Fall 1998 Working Papers

Poverty, Race, and Inequality

WP-98-18
Race and Gender in the Labor Market
By Joseph G. Altonji and Rebecca M. Blank

WP-98-19
The Ethics of Punishing Indigent Parents
By Dorothy Roberts

WP-98-20
Poverty in the Family: Siblings of the Black and White Middle Class
By Mary Pattillo-McCoy and Colleen M. Heflin

WP-98-21
The Invisible Black Middle Class
By Mary Pattillo-McCoy

WP-98-22
The Changing Nature of Women's Poverty: An Analysis of Two Cohorts of African-American and White Women
Susan Thistle

WP-98-23
How to Distinguish Among Migrants in a Migration Chain: Those Who are Links and Those Who Build links
By Vilna Bashi

Educational Policy

WP-98-24
Comer's School Development Program in Chicago: A Theory-Based Evaluation
By Thomas D. Cook, H. David Hunt, and Robert F. Murphy

WP-98-25
Comer's School Development Program in Prince George's County, Maryland: A Theory-Based Evaluation
By Thomas D. Cook, Farah-naaz Habib, Meredith Phillips, Richard A. Settersten, Shobha C. Shagle and Serdar M. Degirmencioglu

WP-98-26
So Much Reform, So Little Change; Building-Level Obstacles to Urban School Reform
By Charles M. Payne

Labor Markets and Employment

WP-98-27
Worker Perceptions of Job Insecurity in the Mid-1990s: Evidence from the Survey of Economic Expectations
Charles F. Manski and John D.Straub

WP-98-28
Tax Reform and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from an Empirical General Equilibrium Model of Skill Formation
By Christopher Taber

Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies

WP-98-29
Understanding Family Change: Past, Present, and Future Effects of Family Events on Children
By Rachel Dunifon

Communications, Media, and Public Opinion

WP-98-30
The New Politics of Social Security
By Fay Lomax Cook

WP-98-31
Reassessing Public Opinion Stability
By Jason Barabas

Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations

WP-98-32
Why Not For-Profit? Conversions and Public Policy
By John H. Goddeeris and Burton A. Weisbrod

Environmental Policy

WP-98-33
Environmental Movements Since Love Canal: Hope, Despair, and (Im)mobilization
By Allan Schnaiberg

Business, Work, and Government

WP-98-34
Layoffs and Litigation
By Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer

Joint Center for Poverty Research Working Papers

May 1998
Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
By Bruce D. Meyer and Dan T. Rosenbaum

July 1998
How Different ARE Welfare and Working Famililes? And Do Those Differences Matter for Children's Achievement?
By Greg J. Duncan, Rachel Dunifon, Morgan Ward Doran, and W. Jean Yeung

November 1998
Wage Erosion, Economic Assessments, and Social Welfare Opinions
By Jason Barabas

November 1998
Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment
Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, and Paul Hirschfield

December 1998
Neighborhoods and Adolescent Development: How can we Determine the Links?
By Greg J. Duncan and Stephen W. Raudenbush

December 1998
Do the Poor Move to Receive Higher Welfare Benefits?
By Bruce D. Meyer