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to testimony, short papers, opinion articles, speeches, events, interviews, and
other work from 2005-09 at Brookings are here.
Book
Policy and Choice: Public
Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2011. (248 pages.) With William J. Congdon and Sendhil Mullainathan.
Papers on public housing and high-poverty neighborhoods
Bullets Don't Got No Name: Consequences of Fear
in the Ghetto. Subsequently revised and published in Discovering
Successful Pathways in Children's Development: Mixed Methods in the Study
of Childhood and Family Life, edited
by Thomas S. Weisner (
The Early
Impacts of Moving to Opportunity in Boston. Subsequently
revised and published in Choosing a Better Life: Evaluating the Moving to
Opportunity Social Experiment, edited by John Goering and Judith Feins (
Effects
of Neighborhood Characteristics on the Mortality of Black Male Youth: Evidence
from Gautreaux. Subsequently revised and
published in Social Science and Medicine,
68:5 (March 2009), 814-823. With Mark Votruba.
Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects.
Also available are Appendix Tables. Available
as NBER Working Paper No. 11577.
Subsequently revised and published in Econometrica, 75:1
(January 2007), 83-119. With Jeffrey Liebman
and Lawrence Katz. This paper integrates three unpublished working
papers: Beyond Treatment Effects:
Estimating the Relationship between Neighborhood Poverty and Individual
Outcomes in the MTO Experiment, with Jeffrey Liebman
and Lawrence Katz; Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects on
Youth, with Jeffrey Liebman; Moving
To Opportunity and Tranquility: Neighborhood Effects on Adult Economic
Self-sufficiency and Health from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment,
with Jeffrey Liebman, Lawrence Katz, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu (with Appendix Tables).
Is
Crime Contagious? Also available as NBER Working Paper No 12409.
Subsequently revised and published in the Journal
of Law and Economics, 50:3 (August 2007), 491-518. With
Jens Ludwig.
Moving Teenagers Out of High-Risk Neighborhoods: How
Girls Fare Better Than Boys. Published in the American Journal of Sociology, 116:4 (January 2011), 1154-1189. With Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin and Greg J. Duncan.
Moving To Opportunity In Boston: Early Results
of a Randomized Mobility Experiment. Also
available as NBER Working Paper No. 7973.
Subsequently revised and published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics
116:2 (May 2001), 607-654. With Lawrence Katz and Jeffrey Liebman.
Moving To
Opportunity: Interim Impacts Evaluation.
Neighborhood Effects on Barriers to Employment:
Results From a Randomized Housing Mobility Experiment
in Baltimore. Subsequently revised and published in the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs
2006, edited by
Neighborhood
Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing
Voucher Experiment. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 10777.
Subsequently revised and published in the Quarterly
Journal of Economics 120:1 (February 2005), 87-130. With Jens Ludwig and Lawrence Katz.
Neighborhoods
and Academic Achievement: Results from the MTO Experiment. Also
available are Web Appendix Tables. Also
available as NBER Working Paper No. 11909.
Subsequently revised and published in the Journal
of Human Resources, 41:4 (Fall 2006), 649-691. With Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jeanne
Brooks-Gunn, and Greg Duncan.
Neighborhoods,
Obesity and Diabetes: A Randomized Social Experiment. Published in
the New England Journal of Medicine, 365:16 (October 20, 2011),
1509-1519. With Jens Ludwig, Lisa Sanbonmatsu,
Lisa Gennetian, Emma Adam, Greg J. Duncan, Lawrence
F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, Stacy T. Lindau, Robert
C. Whitaker, and Thomas W. McDade.
Synthesis of MTO Research on Self-Sufficiency, Safety and
Health, and Behavior and Delinquency. Poverty Research News 5:1 (Jan-Feb 2001), 3-6. With
Alessandra Del Conte.
Unpacking Neighborhood Influences on Education
Outcomes: Setting the Stage for Future Research. Also
available as NBER Working Paper No. 16055.
