Fall 2002 Working Papers

Poverty, Race, and Inequality

WP-02-28
If Low-Income Blacks Are Given a Chance to Live in White Neighborhoods, Will They Stay? Examining Mobility Patterns with Quasi-Experimental Data
Stefanie DeLuca and James E. Rosenbaum

Joint Center for Poverty Research Working Papers

October 2002
Income Changes and Cognitive Stimulation in Young Children’s Home Learning Environments
Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

June 2002
Effects of Welfare and Anti-Poverty Policies on Adult Economic and Middle-Childhood Outcomes Differ for the “Hardest to Employ”
Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Katherine Magnuson, Johannes M. Bos, and JoAnn Hsueh

February 2002
The Effect of Increasing Welfare Mothers’ Education on their Young Children’s Academic Problems and School Readiness
Katherine Magnuson and Sharon McGroder

Educational Policy

WP-02-29
An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schooling
Joseph Altonji, Todd Elder, and Christopher Taber

WP-02-30
The Social Prerequisites of Success: Can College Structure Reduce the Need For Social Know-How?
Regina Deil-Amen and James E. Rosenbaum

WP-02-31
The Black-White-Other Test Score Gap: Academic Achievement Among Mixed Race Adolescents
Melissa R. Herman

Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies

WP-02-32
Violence in Intimate Relationships as Women Transition from Welfare to Work
Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Brenda J. Lohman, and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

WP-02-33
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Academic Outcomes: Does Parental Work Boost Grades?
Amber Stitziel Paraja and Dan A. Lewis

WP-02-34
When Does Gender Trump Money? Bargaining and Time in Household Work
Michael Bittman, Paula England, Liana Sayer, Nancy Folbre, and George Matheson

Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations

WP-02-35
Entry and Firm Location in Mixed Industries: Examining the Impact of Ownership Type on Entry Decisions in Long-Term Care
Jeffrey P. Ballou

WP-02-36
Nonprofit Organization Behavior in For-Profit Markets
Maxim Sinitsyn and Burton A. Weisbrod

Law and Justice Studies

WP-02-37
The Mark of a Criminal Record
Devah Pager

Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy

WP-02-38
Trusting What You Know: Information, Knowledge, and Confidence in Social Security
Lawrence Jacobs, Fay Lomax Cook, and Dukhong Kim

WP-02-39
“Civil Death” or Civil Rights? Public Attitudes Towards Felon Disfranchisement in the United States
Jeff Manza, Clem Brooks, and Christopher Uggen

WP-02-40
Ballot Manipulation and the “Menace of Negro Domination”: Racial Threat and Felon Disfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2000
Angela Behrens, Christopher Uggen, and Jeff Manza

WP-02-41
Government Redistribution in the Shadow of Legislative Elections: A Study of the Illinois Member Initiative Grants Program
Michael C. Herron and Brett A. Theodos

WP-02-42
Alternatives Within the White House Public Opinion Apparatus: Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, and “Hawkish” Opinion Mail
Brandon Rottinghaus

WP-02-43
Privacy as Property: News and the Right of Publicity
Craig L. LaMay

WP-02-44
Digital Dispersion: An Industrial and Geographic Census of Commercial Internet Use
Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein

WP-02-45
Global Policy Fields: Conflicts and Settlements in the Emergence of Organized International Attention to Official Statistics, 1853-1947
Marc J. Ventresca