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August, 2014
CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME:
Robert H. Haveman
PERMANENT ADDRESS:
3410 Lake Mendota Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53705
EDUCATION:
Calvin College, A.B., Economics, 1958
Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., Economics, 1963
CURRENT POSITIONS:
John Bascom Emeritus Professor,
Department of Economics and La Follette School of
Public Affairs
Adjunct Professor,
University of Melbourne (AU)
Research Associate, Institute for Research on Poverty,
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Instructor, Economics, Vanderbilt University, 1960–1962
Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Economics, Grinnell College, 1962–1970
Brookings Research Professor, 1965–1966
Senior Economist, Subcommittee on Economy in Government, Joint Economic Committee, U.S.
Congress, 1968–1969
Research Associate, Resources for the Future, Inc., 1969–1970
Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Autonomous University of Madrid, Summer 1972
Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin, 1970–2004; Emeritus, 2004—.
Director, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, 1971–1975
Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Wassenaar, The
Netherlands, 1975–1976, 1996–97, 1996-97, and 2007
Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, Fall 1976
Fellow, German Marshall Fund, 1980
John Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1984–2004; Emeritus, 2004—.
Tinbergen Professor, Erasmus University, The Netherlands, 1984–1985
Director, La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1988–91
Chair, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1993–96
Fulbright Siena Professor of Economics, 2003.
Adjunct Professor, Australian National University, 2001-2013.
Adjunct Professor, University of Melbourne, 2013—.
EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
Board of Editors, Land Economics, 1973– ; Chairman, 1976–
Board of Editors, Journal of Human Resources, 1972–82
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Associate Editor, Water Resources Research, 1973–1977
Board of Editors, de Economist, 1994–
Board of Editors, Evaluation Quarterly, 1976–1980
Board of Editors, Public Finance (Finances Publiques), 1983–
Board of Editors, Journal of Economic Literature, 1983–87
Editorial Advisory Board, The GAO Journal, 1988–92
Co-editor, American Economic Review, 1985–91
Board of Editors, American Economic Review, 1991–95
OTHER POSITIONS:
Member, Professional Advisory Committee to the Iowa State Board of Regents, 1963
Member, Fellowship Advisory Committee, Resources for the Future, Inc., 1968–1969
Member, Advisory Panel for Economics, National Science Foundation, 1969–1971
Member, Board of Officers, American Association of Environmental Economists, 1975–1979
Member, Research-Education Advisory Panel, Controller General of the United States, U.S. General
Accounting Office, 1977–2000
Member, Water Supply Review Committee, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council,
1977–81
Member, Advisory Board, International Institute for Environment and Society, Berlin, Germany, 1978–82
Co-Chair, Governor’s Committee on Welfare Reform, State of Wisconsin, 1978
Board of Directors, Taxation with Representation, 1976–82
Member, Science Advisory Board to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Subcommittee on
Economic Analysis, 1979–80
Chair, Scientific Committee, International Institute of Public Finance, 1979–80
Member, Advisory Screening Committee in Economics, Council for International Exchange of Scholars,
1981–83
Chair, Panel to Review Institute for Program Evaluation, General Accounting Office, 1984
Associated Staff, Brookings Institution, 1981–84
Member, Board of Management, International Institute of Public Finance, 1985–93
Member, Advisory Board, Project on National Priorities, Urban Institute, 1986–90
Vice President, International Institute of Public Finance, 1988–93.
Member, Board of Planning and Review, Labor Market Research Institute, Science Center Berlin, 1988
Member, National Advisory Committee, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, 1988–
Member, Selection Commission for Project Directors, Science Center Berlin, 1988
Member, National Academy of Social Insurance, 1989Member, Board of Directors, Resources for the Future, 1990-2000
Member, Policy Council, Association of Public Policy and Management, 1990-95
President, Midwest Economics Association, 1992-93
Executive Vice President, International Institute of Public Finance, 1993-97
President, International Institute of Public Finance, 1997-2000
Member, Brookings Roundtable on Children, 1998-2006.
University of Wisconsin Faculty Representative to the Big Ten, 2000-2004.
University of Wisconsin Faculty Representative to the NCAA, 2000-2004.
Member, Committee on Valuing Community-Based Non-Clinical Prevention Programs, Institute of
Medicine, 2010-2012.
Member, Advisory Panel, Social Genome Project, Brookings Institution, 2008Member, Scientific Advisory Council, IfO Institute, Munich, Germany, 2004-2013; Chair, 2008-2013
Honorary Member, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (IfO Institute), Munich, Germany, 2013-
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PUBLICATIONS: Research Monographs
Water Resource Investment and the Public Interest, Vanderbilt University Press, 1965.
Unemployment, Idle Capacity and the Evaluation of Public Expenditures, Johns Hopkins Press, 1968
(with John V. Krutilla).
The Economic Performance of Public Investments, Johns Hopkins Press, 1972.
The Economic Impacts of Tax-Transfer Policy: Regional and Distributional Effects, Academic Press,
1977 (with F. Golladay).
Earnings Capacity, Poverty, and Inequality, Academic Press, 1978 (with Irwin Garfinkel).
Microeconomic Simulation Models for Public Policy Analysis, Academic Press, 1980 (edited and
authored with Kevin Hollenbeck).
Disability and Work: The Economics of American Policy, Johns Hopkins Press, 1982 (with Richard
Burkhauser).
Public Policy Toward Disabled Workers: Cross-National Analyses of Economic Impacts, Cornell
University Press, 1985 (with Victor Halberstadt and Richard Burkhauser).
Poverty Policy and Poverty Research: The Great Society and the Social Sciences, University of
Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Starting Even: An Equal Opportunity Program for the Nation’s New Poverty (New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1988).
Labor Market Policy and Unemployment Insurance, Oxford University Press, 1991 (with A. Bjorklund,
R. Hollister, and B. Holmlund).
Succeeding Generations: On the Effects of Investments in Children (with B. Wolfe), (New York: Russell
Sage Foundation), 1994.
Earnings Inequality: The Influence of Changing Opportunities and Choices, (Washington, D.C.: AEI
Press), 1996.
Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and Utilization (with Andrew
Bershadker and Jonathan A. Schwabish) (Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research),
2003.
PUBLICATIONS: Textbooks
The Market System, John Wiley and Sons, 1st Edition, 1966; 2nd Edition, 1970; 3rd Edition, 1978; 4th
Edition, 1981 (with Kenyon Knopf), translated into Spanish, Swedish, and Japanese.
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The Economics of the Public Sector, John Wiley and Sons, 1st Edition, 1970; 2nd Edition, 1976.
The Economics of Environmental Policy, John Wiley and Sons, 1973 (with A. M. Freeman and A. V.
Kneese). Republished, Robert Krieger Co., 1984.
PUBLICATIONS: Edited Books
Public Expenditures and Policy Analysis, Rand-McNally, 1st Edition, 1970; 2nd Edition, 1977; 3rd
Edition, 1983 (edited with Julius Margolis).
Benefit-Cost Analysis-1971, Aldine Publishing Co., 1972 (edited with A.C. Harberger, J. Margolis, W.
Niskanen, R. Turvey, and R. Zeckhauser).
The Political Economy of Federal Policy, Harper and Row, 1973 (edited with R. Hamrin).
Benefit-Cost and Policy Analysis-1972, Aldine Publishing Co., 1973 (edited with A.C. Harberger, J.
Margolis, W. Niskanen, R. Turvey, and R. Zeckhauser).
