Poverty-Related Publications by Affiliates

Howard Chernick

"State Fiscal Responses to Welfare Reform During Recessions: Lessons for the Future," Public Budgeting and Finance 23, no. 3 (2003): 3-21. (With Andrew Reschovsky)

"The Decline in Welfare Receipt in New York City: Push vs. Pull," Eastern Economic Journal 30, no. 1 (2004): 3-29. (With Cordelia Reimers)

David Greenberg

"Explaining Variation in the Effects of Welfare-to-Work Programs," Evaluation Review 27, no. 4 (August 2003). (With Robert Meyer, Charles Michaloupoulos, and Michael Wiseman)

"A Meta-Analysis of Government-Sponsored Training Programs," Industrial and Labor Relations Review 57, no. 1 (2003): 31-53. (With C. Michaloupoulos and P. K. Robins)

Social Experimentation and Public Policymaking. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 2003. (With Donna Linksz and Marvin Mandell)

"Successful Welfare-to-Work Programs: Were Riverside and Portland Really That Good?" Focus 22, no. 3 (Summer 2003): 11-18. (With Robert Walker, Karl Ashworth, and Andreas Cebulla)

"What Happens to the Effects of Government-Funded Training Programs Over Time," Journal of Human Resources 39, no.1 (Winter 2004): 277-293. (With C. Michaloupoulos and P. K. Robins)

Michael Handel

"Skills Mismatch in the Labor Market." Annual Review of Sociology (2003). Fuller version to be published by the Economic Policy Institute.

"Implications of Information Technology for Employment, Skills, and Wages: A Review of Recent Research." SRI International. Arlington, VA. Commissioned by the National Science Foundation.

Harry J. Holzer

"Can Work Experience Programs Work for Welfare Recipients?" Policy Briefs, Welfare Reform and Beyond, The Brookings Institution, 2002.

"Employer Demand for Welfare Recipients By Race," Journal of Labor Economics 21, no. 1 (2003):210-241. (With Michael Stoll).

"Employers and Welfare Recipients: What Their Interaction Implies for Public Policy," Focus 22, no. 1 (2002): 71-75. Madison, WI: Institute for Research on Poverty.

"Measuring Discrimination in Education: Are Methods from Housing and Labor Markets Useful?" Teachers College Record 105, no. 6 (2003): 1147-1178. (With J. Ludwig)

"Public Transit and the Spatial Distribution of Minority Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 22, no. 3 (2003): 415-441. (With J. Quigley and S. Raphael)

The Economics of Affirmative Action. London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004. (Edited with D. Neumark)

"Welfare Reform's Forgotten Men," American Prospect 13, no. 13 (2002). (With Paul Offner)

Hilary Hoynes

“Some Evidence on Race, Welfare Reform and Household Income,” American Economic Review 93, no. 2 (May 2003): 293–298. (With Marianne Bitler and Jonah Gelbach)

“Has 'In-Work' Benefit Reform Helped the Labour Market? in Seeking a Premier League Economy, ed. Richard Blundell, David Card and Richard Freeman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003). (With Richard Blundell)

“Taxes and the Labor Market Participation of Married Couples: The Earned Income Tax Credit,” Journal of Public Economics 88, issue 9-10 (2004): 1931-1958. (With Nada Eissa)

“The Impact of Welfare Reform on Marriage and Divorce,” Demography 41, no. 2 (May 2004): 213-236. (With Marianne Bitler, Jonah Gelbach, and Madeline Zavodny)

Shawn Kanaiaupuni

"Pondering Poi Dog: The Importance of Place to the Racial Identification of Multi-Racial Native Hawaiians." Honolulu, HI: Kamehameha Schools, PASE Working Paper 02-03:24, September 2003. (With C. A. Liebler)

John Kennan

"The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions." May 2003. (With James R. Walker)

Mary Haywood Metz

Different by Design: The Context and Character of Three Magnet Schools. Reissued with a new introduction. New York: Teachers College Press, 2003.

Robert Moffitt

"Mother’s Transitions from Welfare to Work and the Well-Being of Preschoolers and Adolescents." Science, March 7, 2003 (with P.L. Chase-Lansdale et al.).

Jamie Peck

"Labor, Zapped/growth, Restored? Three Moments of Neoliberal Restructuring in the American Labor Market," Journal of Economic Geography 2, no. 1 (2002): 179-220.

"Political Economies of Scale: Fast Policy, Interscalar Relations, and Neoliberal Workfare," Economic Geography 78, no. 3 (2002): 331-360.

