Spring 2000 Working Papers

Joint Center for Poverty Research Working Papers

January 2000
How Families View and Use the EITC: The Case for Lump-Sum Delivery
Jennifer L. Romich and Thomas Weisner

February 2000
Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment
Greg J. Duncan, Paul Hirschfield and Jens O. Ludwig

February 2000
Neighborhood Effects on Economic Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment
Greg J. Duncan, Jens O. Ludwig and Joshua C. Pinkston

March 2000
Investigating Policy's OEPractical' Meaning: Street-Level Research on Welfare Policy
Evelyn Brodkin

April 2000
Using Sibling Samples to Assess the Effect of Childhood Family Income on Completed Schooling
Dan Levy and Greg J. Duncan

Educational Policy

WP-00-01
Using Performance Standards to Evaluate Social Programs with Incomplete Outcome Data: General Issues and Application to a Higher Education Block Grant Program
Charles F. Manski, John Newman and John V. Pepper

Labor Markets and Employment

WP-00-02
The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment
Robert W. Fairlie and Bruce D. Meyer

Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies

WP-00-03
How Extended is the Extended African-American Family? The Case of Family Caregiving to Older African-Americans
Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Sharon Wallace Williams, Paula Goodwin and Theresa Cooper

Communications, Media, and Public Opinion

WP-00-04
Probabilistic Polling
Charles F. Manski

WP-00-05
Invoking Public Opinion: Polls, Policy Debates, and the Future of Social Security
Fay Lomax Cook, Jason Barabas and Benjamin I. Page

Feminist Public Policy

WP-00-06
Experimental Tests of an Attitudinal Theory of the Gender Gap in Voting
Alice H. Eagly, Amanda Diekman, Monica Schneider and Patrick Kulesa

WP-00-07
Farewell to Maternalism: Welfare Reform, Liberalism, and the End of Mothers' Right to Choose Between Employment and Full-time Care Ann Shola Orloff

WP-00-08
Gender, Class, and Social Policy in the 21st Century
Susan Thistle

Business, Work, and Government

WP-00-09
The Paradox of Globalization: Turning the Tables on Labor and Capital in German Industrial Relations
Kathleen Thelen and Christa van Wijnbergen

WP-00-10
Framing Globalization: The Battle for Definitions of a Contested Issue
Peer C. Fiss and Paul M. Hirsch

WP-00-11
Commercialization of the Internet: The Interaction of Public Policy and Private Choices
Shane Greenstein

WP-00-12
How Embedded Ties Transfer Benefits Through Networks: Banking Relationships and the Firm's Strategic Use of Trade Credit Financing
Brian Uzzi and James J. Gillespie

WP-00-13
Getting the Best Deal: The Governance Benefits of Social Networks in Commercial Loans
Brian Uzzi