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An Analysis of Worker Sectoral Choice: Public vs. Private Employment 0 0 1 10 0 2 8 33
Can Equity and Efficiency Complement Each Other? 0 0 0 650 0 1 8 3,129
Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income 0 0 0 45 0 1 7 270
Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income 0 0 0 4 0 2 5 42
Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? A Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior 0 0 0 33 0 29 36 274
Down and Out in North America: Recent Trends in Poverty Rates in the U.S. and Canada 0 0 0 87 0 4 13 1,173
Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States 0 0 0 1,301 1 2 30 6,139
Evaluating the Connection Between Social Protection and Economic Flexib ility 0 0 0 89 2 6 11 756
Exploring Gender Differences in Employment and Wage Trends Among Less-Skilled Workers 0 0 0 169 2 6 16 792
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low- Income Families 0 0 0 326 1 5 9 1,681
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 81 2 5 14 501
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 8 0 3 8 105
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 139 0 6 13 622
Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families 0 0 0 177 1 8 14 1,131
How Important is Welfare Dependence? 0 0 0 34 0 4 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 0 2 9 107
Macroeconomics, Income Distribution, and Poverty 1 3 5 409 2 8 27 1,085
Minnesota Agricultural Economist No. 576 0 0 0 3 0 4 13 41
No Easy Answers: Comparative Labor Market Problems in the United States Versus Europe 0 0 0 465 0 3 11 2,909
No Easy Answers: Comparative Labor Market Problems in the United States versus Europe 0 0 0 7 0 1 6 61
POVERTY, POLICY AND PLACE: HOW POVERTY AND POLICIES TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY ARE SHAPED BY LOCAL CHARACTERISTICS 0 0 0 154 1 4 15 442
Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility: The United States vs. The United Kingdom 0 0 0 236 1 8 19 1,969
RECENT TRENDS IN HOUSING CONCITIONS AMONG THE URBAN POOR 0 0 0 1 0 3 13 372
Race and Gender in the Labor Market 0 0 0 6 0 16 34 5,934
Recent Trends in Housing Conditions Among the Urban Poor 0 0 0 95 0 3 5 651
Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation? 0 0 0 5 0 1 11 64
Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation? 0 0 0 68 0 5 17 583
Simultaneously Modelling the Supply of Weeks and Hours of Work Among Female Household Heads 0 0 0 5 0 1 7 33
Social Organization and Drug Law Enforcement 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 622
State Abortion Rates: The Impact of Policies, Providers, Politics, Demographics, and Economic Environment 0 0 0 391 1 17 30 5,352
The Clinton Legacy for America's Poor 0 0 0 206 0 4 7 903
The Dynamics of Part-Time Work 0 0 1 310 0 2 8 1,193
The Effect of the 1996 Welfare Reforms 0 0 0 0 1 4 11 356
The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families 0 0 1 92 0 2 7 317
U.S. Welfare Reform: What's Relevant for Europe? 0 0 0 195 0 4 13 427
Welfare, Wages and Migration, An Analysis of Locational Choice by Female-Headed Households 0 0 0 2 0 3 7 27
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow? 0 0 0 64 0 7 20 462
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow? 0 0 0 181 1 4 19 1,158
What Goes Up Must Come Down? Explaining Recent Changes in Public Assistance Caseloads 0 0 0 1 0 2 11 918
What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure 0 0 0 1 16 19 28 1,197
What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure 0 0 0 754 3 16 37 2,380
When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services 0 0 2 443 1 4 16 1,547
When Do Women Use AFDC & Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility vs. Participation 0 0 0 179 0 4 16 1,499
Why Are Wages Cyclical in the 1970's? 0 0 0 4 0 4 9 35
Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s? 0 0 0 67 0 4 12 803
Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s? 0 0 0 10 0 3 9 137
Why are Wages Cyclical in the 1970's? 0 0 0 8 1 3 8 298
Total Working Papers 1 3 10 7,531 37 251 666 50,846