"Temped Out? Industry Rhetoric, Labor Regulation, and Economic Restructuring in the Temporary Staffing Business," Economic and Industrial Democracy 23, no. 2 (2002): 143-175. (With N. Theodore)

"The Temporary Staffing Industry: Growth Imperatives and Limits to Contingency," Economic Geography 78, no. 4 (2002): 463-493. (With N. Theodore)

"Geography and Public Policy: Mapping the Penal State," Progress in Human Geography 27, no. 2 (2002): 222-232.

Robert Plotnick

"Do children from welfare families obtain less schooling?" Demography 40, no. 1 (2003): 151-170. (With Inhoe Ku)

"Generating new information" and "Data and technical assistance resources" (contributing author) in Community Programs to Promote Youth Development, ed. Jacquelyne Eccles and Jennifer A. Gootman (Washington DC: National Academy Press, 2002).

"How will welfare reform affect family structure and childbearing decisions?" Pp. 59-91 in Changing Welfare, ed. R.A.Gordon and H. Walberg (New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003). (With Elizabeth Peters and Se-Ook Jeong)

Philip K. Robins

"Employment and Child-Care Choices of Single-Parent Families in Canada and the United States," Journal of Population Economics 15, no. 3 (2002): 465-493. (With C. Michalopoulos)

"When Financial Work Incentives Pay for Themselves: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment for Welfare Recipients," Journal of Public Economics 89, no. 1 (2005): 5-29. (With D. Card and C. Michalopoulos)

"A Meta-Analysis of Government-Sponsored Training Programs," Industrial and Labor Relations Review 57, no. 1 (2003): 31-53. (With D. Greenberg and C. Michalopoulos)

"What Happens to the Effects of Government-Funded Training Programs Over Time," Journal of Human Resources 39, no.1 (Winter 2004): 277-293. (With D. Greenberg and C. Michalopoulos)

Joe Soss

Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003. (Edited with Sanford F. Schram and Richard C. Fording)

"Why Do White Americans Support the Death Penalty?"Journal of Politics 65, no. 2 (2003): 397-421. (With Laura I. Langbein and Alan C. Metelko)

Ruth N. López Turley

"Is Relative Deprivation Beneficial? The Effects of Richer and Poorer Neighbors on Children's Outcomes," Journal of Community Psychology 30, no. 6 (2002):671-686.

"Are Children of Young Mothers Disadvantaged Because of Their Mother's Age or Family Background?" Child Development 74, no. 2 (2003):465-474.

"When Do Neighborhoods Matter? The Role of Race and Neighborhood Peers," Social Science Research 32, no. 1 (2003):61-79.

Michael Wiseman

"Explaining Variation in the Effects of Welfare-to-Work Programs,"Evaluation Review 27, no. 4 (August 2003) (with M. Greenberg, R. Meyer, C. Michalopoulos).

Barbara Wolfe

"The 1996 U.S. Welfare Reform: Objectives, Effects and Lessons," in Labour Markets, Gender and Institutional Change, ed. Hugh Mosely, Jacqueline O'Reilly, and Klaus Schömann (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2002), pp. 166-184. (With Robert Haveman)

"Government Mandates and Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Who Is Still Not Covered?" International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 2, no. 2 (June 2002): 99-135. (With David Vanness)

"Health Policies for the Nonelderly Poor," in Understanding Poverty, ed. S. Danziger and R. Haveman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), pp. 278-313. (With John Mullahy)

"Incentives and Challenges of TANF Design: A Case Study," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 21, no. 4 (2002): 577-586.

"Welfare Reform in the U. S.: Early Evidence of Impacts," Australian Journal of Labour Economics 5, no. 4 ( 2002): 457-470.

"Fertility, Nonmarital," in The Encyclopedia of Population (Farmington Hills, MI: MacMillan March, 2003).

"Before and After TANF: The Economic Well-Being of Women Leaving Welfare," Social Service Review 76, no. 4 (2002): 603-641. (With Maria Cancian, Robert Haveman and Daniel R. Meyer)

"Social Security, Age-of-Retirement, and Economic Wellbeing: Intertemporal and Demographic Patterns among Retired-Worker Beneficiaries," Demography 40, no. 2 (2003): 369-394. (With Robert Haveman, Karen Holden, and Kathryn Wilson)

"Resources Devoted to Child Development by Families and Society," in Child Rearing in America, ed. Neal Haflon, Kathryn Taaffe McLearn, and Mark Schuster (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 21-49. (With Rebecca Kilburn)

"Universal Preschool for Four-Year Olds: The Time Has Come," in One Percent for the Kids: New Policies, Brighter Futures for America's Children, ed. Isabel V. Sawhill (Washington, D.C.:Brookings Institution, 2003). (With Scott Scrivner)

"Welfare Reform Depends on Good Quality Child Care," American Prospect Summer 2002, pp. A19-A21. (With Deborah Vandell)

Erik Olin Wright

Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participating Governance (Verso, 2003).

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