Greg J. Duncan
January 17, 2005
Greg J. Duncan
Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
2040 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
Telephone 847/467-1503
FAX 847/491-9916
e-mail: greg-duncan@northwestern.edu
homepage: http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/people/duncan.html
Citizenship: U.S.
Education: B.A., Grinnell College, 1970; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974 (Economics)
Positions Held:
Present Positions:
Edwina S. Tarry Professor, School of Education and Social Policy, 2002-present.
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy Research (formerly "Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research"),
Northwestern University, 1995-present.
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 2004-2005.
Visiting Professor, Sociology Department, Johns Hopkins University, 2002-2005.
Past Positions:
Professor, School of Education and Social Policy, 1995-2002.
Director, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University/University of Chicago, 2000-2003.
Deputy Director, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University/University of Chicago, 1997-2000.
Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), 1996, 1997, 1998.
Distinguished Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, 1993-1995; Co-director of
Panel Study of Income Dynamics project.
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 1987-1995.
Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, 1985-1993.
Teacher, Training of European Statisticians Programme, Statistical Office of the European Communities, 19911998.
Visiting Scholar, University of Bremen, 1993.
Visiting Scholar, Centre d'Etudes de Populations, de Pauvrete, et de Politiques Socio-Economiques, Luxembourg,
1989.
Senior Study Director (Associate Research Scientist), Survey Research Center, University of Michigan,
1977-1985.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 1983-1987
Visiting Scholar, Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research, Stockholm, Sweden, 1981, 1982
Visiting Scholar, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, West Germany, 1982
Visiting Associate Professor, Consumer Economics and Housing, Cornell University, September 1980-June 1981.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 1977-1980
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 1975-1977
Study Director, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, June 1974-1977
Assistant Study Director, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, 1972-1974
Honorary Degrees, Memberships and Honors:
Doctor of the University of Essex, 1999
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001Highly Cited Researcher, Institute for Scientific Information, 2002National Associate, National Academies, 20041
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Recent Service:
Present:
President, Midwest Economics Association, 2004-5
Member, National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2002-present
Member (elected), Nominating Committee, Population Association of America, 2004
Member, National Advisory Board, National Poverty Center, 2003-present.
Member, National Advisory Committee, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 2003-present
Member, National Advisory Board, RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center, 2003-present.
Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Head Start Impact Study, 2003-present.
Co-Chair, Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health, National Research Council/Institute on Medicine,
2002-present.
Member, Executive Session on Deviant Social Contagion, 2001-present.
Member, Technical Work Group, National Survey of Children and Adolescent Well-Being, 1997-present.
Member, MacArthur Network on Family and the Economy, 1996-present.
Member, Family and Child Well-being Research Network, National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, 1993-present.
Member, Advisory Board for the “Add Health” National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, 1994-present.
Past:
Member, Technical Advisory Committee, “Moving to Opportunity” Housing Mobility Experiment, 2000-2003.
Member, Brookings Roundtable on Children, The Brookings Institution, 1998-2003.
Member, Committee on Population Statistics, Population Association of America, 1992-2003.
Member, Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development, National Research
Council/Institute on Medicine, 1998-2001.
Member, MacArthur Network on Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood, 1994-2003.
Member, Nominations Committee, Society for Research on Child Development, 2001.
Vice-President (elected), Midwest Economics Association, 1998-1999.
Member, Forum on Adolescence, National Research Council/Institute on Medicine, 1997-2000.
Member (elected), Board of Directors, Population Association of America, 1997-2000.
Member, Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation, 1999-2000.
Member, Public Policy Committee, Society for Research on Child Development, 1995-1999.
Member, Program Review Panel for the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development, 1993.
Member, Social Science Research Council's Working Group on Communities and Neighborhoods, Family
Process, and Individual Development, 1989-1996.
Member, Gerontology and Geriatrics Review Committee, National Institute on Aging, 1988-1992.
Member, National Research Council Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy, 1987-1990.
Member, Advisory Board to the German Socioeconomic Panel, 1983-1989; Advisory Board to the British
Household Panel Study, 1989-1993; Steering Committee to the European Science Foundation Scientific
Network on Household Panel Studies, 1990-1994; Advisory Committee to the European Community
Household Panel Survey, 1989-1995; Steering Committee for the European Community Household Panel
Project, 1992-1995.
Articles in Academic Journals
(Note: All multiple-author listings are equal authorship unless noted otherwise)
"Expected and Actual Residential Mobility" (with Sandra Newman), Journal of the American Institute of
Planners, 42, No. 2, April 1976, pp. 174-86.
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"Earnings Functions and Nonpecuniary Benefits," Journal of Human Resources, 11, No. 4, Fall 1976, pp. 462-83.
"The Local Consumer Information System: An Institution-to-Be?" (secondary author, with E. Scott Maynes,
James N. Morgan, and Weston Vivian), Journal of Consumer Affairs, 11, No. 1 Summer 1977, pp. 17-33.
"Work History, Labor Force Attachment, and Earnings Differences Between the Races and Sexes" (with Mary
Corcoran), Journal of Human Resources, 14, No. 2, Winter 1979, pp. 1-20.
"Residential Problems, Dissatisfaction, and Mobility" (with Sandra Newman), Journal of the American Planning
Association, 45, No. 2, April 1979, pp. 154-166.
"On-the-Job Training and Earnings Differences by Race and Sex" (with Saul D. Hoffman), Review of Economics
and Statistics, 61, No. 4, November 1979, pp. 594-603.
"Do Union Members Receive Compensating Wage Differentials?" (with Frank P. Stafford), American
Economic Review, 70, No. 3, June 1980, pp. 355-371. "Reply" (to comments of Barron and Black and
of Leigh). American Economic Review, 72, No.4, pp. 868-872.
"Most Workers Find Jobs Through Word of Mouth" (with Mary Corcoran and Linda Datcher), Monthly Labor
Review, 103, No. 8, August 1980, pp. 33-35.
"The Effects of Inflation and Taxes on the Costs of Homeownership" (with James N. Morgan), Journal of
Consumer Affairs, 14, No. 2, Winter 1980, pp. 383-393.
“The Incidence and Wage Effects of Overeducation" (with Saul D. Hoffman), Economics of Education Review,
1, No. 1, Winter 1981, pp. 75-86.
"The Dynamics of Local Markets: A Case Study of Cameras," Journal of Consumer Affairs, 15, No. 1, Summer
1981, pp. 64-74.
"Sense of Efficacy and Changes in Economic Status--A Replication" (with James N. Morgan), Journal of Human
Resources, 16, No. 4, Fall 1981, pp. 649-657.
“A New Look at the Causes of the Improved Economic Status of Black Workers" (with Saul D. Hoffman),
Journal of Human Resources, 18, No. 2, Spring, 1983, pp. 268-82.
