Joint Center for Poverty Research
Working Papers

Education and Training

Ability, Educational Ranks, and Labor Market Trends: The Effects of Shifts in the Skill Composition of Educational Groups
Author: Dan T. Rosenbaum

Academic and Behavioral Outcomes among the Children of Young Mothers
Author: Judith Levine, Harold Pollack, Maureen E. Comfort

Adolescents' School Enrollment and Employment:Effect of State Welfare Policies
Author: Lingxin Hao, Andrew Cherlin, Nan M. Astone

Aiding Welfare-to-work Transitions: Lessons from JTPA on the Cost-effectiveness of Education and Training Services
Author: Carolyn J. Heinrich

An Assessment of Relationship Between Growth and Inequality Using Micro Data from Thailand
Author: Hyeok Jeong

Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School?
Author: V. Joseph Hotz, Lixin Xu, Marta Tienda, Avner Ahituv

Associations Between Participation in the National School Lunch Program, Food Insecurity, and Child Well-Being
Author: Rachel Dunifon, Lori Kowaleski-Jones

Challenging Instruction for "All Students": Policy, Practitioners, and Practice
Author: James P. Spillane

Changes in Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education
Author: Daron Acemoglu, Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Disadvantage Among Families Remaining on Welfare
Author: Robert A. Moffitt, Andrew Cherlin

Does Age at Enrollment in First Grade Affect Children's Cognitive Test Scores
Author: Susan E. Mayer, David Knutson

Early Childhood Intervention Programs: What Do We Know?
Author: Janet Currie

Empathy or Antipathy? The Consequences of Racially and Socially Diverse Peers on Attitudes and Behaviors
Author: Greg Duncan, Johanne Boisjoly, Dan Levy, Michael Kremer, Jacquelynne S. Eccles

Governance And Performance: The Influence of Program Structure and Management on Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Program Outcomes
Author: Carolyn J. Heinrich, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed?
Author: Susan E. Mayer, Leonard Michael Lopoo

How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect American Children's Educational Attainment?
Author: Susan E. Mayer

How Economic Segregation Affects Children's Educational Attainment
Author: Susan E. Mayer

Implications of an Economic Evaluation of Projected Health Outcomes in a Community Nutrition Program for Limited Resource Audiences
Author: Jamie S. Dollahite, Donald S. Kenkel

Income Inequality, Economic Segregation and Children's Educational Attainment
Author: Susan E. Mayer

Is a Family-focused Program More Effective in Helping Low-Income Parents Enter the Workforce? Insights from a Multimethod Evaluation of the Jobs for Youth/Full Family Partnership Demonstration
Author: Carolyn J. Heinrich

Is the Proportion of College Workers in "Non-College" Jobs Increasing?
Author: Peter T. Gottschalk, Michael Hansen

Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence From the National Educational Longitudinal Survey
Author: Robert W. Fairlie, Alexandra M. Resch

Loans, Liquidity, and Schooling Decisions
Author: Susan M. Dynarski

Measuring Program Impacts On Earnings and Employment
Author: Robert Kornfeld, Howard S. Bloom

Parental Job Loss and Early Adolescent Adjustment in Black and White Families
Author: Ariel Kalil, Thomas DeLeire

Policies to Foster Human Capital
Author: James J. Heckman

Poverty, Delinquency, and Educational Attainment: Cumulative Disadvantage or Disadvantage Saturation?
Author: Lance Hannon

Preparing for Retirement: The Importance of Planning Costs
Author: Annamaria Lusardi

Private Schools and Latino "Flight" from Black Children
Author: Robert W. Fairlie

Returns to Tenure and Experience Revisited -- Do Less Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience?
Author: Helen Connolly, Peter T. Gottschalk

Short- and Long-Term Effects of AFDC Receipt on Families
Author: Rachel Dunifon

The Consequences of Merit Aid
Author: Susan M. Dynarski

The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports
Author: Lance Lochner, Enrico Moretti

The Effect of Increasing Welfare Mothers' Education on their Young Children's Academic Problems and School Readiness
Author: Katherine Magnuson, Sharon McGroder

The Effects of Home Computers on School Enrollment
Author: Robert W. Fairlie

The Effects of MTO on Educational Opportunities in Baltimore: Early Evidence
Author: Jens Otto Ludwig, Helen F. Ladd

The Relationship between Wage Growth and Wage Levels
Author: Tricia Lynn Gladden, Christopher R. Taber

The Social Outcomes of Street Gang Involvement
Author: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Using Administrative Data to Evaluate the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program
Author: Kevin Hollenbeck, Jean Kimmel, Randall W. Eberts

Using Sibling Samples to Assess the Effect of Childhood Family Income on Completed Schooling
Author: Dan Levy, Greg Duncan

Welfare to Temporary Work: Implications for Labor Market Outcomes
Author: Carolyn J. Heinrich, Peter Mueser, Kenneth R. Troske

Welfare-to-Work Policy: Employer Hiring and Retention of Former Welfare Recipients
Author: Julia Lane, David Stevens

What Do Welfare-to-Work Demonstrations Reveal to Welfare Reformers?
Author: John V. Pepper

Whose Job Is It? Employers' Views on Welfare Reform
Author: June Heineman, Greg Owen, Ellen Shelton, Justine Nelson-Christinedaughter, Corinna Roy, Amy Bush Stevens