Rebecca M. Blank
University of Wisconsin
161 Bascom Hall
500 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: 608-262-9946
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Institutional Affiliation: University of Wisconsin
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NBER Working Papers and Publications
| May 2008 | The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families
with Jordan D. Matsudaira: w14038
Published: The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low-Income Families Jordan D. Matsudaira, Rebecca M. Blank Article first published online: 10 OCT 2013 DOI: 10.1002/pam.21725 © 2013 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Issue Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Volume 33, Issue 1, pages 7–35, Winter 2014 citation courtesy of 
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| December 2007 | Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? A Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior
with Kerwin Kofi Charles, James M. Sallee: w13667
Published: 2 “A Cautionary Tale About the Use of Administrative Data: Eviden ce from Age of Marriage Laws” (with Rebecca M. Blank and Kerwin Kofi Charles), American Economic Journal: Applied Microeconomics, 1(2), April 2009, pp. 128 - 149.
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| August 2006 | Exploring Gender Differences in Employment and Wage Trends Among Less-Skilled Workers
with Heidi Shierholz: w12494
Published: Blank, Rebecca M., Sheldon H. Danziger, and Robert F. Schoeni (eds.) Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes Are Affecting Low-Wage Workers, National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.
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| June 2002 | Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States
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Published: Rebecca M. Blank, 2002. "Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 40(4), pages 1105-1166, December. citation courtesy of
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| February 2002 | Can Equity and Efficiency Complement Each Other?
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Published: Blank, Rebecca M. "Can Equity And Efficiency Complement Each Other?" Labour Economics, September 2002, 9(4): 451-468 citation courtesy of
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| August 2001 | The Clinton Legacy for America's Poor
with David T. Ellwood: w8437
Published: Frankel, Jeffrey A. and Peter R. Orszag (eds.) American Economic Policy in the 1990s. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
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| March 2000 | What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure
with Robert F. Schoeni: w7627
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| April 1999 | When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services
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Published: Economic Journal, Vol. 110, no. 462 (March 2000): C34-C49. citation courtesy of
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| March 1999 | Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families
with David Card, Philip K. Robins: w6998
Published: Finding Jobs: Work and Welfare Reform, Blank, Rebecca and David Card,eds., New York: Russell Sage, 2000.
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| December 1997 | What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow?
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Published: Blank, Rebecca. "What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads To Grow?," Journal of Human Resources, 2001, v36(1,Winter), 85-118. citation courtesy of
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| November 1994 | The Dynamics of Part-Time Work
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Published: (Published as "Labor Market Dynamics and Part-Time Work") Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 17, Pelachek, Solomom, ed., Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1998.
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| September 1994 | State Abortion Rates: The Impact of Policies, Providers, Politics, Demographics, and Economic Environment
with Christine C. George, Rebecca A. London: w4853
Published: Journal of Health Economics, Vol.15, pp.513-553, 1996. citation courtesy of
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| January 1994 | Front matter, table of contents, preface
in Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off?, Rebecca M. Blank
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| Introduction to "Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off?"
in Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off?, Rebecca M. Blank
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| Evaluating the Connection between Social Protection and Economic Flexibility
with Richard B. Freeman
in Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off?, Rebecca M. Blank
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| Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility: The United States versus the United Kingdom
in Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off?, Rebecca M. Blank
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| List of Contributors, Indexes
in Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off?, Rebecca M. Blank
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| August 1993 | When Do Women Use AFDC & Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility vs. Participation
with Patricia Ruggles: w4429
Published: Journal of Human Resources, Vol.31, No.1, pp.57-89, Winter 1996.
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| April 1993 | Evaluating the Connection Between Social Protection and Economic Flexib ility
with Richard B. Freeman: w4338
Published: Social Protection vs. Economic Flexibility: Is There a Tradeoff? University of Chicago Press, 1994.
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| Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility: The United States vs. The United Kingdom
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Published:
- Rebecca M. Blank, 1994. "Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility: The United States versus the United Kingdom," NBER Chapters, in: Social Protection versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off?, pages 223-264 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Social Protection vs. Economic Flexibility: Is There a Tradeoff? University of Chicago Press, 1994.
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| January 1993 | Responding to Need: A Comparison of Social Safety Nets in Canada and the United States
with Maria J. Hanratty
in Small Differences That Matter: Labor Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada and the United States, David Card and Richard B. Freeman
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| October 1991 | Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s?
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Published: Papadimitrious, Dimitri B. and Edward N. Wolff (eds.) Poverty and Prosperity in the US in the Late Twentieth Century. London: Macmillan Press, 1993.
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| October 1990 | Down and Out in North America: Recent Trends in Poverty Rates in the U.S. and Canada
with Maria J. Hanratty: w3462
Published: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 107, No.1, pp. 233-254, Feb 1992
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| March 1989 | Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Unemployment: Is There an Explanation?
with David Card: w2871
Published: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 106, no. 4, pp. 1157-89, November 1991 citation courtesy of
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| Recent Trends in Housing Conditions Among the Urban Poor
with Harvey S. Rosen: w2886
Published: Research in Urban Economics. (ed) Mark A Hughes, and Therese J McGuire. JAI Press: Greenwich, CT, 1990.
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| October 1987 | Why are Wages Cyclical in the 1970's?
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Published: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 16-47, 1989. citation courtesy of
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| Disaggregating the Effect of the Business Cycle on the Distribution of Income
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Published: Economica, vol. 56, no. 2, pp141-163, May 1989. citation courtesy of
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| September 1986 | How Important is Welfare Dependence?
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Published: Journal of Public Economics. "Analyzing the Duration of Welfare Spells" Vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 245-273, August 1989.
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| February 1985 | Macroeconomics, Income Distribution, and Poverty
with Alan S. Blinder: w1567
Published: Blank, Rebecca M. and Alan S. Blinder. "Macroeconomics, Income Distribution, and Poverty," Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Does Not, Sdon Danziger (ed.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
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