"Using Sample Survey Weights to Compare Various Linear Regression Models" (secondary author, with William
DuMouchel), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 78, No. 383, September 1983, pp. 535-543.
“A Longitudinal Analysis of the Wages of White Women" (with Mary Corcoran and Michael Ponza), Journal of
Human Resources, 18, No. 4, Fall 1983, pp. 497-520.
"Was Adam Smith Right, After All? Another Test of the Theory of Compensating Wage Differentials" (with
Bertil Holmlund), Journal of Labor Economics, 1, No. 4, October 1983, pp. 366-379.
"A Framework for Setting Retirement Savings Goals" (with Olivia Mitchell and James N. Morgan), Journal of
Consumer Affairs, 18, No. 1, Summer 1984, pp. 22-46.
"The Economic Fortunes of Women and Children--Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (with
Mary Corcoran and Martha S. Hill), Signs, 10, No. 2, Winter 1984, pp. 232-248. Reprinted in Barbara C.
Gelpi, et al. Women and Poverty, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Reprinted in Micheline
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Malson, et al. Black Women and Black Feminist Thought, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
"Panel Data and Models of Change: A Comparison of First Difference and Conventional Two-Wave Models"
(with Jeffrey Liker and Sue Augustyniak), Social Science Research, 14, 1985, pp. 80-101.
"An Investigation of the Extent and Consequences of Measurement Error in Labor Economic Survey Data" (with
Daniel Hill), Journal of Labor Economics, 3, No. 4, October 1985, pp. 508-522.
"Myth and Reality: The Causes and Persistence of Poverty" (with Mary Corcoran, Patricia Gurin and Gerald
Gurin), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 4, No. 4, Summer 1985, pp. 516-536.
"A Reconsideration of the Economic Consequences of Marital Dissolution" (with Saul D. Hoffman),
Demography, 22, No. 4, November 1985, pp. 485-497.
"Conceptions of Longitudinal Households: Fertile or Futile?" (with Martha S. Hill), Journal of Economic and
Social Measurement, 13, Nos. 3 and 4, December, 1985, pp. 361-375.
"Issues in the Design and Analysis of Surveys across Time" (with Graham Kalton), International Statistical
Review, 55, No. 1, April 1987, pp. 97-117.
"The Role of Panel Studies in Research on Economic Behavior" (lead author, with James N. Morgan and F.
Thomas Juster), Transportation Research, 21A, No. 4/5, 1987, pp. 249-263.
"Single-Parent Families: Are Their Economic Problems Transitory or Persistent?" (with Willard Rodgers),
Family Planning Perspectives, 19, No. 4, July/August, 1987, pp. 171-178.
"Parental Family Income and the Socioeconomic Attainment of Children" (with Martha Hill), Social Science
Research, 16, 1987, pp. 39-73.
"Out of Work, Out of Mind: Response Error in Retrospective Reports of Unemployment" (with Nancy
Mathiowetz), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 6, No. 2, April, 1988, pp. 221-229.
"Multinomial and Conditional Logit Discrete-Choice Models in Demography" (with Saul D. Hoffman),
Demography, 25, No. 3, August 1988, pp. 415-428.
"Welfare Dependence Within and Across Generations" (with Martha Hill and Saul Hoffman), Science, 239, 29
January 1988, pp. 467-71.
"The Use and Effect of Welfare: A Survey of Recent Evidence" (with Saul Hoffman), Social Service Review,
62, No. 2, June 1988, pp. 238-257. This article was awarded the Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize as "the
best in the field of welfare economics published in Social Service Review in the last three years".
"Longitudinal Aspects of Childhood Poverty" (with Willard Rodgers), Journal of Marriage and the Family, 50,
November 1988, pp. 1007-1021.
"A Comparison of Choice-Based Multinomial and Nested Logit Models: The Family Structure and Welfare Use
Decisions of Divorced or Separated Women" (secondary author, with Saul Hoffman), Journal of Human
Resources, 23, No. 4, Fall 1988, pp. 550-562.
"What Are the Economic Consequences of Divorce?" (secondary author, with Saul Hoffman), Demography, 25,
No. 4, November 1988, pp. 641-645.
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"The Guns of Autumn? Age Differences in Support for Income Transfers to the Young and Old" (secondary
author, with Michael Ponza, Mary Corcoran and Fred Groskind), Public Opinion Quarterly, 52, No. 4,
Winter 1988, pp. 441-466.
"Economic Risks of Gender Roles: Income Loss and Life Events Over the Life Course" (with Richard
Burkhauser), Social Science Quarterly, 70, No. 1, August 1988, pp. 3-23.
"Assessing the Quality of Household Panel Survey Data: The Case of the PSID" (with Daniel Hill), Journal of
Business and Economic Statistics, 7, No. 4, October, 1989, pp. 441-451.
"Teenage Welfare Receipt and Subsequent Dependence Among Black Adolescent Mothers" (with Saul D.
Hoffman), Family Planning Perspectives, 22, No. 1, January/February 1990, pp. 16-20,35.
"A Tale of Three Cities: Large, Medium, and Small Consumer Markets Compared" (secondary author, with E.
Scott Maynes, Robin A. Douthitt and Loren V. Geistfeld) Journal of Consumer Policy, 12, No. 4,
December 1989, pp. 451-463.
"Welfare Benefits, Economic Opportunities and Out-of-Wedlock Births Among Black Teenage Girls" (with Saul
Hoffman), Demography, 27, No. 4, November 1990, pp. 519-536.
"Poverty Dynamics in Widowhood" (with John Bound, Deborah Laren and Lewis Oleinick), Journal of
Gerontology: Social Sciences, 46, No. 3, 1991, pp. 115-124.
"Economic Burdens of Marital Disruptions: A Comparison of the United States and the Federal Republic of
Germany" (with Richard Burkhauser, Richard Hauser and Roland Berntsen), Review of Income and
Wealth, 36, No. 4, December, 1990, pp. 319-334.
"Wife or Frau, Women Do Worse: A Comparison of Men and Women in the United States and Germany
Following Marital Disruption" (with Richard Burkhauser, Richard Hauser and Roland Berntsen),
Demography, 28, No. 3, August 1991, pp. 353-360.
"Remarriage Among the Recently Widowed" (secondary author, with Ken R. Smith and Cathleen Zick),
Demography, 28, No. 3, August 1991, pp. 361-374.
"United States Public Policy and the Elderly: The Disproportionate Risk to the Well-Being of Women" (with
Richard Burkhauser), Journal of Population Economics, 4, 1991, pp. 217-231.
"Has Children's Poverty Become More Persistent?" (with Willard Rodgers), American Sociological Review, 56,
August, 1991, pp. 538-550.
"Made in Heaven: Secondary Data Analysis and Interdisciplinary Collaborators," Developmental Psychology, 27,
No. 6, November, 1991, pp. 949-951.
