Fall 2000 Working Papers

Poverty, Race, and Inequality

WP-00-14
What Government Can Do About Poverty and Inequality: Global Constraints
Benjamin I. Page, James R. Simmons, and Scott Greer

WP-00-15
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Child Welfare and Child Protective Services: A Literature Review
Morgan B. Ward Doran and Dorothy E. Roberts

WP-00-16
The Poor and the Dead: Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the U.S., 1850-1860
Joseph P. Ferrie

Joint Center for Poverty Research Working Papers

February 2001
Welfare Reform and Child Well-Being
Greg J. Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

November 2000
The Effects of Welfare Reform: The Material Well-Being of Single Mothers in the 1980s and 1990s
Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan

October 2000
The Relationship Between Wage Growth and Wage Levels
Tricia Lynn Gladden and Christopher R. Taber

Educational Policy

WP-00-17
Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools
Joseph G. Altonji, Todd E. Elder, and Christopher R. Taber

WP-00-18
Are Dropout Decisions Related to Safety Concerns, Social Isolation, and Teacher Disparagement?
Stefanie DeLuca and James E. Rosenbaum

Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies

WP-00-19
Kinship Care and the Price of State Support for Poor Children
Dorothy E. Roberts

WP-00-20
Home Sweet Home(s): Parental Separations, Residential Moves, and Adjustment Problems in Low-Income Adolescent Girls
Emma K. Adam and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Communications, Media, and Public Opinion

WP-00-21
The Truly Disfranchised: Felon Voting Rights and American Politics
Jeff Manza, Christopher Uggen, and Marcus Britton

WP-00-22
Assessing Assumptions About Americans' Attitudes Toward Social Security: Popular Claims Meet Hard Data
Fay Lomax Cook and Lawrence R. Jacobs

Law and Justice Studies

WP-00-23
The Scale of Justice: Observations on the Transformation of Urban Law Practice
John P. Heinz, Robert L. Nelson, and Edward O. Laumann

WP-00-24
Rethinking the Puzzle of Escalating Penalties for Repeat Offenders
David A. Dana

Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations

WP-00-25
Managerial Rewards and the Behavior of For-Profit, Governmental, and Nonprofit Organizations: Evidence from the Hospital Industry
Jeffrey P. Ballou and Burton A. Weisbrod

WP-00-26
Reengineering Nonprofit Financial Accountability: Toward a More Reliable Foundation for Regulation
Elizabeth K. Keating and Peter Frumkin

Business, Work, and Government

WP-00-27
A Method for Deciding Whether Adjustment of Census 2000 Improves Redistricting
Bruce D. Spencer

WP-00-28
Who Gets Good Jobs? The Hiring Decisions and Compensation Structures of Large Firms
Luojia Hu

WP-00-29
Universal Access and Local Commercial Internet Markets
Tom Downes and Shane Greenstein

WP-00-30
Foul Weather Friends: Big Business and Health Care Reform in the 1990s in Historical Perspective
Scott Greer and Peter Swenson

Feminist Public Policy

WP-00-31
A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Behavior of Women and Men: Implications for the Origin of Sex Differences
Wendy Wood and Alice H. Eagly