Benefit-Cost and Policy Analysis-1973, Aldine Publishing Co., 1974 (edited with A.C. Harberger, L.
Lynn, W. Niskanen, R. Turvey, and R. Zeckhauser).
Benefit-Cost and Policy Analysis-1974, Aldine Publishing Co., 1975 (edited with A. C. Harberger, L. E.
Lynn, W. Niskanen, A. Williams, and R. Zeckhauser).
A Decade of Federal Anti-Poverty Programs: Achievements, Failures, and Lessons, Academic Press,
1977.
Policy Studies Review Annual, 1979, Sage Publishing Co., 1980 (edited with B. Zellner).
Public Finance and Public Employment. (Proceedings of the 1980 Congress of the International Institute
of Public Finance, Jerusalem), Wayne State University Press, 1982.
Jobs for Disadvantaged Workers: The Economics of Employment Subsidies, The Brookings Institution,
1982 (edited with John Palmer).
Dollars and Sense—Policy Choices and the Wisconsin Budget, (edited with J. Huddleston), (Madison: La
Follette Institute, 1990).
The Work Alternative (edited and authored with D. Nightingale), (Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute
Press), 1994.
Understanding Poverty (edited and authored with Sheldon Danziger). (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press/Russell Sage Foundation), 2001.
PUBLICATIONS: Articles in Economics Journals
“The Federal Rivers and Harbors Program: An Analysis of Regional Impacts,” American Economic
Review, May 1964.
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“Unemployment, Excess Capacity, and Benefit-Cost Investment Criteria,” Review of Economics and
Statistics, August 1967 and November 1967 (with J.V. Krutilla). Resources for the Future Reprint #70.
“Benefit-Cost Analysis: Its Relevance to Public Investment Decisions: Comment,” Quarterly Journal of
Economics, November 1967.
“Public Investment Criteria and Idle Resources: A Regional Analysis,” Journal of Socio- Economic
Planning Sciences, September 1967.
“The Revenue Maximization Oligopoly Model: Comment,” American Economic Review, December
1968 (with G. De Bartolo).
“The Revenue Maximization Oligopoly Model: Reply,” American Economic Review, June, 1970 (with
G. De Bartolo).
“Unemployment, Excess Capacity and Benefit-Cost Investment Criteria: A Reply,” Review of Economics
and Statistics, February 1971 (with J. Krutilla).
“On the Economics of Mass Demonstrations: A Case Study of the November 1969 March on
Washington,” (with C.J. Cicchetti, A.M. Freeman, and J. L. Knetsch), American Economic Review,
September 1971.
“Economic Incentives and Environmental Quality,” (with A.M. Freeman), National Tax Journal, Summer
1972.
“Systematic Thinking for Social Action: A Review Article,” Journal of Human Resources, Fall, 1972.
Reprinted in Evaluation, Fall, 1972.
“Common Property, Congestion, and Environmental Pollution,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, May
1973.
“Efficiency and Equity in Natural Resources and Environmental Policy,” American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, December, 1973. (Received Best Journal Article Award for 1973.) Reprinted in
R. Zeckhauser, et al., Benefit-Cost and Policy Analysis-1974 (Aldine Publishing Co., 1975).
“Earnings Capacity and the Target Efficiency of Alternative Transfer Programs,” (with I. Garfinkel),
American Economic Review, May 1974.
“Benefit-Cost Analysis of Family Planning Programs,” Population and Development Review, Summer
1976.
“Regional and Distributional Effects of a Negative Income Tax,” (with F. Golladay), American Economic
Review, September 1976.
“Tinbergen’s Income Distribution: Analysis and Policies—A Review Article,” Journal of Human
Resources, XII, No. 1, Winter 1977.
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“Earnings Capacity, Economic Status, and Poverty,” Journal of Human Resources, XII, No. 1, Winter
1977 (with I. Garfinkel). Reprinted in M. Moon and E. Smolensky, (eds.) Improving Measures of
Economic Well-Being (New York: Academic Press, 1977).
“Jan Tinbergen’s Income Distribution: Analysis and Policies—A Review Article,” de Economist, 125,
No. 2, 1977, pp. 161–173.
“The Measurement and Trend of Inequality: Comment,” (with S. Danziger and E. Smolensky), American
Economic Review, June 1977.
“On Evaluating the Regional Impact of Public Policy,” Explorations in Economic Research, IV, 3,
Summer, 1977, 429–444.
“Tax and Welfare Simplification: An Analysis of Distributional and Regional Impacts,” (with S.
Danziger), National Tax Journal), September 1977.
“Congestion, Quality Deterioration, and Heterogeneous Tastes,” (with A. Myrick Freeman), Journal of
Public Economics, Fall, 1977.
“Capacity, Choice, and Inequality,” (with I. Garfinkel), Southern Economic Journal 45, 2, October, 1978.
“Earnings Capacity and Its Utilization,” (with I. Garfinkel), Quarterly Journal of Economics, August,
1978.
“Unemployment in Western Europe and the U.S.: A Problem of Demand, Structure, or Measurement?”
American Economic Review, May, 1978.
“Selective Employment Subsidies: Can Okun’s Law Be Repealed?” (with John Bishop), American
Economic Review, May, 1979. Reprinted in Policy Studies Review Annual, 1978, Sage Publishing Co.,
1979.
“Public Regulations and the Slowdown in Productivity Growth,” (with G. Christainsen), American
Economic Review, May, 1981.
“How Income Transfers Affect Work, Savings, and the Income Distribution,” (with S. Danziger and R.
Plotnick), Journal of Economic Literature, September, 1981.
“The Contribution of Environmental Regulations to the Slowdown in Productivity Growth” (with G.
Christainsen), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Fall, 1981.
“Time Allocation, Market Work, and Changes in Female Health” (with B. Wolfe), American Economic
Review, May, 1983.
“The Decline in Male Labor Force Participation: Comment” (with B. Wolfe), Journal of Political
Economy, June, 1984.
“Schooling and Economic Well-Being: The Role of Non-Market Effects” (with B. Wolfe), Journal of
Human Resources, June, 1984.
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“Disability Transfers and Early Retirement: A Causal Relationship?” (with B. Wolfe), Journal of Public
Economics, June, 1984.
“Income Transfers and Work Effort: The Netherlands and the United States in the 1970s,” (with B.
Wolfe, P. De Jong, V. Halberstadt, and K. Goudswaard), Kyklos, vol. 37, 1985. (Reprinted in F. A. J. van
den Bosch and A. M. Dancot-Devriendt, Sociaal en Zeker (Social and Secure) (Deventer, The
Netherlands: Kluwer, 1986).)
“Social Experimentation and Social Experimentation,” Journal of Human Resources, Fall 1986. Reprinted
in W. Shadish and C. Reichardt, eds. Evaluation Studies Review Annual, Vol. 12, Sage Publications,
1988.
“Does the Welfare State Increase Welfare? de Economist, No. 4, 1986 (Reprinted as monograph by
Stenfert-Kroese, Leiden: Tinbergen Lecture, Erasmus University; Reprinted in Economia Pubblica,
December, 1986; Reprinted in Revista de Derecho Financiero y de Jacienda Publica, 1986.)
“Exact Consumer Surplus and Deadweight Loss: A Correction,” (with M. Gabay and J. Andreoni),
American Economic Review, June, 1987.