"Do Neighborhoods Affect Child and Adolescent Development?" (with Jeanne-Brooks-Gunn, Pamela Klebanov
and Naomi Sealand), American Journal of Sociology, 99, No. 2, September, 1993, pp. 353-395.
"Poverty Dynamics in Eight Countries" (primary author, with Bjorn Gustafsson, Richard Hauser, Gunther
Schmauss, Hans Messinger, Ruud Muffels, Brian Nolan, Jean-Claude Ray), Journal of Population
Economics, 6, No. 3, 1993, pp. 215-234.
Guest Editor, "Symposium on Measuring Poverty" Journal of Population Economics, 6, No. 3, 1993.
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"Errors in Survey Reports of Earnings, Hours Worked and Hourly Wages" (secondary author, with Willard
Rodgers and Charles Brown), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 88, No. 424, December,
1993, pp. 1208-1218.
"Economic Deprivation and Early-Childhood Development" (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Pamela Klebanov),
Child Development, 65, No. 2, April, 1994, pp. 296-318.
"Evidence on the Validity of Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Labor Market Data" (with John Bound, Charles
Brown and Willard Rodgers), Journal of Labor Economics, 12, No. 3, July, 1994, pp. 345-368. This
article was awarded the H. Gregg Lewis Prize as the best article published in the Journal of Labor
Economics in 1994.
"Does Neighborhood and Family Poverty Affect Mothers' Parenting, Mental Health and Social Support?"
(secondary author, with Pamela Klebanov and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) Journal of Marriage and the Family,
56, May, 1994, pp. 441-455.
"Families and Neighbors as Sources of Disadvantage in the Schooling Decisions of Black and White
Adolescents" American Journal of Education, 103, No. 1, November, 1994, pp. 20-53.
"Sharing Prosperity Across the Age Distribution: A Comparison of the United States and Germany in the 1980s"
(secondary author, with Richard Burkhauser and Richard Hauser) The Gerontologist, 34, No. 2, 1994, pp.
150-160.
"Les Familles Monoparentales Aux États-Unis. Dynamique, Niveau de Vie et Conséquences Sur Le
Dévelopement De L'Enfant (Lone Parent Families in the United States: Dynamics, Economic Status, and
Developmental Consequences)" (with Wei-Jun J. Yeung) , Population, Vol. 49, No. 6, NovemberDecember, 1994, pp. 1419-1436.
"Extent and Consequences of Welfare Dependence Among America's Children" (with Wei-Jun J. Yeung),
Children and Youth Services Review, 17, No. 1/2, 1995, pp. 1-26.
"The Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (with Charles Brown and Frank Stafford), Journal of Economic
Perspectives, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring, 1996, pp. 155-168.
"The Effects of Incomes, Wages, and AFDC Benefits on Marital Disruption" (secondary author, with Saul D.
Hoffman). Journal of Human Resources, 30, No. 1, 1995, pp. 19-41.
"Access to Social Capital" (with Johanne Boisjoly and Sandra Hofferth). Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 16, No.
5, September, 1995, pp. 609-631.
"Ethnic Differences In Children's Intelligence Test Scores: Role of Economic Deprivation, Home Environment
and Maternal Characteristics" (secondary author, with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Pamela Klebanov),
Child Development, Vol. 67, April, 1996, pp. 396-408,
"L'accès à Une Première Propriété: Quels Revenus Considérer? Analyses du Panel Study of Income Dynamics"
(The Timing of First Homeownership: Whose Income Matters the Most?" (with Johanne Boisjoly and
Sandra Hofferth) Economie & Prevision, Vol. 121, 5, 1996, pp. 1-10.
"Income Dynamics and Health," International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 26, No. 3, 1996, pp. 419-444.
"Economic Mobility of Young Workers in the 1970s and 1980s" (with Johanne Boisjoly and Timothy Smeeding)
Demography, Vol. 33, No. 4, November 1996, pp. 497-509.
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"The Effects of Poverty on Children" (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn), The Future of Children, Vol. 7, No. 2,
Summer-Fall 1997, pp. 55-71.
"Welfare Dynamics and the 1996 Welfare Reforms" (with Gretchen Caspary) Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics
and Public Policy, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1997, pp. 605-632.
“Income Dynamics and Adult Mortality in the U.S., 1972-1989” (with Peggy McDonough, David Williams, and
James House) American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 87, No. 9, 1997, pp. 1476-1483.
“Do Parents’ Social Activities Promote Children’s School Attainments? Evidence from the German SocioEconomic Panel” (with Felix Büchel), Journal of Marriage and the Family, Volume 60, February, 1998,
pp. 95-108.
“The Shifting Incidence of Involuntary Job Losses from 1968 to 1992” (with Johanne Boisjoly and Timothy
Smeeding) Industrial Relations, Vol. 37, No. 2, April 1998, pp. 207-231.
"How Much Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children?" (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Wei-Jun
J. Yeung, and Judith Smith), American Sociological Review, Volume 63, Number 3, June 1998, pp. 406423.
“Long-Run Effects of Motivation on Labor Market Success” (with Rachel Dunifon), Social Psychology
Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 1, March 1998, pp. 33-48.
"Parental Extrafamilial Resources and Children's School Attainment" (with Sandra Hofferth and Johanne
Boisjoly) Sociology of Education, Volume 71, Number 3, July 1998, pp. 246-268.
"The Development of Social Capital" (with Sandra Hofferth and Johanne Boisjoly) Rationality and Society, Vol.
11, No. 1, 1998, pp. 79-110.
“Macro-to-Micro Linkages in the Relationship between Income Inequality and Mortality” (with Mary Daly,
George Kaplan and John Lynch) The Milbank Quarterly, Vol. 76, Number 3, 1998, pp. 315-339.
“Trends, Events, and Durations of Initial Welfare Spells” (with Johanne Boisjoly and Kathleen Mullan Harris)
Social Service Review, Vol. 72, No. 4, 1998, pp. 466-492.
“Soft Skills and Long-Run Labor Market Success,” (with Rachel Dunifon) Research in Labor Economics, Vol.
17, JAI Press, 1998.
“The Structure of Achievement and Behavior across Middle Childhood” (with Lori Kowaleski-Jones) Child
Development, Volume 70, Number 4, July/August 1999, pp. 930-943.
“Assessing the Effects of Context in Studies of Child and Youth Development” (with Stephen Raudenbush)
Educational Psychologist, Vol. 34, No. 1, 1999, pp. 29-41.
“Gender and the Socioeconomic Gradient in Mortality” (secondary author, with Peggy McDonough, David
Williams, and James House) Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 40, No. 1, March, 1999, pp. 1731.
