Fall 1999 Working Papers

August 1999
Welfare, Poverty and Financial Strain in Urban African-American Families with Adolescent Daughters
Rebekah Levine Coley and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

August 1999
Sexual Intercourse and Pregnancy among African American Adolescent Girls in High-Poverty Neighborhoods: The Role of Family and Perceived Community Environment
Mignon R. Moore and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

August 1999
An Insider View: Knowledge and Opinions of Welfare from African American Girls
in Poverty
Rebekah Levine Coley, Ann M. Kuta and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

August 1999
African American Adolescent Girls in Impoverished Communities: Quality of Parenting and Adolescent Outcomes
Laura D. Pittman and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

December 1999
Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects
Bruce D. Meyer and Dan T. Rosenbaum

Educational Policy

WP-99-15
Do Low-SES Students Get Less Payoff For Their School Efforts?
James E. Rosenbaum and Stefanie DeLuca

WP-99-16
The Effects of Private School Competition on Student Achievement
Christopher Jepsen

Labor Markets and Employment

WP-99-17
The Extent and Consequences of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity
Joseph G. Altonji and Paul J. Devereux

Child, Adolescent and Family Studies

WP-99-18
How Neighborhoods, Families, Peer Groups, and Schools Jointly Affect Changes in Early Adolescent Development
Thomas D. Cook, Melissa R. Herman, Meredith Phillips and Richard A. Settersten, Jr.

WP-99-19
How Inner-City Children See Their Family, School, Peers, and Neighborhood: Developmental Changes During the Transition to Adolescence
Thomas D. Cook and Robert F. Murphy

WP-99-20
Spanning Racial Boundaries: Multiracial Adolescents and Their Families, Peers, Schools, and Neighborhoods
William J. Corrin and Thomas D. Cook

Law and Justice Studies

WP-99-21
Lawyers' Roles in Voluntary Associations: Depreciating Social Capital?
John P. Heinz and Paul S. Schnorr, with Edward O. Laumann and Robert L. Nelson

Communications, Media and Public Opinion

WP-99-22
Deliberative Democracy in Action: An Analysis of the Effects of Public Deliberation
Fay Lomax Cook, Jason Barabas and Lawrence R. Jacobs

Feminist Public Policy

WP-99-23
Role Congruity Theory of Prejudice Toward Female Leaders
Alice H. Eagly and Steven J. Karau

WP-99-24
Accuracy and Bias in Stereotypes About the Social and Political Attitudes of Women and Men
Alice H. Eagly, Amanda Diekman and Patrick Kulesa

Business, Work and Government

WP-99-25
Litigation Costs and Returns to Experience
Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer

WP-99-26
Sorting, Quotas, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991: Who Hires When It's Hard to Fire?
Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer

WP-99-27
Varieties of Capitalist Interests and Illusions of Labor Power: Employers in the Making of the Swedish and American Welfare States
Peter Swenson