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 0 1 9 212
An Analysis of Workers' Choice between Employment in the Public and Private Sectors 0 0 0 28 1 1 6 317
An Overview of Welfare-to-Work Efforts 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 14
Analyzing the length of welfare spells 0 0 2 208 0 1 8 448
Book Review: Industrial Relations Theory: America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U.S. Labor Market 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 8
Can equity and efficiency complement each other? 0 0 0 118 0 1 18 649
Changes in Inequality and Unemployment over the 1980s: Comparative Cross-National Responses 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 504
Changes in the Distribution of Children's Family Income over the 1990's 0 0 1 67 0 0 9 261
Declining caseloads/increased work: what can we conclude about the effects of welfare reform? 0 0 0 85 0 6 12 322
Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Fighting Poverty: Lessons from Recent U.S. History 0 0 0 165 0 2 11 737
Down and Out in North America: Recent Trends in Poverty Rates in the United States and Canada 0 0 1 135 0 0 7 1,411
Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States 0 0 2 81 1 1 26 2,208
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 3 11 79
Introduction 0 0 0 7 0 2 7 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 0 2 8 9
Policy Watch: Proposals for Time-Limited Welfare 0 0 0 31 0 1 7 222
Policy Watch: The 1996 Welfare Reform 0 0 0 244 0 4 11 1,623
Poverty, Income Distribution, and Growth: Are They Still Connected 0 0 2 95 0 3 19 288
Poverty, Policy, and Place: How Poverty and Policies to Alleviate Poverty Are Shaped by Local Characteristics 0 0 2 28 0 6 19 101
Presidential address: How to improve poverty measurement in the United States 0 0 0 33 0 3 8 153
Promoting banking services among low-income customers 0 0 0 36 1 1 4 172
Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation? 0 1 2 191 0 3 16 1,219
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives 0 0 0 6 0 4 8 71
Reviews of the 2006 Economic Report of the President 0 0 0 5 0 3 11 314
Selecting Among Anti-Poverty Policies: Can an Economist be Both Critical and Caring? 0 0 3 298 0 5 17 682
Short-Term Recidivism among Public-Assistance Recipients 0 0 0 128 0 2 8 614
Simultaneously Modeling the Supply of Weeks and Hours of Work among Female Household Heads 0 1 1 78 1 4 12 319
State abortion rates the impact of policies, providers, politics, demographics, and economic environment 0 0 1 100 0 1 9 507
Strong Employment, Low Inflation: How Has the US Economy Done So Well? 0 0 0 149 0 4 11 651
THE WAR ON POVERTY: MEASUREMENT, TRENDS, AND POLICY 0 0 0 17 0 5 17 105
Teen pregnancy: government programs are not the cause 0 0 0 136 0 4 17 1,504
The Changing Incidence and Severity of Poverty Spells among Female-Headed Families 0 0 0 82 0 0 12 237
The Effect of Medical Need and Medicaid on AFDC Participation 0 0 0 15 0 6 18 111
The Effects of Double-Blind versus Single-Blind Reviewing: Experimental Evidence from The American Economic Review 1 1 10 617 2 18 123 4,819
The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low‐Income Families 0 0 0 24 0 2 7 135
The Role of Part-Time Work in Women's Labor Market Choices over Time 0 0 0 9 0 1 11 512
The State of British Economics 0 0 0 79 0 1 3 891
The effect of welfare and wage levels on the location decisions of female-headed households 0 0 0 205 1 3 16 630
The impact of state economic differentials on household welfare and labor force behavior 0 0 0 44 0 1 7 130
Tracing the Economic Impact of Cumulative Discrimination 1 1 1 75 1 1 8 285
U.S. Welfare Reform: What's Relevant for Europe? 0 0 0 3 0 3 5 18
Was Welfare Reform Successful? 0 0 0 122 0 2 9 283
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow? 1 1 3 48 1 5 22 232
What Drives American Competitiveness? 0 0 1 2 0 4 10 15
What do economists have to contribute to policy decision-making? 0 0 1 369 0 3 11 791
When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services 0 0 0 128 1 2 11 619
When Do Women Use Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility Versus Participation 0 1 2 79 0 1 15 241
Why Are Wages Cyclical in the 1970s? 0 0 0 27 0 3 12 280
Total Journal Articles 3 6 37 4,454 10 140 649 26,048
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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 2 8 242
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 242


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Evaluating the Connection between Social Protection and Economic Flexibility 0 0 0 32 0 5 15 141
Introduction to "Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off?" 0 0 0 21 0 4 13 107
Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility: The United States versus the United Kingdom 0 0 0 11 0 3 16 72
Race and gender in the labor market 1 11 60 5,344 13 71 298 14,431
Responding to Need: A Comparison of Social Safety Nets in Canada and the United States 0 0 0 41 0 1 6 231
Total Chapters 1 11 60 5,449 13 84 348 14,982


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