“Correlations between Neighboring Children in their Subsequent Educational Attainment” (secondary author,
with Gary Solon and Marianne Page) Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 82, No. 3, August, 2000,
pp. 383-392.
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“Time Limits and Welfare Reform: New Estimates of the Number and Characteristics of Affected Families”
(with Kathleen Mullan Harris and Johanne Boisjoly) Social Service Review, Vol. 74, No. 1, March,
2000, pp. 55-75.
“Family Poverty, Welfare Reform and Child Development” (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) Child Development,
Volume 71, No. 1, January/February, 2000, pp. 188-196.
“Premiums and Penalties and for Surplus and Deficit Education: Evidence from the United States and Germany”
(with Mary Daly and Felix Büchel) Economics of Education Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2000, pp. 169-178.
“Putting Fathers Back Into the Picture: Parental Activities and Children’s Adult Outcomes” (with Jean Yeung
and Martha Hill) Marriage and Family Review, Volume 29, No. 2/3, Part I, 2000, pp. 97-113.
“Work-based Anti-Poverty Programs for Parents Can Enhance the School Performance and Social Behavior of
Children” (with Aletha C. Huston, Robert Granger, Johannes Bos, Vonnie McLoyd, Rashmita Mistry,
Danielle Crosby, Christina Gibson, Katherine Magnuson, Jennifer Romich and Ana Ventura), Child
Development, Vol. 72, No. 1, January/February 2001, pp. 318-336.
“Childhood Family Structure and Young Adult Behavior” (with Martha Hill and Wei-Jun J. Yeung) Journal of
Population Economics, Volume 14, No. 2, 2001, pp.271-99. Reprinted in Family, Household and Work,
edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann and Michael Vogler, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 173-202..
“Urban Poverty And Juvenile Crime: Evidence from A Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment” (with Jens
Ludwig and Paul Hirschfield) Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 116, No. 2, May 2001, pp. 665-679.
“The Long and Short of Asking Questions about Income, Wealth and Labor Supply” (with Eric Petersen) Social
Science Research, Vol. 30, 2001, pp. 248-263.
“The Effects of Urban Poverty on Educational Outcomes: Evidence From a Randomized Experiment” (secondary
author, with Jens Ludwig and Helen Ladd) Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Edited by
William G. Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack. Washington, DC: Brookings, 2001 pp. 147-201.
“As Ye Sweep, So Shall Ye Reap” (with Rachel Dunifon and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) American Economic Review
- Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 91, No. 2, May 2001, pp. 150-154.
“Sibling, Peer, Neighbor and Schoolmate Correlations as Indicators of the Importance of Context for Adolescent
Development” (with Kathleen Mullan Harris and Johanne Boisjoly) Demography, Vol. 38, No. 3,
August, 2001, pp. 437-447.
“Evaluating The Role Of "Nothing To Lose" Attitudes On Risky Behavior In Adolescence” (with Kathleen
Mullan Harris and Johanne Boisjoly) Social Forces, Vol. 80. No. 3, 2001, pp. 1005-1039.
“Covariance Structure Models for Fixed and Random Effects” (secondary author, with Jay Teachman, Wei-Jun J.
Yeung, and Dan Levy). Sociological Methods and Research, Vol. 30, No. 2, November 2001, pp. 271288.
“Welfare Reform in Rural America: What Have We Learned?” (with Bruce Weber and Leslie Whitener)
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 83, No. 5, December 2001, pp. 1282-1292.
“Effects of Participation in the WIC Program on Birth Weight: Evidence from NLSY Children” (Secondary
author, with Lori Kowaleski-Jones) American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 92, No. 5, May 2002,
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pp.799-804.
“The Relationship Between All-Cause Mortality and Cumulative Working Life Course Psychosocial and Physical
Exposures in the United States Labor Market from 1968-1992” (Secondary author, with Amick,
Benjamin, McDonough, Peggy, Chang, Hong, Rogers, William, and Pieper, Carl) Psychosomatic
Medicine, Vol. 64, 2002, pp. 370-381.
“Optimal Indicators of Socioeconomic Status for Health Research” (with Mary Daly, Peggy McDonough and
David Williams) American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 92, No. 7, July, 2002, pp., 1151-1157.
“Economics and Parenting” (with Katherine Magnuson) Parenting: Science and Practice, Vol. 2, Number 4,
October-December, 2002, pp. 437-450.
“How Welfare Policies Affect Child and Adolescent Achievement” (with Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman and Pamela
Morris) American Economic Review - Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 93, No. 2, May 2003, pp. 299-303.
“The Promise of Random-Assignment Social Experiments for Understanding Well-Being and Behavior” (with
Katherine A. Magnuson), Current Sociology, Vol. 51, No. 5, September 2003, pp. 529-541. A French
translation of this article appeared simultaneously in Sociologie et Sociétés, 35(1), pp. 243-256 under the
title “Comment les expériences sociales avec assignation aléatoire permettent de mieux comprendre le
comportement et les politiques de bien-être.”
“The Black-White Test Score Gap in Young Children: Contributions of Test and Family Characteristics”
(secondary author, with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Pamela K. Klebanov, Judith Smith, Kyunghee Lee),
Applied Developmental Science, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2003, pp. 239-252.
“Modeling the Impacts of Child Care Quality on Children’s Preschool Cognitive Development” (with the NICHD
Early Child Care Research Network). Child Development, Vol. 74, No. 5, October 2003, pp. 1454-1475.
“The Importance of Place in Welfare Reform: Are Work, Welfare, and Poverty Outcomes Different in Rural
Areas?” (secondary author, with Bruce Weber and Mark Edwards), Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 30,
No. 1, Winter 2004, pp.31-51.
“The Endogeneity Problem in Developmental Studies” (with Katherine Magnuson and Jens Ludwig) Research in
Human Development, Vol. 1, Nos. 1&2, 2004, pp. 59-80.
“How Welfare Policies Affect Adolescents' School Outcomes: A Synthesis of Evidence from Experimental
Studies” (with Lisa A. Gennetian, Virginia Knox, Wanda Vargas, Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman and Andrew
S. London) Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 14, Number 4, pp. 399-423.
“Housing Mobility Programs and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment”
(secondary author, with Jens Ludwig and Joshua C. Pinkston), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 89, No.
1, January 2005, pp. 131-156.
“Child Care Quality and Child Outcomes: Drawing Policy Lessons from Nonexperimental Data” (with Christina
Gibson) Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, forthcoming.
“Fifteen Years Later: Can Residential Mobility Programs Provide A Long-Term Escape from Neighborhood
Segregation, Crime and Poverty?” With Micere Keels, Stefanie DeLuca, Ruby Mendenhall and James
Rosenbaum) Demography, Volume 42, Number 1, February 2005.
“Peer Effects in Drug Use and Sex among College Students” (with Johanne Boisjoly, Michael Kremer, Dan M.
