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Aughinbaugh, Alison

• "The Effects of High School Math Curriculum on College Attendance: Evidence from the NLSY97" presented Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting (2008)
• "Attrition in the NLSY97" (with Rosella M. Gardecki) presented at Conference on 10th Anniversary of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (2008)
• "The Relationship between Cooperativeness and Unit Non-Response among Participants in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979" (with Rosella M. Gardecki) presented at Conference on Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys (2006)
• "Reports of Income under Different Bracketing Techniques: Evidence from the NLSY79" (with Rosella M. Gardecki), Unpublished Working Paper, January 2005.
• Other papers by Alison Aughinbaugh

Choi, Eleanor

• Small Business and Entrepreneurship during an Economic Recovery Conference, November 2011. The Declining Average Size of Establishements (Dec. 2011 version) and Slides
• "The Declining Average Size of Establishments: Evidence and Explanations," (with James Spletzer), Working Paper, May 2011.
• "Does the Internet Help the Unemployed Find Jobs?" Working Paper, November 2010.
• "Structural Labor Supply Model and Wage Prediction Errors," Working Paper, November 2010.
• "Evaluating a Structural Model of Labor Supply and Welfare Participation: Evidence from State Welfare Reform Experiments," Working Paper, January 2010.

Dey, Matthew S.

• "Manufacturers Outsourcing to Employment Services," (with Sue Houseman and Anne Polivka). Working Paper at W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. December 2006.
• "Welfare and Mobility Effects of Employer-Provided Health Insurance." Unpublished Working Paper, September 2002.
• "Household Bargaining and Labor Market Dynamics" (with Chris Flinn). Unpublished Working Paper, August 2001.
• Other papers by Matthew S. Dey

Frazis, Harley

• "How to Think About Time-Use Data: What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?" (with Jay Stewart), BLS Working Paper 442, October 2010.
• "How Responsive are Quits to Benefits?" (with Mark Loewenstein), BLS Working Paper 426, August 2009.
• "Wage Compression and the Division of Returns to Productivity Growth: Evidence from EOPP" (with Mark Loewenstein), BLS Working Paper 398, August 2006.
• "What Do Male Nonworkers Do? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey" (with Jay Stewart), November 2005.
• "How Does Nonmarket Production Affect Earnings Inequality? Evidence from the American Time-Use Survey" (with Jay Stewart), BLS Working Paper 393 (also Levy Institute Working Paper 454), May 2006 (earliest version October 2004).
• Other papers by Harley Frazis

Groen, Jeffrey A.

• "Time to the Doctorate and Labor Demand for New PhD Recipients," Cornell Higher Education Research Institute Working Paper 146, January 2012.
• "Seasonal Differences in Employment between Survey and Administrative Data," BLS Working Paper 443, February 2011.
• Other papers by Jeffrey A. Groen

Handwerker, Elizabeth Weber

• "What happens to the employers involved in Mass Layoffs?" (with Lowell Mason), Working Paper, May 2011
• "Variation in the Cost of Job Loss by Worker Skill: Evidence Using Matching Data from California, 1991-2000," (with Till von Wachter), Working paper, January 2011
• "The role of Establishments (and the jobs therein) in Wage Inequality" (with James Spletzer). Presented at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in November 2011.
• "Measuring the impact of college cost shocks on parents' labor supply" (with Emily Isenberg), March 2010.
• "Estimating the "True" Cost of Job Loss: Evidence Using Matched Data from California 1991-2000" (with Andrew Hildreth and Till von Wachter). CES Working Paper 09-14.
• Other papers by Elizabeth W. Handwerker

Loewenstein, Mark A.

• "Wage Compression and the Division of Returns to Productivity Growth: Evidence from EOPP" (with Harley Frazis). August 2009.
• "How Responsive are Quits to Benefits?" (with Harley Frazis). BLS Working Paper 426, August 2009.
• Other papers by Mark A. Loewenstein

Mason, Lowell

• "Domestic Employment in Multinational Companies" (with Elizabeth Weber Handwerker and Mina Kim), Working Paper, July 2011
• "What happens to the employers involved in Mass Layoffs?" (with Elizabeth Weber Handwerker), Working Paper, May 2011

Pierret, Charles R.

