Spring 1998 Working Papers

January 1998
Short- and Long-Term Effects of AFDC Receipt on Famillies
Rachel Dunifon

February 1998
The Effects of MTO on Education Opportunities in Baltimore: Early Evidence
Helen F. Ladd and Jens Ludwig

May 1998
Concealed Gun-Carrying Laws and Violent Crime: Evidence from State Panel Data
Jens Ludwig

Poverty, Race, and Inequality

WP-98-01
The Role of Values in Determining Welfare Attitudes
Patrick Kulesa and Alice H. Eagly

Labor Markets and Employment

WP-98-02
Using a Natural Experiment to Estimate the Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax on Layoffs, Employment, and Wages
Patricia M. Anderson and Bruce D. Meyer

WP-98-03
Education, Overeducation, and Youth Employment in the United States and Germany: The Mechanics of Restructuring
James C. Witte

Educational Policy

WP-98-04
School Spending and Student Achievement: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Jens Ludwig and Laurie J. Bassi

WP-98-05
Challenging Academic Content for "All Students"?: Policy, Practitioners, and Classroom Practice
James P. Spillane

Law and Justice

WP-98-06
Lawyers and Their Discontents: Findings from a Survey of the Chicago Bar
John P. Heinz, Kathleen E. Hull, and Ava A. Harter

WP-98-07
Incentives and Bankruptcy Chapter Choice: Evidence from the Reform Act of 1978
Ian Domowitz and Robert L. Sartain

WP-98-08
Personal Liabilities and Bankruptcy Reform: An International Perspecive
Michelle Alexopoulos and Ian Domowitz

Business and Government

WP-98-09
Responses of Medical R&D to Changing Economic Incentives: Implications for the Future of Health Care Costs and Quality
David Dranove and Burton A. Weisbrod

WP-98-10
Social Embeddedness and Corporate Financing: The Benefits of Social Networks in the Acquisition and Cost of Capital
Brian Uzzi and James J. Gillespie

WP-98-11
Industries as Oranizational Fields: Infrastructure and Formative Dynamics in U.S. Online Database Services
Mark Ventresca, Rodney Lacey, Michael Lounsbury, and Dara Szyliowicz

WP-98-12
The Social Structure of World Trade Advantage: Structural Autonomy and Contingent Value, 1965-1980
Michael Alan Sacks, Brian Uzzi, and Marc Ventresca

WP-98-13
The Impact of Deregulation on America's Infrastructure Industries: A "Process Model" with Illustrations from Banking
Paul Hirsch, Steven Klinkerman, and Michael Lounsbury

Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations

WP-98-14
Academic Health Centers and the Provision of Collective Outputs: The Financing Dilemma
Burton A. Weisbrod

Communications, Media, and Public Opinion

WP-98-15
African-American and Latino Views of Local Chicago TV News
Cynthia C. Linton and Robert K. LeBailly

Environmental Policy

WP-98-16
The Human Mind as a Barrier to Wiser Environmental Agreements
Max H. Bazerman, Don A. Moore, and James J. Gillespie

WP-98-17
Institutionalizing the Recycling Movement: The Structuring of Dialogue in the Solid Waste Field
Michael Lounsbury, Paul Hirsch, and Marc Ventresca