“Labor Market Behavior of Older Men: Estimates from a Trichotomous Choice Model,” Journal of Public
Economics (with B. Wolfe and J. Warlick), 1988.
“Economics and Public Policy: On the Relevance of Conventional Economic Advice” (Thompson lecture,
Midwest Economics Association), Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, 1989.
“The Economic Wellbeing of the Disabled: 1962–1984,” (with Barbara Wolfe), Journal of Human
Resources, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1990.
“Disability Transfers and the Work Decision of Older Men,” (with Philip de Jong and Barbara Wolfe),
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106(5), 1991, 939-949.
“Teen Out-of-Wedlock Births and Welfare Receipt: The Role of Childhood Events and Economics
Circumstances” (with C.B. An and B. Wolfe), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 75, no. 2 (May
1993), pp. 195–208.
“How People with Disabilities Fare When Public Policies Change,” (with R. Burkhauser and B. Wolfe),
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 12, no. 2 (1993), pp. 251–269.
“Escaping Poverty through Work: The Problem of Low Earnings Capacity in the United States, 1973–
1988” (with L. Buron), Review of Income and Wealth, Ser. 39, no. 2 (June 1993), pp. 141–157.
“Children’s Prospects and Children’s Policy,” (with B. Wolfe) Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 7,
no. 4 (Fall 1993), pp. 153–174.
“Should Generational Accounts Replace Public Budgets and Deficits?,” Journal of Economic
Perspectives, Vol. 8, No. 1, (Winter, 1994), pp. 95–111.
“Market Work, Wages, and Men’s Health,” (with B. Wolfe, B. Kreider, and M. Stone) Journal of Health
Economics, Vol. 13, (1994), pp. 163–182.
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“Public Finance and Demographic Change: Some Macro- and Micro-Implications,” in Public
Finance/Finances Publiques (Proceedings from International Institute of Public Finance Meetings, “On
the Role of Budgetary Policy During Demographic Changes,” B. Wolfe, ed.), 1994, pp. 380–385.
“Taxes, Transfers, and Welfare Reform,” (with J. K. Scholz), National Tax Journal, Vol. 47, 2 (June,
1994), pp. 417–434.
“The Determinants of Children’s Attainments: A Review of Methods and Findings,” (with B. Wolfe),
Journal of Economic Literature. Vol. 33, 4 (December, 1995), pp. 1829–1878.
“The Family Support and Self-Sufficiency Proposal: An Assessment,” Feminist Economics. Vol. 1, No. 2
(Fall, 1995).
“The Loss of Earnings Capability from Disability/Health Limitations: Toward a New Social Indicator,”
(with L. Buron, S. Hill, and B. Wolfe), Review of Income and Wealth, Series 41, no. 3 (September,
1995), pp. 289-308.
“The ‘Window Problem’ in Studies of Children’s Attainments: A Methodological Exploration,” (with
Barbara Wolfe, Donna Ginther, and Chong Bum An), Journal of the American Statistical Association,
91(435), September, 1996, pp. 970–980.
“Reducing Poverty While Increasing Employment: A Primer on Alternative Strategies, and a Blueprint”,
OECD Economic Studies, 26, 1996, pp. 7–42.
“The Utilization of Human Capital in the U.S., 1975-1992: Patterns of Work and Earnings Among
Working-Age Males.” (with Lawrence Buron and Andrew Bershadker) Research in Labor Economics,
1997.
“Self-Reliance as a Poverty Criterion: Trends in Earnings-Capacity Poverty, 1975-1992.” (with A.
Bershadker) American Economic Review, May, 1998, pp. 342-347.
“The Growth in U. S. Male Earnings Inequality: Changing Wage Rates or Working Time.” (with Larry
Buron). Journal of Income Distribution 8 (1998): 255-276.
"The Changing Economic Status of U. S. Disabled Men: Trends and Their Determinants, 1982-1991"
(with Karen Holden, Barbara Wolfe, Paul Smith, and Kathryn Wilson). Empirical Economics, (1999) 24:
571-598. [Reprinted in R. Boadway and B. Raj, eds., Advances in Public Economics (New York:
Physica-Verlag, 2000)].
“Neighborhood Attributes as Determinants of Children’s Outcomes: How Robust are the Relationships?”
(with Donna Ginther and Barbara Wolfe). Journal of Human Resources (Fall), 2000.
“Welfare to Work in the U.S.: A Model for Other Developed Nations?” (with Barbara Wolfe).
International Tax and Public Finance 7, 2000, 95-114.
“Has Macroeconomic Performance Regained its Anti-Poverty Bite?” (with Jonathan Schwabish)
Contemporary Economic Policy 18 (4) 2000, 415-427.
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“The Role of Economic Incentives in Teenage Nonmarital Childbearing Choices,” (with Barbara Wolfe
and Kathryn Wilson) Journal of Public Economics, 81(3) 2001, 473-511.
“The “Inability to be Self-Reliant’ as an Indicator of Poverty: Trends for the U. S., 1975-1997." (with
Andrew Bershadker) Review of Income and Wealth, September 2001.
“The Welfare State: It’s Economic Impacts and Options for Reform.” Australian Journal of Labour
Economics. Volume 5, Issue 4. December. 2002.
“The Concept and Measurement of Asset Poverty: Levels, Trends and Composition for the U.S., 1983–
2001.” (with Edward Wolff) Journal of Economic Inequality. August, 2004.
“The Role Of Expectations In Adolescent Schooling Choices: Do Youths Respond to Economic
Incentives? (with Barbara Wolfe and Kathryn Wilson). Economic Inquiry. August, 2005.
“Do Newly Retired Workers in the United States Have Sufficient Resources to Maintain Well-Being?”
(with Karen Holden, Barbara Wolfe, and Shane Sherlund) Economic Inquiry. 44 (2), April 2006, 249264.
“Generational Income Mobility” (with Patrizio Piraino) Review of Income and Wealth. 52 (3),
September 2006, 477-486.
“SCHIP Expansion and Parental Coverage: An Evaluation of Wisconsin’s BadgerCare” (with Thomas
Kaplan, Barbara Wolfe, and YoonYoung Cho) Journal of Health Economics, Volume 25, Issue 6 ,
November 2006, Pages 1170-1192.
“Do Youth Nonmarital Childbearing Choices Reflect Expected Income and Relationship Consequences?”
(with Barbara Wolfe, Karen Pence, and Jon Schwabish) Journal of Population Economics, 20(1) February
2007, pp. 73-100.
“The Chicago O'Hare Expansion: A Case Study of Administrative Manipulation of Benefit-Cost
Principles,” Research in Law and Economics. 2007.
“Assessing the Maintenance of Savings Sufficiency Over the First Decade of Retirement.” (with Karen
Holden, Andrei Romanov, and Barbara Wolfe), International Tax and Public Finance. August, 2007.
“The Implications of Differences Between Employer and Worker Employment/Earnings Reports for
Policy Evaluation” (with Geoffrey Wallace), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 26 (4),
Autumn 2007, pp. 737-753.
“US Health Care Reform: A Primer and An Assessment.” (with Barbara Wolfe), CESifo DICE Report.
Winter, 2010.
“The Benefits and Costs of the Section 8 Housing Subsidy Program: A Framework and Estimates of
First-Year Effects.” (with Deven Carlson, Thomas Kaplan, and Barbara Wolfe). Journal of Policy
Analysis and Management 30(2), 2011. Pp. 233-255.