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Levy, and Jacque Eccles) Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, forthcoming.
“Child Well-Being in an Era of Welfare Reform: The Sensitivity of Transition in Development to Policy Change”
(with Pamela Morris and Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman) Developmental Psychology, forthcoming.
“Impacts on Children of a Policy to Promote Employment and Reduce Poverty: New Hope After Five Years”
(with Aletha Huston, Vonnie McLoyd, Thomas Weisner, Danielle Crosby, Marika Ripke and Carolyn
Eldred) Developmental Psychology, forthcoming.
“Can Family Socioeconomic Resources Account for Racial and Ethnic Test Score Gaps?” (with Katherine
Magnuson), Future of Children, forthcoming.
Books
Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic Progress, Volumes III-VIII, X (co-edited with James
N. Morgan), Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1974-1980, 1982.
The Economics of Personal Choice (secondary author, with James N. Morgan), Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press 1980.
Making Your Choices Count (secondary author, with James N. Morgan), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 1982.
Years of Poverty, Years of Plenty: The Changing Economic Fortunes of American Workers and Families
(principal author, with others), Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1984.
Panel Surveys (co-editor with Graham Kalton, Daniel Kasprzyk and M.P. Singh), New York: John Wiley, 1989.
The Consequences of Growing Up Poor, (co-editor with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn), New York: Russell Sage, 1997.
Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children, (co-editor with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and J.
Lawrence Aber), Volumes I and II, New York: Russell Sage, 1997.
From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development (committee member and
primary author of two report chapters), Jack P. Shonkoff and Deborah Phillips, (eds.), Washington, D.C.:
National Academy Press, 2000.
For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families (co-editor, with Lindsay
Chase-Lansdale) New York: Russell Sage, 2001.
Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform (co-editor, with Bruce Weber and Leslie Whitener) Kalamazoo, MI: W.E.
Upjohn Institute, 2002.
Children’s Health, the Nation’s Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health (committee co-chair, with Ruth
Stein), Committee on Evaluation of Children’s Health, National Research Council and Institute of
Medicine, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2004.
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Chapters in Books
"Educational Attainment," in James N. Morgan, et al., Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic
Progress, Vol. I. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1974.
"Modal Choice in Child Care Arrangements for Working Mothers" (with C. Russell Hill); "Attitudes, Behavior
Patterns, and Economic Outcomes: A Structural Equations Approach" (with Daniel H. Hill); and "Some
Equity Aspects of Gasoline Price Inflation," in Duncan and Morgan (eds.), Five Thousand American
Families--Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. III. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1975.
"Introduction, Overview, Summary, and Conclusions" (with James N. Morgan); and "Unmarried Heads of
Households and Marriage", in Duncan and Morgan (eds.), Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of
Economic Progress, Vol. IV. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1975.
"An Overview of Change in the Economic Status of Families," in R. Curtin (ed.), Surveys of Consumers 1974-75:
Contributions to Behavioral Economics. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1976.
"Labor Market Discrimination and Nonpecuniary Work Rewards," in F.T. Juster, (ed.), The Distribution of
Economic Well-being. NBER Studies in Income And Wealth, No. 41, Cambridge, MA: Ballinger,
1977.
"An Overview of Part I Findings" (with James N. Morgan); "Paths to Economic Well-Being"; and "The Child
Care Mode Choice of Working Mothers" (with C. Russell Hill), in Duncan and Morgan (eds.), Five
Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. V. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social
Research, 1977.
"A Summary of Part I Findings" (with Mary Corcoran); and "Training and Earnings" (with Saul D. Hoffman), in
Duncan and Morgan (eds.) Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic progress Vol. VI.
Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1978.
"College Quality and Earnings" (with James N. Morgan), in I. Sirageldin (ed.), Research in Human Capital and
Development, Vol. I. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1979.
"An Empirical Model of Wage Growth," in Duncan and Morgan (eds.), Five Thousand American
Families--Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. VII. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1979.
"The Use of Time and Technology of Households in the United States" (secondary author, with Frank P.
Stafford), in R.G. Ehrenberg (ed.), Research in Labor Economics, Vol.III, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press,
1980. Reprinted in F.T. Juster and F.P. Stafford (eds.) Time, Goods and Well-being. Ann Arbor:
Institute for Social Research, 1985.
"Information and Influence Networks in Labor Markets" (with Mary Corcoran and Linda Datcher); and "The
Incidence and Some Consequences of Major Life Events" (with James N. Morgan), in Duncan and
Morgan (eds.) Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. VIII. Ann
Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1980.
"Persistence and Change in Economic Status and the Role of Changing Family Composition" (with James N.
Morgan), in Hill, Hill and Morgan (eds.), Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic
Progress, Vol. IX. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1981.
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"Disentangling the Efficacy-Earnings Relationship" (with Jeffrey K. Liker); and "Work Experience and Wage
Growth of Women Workers" (with Mary Corcoran and Michael Ponza), in Duncan and Morgan (eds.),
Five Thousand American Families-Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. X. Ann Arbor: Institute for
Social Research, 1983.
"The Implications of Changing Family Composition for the Dynamic Analysis of Family Economic Well-being,"
in A.B. Atkinson and F.A. Cowell (eds.), Panel Data on Incomes, London: London School of Economics,
1983.
"Work Experience, Job Segregation, and Wages" (with Mary Corcoran and Michael Ponza), in Barbara F. Reskin
(ed.), Sex Segregation in the Workplace: Trends, Explanations, Remedies, National Academy Press,
1984.
"The Role of Panel Studies in a World of Scarce Resources" (primary author, with James N. Morgan and F.
Thomas Juster), in Seymour Sudman and Mary A. Spaeth (eds.), The Collection and Analysis of
Economic and Consumer Behavior Data, Champaign, IL: Bureau of Economic and Business Research,
1984, pp. 301-328. Reprinted in R.W. Pearson and R.F. Boruch (eds.) Survey Research Design: Toward
a Better Understanding of Their Costs and Benefits, Lecture Notes in Statistics, Vol. 38, New York:
Springer-Verlag, 1986.
"Income Dynamics and Self-Conceptions: Linking Theory and Method in Models of Change" (with Sue
Augustyniak and Jeffrey K. Liker), in Glen Elder (ed.) Life Course Dynamics from 1968-1980, Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, 1985.
"Economic Consequences of Marital Instability" (with Saul D. Hoffman), in Martin David and Timothy
Smeeding (eds.), Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty and Well-being, NBER Income and Wealth Conference
volume, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
"Experience with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (secondary author, with James N. Morgan), in G. Orcutt,
J. Merz and H. Quinke (eds.), Microanalytic Simulation Models to Support Social and Financial Policy,
Amsterdam: North Holland, 1986.