Subsequently revised and published in Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances,
edited by Greg J. Duncan and Richard Murnane (New
York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2011). With David J. Harding,
Lisa Gennetian, Christopher Winship,
and Lisa Sanbonmatsu.
Urban Poverty and Educational Outcomes: Comments. Subsequently
revised and published in Brookings-Wharton Papers on
Urban Affairs 2001, edited by William G. Gale and Janet R.
Pack (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2006), 189-192.
What
Can We Learn About Neighborhood Effects from the Moving To Opportunity
Experiment? Published in the American
Journal of Sociology 114:1 (July 2008), 144-188. With
Jens O. Ludwig, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Greg J. Duncan,
Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu.
Additional
information on MTO research is here.
Papers on criminal offenders
Costs, Benefits and
Distributional Consequences of Inmate Labor. Subsequently
revised and published in the Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meetings (New
Incarceration Length,
Employment and Earnings. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 12003.
Subsequently revised and published in the American
Economic Review, 96:3 (June 2006), 863-876.
The Labor Market Consequences
of Incarceration. Subsequently revised and published in Crime
and Delinquency 47:3 (July 2001), 410-427. With Bruce
Western and David Weiman.
Measuring
Interjudge Disparity in Sentencing: Before and After
the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Subsequently revised and
published in the Journal of Law and Economics, 42:1 (April 1999),
271-307. With James Anderson and Kate Stith.
Prison-based
Education and Reentry Into the Mainstream Labor
Market. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 12114.
Subsequently revised and published in Barriers to Reentry? The Labor Market
for Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial
Other papers
Behavioral Economics and Tax
Policy. Subsequently revised and published in the National Tax Journal 62 (September
2009), 375-386. With William J. Congdon
and Sendhil Mullainathan.
Comparison
Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127:1
(February 2012), 199-235. With Sendhil
Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Lee C. Vermeulen, and
Marian V. Wrobel.
Fundamentally
Restructuring Unemployment Insurance: Wage-loss Insurance and Temporary
Earnings Replacement Accounts. Subsequently revised and
published in The Path to Prosperity: Hamilton Project Ideas on Income Security,
Education, and Taxes. Edited by Jason Furman and Jason E. Bordoff. (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution,
2008), 29-62.
High performance work systems
and firm performance. Monthly Labor Review, 118:5 (May 1995),
29-36.
Interpreting Instrumental Variables Estimates of the
Returns to Schooling. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 7989.
Subsequently revised and published in the Journal of Business and Economic
Statistics 19:3 (July 2001), 358-364.
Mechanism Experiments and
Policy Evaluations. Subsequently revised and published in the
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25:3 (Summer 2011), 17-38. With Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan.
Methodological Frontiers of Public Finance Field Experiments.
Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 12931.
Subsequently revised and published in the National
Tax Journal, 60:1 (March 2007), 109-127.
The Role of the Earned Income Tax Credit in the Budgets of
Low-Income Families. Social Service Review, forthcoming. With Ruby Mendenhall,
Kathryn Edin, Susan Crowley, Jennifer Sykes, Laura Tach, and Katrin Kriz.
Why Don't People Insure Late Life Consumption? A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization
Puzzle. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 13748.
Subsequently revised and published in the American
Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 98:2 (May 2008), 304-309. With Jeffrey R. Brown, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Marian V. Wrobel.
The
views expressed in these works are those of the authors and should not be
interpreted as those of the Congressional Budget Office.
This research is based in on work supported
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (R49-CE000906), the National
Institute on Aging (P30-AG012810, P01-AG005842-20S1, R56-AG031259 and
P01-AG005842-22S1), the Institute of Education Sciences at the Department of
Education (R305U070006), the National Institute of Child Health and Development
and the National Institute of Mental Health (R01-HD40404, R01-HD40444, and
R01-MH077026), the National Science Foundation (0527615, 0091854, 9876337, and
9513040), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (C-CHI-00808), the
Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford
Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation,
the Smith Richardson Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Mott Foundation,
the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Spencer Foundation, and the W.T. Grant
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