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“Labor Expenditures and Benefit-Cost Accounting in Times of Unemployment.” (with Scott
Farrow). Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. Vol. 2 (2), 2011.
“Long-Term Effects of Public Low-Income Housing Vouchers on Labor Market Outcomes.” (with Deven
Carlson, Thomas Kaplan, and Barbara Wolfe). Journal of Urban Economics. Vol. 71 (1), 2012, Pages
128-150.
“Long-term Effects of Public Low-income Housing Vouchers on Neighborhood Quality and Household
Composition. (with Deven Carlson, Thomas Kaplan, and Barbara Wolfe). Journal of Housing Economics.
Vol. 21 (2), 2012, Pages 101-120.
“Intergenerational Mobility in the United States and Great Britain: A Comparative Study of Parent–Child
Pathways.” (with Jo Blanden, Timothy Smeeding, and Kathryn Wilson) Review of Income and Wealth.
September 2014, Volume 60, Issue 3, Pages 445-459.
PUBLICATIONS: Articles in NonEconomics Journals
“Rural Poverty in the Mid-West and the Need for Legal Services,” University of Kansas Law Review,
May 1967 (with R. Kurtz, P. Stephan, R. Edelman).
“The Domestic Program Congress Won’t Cut,” The Reporter, February 22, 1968 (with P. Stephan).
Reprinted in Raymond Wolfinger (ed.), Readings on Congress (Prentice Hall, 1971).
“The Opportunity Cost of Displaced Private Spending and the Social Discount Rate,” Water Resources
Research, October 1969.
“The Public Financing of Higher Education: An Economist’s View,” Liberal Education, May 1970.
“Benefit-Cost Analysis and Multiple Objectives: Current Issues in Water Resources Planning,” (with A.
M. Freeman), Water Resources Research, December 1970.
“Water Pollution Control, River Basin Authorities and Economic Incentives: Some Current Policy
Issues,” (with A. M. Freeman), Public Policy, Winter 1971. Resources for the Future Reprint #92.
“Residuals Charges for Pollution Control: A Policy Evaluation,” (with A. M. Freeman), Science, August
1972. Reprinted in A. C. Harberger, et al., eds., Benefit-Cost and Policy Analysis-1972 (Aldine, 1973).
“Clean Rhetoric and Dirty Water,” (with A. M. Freeman), The Public Interest, Summer 1972. Reprinted
in R. Haveman and R. Hamrin, The Political Economy of Federal Policy (Harper and Row, 1973); A.
Enthoven and A. Myrick Freeman, eds., Pollution, Resources and the Environment (Norton, 1973); and
W. Anderson, eds., Politics and Environment (Goodyear, 1975).
“Evaluating Federal Water Projects: A Critique of Proposed Standards,” (with Charles J. Cicchetti, Robert
K. Davis, Steve H. Hanke), Science, Vol. 181, pp. 723–728, August, 1973.
“Defining the Benefits of Public Programs: Some Guidance for Policy Analysis,” (with B. Weisbrod),
Policy Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1975.
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“Appraising Proposed Federal Standards for Water Resources Investment: Comment,” (with Charles J.
Cicchetti, Robert K. Davis, and Steve H. Hanke) Science, Vol. 187, No. 4171, January 10, 1975.
“Policy Analysis and the Congress: An Economist’s View,” Policy Analysis, Spring 1976.
“Evaluating the Regional Welfare Impact of Public Policies,” Regional Studies, December 1976.
“Poverty, Income Distribution, and Social Policy,” Public Policy 25 1, Winter 1977, pp. 3–24. Reprinted
in H. Freeman, ed., Policy Studies Review Annual (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1978).
“The Economic Evaluation of Long-Run Uncertainties,” Futures, IX, 5, October 1977. Reprinted in R.
Jones, eds., Readings from Futures (London: Westbury House, 1981).
“Poverty, Welfare, and Earnings: A New Approach,” (with I. Garfinkel and S. Danziger), Challenge,
Sept./Oct., 1979. Reprinted in B. H. Raven, ed., Policy Studies Review Annual (Beverly Hills: Sage
Publishing Co., 1980).
“On the Efficient Allocation of Resources for Fertility Reduction,” (with B. Berelson), International
Family Planning Perspectives, December, 1979. Reprinted in J. Ross and W. P. Mauldin, eds., Berelson
on Population (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988).
“On Allocating Resources for Fertility Reduction in Developing Countries,” (with B. Berelson),
Population Studies, July, 1980.
“Retrenchment or Reorientation: Options for Income Support Policy,” (with R. Plotnick and S. Danziger),
Public Policy, Fall 1980. Reprinted in R. Rist, ed., Policy Studies Review Annual, Sage Publications,
1982.
“Creating Jobs: More than a Dead End Street,” The Wharton Magazine, Spring, 1980.
“Toward Efficiency and Equity Through Direct Job Creation,” Social Policy, May/June, 1980.
“Running Out of Gas” (with G. Christainsen), Executive, Fall, 1980.
“The Reagan Budget: A Sharp Break With the Past,” (with S. Danziger), Challenge, May/June, 1981.
“Environmental Regulations and Productivity Growth” (with G. Christainsen), Natural Resources Journal,
July, 1981. Reprinted in H. Peskin, P. Portney, A. Kneese, Environmental Regulation and the U.S.
Economy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1981).
“Toward Efficient Allocation of Fertility Reduction Expenditures,” (with B. Berelson), Evaluation
Review, April, 1981.
“Equity, Efficiency, and the Safety Net,” Business Forum, (with S. Danziger and R. Plotnick), Fall 1982.
“Government Regulations and their Impact on the Economy,” (with G. Christiansen), The Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science, January 1982.
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“When Complex Facts Threaten Court Reviews: Litigation over Navigation Projects” (with J. Carroll and
J. Karaganis), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 1983.
“Reviewing Reagan’s Economic Program,” (with S. Danziger, D. Nichols, and B. Wolfe), Challenge,
Jan./Feb. 1984.
“Transatlantic Lessons for Employment and Training Policy” (with D. Saks), Industrial Relations, 24,
Winter 1985.
“Microdata Simulation Modeling After Twenty Years,” Evaluation Review, August 1986.
“Les Politiques Americaines Contre La Pauvreté: Quelques Propositions,” (with I. Garfinkel) Revue
Internationale d’Action Communantaire, Autumn, 1986.
“What Antipoverty Policies Cost the Nonpoor,” Challenge, January/February, 1986.
“The War on Poverty and Social Science Research, 1965–1980,” Research Policy, Vol. 15, 1986.
“Methods for Correcting Selectivity Bias: A Legacy of War on Poverty Research,” Sociology and Social
Research, Vol. 71, 1986.
“The War on Poverty and the Poor and Nonpoor,” Political Science Quarterly, Spring, 1987.
“Taxes and Transfers: How Much Economic Loss?” (with G. Burtless), Challenge, March/April 1987.
Reprinted in D. Cole, ed., Economics 88/89, Dushkin Publications, 1988; S. Baker and C. Elliott, eds.,
Readings in Public Sector Economics (Lexington-Heath, 1989); E. Kienzle, ed., Economics of the Public
Sector (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989).
“Policy Analysis and Evaluation Research After Twenty Years,” Policy Studies Journal, Winter, 1987/88.
“Facts vs. Fiction in Social Policy,” Challenge, March/April, 1988.
“New Policy for the New Poverty,” Challenge, September/October, 1988. Reprinted in The Generational
Journal, 1989; Social Problems, 1990/91, ed. Leroy Barnes, Dushkin Publishing Co., 1990.
