the Effects of Devolution
Author: Alan Weil

Public Health Insurance and Private Savings
Author: Jonathan Gruber, Aaron S. Yelowitz

Public Service Employment and Mandatory Work: A Policy Whose Time Has Come and Gone and Come Again?
Author: David T. Ellwood, Elisabeth D. Welty

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Era of Devolution: A Persistant Challenge to Welfare Reform
Author: Ronald Walters

Renegotiating a Social Compact Based on Children and Families' Requirements for a Decent Life
Author: Ruby Takanishi

Reorganizing the Welfare State: New Administrative Models, Old Bureaucratic Problems
Author: Evelyn Brodkin

Risk Sharing and Industrial Specialization: Regional and International Evidence
Author: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent E. Sorensen, Oved Yosha

Sanctions and Exits: What do States Know About Families Who Leave Welfare Because of Sanctions and Time Limits
Author: Jack Tweedie

Saving Puzzles and Saving Policies in the United States
Author: Jonathan Skinner, Annamaria Lusardi, Steven F. Venti

Saving, Public Policy, and Late-Life Inequality
Author: Annamaria Lusardi, Jonathan Skinner, Steven F. Venti

Several Suggestions for Improving the Work-Based Safety Net and Reducing Child Poverty
Author: Wendell Primus, Kristina Daugirdas

Should Gift Giving Be Subsidized?
Author: Ralph Chami, Connel Fullenkamp

Social Security and Institutions for Intergenerational, Intragenerational, and International Risk Sharing
Author: Robert J. Shiller

Social Security Expectations and Retirement Savings Decisions
Author: Jeff Dominitz, Charles F. Manski, Jordan Heinz

State Fiscal Substitution Between the Federal Food Stamp Program and AFDC, Medicaid, and SSI
Author: Howard Chernick

Taxes and Unmarried Fathers' Participation in the Underground Economy
Author: Lauren M. Rich, Sun-Bin Kim

The Effect of Family Planning Programs on the Fertility of Welfare Recipients: Evidence from Medicaid Claims
Author: Jennifer M. Mellor

The Effect of Welfare on Child Outcomes: What We Know and What We Need to Know
Author: Janet Currie

The Effects of After-tax Wages, Transfer Payments, and Child Care Expenses on Labor Market and Transfer Program Participation
Author: Scott Houser, Stacy Dickert-Conlin

The Impact of Social Policy and Economic Activity Throughout the Fertility Decision Tree
Author: Phillip Levine

The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Social Policy Reforms on Work, Marriage, and Living Arrangements
Author: David T. Ellwood

The Spillover Effects of State Spending
Author: Katherine Baicker

The Value of Health: 1970-1990
Author: David M. Cutler, Elizabeth Richardson

Time Limits
Author: Robert A. Moffitt, LaDonna Pavetti

Using Performance Indicators With Child Welfare Policy Makers and Managers
Author: Richard P. Barth, Barbara Needell

Wage Erosion, Economic Assessments, and Social Welfare Opinions
Author: Jason Barabas

Welfare in a Society of Permanent Work
Author: Ronald T. Haskins

Welfare Reform and Household Saving
Author: Erik Hurst, James P. Ziliak

Welfare Reform, Management Systems, and Policy Theories of Child Well-Being
Author: Thomas Gais, Cathy M. Johnson

Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
Author: Bruce D. Meyer, Dan T. Rosenbaum

What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow?
Author: Rebecca M. Blank

What Do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance?
Author: Helen G. Levy, Thomas DeLeire

What Do Prosecutors Maximize? An Analysis of Drug Offenders and Concurrent Jurisdiction
Author: Edward L. Glaeser, Anne Morrison Peihl

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What Do We Really Know About Whether Health Insurance Affects Health?
Author: Helen G. Levy, David Meltzer

What Will the States Do When Jobs Are Not Plentiful? Policy and Implementation Challenges
Author: LaDonna Pavetti

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When Financial Incentives Pay for Themselves: Early Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project's Applicant Study
Author: Charles Michalopoulos, Philip K. Robins, David Card