"The Volatility of Family Income Over the Life Course," in P. Baltes, D. Featherman, and Richard M. Lerner
(eds.), Life-Span Development and Behavior, Vol. 9, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988,
pp. 317-358.
"Life Events, Public Policy and the Economic Vulnerability of Children and the Elderly" (with Richard
Burkhauser), in J. Palmer, T. Smeeding and B. Torrey (eds.) The Vulnerable Washington, D.C.: Urban
Institute Press, 1988.
"The Persistence of Urban Poverty" (with Terry Adams and Willard Rodgers), in F. Harris and R. Wilkins (eds.)
Quiet Riots: Race and Poverty in the United States. New York: Pantheon, 1988, pp.78-99.
"Measurement Error in Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Labor Market Surveys: Validation Study Evidence"
(with John Bound, Charles Brown and Willard Rodgers), in J. Hartog, G. Ridder and J. Tieuwes (eds.)
Panel Data and Labor Market Studies, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1990, pp. 1-19.
"Data Base Management Approaches to Household Panel Studies" (secondary author, with Peter Solenberger
and Marita Servais), in D. Kasprzyk, G. Duncan, G. Kalton and M.P. Singh (eds.) Panel Surveys, New
York: John Wiley, 1989, pp. 190-225.
"The Rising Affluence of the Elderly; How Far, How Fair, and How Frail?" (with Ken R. Smith), Annual Review
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of Sociology, Vol. 15, Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews Inc., 1989, pp. 261-289.
"Lone-Parent Families and Their Economic Problems: Persistent or Transitory?" (with Willard Rodgers), in Betty
Duskin (ed.) Lone Parents: The Economic Challenge Paris: OECD, 1990, pp. 43-68.
"Teenage Underclass Behavior and Subsequent Poverty: Have the Rules Changed?" (with Saul Hoffman), in
Christopher Jencks and Paul Peterson (eds.) The Urban Underclass, Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1991,
pp. 155-174.
"The Economic Environment of Childhood," in Aletha Huston (ed.) Children in Poverty, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1992.
"Long-Term Poverty in Nonmetropolitan Areas" (with Terry Adams), in Cynthia Duncan (ed.) Rural Poverty In
America, New York: Auburn House, 1992.
"Economic Poverty: Causes and Effects," in Paul Parker (ed.) Standing With the Poor: Theological Reflections
on Economic Reality, Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1992.
"W(h)ither the Middle Class?: A Dynamic View," (with Willard Rodgers and Timothy Smeeding), in Dimitri
Papadimitriou and Edward Wolff (eds.) Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the Late Twentieth
Century, London: MacMillan, pp. 240-271, 1993.
"Poverty and Social-Assistance Dynamics in the United States, Canada and Western Europe" (primary author,
with Bjorn Gustafsson, Richard Hauser, Guenther Schmaus, Stephen Jenkins, Hans Messinger, Ruud
Muffels, Brian Nolan, Jean-Claude Ray, and Wolfgang Voges), in Katherine McFate, Roger Lawson and
William J. Wilson (ed.) Poverty, Inequality and the Future of Social Policy: Western States in the New
World Order. New York: Russell Sage, 1995, pp. 67-108.
"Child Development in the Context of Family and Community Resources: An Agenda for National Data
Collection" (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Brett Brown and Kristin Moore) in Integrating Federal Statistics
on Children, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1995.
"How Nonmarital Childbearing is Affected by Neighborhoods, Marital Opportunities and Labor-Market
Conditions" in Report to Congress on Out-Of-Wedlock Childbearing, DHHS Pub. No. (PHS) 95-1257,
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, September, 1995, pp. 177-189.
"Toward an Understanding of the Effects of Poverty Upon Children" (secondary author, with Jeanne BrooksGunn, Pamela Klebanov and Fong-ruey Liaw) in H.E. Fitzgerald, B.M. Lester and B. Zuckerman (Eds.)
Children of Poverty: Research, Health Care and Policy Issues, New York: Garland Press.
"Welfare Reform and Employment: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know" in B. Weisbrod and J.
Worthy (eds.) Dealing with the Urban Crisis: Linking Research to Action, Evanston: Northwestern
University Press, 1997, 11-32.
"The Timing of Early Home Leaving" (with Martha Hill and Wei-Jun J. Yeung) in J. Graber and J. Dubas (eds.)
Leaving Home, New Directions in Child Development Series, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.
“Poor Families, Poor Outcomes” (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Nancy Maritato), in The Consequences of
Growing Up Poor, co-edited with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, New York: Russell Sage, 1997, pp. 1-17.
"The Effects of Parental Income, Assets and Good Intentions on Children's Adult Attainments" (with William
Axinn and Arland Thornton), in The Consequences of Growing Up Poor, co-edited with Jeanne Brooks13
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Gunn, New York: Russell Sage, 1997, pp. 518-540.
“Income Effects Across the Life Span: Integration and Interpretation” (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) in The
Consequences of Growing Up Poor, co-edited with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, New York: Russell Sage, 1997,
pp. 596-610.
"Neighborhood Models and Measures" (with J. Lawrence Aber), in Neighborhood Poverty: Context and
Consequences for Children, Vol. I, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan and J. Lawrence Aber (eds.),
New York: Russell Sage, 1997, pp. 62-78.
"Household Panel Surveys: Prospects and Problems" in D. Rose (ed.) Household Panel Studies: Methods and
Substance. London: University College London Press, 1997.
"Neighborhood and Family Factors Predicting Educational Risk and Attainment in African-American and
European-American Children and Adolescents" (secondary author, with Bonnie Halpern-Felsher and
others), in Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children, Vol. I, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,
Greg J. Duncan and J. Lawrence Aber (eds.), New York: Russell Sage, 1997, pp. 146-173.
"Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Estimating Causal Effects of Neighborhood and Family Conditions
on Individual Development" (with James Connell and Pamela Klebanov), in Neighborhood Poverty:
Context and Consequences for Children, Vol. 1, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan and J. Lawrence
Aber (eds.), New York: Russell Sage, 1997, 219-250.
"Lessons Learned and Future Directions for Research on Communities and Neighborhoods" (with Jeanne
Brooks-Gunn and J. Lawrence Aber) in Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children,
Vol. 1, co-edited with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan and J. Lawrence Aber, New York: Russell
Sage, 1997, pp. 279-298.
“Longitudinal Indicators of Children’s Poverty and Dependency” (with Leslie Moscow) in Indicators of
Children’s Well-Being, Robert Hauser, Brett Brown and William Prosser (eds.), New York: Russell
Sage, 1997, pp. 258-278.
“Urban Poverty, Welfare Reform and Child Development” (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) Locked In The
Poorhouse: Cities, Race, And Poverty In The U.S. Fred Harris and Lynn Curtis and (eds.), Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield, 1998, pp. 21-32.