“Roots of the Wisconsin Idea,” L&S Magazine (Centennial Issue) (with Mark Shroder), 1989.
“Trends in the Prevalence of Work Disability from 1962–84, and Their Correlates,” (with Barbara
Wolfe), The Milbank Quarterly, Vol, 68, No. 1, 1990.
“Childhood Events and Circumstances Influencing High School Completion,” (with J. Spaulding and B.
Wolfe), Demography, Vol. 28, No. 1, 1991.
“Who Are the Nation’s Truly Poor? Problems and Pitfalls in (Re)Defining and Measuring Poverty,” The
Brookings Review, 1993. [Reprinted in D. Cole, ed., Economics 94/5. (Guilford, CT: Dushkin)].
“When Problems Outrun Policy,” Challenge, May-June 1993, pp. 28–35.
“Equity with Employment.” The Boston Review. Vol. XX(3-4), 1997, pp. 3-13.
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“A Pre-Post Design for State-based Evaluation of National Welfare Reform.” Focus. Vol.18 (3), Spring,
1997, pp. 11-16.
“Economic Growth and Poverty: A Return to Normalcy?” (with Jon Schwabish), Focus 20(2), Spring,
1999, 1-7.
“Covering the 1996 Welfare Reform Law–Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)–and its
Objectives.” (with Barbara Wolfe) Quill, July/August, 1999, pp. 35-38.
“The 1996 Welfare Reform Law–Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)–Will it Ultimately
Succeed?” (with Barbara Wolfe) Quill, September, 1999, pp. 71-74.
“Attrition in the National Beneficiary Survey and Follow-Up, and its Correlates” (with Kate Antonovics,
Karen Holden, and Barbara Wolfe). Social Security Bulletin 1(1) 2000, 1-7.
“The Role of Higher Education in Social Mobility” (with Timothy Smeeding) The Future of
Children: Opportunity in America. 16 (2), Fall 2006, 1225-150.
“The Reliability of Work and Earnings Measures for Low-Skill Women: Survey Responses vs.
Administrative Records.” (with Geoffrey Wallace) Journal of Social and Economic Measurement,
November 2007.
“Access to Higher Education: Exploring the Variation among Research Universities in the Prevalence of
Pell Grant Recipients.” (with P. Piraino and M. Steinberg), Review of Higher Education. Vol. 39 (2),
2009.
“Principles to Guide the Development of Population Health Incentives.” Preventing Chronic Disease:
Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy. Vol. 7 (5), 2010.
“The Income and Health Effects of Tribal Casino Gaming on American Indians.” (with Barbara Wolfe,
Jessica Jakubowski, and Marissa Courey), Demography. Vol. 49 (1) 2012, Pages 499-524.
“Do Housing Vouchers Work?” Pathways. Spring, 2013, Pages 1417. http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/pdf/pathways/spring_2013/Pathways_Spring_2013_Hav
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“The Postwar Corps of Engineers Programs in 10 Southern States: An Evaluation of Economic
Efficiency,” in Essays on Southern Economic Development, University of North Carolina Press, 1964.
“Public Expenditures and Policy Analysis: An Overview,” in R. Haveman and J. Margolis (eds.), Public
Expenditures and Policy Analysis (Rand-McNally, 1970, 1977, 1983).
“Environmental Quality,” in Charles L. Schultze, et. al, Setting National Priorities: The 1972 Budget,
Brookings Institution, 1971 (with C. Schultze and I. Gutmanis).
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“The Political Economy of Federal Water Pollution Control Policy,” in F.C. Emerson (ed.), The
Economics of Environmental Problems, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of
Michigan, 1973.
“Private Power and Federal Policy,” in R. Haveman and R. Hamrin (eds.), The Political Economy of
Federal Policy (Harper and Row, 1973).
“White Elephants, Waterways, and the Transportation Act of 1967,” with Paula Stephan) in R. Haveman
and R. Hamrin (eds.), The Political Economy of Federal Policy (Harper and Row, 1973).
“Earnings Supplementation for ‘Working Poor’ Families: An Evaluation of Alternatives,” (with T. Mirer
and I. Lurie), in A.C. Harberger, et al., eds., Benefit-Cost and Policy Analysis-1973 (Aldine Publishing
Co., 1974).
“Earnings Supplementation as Income Maintenance Strategy: Issues of Program Structure and
Integration,” in I. Lurie, Integrating Income Maintenance Programs (New York: Academic Press, 1975).
“On Estimating Environmental Damage: A Survey of Recent Research in the United States,” in
Environmental Damage Costs, OECD, Paris, 1974.
“The Concept of Benefits in Benefit-Cost Analysis,” (with B. Weisbrod), in H. Peskin and E. Seskin,
eds., Cost-Benefit Analysis and Water Pollution Policy (The Urban Institute, 1975). Also published in
U.S. Congress, Evaluation of Techniques for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Water Pollution Control Programs
and Policies, Report of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to the Congress,
December 1974.
“Poverty and Social Policy in the 1960’s and 1970’s—An Overview and Some Speculations,” in R.
Haveman, ed., A Decade of Federal Anti-Poverty Programs: Achievements, Failures, and Lessons (New
York: Academic Press, 1977).
“Social Experimentation as Policy Research: A Review of Negative Income Tax Experiments,” (with
Harold Watts) in V. Halberstadt and A. Culyear, eds., Public Economics and Human Resources (Paris:
Editions Cujas, 1977). Reprinted in Glenn V. Glass, ed., Evaluation Studies Review Annual (New York:
Sage Publications, 1976).
“The Dutch Social Employment Program,” in J. Palmer, ed., Creating Jobs: Public Employment Programs
and Wage Subsidies (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1978).
“Economic Effects of Tax-Transfer Policy: The Potentials and Problems of Micro-data Simulations,” in
H.C. Recktenwald, ed., Secular Trends of the Public Sector (Paris: Editions Cujas, 1978). Reprinted in M.
Pfaff, ed., Problembereiche der Verteilungs-und Sozialpolitik (Berlin: Duncker and Humbolt, 1978).
“Investment, Inflation, Unemployment, and the Environment,” (with V.K. Smith), in P. Portney et al.,
Current Issues in U.S. Environmental Policy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1978).
“The Results and Significance of Employment Studies,” in OECD, Employment and Environment (Paris:
OECD, 1978).
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“The Urban Impacts of the Program for Better Jobs and Income,” (with S. Danziger, E. Smolensky, K.
Taeuber), in N. Glickman, The Urban Impacts of Federal Policies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press,
1979).
“Public Employment of Less Productive Workers: Lessons for the United States from the Dutch
Experience,” in E. Berkowitz, Disability Policies and Government Programs (New York: Praeger
Publishers, 1979).
“Public Employment and Wage Subsidies in Western Europe and the U.S.: What We’re Doing and What
We Know,” (with G. Christainsen), in O. Ashenfelter, ed., European Labor Market Policies, Special
Report 27 (Washington: National Commission on Manpower Policy, 1979).
“Targeted Employment Subsidies: Issues of Structure and Design,” (with J. Bishop), in Increasing Job
Opportunities in the Private Sector, Special Report 29 (Washington: National Commission on Manpower
Policy, 1979).
“Direct Job Creation,” in Eli Ginzberg, ed., Employing the Unemployed (New York: Basic Books, 1980).
