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An Analysis of Worker Sectoral Choice: Public vs. Private Employment 1 8 27 51 5 38 112 184
Can Equity and Efficiency Complement Each Other? 2 11 44 505 18 58 281 2,088
Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income 0 1 6 10 1 6 21 63
Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income 1 1 4 23 7 8 17 150
Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? A Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior 2 7 9 17 6 22 54 119
Down and Out in North America: Recent Trends in Poverty Rates in the U.S. and Canada 0 1 30 52 7 24 293 884
Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States 3 28 99 1,024 9 116 504 4,945
Exploring Gender Differences in Employment and Wage Trends Among Less-Skilled Workers 1 7 22 107 8 34 117 428
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low- Income Families 3 10 35 252 11 29 134 1,306
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 1 1 7 144 4 7 36 904
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 2 81 2 2 19 365
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 2 6 18 113 6 15 55 437
How Important is Welfare Dependence? 1 1 6 20 4 6 29 142
Is There a Trade-off between Unemployment and Inequality? No Easy Answers: Labor Market Problems in the United States versus Europe 1 5 14 125 2 11 37 387
Macroeconomics, Income Distribution, and Poverty 4 12 35 205 16 41 98 482
No Easy Answers: Comparative Labor Market Problems in the United States Versus Europe 1 4 21 409 14 50 212 2,371
POVERTY, POLICY AND PLACE: HOW POVERTY AND POLICIES TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY ARE SHAPED BY LOCAL CHARACTERISTICS 2 10 19 19 5 23 43 43
Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility: The United States vs. The United Kingdom 7 20 45 115 36 118 303 951
RECENT TRENDS IN HOUSING CONCITIONS AMONG THE URBAN POOR 0 0 0 1 1 3 12 292
Race and Gender in the Labor Market 0 0 0 6 179 699 2,055 3,789
Recent Trends in Housing Conditions Among the Urban Poor 1 4 21 73 6 18 63 454
Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation? 1 4 13 17 2 8 30 59
Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation? 0 3 8 37 4 19 77 294
Simultaneously Modelling the Supply of Weeks and Hours of Work Among Female Household Heads 1 5 8 10 1 9 16 27
Social Organization and Drug Law Enforcement 0 0 0 0 5 16 60 434
State Abortion Rates: The Impact of Policies, Providers, Politics, Demographics, and Economic Environment 1 8 24 322 20 64 289 4,768
The Clinton Legacy for America's Poor 0 5 21 177 2 12 67 716
The Dynamics of Part-Time Work 2 5 17 211 5 10 45 890
The Effect of the 1996 Welfare Reforms 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 291
The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families 1 5 17 21 4 14 61 74
U.S. Welfare Reform: What's Relevant for Europe? 2 6 27 145 4 14 53 262
Welfare, Wages and Migration, An Analysis of Locational Choice by Female-Headed Households 0 0 6 6 3 10 51 75
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow? 2 5 13 137 5 16 59 917
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow? 0 0 6 64 0 12 51 286
What Goes Up Must Come Down? Explaining Recent Changes in Public Assistance Caseloads 0 0 0 1 6 20 64 422
What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure 0 0 0 1 6 19 49 934
What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure 2 8 36 45 4 28 100 118
What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure 4 9 35 620 7 19 89 1,869
When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services 1 7 28 256 5 20 76 918
When Do Women Use AFDC & Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility vs. Participation 2 7 20 121 13 44 159 960
Why Are Wages Cyclical in the 1970's? 0 1 2 3 1 4 8 25
Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s? 1 6 38 158 40 167 440 1,283
Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s? 0 1 5 37 1 13 48 616
Why are Wages Cyclical in the 1970's? 1 2 3 7 5 14 35 218
Total Working Papers 54 224 791 5,748 490 1,883 6,430 37,240
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Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Cautionary Tale about the Use of Administrative Data: Evidence from Age of Marriage Laws 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2
An analysis of workers' choice between employment in the public and private sectors 0 0 0 0 0 11 62 85
Analyzing the length of welfare spells 1 9 27 68 2 18 64 163
Can equity and efficiency complement each other? 0 1 4 53 0 2 18 197
Changes in Inequality and Unemployment over the 1980s: Comparative Cross-National Responses 0 0 0 0 3 15 69 451
Changes in the Distribution of Children's Family Income over the 1990's 0 2 10 43 0 9 23 152
Declining caseloads/increased work: what can we conclude about the effects of welfare reform? 0 1 14 61 0 6 38 185
Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income 0 1 1 17 0 3 14 107
Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Fighting Poverty: Lessons from Recent U.S. History 1 6 12 107 3 14 73 494
Down and Out in North America: Recent Trends in Poverty Rates in the United States and Canada 1 2 11 107 3 9 48 1,261
Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States 0 0 0 1 10 46 274 1,467
Introduction 0 0 0 6 1 1 2 15
Policy Watch: Proposals for Time-Limited Welfare 0 2 3 20 0 4 19 158
Policy Watch: The 1996 Welfare Reform 1 5 51 199 4 29 366 1,369
Poverty, Income Distribution, and Growth: Are They Still Connected 0 2 18 24 4 9 45 57
Promoting banking services among low-income customers 1 2 2 2 2 6 6 6
Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation? 1 1 5 119 1 6 25 839
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives 0 0 1 1 2 2 16 16
Reviews of the 2006 Economic Report of the President 0 0 0 0 3 8 36 137
Selecting Among Anti-Poverty Policies: Can an Economist be Both Critical and Caring? 0 1 12 60 3 7 33 160
Short-Term Recidivism among Public-Assistance Recipients 0 2 39 108 3 9 133 503
Simultaneously Modeling the Supply of Weeks and Hours of Work among Female Household Heads 0 4 10 49 1 7 24 180
State abortion rates the impact of policies, providers, politics, demographics, and economic environment 1 3 12 53 1 5 38 226
Strong Employment, Low Inflation: How Has the US Economy Done So Well? 1 3 10 130 1 11 58 548
Teen pregnancy: government programs are not the cause 0 5 21 81 14 69 374 1,053
The Changing Incidence and Severity of Poverty Spells among Female-Headed Families 1 5 21 21 2 9 54 54
The Effects of Double-Blind versus Single-Blind Reviewing: Experimental Evidence from The American Economic Review 3 11 57 243 22 72 525 2,296
The Role of Part-Time Work in Women's Labor Market Choices over Time 0 0 0 9 2 5 138 324
The State of British Economics 1 2 8 76 5 11 70 819
The effect of welfare and wage levels on the location decisions of female-headed households 1 9 32 78 17 59 161 251
The impact of state economic differentials on household welfare and labor force behavior 0 1 6 25 0 2 17 50
Tracing the Economic Impact of Cumulative Discrimination 0 1 9 32 3 8 30 136
Was Welfare Reform Successful? 3 8 10 10 4 15 19 19
What do economists have to contribute to policy decision-making? 2 5 57 112 2 9 77 175
When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services 0 1 13 66 0 4 27 263
Why Are Wages Cyclical in the 1970s? 0 0 2 11 0 3 14 122
Total Journal Articles 20 97 480 1,994 119 505 2,992 14,340


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off? 0 0 0 0 1 5 5 5
Total Books 0 0 0 0 1 5 5 5


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Evaluating the Connection between Social Protection and Economic Flexibility 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4
Front matter, table of contents, preface 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Introduction to "Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off?" 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
List of Contributors, Indexes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility: The United States versus the United Kingdom 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1
Race and gender in the labor market 33 132 453 1,286 64 257 834 2,681
Responding to Need: A Comparison of Social Safety Nets in Canada and the United States 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
Total Chapters 36 137 458 1,291 68 266 843 2,690


Statistics updated 2009-07-03