“No Pain, No Gain? Inequality and Economic Mobility in the United States, Canada, and Europe” (primary
author, with Bjorn Gustafsson, Richard Hauser, Kjell Jansson, Ilari Keso, Guenther Schmauss, Hans
Messinger, Ruud Muffels, Brian Nolan, Jean-Claude Ray, and Willard Rodgers) Poverty and Economic
Inequality in Industrialized Western Societies Nico Keilman, Jan Lyngstad, Hilde Bojer and Ib Thomsen
(eds.) Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1998, pp. 257-275.
"Family Background, Parenting Practices, and the Black-White Test Score Gap” (with Meredith Phillips, Jeanne
Brooks-Gunn, Pamela Klebanov and Jonathan Crane) in Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips (Eds.)
The Black-White Test Score Gap Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute, 1998, pp. 103-145.
"Are SES Gradients for Children Similar to those for Adults? Achievement and Health of Children in the United
States" (secondary author, with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Pia Rebello) in Daniel P. Keating and Clyde
Hertzman (eds.) Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations, New York: Guilford Publications,
1999, pp. 94-124.
"A Simple Method for Weighting in Household Panel Surveys" in Wolfgang Voges (ed.) Dynamic Approaches to
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Comparative Social Research: Recent Developments and Applications, London: Avebury Publishers,
1999.
“Welfare Dynamics and Welfare Reform” (with Gretchen Caspary) in Lawrence B. Joseph (ed.) Families,
Poverty and Welfare Reform, Chicago: The Chicago Assembly, 1999, pp. 145-167.
“Why Poverty Matters for Young Children: Implications for Policy” (secondary author, with Jeanne BrooksGunn and Tama Leventhal) in J.D. Osofsky & H. E. Fitzgerald (Eds.) WAIMH Handbook of Infant
Mental Health (Volume 3: Parenting and Child Care), New York: Wiley, 2000, pp. 92-130.
“Using Household Panel Studies to Understand Household Behaviour and Well-Being” in David Rose (ed.)
Researching Social and Economic Change: The Uses of Household Panel Studies, London: Routledge,
2000, pp. 54-75.
"The Impact of Divergent Income Dynamics on Mortality in the U.S." (secondary author, with Peggy
McDonough, David Williams and James House). In Giovanni Cornia and Renato Paniccia (eds.), The
Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 392-409.
"Neighborhoods And Adolescent Development: How Can We Determine The Links?" (with Stephen
Raudenbush), in Alan Booth and Ann C. Crouter (eds.) Does it Take a Village? Community Effects on
Children, Adolescents, and Families State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001, pp.
105-136.
“Getting Context Right in Studies of Child Development” (with Stephen Raudenbush), in Arland Thornton (ed.)
The Well-Being of Children and Families: Research and Data Needs. Ann Arbor, MI: University of
Michigan Press, 2001, pp. 356-383.
“Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Children’s Achievement” (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) In Bruce Biddle (ed.),
Social Class, Poverty and Education: Policy and Practice, New York: Routledge-Falmer, 2001, pp. 49-76.
“Welfare Reform and Child Well-Being” (with Lindsay Chase-Lansdale), in Rebecca Blank and Ron T. Haskins
(eds.) The New World of Welfare, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2001, pp. 391-417.
“How Different Are Welfare and Working Families? And Do These Differences Matter for Children’s
Achievement?” (with Rachel Dunifon, Morgan Ward Doran and W. Jean Yeung) in Greg J. Duncan and
Lindsay Chase-Lansdale (eds.) For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of
Children and Families New York: Russell Sage, 2001, pp. 103-131.
“Introduction” (pp. 3-8) and “Lessons Learned” (pp. 307-322) (both with Lindsay Chase-Lansdale) in Greg J.
Duncan and Lindsay Chase-Lansdale (eds.) For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the WellBeing of Children and Families. New York: Russell Sage, 2001.
“Panel Studies, Uses and Applications” in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Neil
Smelser and Paul Baltes (eds.) Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2001.
“Which Welfare Reforms Are Best for Children?” (with Pamela Morris) in Isabell Sawhill, R. Kent Weaver, Ron
Haskins and Andrea Kane (eds.) Welfare Reform and Beyond: The Future of the Safety Net,
Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 2002, pp. 71-78.
“Parents in Poverty” (with Katherine Magnuson). In Marc Bornstein (ed). Handbook of Parenting 2nd Edition,
Vol. 4: Social Conditions and Applied Parenting. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002, pp. 95-121.
“The PSID and Me” in Erin Phelps, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. and Anne Colby (eds.) Landmark Studies of the
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20th Century in the US, New York: Russell Sage, 2002, pp. 133-163.
“Low Income (Poverty) During Prenatal and Early Postnatal Periods and Its Impact on Psychosocial Child
Development” (with Katherine A. Magnuson) In Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development. Centre
of Excellence for Early Childhood Development Web site, 2002, http://www.excellenceearlychildhood.ca/cex_info.asp?lang=EN&info=6
“Off With Hollingshead” (with Katherine Magnuson) in Marc H. Bornstein and Robert H. Bradley (eds.)
Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002, pp.
83-106.
“Evolution and Change in Family Income, Wealth and Health: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1968-2000
and Beyond” in James S.House, F. Thomas Juster, Robert L. Kahn, Howard Schuman, and Eleanor
Singer (eds.) Telescope on Society: Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan
and Beyond. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003.
"Welfare-to-Work Initiatives" (secondary author, with Christy Brady Smith, Martha Zaslow, Tama Leventhal and
Kerry Richter) in Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Allison Sidle Fuligni and Lisa J. Berlin (eds.) Early Childhood
Development in the 21st Century, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp.225-278.
“Promoting the Healthy Development of Young Children” (with Katherine Magnuson) in Isabelle Sawhill (ed.)
One Percent for Kids, Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 2003, pp. 16-39.
"MTO’s Effects on Children and Parents: Evidence from Baltimore” (with Jens Ludwig and Helen Ladd) in John
Goering and Judith D. Feins (eds.) Choosing a Better Life: Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity
Experiment, Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 2003, pp. 153-175
"The Long-Term Impact of Parental Organization and Efficiency" (with Rachel Dunifon and Jeanne BrooksGunn in A. Kalil & T. DeLeire (eds). Family Investments in Children: Resources and Behaviors that
Promote Success. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004, pp. 85-118.
“Parent- vs. Child-Based Intervention Strategies For Promoting Children’s Wellbeing” (with Katherine
Magnuson) in A. Kalil & T. DeLeire (eds). Family Investments in Children: Resources and Behaviors
that Promote Success. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004, pp. 209-236.
“Qualitative/Quantitative Synergies in a Random-Assignment Program Evaluation” (with Christina Gibson) in
Thomas S. Weisner (ed.) Discovering Successful Pathways In Children's Development: New Methods In
The Study Of Childhood And Family Life, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 283-303.