• "Employment before Age 16: Does It Make a Difference?" (with Patricia L. Gladden) May 2008, Presented at NLSY97 Tenth Anniversary Conference.
• "The Impact of Family Structure Transitions on Youth Achievement: Evidence from the Children of the NLSY79" (with Donna S. Rothstein and Alison A. Aughinbaugh) July 2002. Presented at the American Economic Association Meetings in January 2002.
• Other papers by Charles R. Pierret

Polivka, Anne

• "Using Earnings Data from the Monthly Current Population Survey" Revised version presented at Southern Economics Meetings, 2000, Original Version presented at American Economics Association Meeting 2000.
• Other papers by Anne Polivka

Robles, Omar

• "Suicide Due to Low-Quality Marriage." Working Paper, September 2010.
• "Predicting Loan Default Using Psychology and Behavioral Experiments" (with Sendhil Mullainathan and Dean Karlan) Working Paper, September 2010.
• "Comment on Changing the Price of Marriage." Working Paper, June 2010.
• "The Health Consequences of Repealing Premarital Blood Testing." Working Paper, June 2010.
• "Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania." (with Erica Field and Maximo Toreno). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4):140-69.

Rothstein, Donna S.

• "Breastfeeding and Children's Early Cognitive Outcomes." December 2009. Unpublished paper (revising). Presented at the Southern Economic Association meetings in 2008.
• "Do School-to-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half?" (with David Neumark) September 2005. NBER Working Paper #11636.
• "High School Employment and Youths' Academic Achievement." Unpublished Working Paper. November 2004. Presented at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings in February 2004 and the Society for Research on Adolescence in March 2004.
• "School-to-Career Programs and Transitions to Employment and Higher Education" (with David Neumark). November 2003. NBER Working Paper #10060. Presented at the APPAM meetings in November 2003 and the Russell Sage Conference on School-to-Career Transitions in May 2004.
• "The Impact of Family Structure Transitions on Youth Achievement: Evidence from the Children of the NLSY79" (with Alison Aughinbaugh and Charles R. Pierret). August 2004. Presented at the American Economic Association Meetings in January 2002.
• Other papers by Donna S. Rothstein

Spletzer, James

• "What Can OES Data Tell Us About Growing Wage Inequality?" (with Elizabeth Weber Handwerker). Presented at the June 2010 meetings of the Society of Labor Economists.
• "Establishment Wage Differentials" (with Julia I. Lane and Laurie A. Salmon). BLS working paper #403, March 2007.
• "Business Employment Dynamics: Tabulations by Employer Size" (with Shail J. Butani, Richard L. Clayton, Vinod Kapani, David M. Talan, and George S. Werking Jr.). BLS working paper #385, December 2005
• "The Contribution of Establishment Births and Deaths To Employment Growth." BLS working paper #310, March 1998.
• "Belated Training: The Relationship Between Training, Tenure, and Wages" (with Mark A. Loewenstein). BLS working paper #296, September 1996.
• "Formal and Informal Training: Evidence from the NLSY" (with Mark A. Loewenstein). BLS working paper #254, June 1994.
• "Testing for the Presence of Liquidity Constraints in Post-Secondary Educational Attainment." BLS working paper #223, November 1991.
• Other papers by James Spletzer

Sun, Hugette

• "Child Support Policy and Divorce." Working Paper, December 2009.
• "Does Trade Liberalization Affect Labor Market Churning?" (with Mina Kim and Shintaro Yamaguchi) Working Paper, June 2009.
• "Child Support Policy and Fertility." Working Paper, October 2008.
• "Child Support Guidelines and the Work Incentives of Married Mothers." (with John Hore) Working Paper, September 2008.

Last Modified Date: January 25, 2012