“A Microeconomic Simulation Model for Analyzing the Regional and Distributional Effects of TaxTransfer Policy: An Analysis of the Program for Better Jobs and Income,” (with K. Hollenbeck, D.
Betson, and M. Holmer), R. Haveman and K. Hollenbeck, eds., Microeconomic Simulation Models for
Public Policy Analysis (New York: Academic Press, 1980). Reprinted in H. McMain and R. Smilor,
Economic Growth and Planning: Regional and National Perspectives, Proceedings of Joint U.S.-USSR
Conference (Austin: Institute for Constructive Capitalism, 1982).
“Public Choice and Public Economics: The Case of Collective Failure in U.S. Water Quality Policy,” in
K. Roskamp, ed., Public Choice and Public Finance, Editions Cujas (Paris), 1980.
“Public Policies for Disabled Workers: Cross National Evidence on Efficiency and Redistributive
Effects,” (with V. Halberstadt) in P. J. Eigelshoven and L. J. van Gemerden, Inkomens-verdeling en
Openbare Financien, Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, 1981.
“Quantitative Aspects of Tax Burdens: Methodology and Appraisal,” (with R. Dalrymple, S. Danziger, V.
Halberstadt, F. van Herwaarden, F. deKam, and E. Smolensky) in K. Roskamp and F. Forte, eds.,
Reforms of Tax Systems, Wayne State University Press, 1981.
“Environmental Regulations and Productivity Growth” (with G. Christainsen), in H. Peskin, P. Portney,
and A. Kneese, eds., Environmental Regulation and the U.S. Economy ) (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press,
1981.
“Multi-Regional Models: The State of the Art,” in H. J. McMains and R. Smilor, eds.,
Regional/Territorial Planning and Development (Austin: Institute for Constructive Capitalism, 1981).
“Targeted Wage Subsidies: Their Rationale and Effectiveness,” (with J. Bishop), in G. Eliasson and J.
Söderstrom, eds., Business Taxation, Finance, and Firm Behavior (Stockholm: Almquist and Wicksell,
1981), pp. 297–344.
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“Disability, Income Transfers, and Work Effort: A Reduced Form Probabilistic Choice Approach” (with
B. Wolfe), in Proceedings of the 43rd Session, International Statistical Association, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, 1982.
“Direct Job Creation: Potentials and Realities,” in P. Sommers, ed., Welfare Reform in America (New
York: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1982).
“The Potential of Targeted Marginal Employment Subsidies,” in Marginal Employment Subsidies (Paris,
OECD, 1982).
“Disability and Work Effort: An Analysis of the Labor Supply Behavior of Older Workers” (with B.
Wolfe), in L. Söderstrom, ed., Social Insurance (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1983).
“Inefficiencies in Public Transfer Policies in Western Industrialized Democracies” (with K. Goudswaard,
V. Halberstadt, B. Wolfe), in G.M.d. Veldkamp, ed., Ambuigen in de Sociale Zekerheid (Restraining
Growth in Social Security Expenditures) (Deventer, The Netherlands: Kluwer, 1983).
“Public Income Support to Disabled Workers: Issues of Program Growth, Costs, and Labor Supply in a
Cross-National Context” (with V. Halberstadt) in M. Pfaff, ed., Efficiency and Effectiveness of
Government Transfer Policy (Berlin: Duncker and Humbolt, 1983).
“Income Transfer Policy in the United States: A Review and Assessment” (with I. Garfinkel) in E.
Seidman, ed., Handbook of Social Intervention (Sage Publications, 1983).
“The Economics of Disability Policy in Selected European Community Countries” (with K. Goudswaard,
V. Halberstadt, and B. Wolfe), in F.A.J. van der Bosch and C. Peterson, eds., Economic en
Arbeidsongeschiktheid: Analyse en Belied (Economics and Labor Market Inefficiencies: Analysis and
Policy) (Deventer: The Netherlands: Kluwer, 1983).
“Disability Transfers, Early Retirement, and Retrenchment,” (with J. Warlick and B. Wolfe), in H. Aaron
and G. Burtless, eds. Retirement and Economic Behavior (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institute,
1984).
“Education, Productivity, and Well-Being” (with B. Wolfe) in E. Dean, ed., Education and Economic
Productivity (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1984).
“Inefficiencies in Public Transfer Policies in Western Industrialized Democracies” (with V. Halberstadt,
B. Wolfe, and K. Goudswaard), in H. Hanusch, ed., Public Finance and the Quest for Efficiency (Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 1984).
“The Role of Income Transfers in Reducing Inequality Between and Within Regions” (with D. Betson),
in M. Moon, ed., Economic Transfers in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press for
NBER, 1984).
“How Much Have the Reagan Administration’s Tax and Spending Policies Increased Work Effort?”, in
C. Hulten and I. Sawhill, eds., The Legacy of Reaganomics: Prospects for Long-Term Growth
(Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, 1984).
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“The Reagan Administration’s Regulatory Relief Effort: A Mid-Term Assessment” (with G.
Christainsen), in G. Eads and M. Fix, eds., The Reagan Regulatory Strategy: An Assessment
(Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, 1984).
“Income, Inequality, and Uncertainty: Differences between the Disabled and Nondisabled,” (with B.
Wolfe) in M. David and T. Smeeding, eds., Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-Being
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the NBER, 1985).
“The Economics of Water Resources: A Survey,” (with R. Young) in A. Kneese and J. Sweeney, eds.,
Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1985).
“Disability Transfers, Health Status, and Economic Behavior,” (with B. Wolfe), in Papers and
Proceedings, International Population Conference, Florence, Italy, 1985.
“Policy Lessons from Three Labor Market Experiments,” (with G. Burtless) in T. Robson, ed.
Employment and Training R & D (Kalamazoo: Upjohn Institute, 1985). (Reprinted in L. Aiken and B.
Kehrer, eds., Evaluation Review Studies Annual-1985 (Sage Publications, 1986).
“The Effect of Disability Transfers on Work Effort: Research Results and their Use in Policy Decisions,”
(with B. Wolfe), in H. Hanusch, K. Roskamp, and J. Wiseman, eds., Public Sector and Political Economy
Today (Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1985).
“A Reaction to Professor Pen,” Openbare Uitgaven (Public Expenditures), 3, 1985.
“The Contributions of Income Transfers to Lagging Economic Performance,” (with B. Wolfe, P. de Jong,
V. Halberstadt, and K. Goudswaard) in G. Terny and A. Culyer, eds., Public Finance and Social Policy
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985).
“The European Welfare State in Transition” (with B. Wolfe and V. Halberstadt), in John Palmer, ed.,
Perspectives on the Reagan Years (Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1986).
“Antipoverty Policy: Effects on the Poor and the Nonpoor” (with S. Danziger and R. Plotnick), in S.
Danziger and D. Weinberg, Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Doesn’t (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1986).
“Social Science and Social Policy: Who Uses Whom?” in F. Heller, ed., The Use and Abuse of Social
Science (London: Sage Publications, 1986).
“Taxes, Transfers, and Labor Supply: The Evolving Views of U.S. Economists,” (with G. Burtless), in H.
van der Kar and B. Wolfe, eds., The Relevance of Public Finance for Policy-Making, (Detroit: Wayne
State University Press, 1987). Reprinted in La Influencia de la Hacienda Publica en el Quehacer Politico,
Ministerio De Economia y Hacienda, Government of Spain, Madrid, 1990.
