Research

 

Fields of Interest: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics

 

Please contact me if you would like a copy of anything that does not have a link below.

 

Completed Work:

 

“AFDC and Births to Unwed Women,” joint with Kurt C. Schaefer and Thomas VanderVeen. Labour Economics 9, Issue 6: December 2002.

 

“The Work Opportunity and Welfare-to-Work Tax Credits: Participation Rates Among Eligible Workers,” National Tax Journal 56, Issue 4: December 2003.

 

(Book Review) “Lifting Up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty, and Welfare Reform” by Mary Jo Bane and Lawrence M. Mead.  Reviewed for Faith and Economics 44: Fall 2004.

 

“The Work Opportunity and Welfare-to-Work Tax Credits.” Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center Brief No. 15: October 2005.

 

“The Bare Minimum.” New York Times Op-ed, March 8, 2007.

 

 “Temporary Help Service Firms’ Use of Employer Tax Credits: Implications for Disadvantaged Workers’ Labor Market Outcomes,” with Carolyn Heinrich.   Southern Economic Journal 74, Issue 4: April 2008.

 

“The Effects of an Employer Subsidy on Employment Outcomes: A Study of the Work Opportunity and Welfare-to-Work Tax Credits,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 27, Issue 3: Summer 2008.

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“Does Pre-Natal WIC Participation Improve Birth Outcomes?” with David Figlio and Jeffrey Roth.  Journal of Public Economics 93, Issues 1-2: February 2009.

 

“The Effect of Parental Medicaid Expansions on Job Mobility” with Matthew Kim. forthcoming, Journal of Health Economics.

 

“Why Don’t Eligible Firms Claim Hiring Subsidies?  The Role of Job Duration.”

        forthcoming, Economic Inquiry

 

 

Working Papers:

 

“The Effects of Medicaid Earnings Limits on the Earnings Growth of Poor Workers” June 2009.

 

“The Consequences of Welfare Reform for Prenatal WIC Participation and Birth Outcomes” with David Figlio

 

“Job Lock and the Role of Public Health Insurance During Employment Transitions” with Matthew Kim

 

“Temporary Help Work: Compensating Differentials and Multiple Jobs” with Carolyn Heinrich