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CURRICULUM VITAE October 2009 NAME: Peter T. Gottschalk ADDRESS: 15 Braddock Park Boston, Massachusetts 02116 PHONE: 617-247-6758 (home) 617-552-4517 (office)
EDUCATION: University of Pennsylvania: 1967/70, Ph.D. in economics 1973 George Washington University: 1963/67, BA in economics 1965, MA in economics 1967 University of Michigan: 1961/63
CURRENT POSITIONS:
Boston College: Professor of Economics, 1987 to present.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS Russell Sage Foundation, Visiting Scholar, Fall 1993 and Fall 1996 Bowdoin College:
Associate Professor of Economics, 1977 to 1983 Professor of Economics, 1983 to 1987
Chairperson, 1982-84; 1986-1987 Brookings Institution: 1984, Visiting Fellow. Mount Holyoke College: 1975 to 1977, Assistant Professor.
Brookings Institution and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare: 1975, Brookings Economics Policy Fellow in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
University of California, Santa Cruz (Stevenson College): 1972 to 1975, Assistant Professor. Williams College: 1970 to 1972, Assistant Professor.
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TEACHING FIELDS: Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Poverty and Discrimination
Affiliations IZA, University of Bonn : Research Fellow, 2003 to present National Poverty Center, University of Michigan: Senior Research Affiliate, 2003
to present Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin: Research Affiliate,
1981 to present
Center for Retirement Research, Boston College: Research Associate at the 1998-present
Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, 1996 to present Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University, 2006 to present International Collaborator for the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Research
Network, 2006 to present
Editorial Board Co-Editor Journal of Human Resources 1986-1990 Editorial Board Review of Income and Wealth 1996-2000
RESEARCH: Books:
Uneven Tides, edited with Sheldon Danziger, Russell Sage Press, 1992 America Unequal, with Sheldon Danziger , Harvard University Press and Russell
Sage Press, 1995. Changing Patterns in the Distribution of Economic Welfare edited with Bjorn
Gustafson and Edward Palmer. Cambridge University Press 1997.
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Generating Jobs: How to Increase Demand for Less-Skilled Workers, edited with
Richard Freeman, Russell Sage Foundation Press, 1998. Journal Articles:
"The Average Workweek of Capital in Manufacturing" (with P. Taubman), Journal of the American Statistical Association,. Vol. 66 (335), September 1971.
"Deductions versus Credits Revisited," National Tax Journal, Vol. 29 (2), June
1976.
"Earnings, Transfers and Poverty Reduction," Research in Labor Economics, 1978. "A Comparison of Marginal Productivity and Earnings by Occupation," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 31 (3), April 1978. "Principles of Tax Transfer Integration," Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 16 (3), Summer 1981. "Transfer Scenarios and Projections of Poverty into the 1980's," Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 16 (1), 41-60, Winter 1981. "Regional Allocation of Federal Funds," Policy Analysis, Spring 1981.
"A Synthesis of Contour and Flexible Wage Theory," Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 15 (3), 629-640, September 1981.
"A Note on Estimating Treatment Effects," American Economic Review, Vol. 71.(
4), 764-769, September 1981.
"Earnings Mobility: Permanent Change or Transitory Fluctuations," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 64 (3), 450-456, August 1982.
"Employer Initiated Job Terminations," Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 49 (1),
35-44, July 1982. "Methodological Issues in Testing Marginal Productivity Theory" (with Jan Tinbergen), De Economist, Vol. 130, 1982. "What Averages Don't Reveal about Real Economic Growth" (with Tim Maloney),
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Winter 1983. "Earnings Inequality among Males in the U.S.: Trends and the Effect of Labor Force Growth" (with Martin Dooley), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 92 (1),
59-89, February 1984.
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"A Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Economic Growth and Transfers on
Poverty" (with Sheldon Danziger), American Economic Review, Vol. 75 (1), 153-162, March 1985.
"The Effects of Unemployment and Policy Changes on America's Poor" (with
Sheldon Danziger and Eugene Smolensky), Journal of Social Policy, July 1985. "The Increasing Proportion of Men with Low Earnings: Some Demographic
Explanations" (with Martin Dooley), Demography, Vol. 22 (1), 25-34 February 1985.
"The Impact of Budget Cuts and Economic Conditions on Poverty" (with Sheldon
Danziger), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Summer 1985. "Involuntary Terminations, Unemployment and Job Matching: A Test of Job Search
Theory" (with Tim Maloney), Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 3 (2), 109-123, April 1985.
"Do Rising Tides Lift All Boats? The Impact of Macroconditions on Poverty"
(with Sheldon Danziger), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 86 (2), 405-410. May 1986.
"Impact of 1981 AFDC Reforms on Weeks Worked and Welfare Duration" (with Dan Feaster and George Jakubson), Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 22 (4), 53222-541, Fall 1987. "Earnings Inequality, the Spatial Concentration of Poverty, and the Underclass" (with Sheldon Danziger), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings,
Vol. 77 (2), 211-215, May 1987.
"The Distribution of Health Care Financing in the Overall Population and Among the Elderly" (with Barbara Wolfe), Social Justice Review, September 1987.
"The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Job Search, "Journal of Labor Economics,
Vol 6 (3), 362-375, July 1988. "An Error Components Model of the Impact of Plant Closings on Earnings" (with
Steve Berry and Doug Wissoker) Review of Economics and Statistics 1988.
"Increasing Inequality in the U.S.: What We Know and What We Don't Know" (with Sheldon Danziger) Journal of Post Keynesian Economics (Winter 1989) and reprinted in Macroeconomic Problems and Policies of Income Distribution, (edited by Paul Davidson ).
"How the Rich Have Fared, 1973-1987" (with Sheldon Danziger and Eugene
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Smolensky) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1989. Vol. 79 (2), 310-314.
"A Random Effects Logit Model of Work-Welfare Transitions" Journal of
Econometrics :Special Issue on Econometric Issues in Measuring Inequality. (with John Engberg and Doug Wolf) Vol. 43 (1–2). 63-75, January – February 1990.
"AFDC Participation across Generations" American Economic Review Papers and
Proceedings, Vol. 80 (2), 367-371, May 1990. "The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Participation: Facts and Possible
Causes" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Spring 1992. "Changes in Inequality of Family Income in Seven Industrialized Countries"
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 83 (2), 136-142, May 1993.
"Welfare Dependence: Concepts, Measures, and Trends" (with Robert Moffitt)
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 84, (2), 38-42, May 1994.
"Growth in Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market" (with Robert Moffitt)
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1994. "The Effect of Cohort Composition on Human Capital Accumulation across
Generations" (with Rachel Connelly) Journal of Labor Economics,. Vol. 13 (1), 155-176, January 1995.
"Is the Correlation in Welfare Participation across Generations Spurious?" Journal
of Public Economics , Vol. 63 1996. "The Loss in Efficiency from Using Grouped Data to Estimate Coefficients on
Group Level Variables". (with Kathleen Lang) