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An Analysis of Worker Sectoral Choice: Public vs. Private Employment 0 0 1 10 0 0 8 33
Can Equity and Efficiency Complement Each Other? 0 0 0 650 2 2 8 3,131
Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income 0 0 0 4 0 0 5 42
Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income 0 0 0 45 1 1 8 271
Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? A Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior 0 0 0 33 0 0 36 274
Down and Out in North America: Recent Trends in Poverty Rates in the U.S. and Canada 0 0 0 87 0 0 13 1,173
Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States 1 1 1 1,302 2 3 30 6,141
Evaluating the Connection Between Social Protection and Economic Flexib ility 0 0 0 89 0 2 11 756
Exploring Gender Differences in Employment and Wage Trends Among Less-Skilled Workers 0 0 0 169 0 2 14 792
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low- Income Families 0 0 0 326 0 1 8 1,681
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 177 0 1 14 1,131
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 8 0 0 7 105
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 81 0 2 14 501
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 139 1 1 14 623
How Important is Welfare Dependence? 0 0 0 34 0 0 11 316
Is There a Trade-off between Unemployment and Inequality? No Easy Answers: Labor Market Problems in the United States versus Europe 0 0 0 16 1 1 9 108
Macroeconomics, Income Distribution, and Poverty 0 1 3 409 0 2 21 1,085
Minnesota Agricultural Economist No. 576 0 0 0 3 0 0 13 41
No Easy Answers: Comparative Labor Market Problems in the United States Versus Europe 0 0 0 465 0 0 11 2,909
No Easy Answers: Comparative Labor Market Problems in the United States versus Europe 0 0 0 7 0 0 4 61
POVERTY, POLICY AND PLACE: HOW POVERTY AND POLICIES TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY ARE SHAPED BY LOCAL CHARACTERISTICS 0 0 0 154 0 2 16 443
Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility: The United States vs. The United Kingdom 0 0 0 236 0 2 20 1,970
RECENT TRENDS IN HOUSING CONCITIONS AMONG THE URBAN POOR 0 0 0 1 0 0 13 372
Race and Gender in the Labor Market 0 0 0 6 4 4 37 5,938
Recent Trends in Housing Conditions Among the Urban Poor 0 0 0 95 1 1 6 652
Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation? 0 0 0 68 3 4 20 587
Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation? 0 0 0 5 0 0 11 64
Simultaneously Modelling the Supply of Weeks and Hours of Work Among Female Household Heads 0 0 0 5 1 1 8 34
Social Organization and Drug Law Enforcement 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 622
State Abortion Rates: The Impact of Policies, Providers, Politics, Demographics, and Economic Environment 0 0 0 391 0 1 30 5,352
The Clinton Legacy for America's Poor 0 0 0 206 0 1 8 904
The Dynamics of Part-Time Work 0 0 1 310 0 0 8 1,193
The Effect of the 1996 Welfare Reforms 0 0 0 0 1 2 12 357
The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families 0 0 1 92 0 0 7 317
U.S. Welfare Reform: What's Relevant for Europe? 0 0 0 195 0 0 13 427
Welfare, Wages and Migration, An Analysis of Locational Choice by Female-Headed Households 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 27
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow? 0 0 0 64 0 0 20 462
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow? 0 0 0 181 2 3 21 1,160
What Goes Up Must Come Down? Explaining Recent Changes in Public Assistance Caseloads 0 0 0 1 2 2 12 920
What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure 0 0 0 1 1 17 27 1,198
What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure 0 0 0 754 0 5 37 2,382
When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services 0 0 2 443 1 2 16 1,548
When Do Women Use AFDC & Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility vs. Participation 0 0 0 179 0 0 16 1,499
Why Are Wages Cyclical in the 1970's? 0 0 0 4 0 0 9 35
Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s? 0 0 0 67 0 0 12 803
Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s? 0 0 0 10 0 0 9 137
Why are Wages Cyclical in the 1970's? 0 0 0 8 2 4 10 301
Total Working Papers 1 2 9 7,532 25 69 672 50,878


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 0 0 1 37 1 2 11 214
An Analysis of Workers' Choice between Employment in the Public and Private Sectors 1 1 1 29 1 3 8 319
An Overview of Welfare-to-Work Efforts 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 14
Analyzing the length of welfare spells 0 0 2 208 0 0 7 448
Book Review: Industrial Relations Theory: America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U.S. Labor Market 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 8
Can equity and efficiency complement each other? 0 0 0 118 0 0 18 649
Changes in Inequality and Unemployment over the 1980s: Comparative Cross-National Responses 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 505
Changes in the Distribution of Children's Family Income over the 1990's 0 0 1 67 1 1 9 262
Declining caseloads/increased work: what can we conclude about the effects of welfare reform? 0 0 0 85 0 0 12 322
Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Fighting Poverty: Lessons from Recent U.S. History 0 0 0 165 0 0 9 737
Down and Out in North America: Recent Trends in Poverty Rates in the United States and Canada 0 0 1 135 0 0 5 1,411
Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States 0 0 2 81 2 3 25 2,210
Evaluating welfare and training programs, edited by Charles F. Manski and Irwin Garfinkel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992, 364 pp. Price: $39.95 cloth 0 0 1 20 0 1 12 80
Introduction 0 0 0 7 0 0 6 49
Job creation and destruction; What employers want: Job prospects for less-educated workers; and does training for the disadvantaged work? Evidence from the national JTPA study 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 46
Newly Poor Women and the Social Safety Net, 1990–2010 0 0 0 0 1 2 10 11
Policy Watch: Proposals for Time-Limited Welfare 0 0 0 31 1 2 9 224
Policy Watch: The 1996 Welfare Reform 0 0 0 244 0 1 11 1,624
Poverty, Income Distribution, and Growth: Are They Still Connected 0 1 3 96 0 1 19 289
Poverty, Policy, and Place: How Poverty and Policies to Alleviate Poverty Are Shaped by Local Characteristics 0 1 3 29 0 1 20 102
Presidential address: How to improve poverty measurement in the United States 0 0 0 33 0 2 10 155
Promoting banking services among low-income customers 0 0 0 36 0 1 3 172
Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation? 0 0 2 191 0 0 13 1,219
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives 0 0 0 6 1 1 9 72
Reviews of the 2006 Economic Report of the President 0 0 0 5 1 1 12 315
Selecting Among Anti-Poverty Policies: Can an Economist be Both Critical and Caring? 0 0 3 298 2 2 17 684
Short-Term Recidivism among Public-Assistance Recipients 0 0 0 128 0 0 8 614
Simultaneously Modeling the Supply of Weeks and Hours of Work among Female Household Heads 0 0 1 78 0 1 12 319
State abortion rates the impact of policies, providers, politics, demographics, and economic environment 0 0 1 100 1 1 9 508
Strong Employment, Low Inflation: How Has the US Economy Done So Well? 0 0 0 149 0 0 11 651
THE WAR ON POVERTY: MEASUREMENT, TRENDS, AND POLICY 0 0 0 17 0 1 18 106
Teen pregnancy: government programs are not the cause 0 0 0 136 0 0 17 1,504
The Changing Incidence and Severity of Poverty Spells among Female-Headed Families 0 0 0 82 1 1 12 238
The Effect of Medical Need and Medicaid on AFDC Participation 0 0 0 15 0 0 18 111
The Effects of Double-Blind versus Single-Blind Reviewing: Experimental Evidence from The American Economic Review 1 6 15 622 4 12 127 4,829
The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low‐Income Families 0 0 0 24 1 1 8 136
The Role of Part-Time Work in Women's Labor Market Choices over Time 0 0 0 9 1 2 13 514
The State of British Economics 0 0 0 79 0 0 3 891
The effect of welfare and wage levels on the location decisions of female-headed households 0 0 0 205 0 1 16 630
The impact of state economic differentials on household welfare and labor force behavior 0 0 0 44 0 0 6 130
Tracing the Economic Impact of Cumulative Discrimination 0 1 1 75 1 3 8 287
U.S. Welfare Reform: What's Relevant for Europe? 0 0 0 3 0 0 5 18
Was Welfare Reform Successful? 0 0 0 122 0 0 9 283
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow? 0 1 3 48 0 2 22 233
What Drives American Competitiveness? 0 0 0 2 2 3 12 18
What do economists have to contribute to policy decision-making? 0 0 1 369 0 1 10 792
When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services 0 0 0 128 2 3 12 621
When Do Women Use Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility Versus Participation 0 0 2 79 1 3 17 244
Why Are Wages Cyclical in the 1970s? 0 0 0 27 0 0 11 280
Total Journal Articles 2 11 44 4,462 25 60 662 26,098
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off? 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 243
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 243


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Evaluating the Connection between Social Protection and Economic Flexibility 0 0 0 32 1 1 13 142
Introduction to "Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off?" 0 0 0 21 0 0 12 107
Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility: The United States versus the United Kingdom 0 0 0 11 2 2 18 74
Race and gender in the labor market 7 10 57 5,353 16 37 298 14,455
Responding to Need: A Comparison of Social Safety Nets in Canada and the United States 0 0 0 41 0 1 5 232
Total Chapters 7 10 57 5,458 19 41 346 15,010


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