Spring 1996 Working Papers

Poverty, Race, and Inequality

WP-96-01
Do Official Poverty Rates Provide Useful Information About Trends in Children's Economic Welfare?
Christopher Jencks and Susan E. Mayer

WP-96-02
Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children?
Greg J. Duncan, Wei-Jun Yeung, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Judith Smith

WP-96-03
Welfare, Work, and Choices: Expanding Notions of Policy Incentives
Judith A. Levine

WP-96-04
Single Mothers' Living Arrangements: The Effect of Household Composition on AFDC Participation
Rebecca A. London

WP-96-05
The Effects of Income and Wealth on Time and Money Transfers Between Parents and Children
Joseph G. Altonji, Fumio Hayashi, and Laurence Kotlikoff

WP-96-07
Lake Parc Place: A Study of the First Four Years of a Mixed-Income Housing Program
James E. Rosenbaum, Linda K. Stroh, and Cathy Flynn

Educational Policy

WP-96-08
Parent Involvement in Shared Decision Making: Barriers to Democratic Participation in Urban Elementary Schools
John B. Diamond

WP-96-09
Individuals in Institutional Contexts: A Reexamination of Factors Influencing Degree Attainment
James C. Witte and Curtis Askew

Wp-96-10
Using Siblings to Estimate the Effect of School Quality on Wages
Joseph G. Altonji and Thomas A. Dunn

Labor Markets and Employment

WP-96-11
Employer Learning and the Signaling Value of Education
Joseph G. Altonji and Charles R. Pierret

WP-96-12
Unions, Employers Associations, and Wage-Setting Institutions in North and Central Europe, 1950-1992
Michael Wallerstein, Miriam Golden, and Peter Lange

WP-96-13
Job Creation and Job Destruction with Local and Centralized Wage-Setting
Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein

WP-96-14
The Impact of Immigration on Natives in the Antebellum U.S. Labor Market, 1850-60
Joseph P. Ferrie

WP-96-15
The Missing Link: Social Infrastructure and Employers' Use of Information
Shazia Rafiullah Miller and James E. Rosenbaum

WP-96-16
Employment Effects on East German Fertility After Unification
James C. Witte and Gert G. Wagner

Feminist Public Policy

WP-96-17
It's a Man's Job, or So they Say: The Production of Sex Segregation in Occupations
Judith A. Levine

WP-96-18
In Defense of "Descriptive" Representation
Jane Mansbridge

Business and Government

WP-96-19
The Market for Equity Markets: The Classification and Regulation of Automated Trading Systems
Ian Domowitz and Ruben Lee

WP-96-20
Complaints and Geographic Mobility as Responses to Dissatisfaction with Public Services
Paul J. Devereux and Burton A. Weisbrod

Global Perspectives

See WP-96-12, WP-96-13, and WP-96-16