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Joint Center for Poverty Research
Working Papers

Wealth and Household Economy


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

Changes in Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education
Author(s): Daron Acemoglu, Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Crossing Class Boundaries: Race, Siblings and Socioeconomic Heterogeneity
Author(s): Colleen M. Heflin, Mary E. Pattillo

Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Decisions, and the Path of Least Resistance
Author(s): James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, Andrew Metrick

Do Minimum Wage Increases Lower the Probability that Low-Skilled Workers Will Receive Fringe Benefits?
Author(s): Anne Royalty

Does it Pay to Move from Welfare to Work?
Author(s): Sheldon Danziger, Colleen M. Heflin, Mary Corcoran, Elizabeth Oltmans

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Earnings Growth among Young Less-Educated Business Owners
Author(s): Robert W. Fairlie

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

Explaining Why So Many Households Do Not Save
Author(s): Annamaria Lusardi

For Better or For Worse: Default Effects and 401(k) Savings Behavior
Author(s): James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, Andrew Metrick

Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed?
Author(s): Susan E. Mayer, Leonard Michael Lopoo

Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families
Author(s): Jay Bhattacharya, Thomas DeLeire, Steven Haider, Janet Currie

Household Saving: A Cross-National Perspective
Author(s): Axel Börsch-Supan, Annamaria Lusardi

How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect American Children's Educational Attainment?
Author(s): Susan E. Mayer

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How Do Cohabiting Couples With Children Spend Their Money?
Author(s): Thomas DeLeire, Ariel Kalil

How Economic Segregation Affects Children's Educational Attainment
Author(s): Susan E. Mayer

How the Growth in Income Inequality Increased Economic Segregation
Author(s): Susan E. Mayer

Immigrants and Wealth Stratification In The U.S
Author(s): Lingxin Hao

Income Changes and Cognitive Stimulation in Young Children's Home Learning Environments
Author(s): Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

Income Inequality, Economic Segregation and Children's Educational Attainment
Author(s): Susan E. Mayer

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

Income Volatility and Household Consumption: The Impact of Food Assistance Programs
Author(s): Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri

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

Insuring Consumption Against Illness
Author(s): Paul Gertler, Jonathan Gruber

Linking Tax Refunds and Low-Cost Bank Accounts: Findings from the Extra Credit Savings Program
Author(s): Sondra Gayle Beverly, Jennifer Tescher, Jennifer L. Romich, David Marzahl

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

Parental Job Loss and Early Adolescent Adjustment in Black and White Families
Author(s): Ariel Kalil, Thomas DeLeire

Partial Insurance, Information, and Consumption Dynamics
Author(s): Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri, Ian Preston

Precautionary Saving and the Accumulation Of Wealth
Author(s): Annamaria Lusardi

Preparing for Retirement: The Importance of Planning Costs
Author(s): Annamaria Lusardi

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

Race and the Digital Divide
Author(s): Robert W. Fairlie

Rural America in Transition: Poverty and Welfare at the Turn of the 21st Century
Author(s): Leif Jensen, Dan Lichter

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

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

Savings of Young Parents
Author(s): Annamaria Lusardi, Ricardo Daniel Cossa, Erin L. Krupka

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

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

Tax Reform and Automatic Stabilization
Author(s): Thomas J. Kniesner, James P. Ziliak

The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidy Receipt by Low-Income Families
Author(s): David Blau, Erdal Tekin

The Earned Income Credit and Durable Goods Purchases
Author(s): Lisa Barrow, Leslie Moscow McGranahan

The Economic Consequences of Absent Parents
Author(s): Marianne E. Page, Ann Huff Stevens

The Effect of Welfare Reform on the Incomes and Earnings of Low-Income Families: Evidence from the Current Population Survey
Author(s): Laura Stander Connolly

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

The Effects of Welfare Reform: The Living Conditions of Single Mothers in the 1980s and 1990s
Author(s): Bruce D. Meyer, James Xavier Sullivan

The EITC: Expectation, Knowledge, Use and Economic and Social Mobility
Author(s): Timothy M. Smeeding, Katherin Ross Phillips, Michael O'Connor

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The Impact of Welfare Reform Across Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas: A Nonparametric Analysis
Author(s): Jeffrey R. Alwang, Gautam Hazarika, Bradford Mills

The Living Arrangements of New Unmarried Mothers
Author(s): Wendy Sigle-Rushton, Sara McLanahan

The Role of the Family in Determining Youth Employment
Author(s): Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

To What Degree Does Food Assistance Help Poor Households Acquire Enough Food?
Author(s): Beth Osborne Daponte, Joseph B. Kadane, Amelia Haviland

Using Sibling Samples to Assess the Effect of Childhood Family Income on Completed Schooling
Author(s): Dan Levy, Greg Duncan

Using the EITC to Increase Family Earnings: New Evidence and a Comparison with the Minimum Wage.
Author(s): David Neumark, William Wascher

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

Welfare Reform, Earnings, and Income: New Evidence from the Survey of Program Dynamics
Author(s): Laura Stander Connolly, Christine Enerson Marston

Welfare, Poverty, and Financial Strain In Urban African American Families with Adolescent Daughters
Author(s): Rebekah Levine Coley, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

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

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

When Gender Trumps Money: Bargaining and Time in Household Work
Author(s): Paula England, Nancy Folbre, George Matheson, Michael Bittman

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