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Spring 1999 Working Papers

Joint Center for Poverty Research Working Papers

February 1999
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families

Rebecca M. Blank, David Card and Philip K. Robins

February 1999
Wage Progression Among Less-Skilled Workers

Tricia Gladden and Christopher Taber

March 1999
What Goes Up Must Come Down? Explaining Recent Changes in Public Assistance Caseloads
Geoffrey Wallace and Rebecca M. Blank

May 1999
Can Anti-Poverty Programs Improve Family Functioning and Enhance Children's Well-Being?

Hans Bos, Aletha Huston, Robert Granger, Greg Duncan, Tom Brock and Vonnie McLoyd

Labor Markets and Employment

WP-99-01
Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men: 1910 - 1990

Robert W. Fairlie and Bruce D. Meyer


Educational Policy

WP-99-02
Considering the Major Arguments Against Random Assignment: An Analysis of the Intellectual Culture Surrounding Evaluation in American Schools of Education

Thomas D. Cook

WP-99-03
Distributed Leadership: Toward a Theory of School Leadership Practice

James P. Spillane, Richard Halverson and John B. Diamond


Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies

WP-99-04
Is There Justice in Children's Rights? The Critique of Federal Family Preservation Policy

Dorothy E. Roberts

WP-99-05
An Empirical Analysis of Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Couples: Do "Likes" Still Like "Likes" in the '90s?

Lisa K. Jepsen and Christopher A. Jepsen


Communications, Media, and Public Opinion

WP-99-06
Is Social Security Reform Ready for the American Public?

Benjamin I. Page

WP-99-07
Deliberative Opinion Change and Consistency: Citizens in the 1994 Illinois Gubernatorial Election
Jason Barabas

WP-99-08
Revival of the New Deal Coalition? Social Groups and Political Change in the 1990s
Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks


Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Nonprofit Organizations

WP-99-09
The Roles of Government and Nonprofit Suppliers in Mixed Industries

Kanika Kapur and Burton A. Weisbrod

WP-99-10
Determinants of Donations in Private Nonprofit Markets

Cagla Okten and Burton A. Weisbrod


Environmental Policy

WP-99-11
Sacred Claims and Environmental Struggle

Paul Friesema


Business, Work and Government

WP-99-12
Business Associations and Economic Development

Richard F. Doner and Ben Ross Schneider


Law and Justice Studies

WP-99-13
Rules and Responsibility: What Kinds of Rule Systems Encourage Responsibility Rather than Accountability?

Carol A. Heimer

CAPS-21
1998 Citywide Beat Meeting Observation Methodology Report

Joel Knutson and Wesley G. Skogan


Retrospective: A Social Scientist's Personal Journey

WP-99-14
The PSID and Me

Greg J. Duncan


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