IRP Discussion Papers - 1979

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A synthesis of contour and flexible wage theory
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Gottschalk, P.
DP 590-79. 1979. 30 pp.
Family size, personal income tax credits and horizontal equity
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Balcer, Y. and Sadka, E.
DP 588-79. 1979. 30 pp.
A Monte Carlo study of alternative approaches for dealing with randomly missing data
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Wolfe, B. L., Behrman, J. R., and Flesher, J.
DP 587-79. 1979. 38 pp.
Metropolitan professional sexual differentiation: Toward a human ecological theory
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Johnson, G. C., Jr.
DP 584-79. 1979. 27 pp.
Changes in farm poverty in Wisconsin
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Saupe, W. E., Garland, W. R., and Streeter, D.
DP 583-79. 1979. 24 pp.
The effect of income distribution and redistribution on lifetime saving and bequests
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Menchik, P. L. and David, M.
DP 582-79. 1979. 67 pp.
Inequality in levels of health in England and Wales, 1891–1971
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Hollingsworth, J. R.
DP 581-79. 1979. 42 pp.
Improving the use of empirical research as a policy tool: An application to education
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Summers, A. and Wolfe, B. L.
DP 580-79. 1979. 36 pp.
Parallel preference structures in labor supply and commodity demand: An adaptation of the Gorman Polar form
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Dickinson, J. G.
DP 579-79. 1979. 29 pp.
The structural basis for income inequality and economic productivity: A cross-national perspective
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Hollingsworth, J. R.
DP 578-79. 1979. 62 pp.
Model-free statistical inference with Lorenz curves, income shares, and Gini coefficients
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Beach, C. M.
DP 577-79. 1979. 44 pp.
Still more on the distribution of net income: Further comment
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Smeeding, T. M.
DP 576-79. 1979. 17 pp.
Income testing and social welfare
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Sadka, E., Garfinkel, I., and Moreland, K.
DP 575-79. 1979. 43 pp.
What makes Sammy run? An empirical assessment of the Bowles-Gintis correspondence theory
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Olneck, M. R. and Bills, D. B.
DP 574-79. 1979. 50 pp.
Metropolitan professional sexual differentiation, 1970: An ecological profile
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Johnson, G. C., Jr.
DP 573-79. 1979. 26 pp.
Crime in urban areas: New evidence and results
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Myers, S. L., Jr.
DP 572-79. 1979. 19 pp.
Income maintenance schemes under wage-rate uncertainty
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Cowell, F. A.
DP 571-79. 1979. 30 pp.
Direct job creation: Potentials and realities
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Haveman, R. H.
DP 570-79. 1979. 33 pp.
Valuing government expenditures: The case of medical care transfers and poverty
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Smeeding, T. and Moon, M.
DP 568-79. 1979. 39 pp.
The effect of work experience on young men's earnings
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Plantes, M. K.
DP 567-79. 1979. 26 pp.
The definition of lifetime income
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Cowell, F. A.
DP 566-79. 1979. 41 pp.
Migrant agricultural labor in Wisconsin: A short history
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Slesinger, D. P. and Muirragui, E.
DP 565-79. 1979. 22 pp.
Collecting child support for AFDC mothers: An empirical analysis
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MacDonald, M.
DP 564-79. 1979. 30 pp.
Disability policy: The parts and the whole
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Erlanger, H. S., Roth, W., Walker, A., and Peterson, R.
DP 563-79. 1979. 41 pp.
Disentangling the annuity from the redistributive aspects of Social Security
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Burkhauser, R. V. and Warlick, J. L.
DP 562-79. 1979. 30 pp.
Energy-related adaptations in low income nonmetropolitan Wisconsin counties: Toward a behavioral approach
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Tienda, M. and Aborampah, O. M.
DP 560-79. 1979. 42 pp.
A guide to benefit-cost analysis, as seen through a controlled experiment in treating the mentally ill
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Weisbrod, B. A.
DP 559-79. 1979. 65 pp.
Black mayors and the politics of racial economic advancement
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Eisinger, P. K.
DP 558-79. 1979. 21 pp.
Metropolitan black suicide: Recent trends and methodological issues
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Davis, R.
DP 557-79. 1979. 29 pp.
The impact of negative income tax on participation in electoral politics
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Heffernan, J.
DP 556-79. 1979. 34 pp.
Job change behavior in the rural income maintenance experiment
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Miller, R. E.
DP 555-79. 1979. 77 pp.
Life-cycle welfare costs of Social Security
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Burkhauser, R. V. and Turner, J. A.
DP 554-79. 1979. 24 pp.
A study of private pensions in Ontario
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Balcer, Y. and Sahin, I.
DP 553-79. 1979. 62 pp.
The optimal fiscal treatment of charitable activity
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Posnett, J.
DP 552-79. 1979. 62 pp.
Supported work: A demonstration of subsidized employment
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Masters, S. and Maynard, R.
DP 551-79. 1979. 45 pp.
Juvenile court commitment rates: The national picture
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Sosin, M.
DP 550-79. 1979. 22 pp.
Single-parent households under alternative transfer and tax systems: Detailed simulations and policy conclusions
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Watts, H. W., Jakubson, G., and Skidmore, F.
DP 549-79. 1979. 59 pp.
Income distribution in Wisconsin by sources of income and for different accounting periods, economic units, and demographic groups
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Allweiss, A.
DP 548-79. 1979. 39 pp.
Utilitarian arguments for equality
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Page, B. I.
DP 547-79. 1979. 24 pp.
Revealed preferences, functional form, and labor supply
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Dickinson, J. G.
DP 546-79. 1979. 50 pp.
Are sales taxes progressive?
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Smeeding, T. M.
DP 545-79. 1979. 35 pp.
Health as an unobservable: A MIMIC model of demand for health care
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Van de Ven, W. P. M. M. and Van der Gaag, J.
DP 544-79. 1979. 52 pp.
Racial and residential differences in preventive medical care of infants in low-income populations
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Slesinger, D. P.
DP 543-79. 1979. 32 pp.
Administration and organizational influences on AFDC case decision errors: An empirical analysis
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Piliavin, I., Masters, S., and Corbett, T.
DP 542-79. 1979. 50 pp.
Assumptions and achievements of manpower programs for offenders: Implications for supported work
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Piliavin, I. and Gartner, R.
DP 541-79. 1979. 35 pp.
Black in-migration, white flight, and the changing economic base of the central city
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Frey, W. H.
DP 540-79. 1979. 39 pp.
Impacts of disability and some policy implications
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Wolfe, B. L.
DP 539-79. 1979. 59 pp.
The urban impacts of the Program for Better Jobs and Income
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Danziger, S., Haveman, R., Smolensky, E., and Taeuber, K.
DP 538-79. 1979. 39 pp.
The earnings of men and remarriage
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Wolf, W. C. and MacDonald, M. M.
DP 537-79. 1979. 19 pp.
The use of attitude surveys in determining tax policy
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David, M.
DP 535-79. 1979. 44 pp.
Testing cases under Title VII
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Rothschild, M. and Werden, G. J.
DP 534-79. 1979. 28 pp.
Juvenile court commitments: The role of organizational factors
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Sosin, M.
DP 533-79. 1979. 33 pp.
The effects of separation of services and income maintenance on AFDC recipients
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McDonald, T. and Piliavin, I.
DP 528-78. 1979. 73 pp.