“Individual and Parent-based Intervention Strategies for Promoting Human Capital and Positive Behavior“ (with
Katherine Magnuson) In P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Kathleen Kiernan and Ruth Friedman, (eds.)
Human Development Across Lives and Generations: The Potential for Change, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004.
“The Contribution of Middle Childhood Contexts to Adolescent Achievement and Behavior” (with Katherine
Magnuson and Ariel Kalil) in Aletha C. Huston and Marika H. Ripke (Eds.) Middle Childhood: Contexts
of Development. Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming in 2005).
“The Apple Does Not Fall From the Tree” (with Ariel Kalil and Susan Mayer) in Melissa Osborne, Samuel
Bowles and Herbert Gintis (eds.) Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, New
York: Russell Sage, forthcoming.
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“Welfare Reform and Child Well-Being” in Glen Elder and Warner Schaie (eds.) Historical Influences on Lives
and Aging New York: Springer, forthcoming.
Book Reviews
Review of Sources of Inequality in Earnings, by Paul Taubman, in Journal of Human Resources, Vol. XII, No. 2,
Spring 1977.
Review of Equal Pay in the Office, by Francine D. Blau, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 123,
1977.
Review of Losing Ground, by Charles Murray (with Richard D. Coe), Wall Street Journal, May 15, 1985.
Review of Handbook of Social Science Methods, Volume III, edited by Robert B. Smith, in Journal of Economic
Literature, Vol. XXIV, No. 4, December, 1986.
Review of The Perception of Poverty, by Aldi Hagenaars,in Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol.
82, No. 399, September, 1987.
Review of The Economic Mind, by Adrian Furnham and Alan Lewis, in Journal of Comparative Economics,
forthcoming.
Review of Child Care: Facing the Hard Choices by Alfred Kahn andy Sheila Kamerman, in the Annals of The
American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 500, November 1988 pp. 162-163.
Review of Mothers Alone: Strategies for a Time of Change, by Sheila Kamerman and Alfred Kahn, in Family
Planning Perspectives, (forthcoming).
Review of Working but Poor-America's Contradiction, by Sar A. Levitan and Isaac Shapiro, in American
Political Science Review, Vol. 83, pp. 642-643.
Review of Inequality: The Political Economy of Income Distribution, by Folke Dovring, in the Journal of
Economic Literature, Vol. 31, December, 1993.
Review of America's Children: Resources From Family, Government and the Economy, by Donald J. Hernandez,
in the Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 32, September, 1994, pp. 1261-1262.
Review of Succeeding Generations: On the Effects of Investments in Children, by Robert Haveman and Barbara
Wolfe, in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 14, Fall 1995, pp. 639-640.
Other Articles
"Going Beyond Current Income" (with F. Thomas Juster), American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 18, No. 3,
January/February, 1975, pp. 369-86; also in Biderman and Drury (eds.), Measuring Work Quality for
Social Reporting. New York: John Wiley, 1976.
"Longitudinal Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (with James N. Morgan), Review of Public
Data Use, 10, 1982, pp. 179-184.
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"Who Gets Ahead?...And Who Gets Left Behind?" American Demographics, 4, No. 7, July/August, 1982, pp.
38-41.
"Statistical Computing in a Survey Research Setting" (with James Lepkowski), Professional Statistician, 3, No.7,
August/September 1984, pp. 12-16.
"Behavioral Research with the PSID in Retrospect and Prospect" (with James N. Morgan), Vierteljahrshefte zur
Wirtschaftsforschung, 4, 1984, pp. 415-427.
"A Framework for Tracking Family Relations Over Time," Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 13,
Nos. 3 and 4, December, 1985, pp. 237-244.
"The Changing Fortunes of Young and Old" (with Martha Hill and Willard Rodgers), American Demographics,
8, No. 8, August, 1986, pp. 26-33.
"Welfare Dynamics and the Nature of Need" (with Saul Hoffman), Cato Journal, 6, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1986,
pp. 31-54.
"On the Slippery Slope," American Demographics, 9, No. 5, May 1987, pp. 30-35; also in Managers Magazine,
December, 1987 and Sources in Economics: Readings in Free Enterprise, NY: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1987.
"Badania Dynamiki Dochodow Rodin Amerykanskich (The American Panel Study of Income Dynamics)" (with
James N. Morgan), Economista 18, Nos. 3-4, pp. 745-770.
"La Dinamica de la Pobreza (The Dynamics of Poverty)," Revista de Economia, No. 686, October 1990, pp.
23-47.
"Closing the Gap: Metro-Nonmetro Differences in Long-term Poverty Among Blacks" (with Terry K. Adams),
Rural Development Perspectives, 7, No. 2, February-May 1992, pp. 2-6.
"The Incredible Shrinking Middle Class," (with Timothy Smeeding and Willard Rodgers) American
Demographics, Vol. 14, No. 5, May, 1992, pp. 34-38.
"Job Losses Among Hispanic and Anglos in the Recent Recession," (with Johanne Boisjoly), Monthly Labor
Review, June, 1994.
"Poverty and Adolescents," (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn), Vision 2010: Families and Adolescents, Vol. 2, No. 1,
1994, pp. 16-17.
Welfare’s New Rules: A Pox on Children” (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) Issues In Science and Technology, Vol.
14, No. 2, Winter 1997-1998, pp. 67-72.
Research Reports
"Motivation and Economic Mobility of the Poor" (with others), Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1985.
"A Validation Study of Economic Survey Data" (with Nancy Mathiowetz and others), Ann Arbor: Institute for
Social Research, 1985.
"The Persistence of Urban Poverty and its Demographic and Behavioral Correlates" (with Terry K. Adams), Ann
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Arbor: Survey Research Center, 1988.
“New Hope for People with Low Incomes: Two-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform
Welfare” (with Hans Bos, Aletha Huston, Robert Granger, Tom Brock and Vonnie McLoyd) New York:
MDRC, 1999.
“How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Children: A Synthesis of Research” (with Pamela Morris, Aletha
Huston, Danielle Crosby and Johannes Bos) New York: MDRC, 2001.
“How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents: A Synthesis of Research” (with Lisa A.
Gennetian, Virginia W. Knox, Wanda G. Vargas, Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman, Andrew S. London) New
York: MDRC, 2002.
“New Hope for Families and Children Five-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare”
(with Aletha C. Huston, Cynthia Miller, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Carolyn A. Eldred, Thomas S.
Weisner, Edward Lowe, Vonnie C. McLoyd, Danielle A. Crosby, Marika N. Ripke, Cindy Redcross)
New York: MDRC, 2003.
Dissertation
Nonpecuniary Work Rewards: Implications for Studies of Earnings Functions, Discrimination, and Labor Union
Effects, University of Michigan, June 1974.
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