“U.S. Antipoverty Policy and the Nonpoor: Some Estimates and their Implications,” in J. LeGrand and
Robert Goodin, eds., Not Only the Poor: The Middle Classes and the Welfare State (London: Allen and
Unwin, 1987).
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“Behavioral Responses to Social Security Retrenchment: Estimates from a Trichotomous Choice Model”
(with B. Wolfe and J. Warlick) in Economic Development and Social Welfare in Taiwan (Taipei:
Academia Sinica, 1987).
“On the Determinants of Growth in Disability Income Support,” in H. Emanuel, E. DeGier, and P.A.B.K.
Konijn, eds., Disability Benefits: Factors Determining Application and Awards (Greenwich, CT: JAI
Press, 1987).
“Disparities in Well-Being Among U.S. Children Over Two Decades: 1962–1983” (with R. Finnie and B.
Wolfe), in J. Palmer, T. Smeeding, and B. Torrey, eds., The Vulnerable (Washington, D.C.: Urban
Institute Press, 1988).
“Modelling the Accumulation and Distribution of Wealth — An Overview and a Point of View,” in D.
Kessler and A. Masson, Modelling the Accumulation and Distribution of Wealth, (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1988).
“Environmental Litigation and Economic Efficiency: Two Case Studies,” in V. Kerry Smith, ed.,
Environmental Resources and Applied Welfare Economics (Washington, D. C.: Johns Hopkins Press,
1988).
“Social Sicherungssyteme mit ihre Wohlfahrtseffekte — En Versuch ihrer Bilanzierung,” (“Social
Security and it’s Welfare Effects — A Search for Balance”), in G. Rolf, P. B. Spahn, and Gert Wagner,
eds., Socialvertag und Sicherung (Social Contract and Security) (Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag,
1988).
“Public Regulations and Productivity Growth: An Assessment” (with J. R. Norsworthy) in M. Neuman
and K. Roskamp, eds., Public Finance and Performance of Enterprises (Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1989).
“Health Care Financing in the U.S., U.K. and Netherlands: Distributional Consequences” (with P.
Gottschalk and B. Wolfe), in A. Chiancone and K. Messere, eds., Changes in Revenue Structures
(Detroit: Wayne University Press, 1989).
“Income Support and Welfare Reform,” (with Thomas Corbett and Michael Wiseman), in R. Haveman
and J. Huddleston, eds., Dollars and Sense— Policy Choices and the Wisconsin Budget, (Madison: La
Follette Institute, 1990).
“Who Are the Truly Poor? Patterns of Official and Net Earnings Capacity Poverty, 1973–1988” (with L.
Buron), in D. Papadimitriou and E. Wolff, eds., Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the Late Twentieth
Century (London: Macmillan), 1993.
“Investing in the Economic Well-Being of Young Children,” (with B. Wolfe) in S. Goffin and M. Jensen,
eds., Visions of Entitlement: The Care and Education of America’s Children (Albany, NY: SUNY Press),
1993.
“Optimal Taxation and Public Policy,” in J. Quigley and E. Smolensky, eds., Modern Public Finance,
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press), 1994.
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“The Nature, Causes and Cures of Poverty: Accomplishments from Three Decades of Poverty Research
and Policy,” in S. Danziger, G. Sandefur, and D. Weinberg, eds., Confronting Poverty: Prescriptions for
Change, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press), 1994.
“The Growth in Male Earnings Inequality, 1973–1988: The Role of Earnings Capacity and Utilization,”
(with L. Buron) in J. Bergstrand, T. Cosimano, J. Houck, and R. Sheehan, eds., The Changing
Distribution of Income in an Open U.S. Economy (Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing), 1994.
“The Clinton Alternative to ‘Welfare As We Know It’: Is it Feasible?,” in D. Nightingale and R.
Haveman, eds., The Work Alternative, (Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press), 1994.
“Children of Early Childbearers as Young Adults.” (with B. Wolfe and E. Peterson), in R. Maynard, ed.,
Kids Having Kids: Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy. (Washington, DC: Urban Institute
Press), 1997. (Volume awarded the Society for Research on Adolescent Social Policy Best Book Award
for 1997)
“Childhood Poverty and Adolescent Schooling and Fertility Outcomes: Reduced -Form and Structural
Estimates.” (with B. Wolfe and K. Wilson), in Greg J. Duncan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, eds.,
Consequences of Growing Up Poor (New York: Russell Sage Foundation), 1997.
“Employment and Social Protection: Are They Compatible?” in Family, Market, and Community: Equity
and Efficiency in Social Policy, Social Policy Studies No. 21, (Paris: Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development), 1997.
“Welfare Reform-1996 Style” in Jon Neill,, ed., Poverty and Inequality: The Political Economy
Redistribution. (Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute), 1997.
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“A Structural Model of the Determinants of Educational Success.” (with K. Wilson and B. Wolfe) in S. P.
Jenkins, A. Kapteyn, and B. M. S. van Praag, eds., The Distribution of Welfare and Household
Production: International Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
“Unemployment in the United States: The Problem and a Proposal.” in Peter Birch Sorensen, ed., Public
Finance in a Changing World (London: MacMillan, 1998).
“The ‘Big Trade-off”--Fundamental Law or ‘Red Herring’?”, in S. Nagel, ed., Research in Public Policy
Analysis and Management. Vol 8. (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1998). Reprinted in S. Nagel, ed.,
Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001).
“The Welfare State and Full Employment.” in P. Flora, P. R. de Jong, J. Le Grand, and J-Y Kim, editors,
The State of Social Welfare (Ashgate, England: Aldershot, 1998).
“‘Inability to be Self-Reliant’ as an Indicator or U. S. Poverty.” (with Andrew Bershadker), in Stein
Ringen and Philip R. De Jong, eds., Fighting Poverty: Caring for Children, Parents, the Elderly and
Health. Aldershot, England, Ashgate Publishing, 1999.
“Work, Earnings, and Well-Being after Welfare.” (With Maria Cancian, Thomas Kaplan, Daniel Meyer,
and Barbara Wolfe), in Sheldon Danziger, ed., Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform. Kalamazoo,
MI: Upjohn Institute, 1999.
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“Poverty and the Distribution of Well-being Since the 1960s” In George Perry and James Tobin, eds.,
Economic Events, Ideas, and Policies: The 1960s and After. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution,
2000.
“The Economics of Disability and Disability Policy.” (with Barbara Wolfe) In A. J. Culyer and J. P.
Newhouse, eds. Handbook of Health Economics. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science B. V.,
2000.
“The Changing Economic Status of Disabled Women, 1982–1991: Trends and Their Determinants” (with
Karen Holden, Barbara Wolfe, Paul Smith, and Kathryn Wilson). In David Salkever, ed., Essays in the
Economics of Disability. JAI Press, 2000.
“Alternative Designs for Evaluating National Welfare Reform.” In Burt Barnow, Thomas Kaplan, and
Robert Moffitt, eds. Evaluating Comprehensive State Welfare Reform. Albany, NY: Rockfeller Institute
Press, 2000.
“Intergenerational Effects of Nonmarital and Early Childbearing.” (with Barbara Wolfe and Karen Pence)
In Lawrence L. Wu and Barbara Wolfe, eds. Out of Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital
Fertility (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001).
“Social Insurance and the Older Worker: An Overview,” in Peter B. Budetti, Richard V. Burkhauser,
Janice M. Gregory, and H. Allan Hunt, eds. Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging
Workforce. Kalamazoo, Michigan: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001.
“Alternative Measures of National Poverty: Perspectives and Assessment,” (with Melissa Mullikin) In E.
Schokkaert, ed. Ethics and Social Security Reform. London, England: Ashgate Publishing Company,
2001.
“Patterns of Foregone Potential Earnings among Working-Age Males, 1975-1992.” (With Lawrence
Buron and Andrew Bershadker) In Ging Wong and Garnett Picot, eds. Working Time in Comparative
Perspective (Vol. I) (Kalamazoo, MI.: Upjohn Institute Press, 2001)
“Toward the Spread of Asset Ownership.” In Thomas Shapiro and Edward Wolff, eds. Assets for the
Poor: The Benefits of Spreading Asset Ownership. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001).
“Accounting for the Social and Non-Market Benefits of Education.” (with Barbara Wolfe) In John
Helliwell, ed. The Contribution o f Human and Social Capital to Sustained Economic Growth and WellBeing. (OECD/Human Resources Development Canada, 2001).
“The 1996 U.S. Welfare Reform: Objectives, Effects and Lessons.” (With Barbara Wolfe) in Labour
Markets, Gender and Institutional Change. Edited by Hugh Mosely, Jacqueline O’Reilly and Klaus
Schömann. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 166-184. 2002.
“When Work Alone is Not Enough.” In One Percent for the Kids: New Policies, Brighter Futures for
America's Children. Edited by Isabel Sawhill. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
“Social and Nonmarket Benefits from Education in an Advanced Economy.” (with Barbara Wolfe) in
Yolanda Kodrzycki, editor, Education in the 21st Century: Meeting the Challenges of a Changing World
(Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2003).
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“In Defense of Higher Education: More Last Words.” (with Barbara Wolfe) The Milken Review. 5(2)
2003, 84-90.
“Trends in Children’s Attainments and Their Determinants as Family Income Inequality Has Increased.”
(with Gary Sandefur, Barbara Wolfe, and Andrea Voyer) In Social Inequality. Edited by Katherine
Neckerman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
“Who are the Asset Poor?: Levels, Trends and Composition, 1983-2001”, in Sherraden, M., ed., Inclusion
in the American Dream: Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy. (with Edward Wolff) New York: Oxford
University Press, 2005.
“Welfare Reform in the United States” (with John Karl Scholz), in A New Paradigm for Social Welfare
in the New Millennium, edited by LJ Cho, H. Moon, Y. H. Kim, and SH Lee. Seoul: Korea Development
Institute. 2006.
“Economic Inequality in College Access, Matriculation, and Graduation.” (with Kathryn Wilson), in
Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Ross Rubenstein, eds. Economic Inequality and Higher Education New York,
NY: Russell Sage Press, 2007.
“The Sufficiency of Retirement Savings: A Comparison of Two Cohorts of Retired Workers at the Time
of Retirement.” (with Karen Holden, Andrei Romanov, and Barbara Wolfe), in Brigitte Madrian, Beth
Soldo, and Olivia Mitchell, eds. Redefining Retirement: How Will Boomers Fare? Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press, 2007.
“It Takes More than Income: Income Inequality and Racial Gaps in Test Scores” (with M. Campbell, T.
Wildhagen, and B. Wolfe) chapter 3, In Steady Gains and Stalled Progress: Inequality and the BlackWhite Test Score Gap. K. Magnuson and J. Waldfogel eds. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 110135. 2008.
“What Does it Mean to be Poor in a Rich Society?” In Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, eds.
Changing Poverty, Changing Policies. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2009. Reprinted in Connie
Mick (ed.) Poverty: A Reader for Writers. Oxford University Press, December 2014.
“How Should We Identify the Poor in a Rich Society?” Rethinking Poverty and Social Mobility.
Economic and Social Research Network, Singapore. 2010.
“Understanding the Mechanisms Behind Intergenerational Persistence: A Comparison Between the
United States and United Kingdom.” (with Jo Blanden, Kathryn Wilson, and Timothy Smeeding) In
Timothy Smeeding, Robert Erikson and Markus Jantti, eds. Persistence, Privilege and Parenting: The
Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility. Russell Sage Foundation. 2011.
“Child Development and Social Mobility.” (with Patrizio Piraino, Timothy Smeeding and Kathryn
Wilson) In John Ermisch, Markus Jäntti, and Timothy M. Smeeding (eds.). From Parents to Children:
The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2012.
“Economic Inequality and Children’s Educational Attainment.” (with Mary Campbell and Barbara Wolfe)
In Ariel Kalil, Ron Haskins, and Jenny Chesters (eds.). Investing in Children: Work, Education, and
Social Policy in Two Rich Countries. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. 2012.
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“Health and Wealth in Early Retirement.” (with Geoffrey Wallace, Karen Holden, and Barbara Wolfe). In
Kenneth Couch, Mary Daly, and Julie Zissimopoulos (eds.). Life Cycle Events and Their Consequences:
Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press. 2013.
PUBLICATIONS: Congressional Committee Publications and Other
“The Analysis and Evaluation of Public Expenditures: An Overview,” in The Analysis and Evaluation of
Public Expenditures: The PPB System, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, 1969.
“Federal Natural Resources Development: Basic Issues in Benefit and Cost Measurement,” Natural
Resources Policy Center, George Washington University, May 1969 (with J. L. Knetsch, C.W. Howe,
J.V. Krutilla, and M.F. Brewer).
“Evaluating Public Expenditures Under Conditions of Unemployment,” in The Analysis and Evaluation
of Public Expenditures Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, 1969. Translated and reprinted in
H.C. Rectkenwald, Nutzen-Kosten-Analyse and Programbudget (Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1970).
Reprinted in R. Haveman and J. Margolis (eds.), Public Expenditures and Policy Analysis (RandMcNally, 1977).
“Price Controls and Income Redistribution in an Expanding Economy” (with Thad W. Mirer), in U.S.
Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Wage and Price Control: An Evaluation of Current Policies, 1972.
“Benefit or Costs: An Assessment of the Water Resources Council’s Proposed Principles and Standards,”
The Johns Hopkins University, March 1972 (with C.J. Cicchetti, R.K. Davis, S.H. Hanke, and J. L.
Knetsch). Reprinted in W. Niskanen, et al., eds., Benefit Cost and Policy Analysis-1972 (Aldine
Publishing Co., 1973).
“The President’s Proposed Tax Rebate: Who Wins and Who Doesn’t?” in President’s Authority to Adjust
Imports of Petroleum, Public Debt Ceiling Increase, and Emergency Tax Proposals, Committee on Ways
and Means, House of Representatives, 1975.
The Program for Better Jobs and Income—A Guide and A Critique (with S. Danziger and E. Smolensky),
Joint Committee Print, U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, October 20, 1977.
The Program for Better Jobs and Income: An Analysis of Costs and Distribution of Effects (with E.
Smolensky), Joint Committee Print, U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, January 31, 1978.
Environmental and Health/Safety Regulations, Productivity Growth, and Economic Performance: An
Assessment (with G. Christainsen and F. Gollop), U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, August,
1980.
“The Determinants of the Decline in Measured Productivity Growth: An Evaluation,” (with G.
Christainsen) in U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Productivity - The Foundation of Growth,
Special Study on Economic Change, Vol. 10, 1981.
“Income Transfer Programs in the United States: An Analysis of Their Structure and Impact,” (with S.
Danziger and R. Plotnick), in U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Federal Finance: The Pursuit of
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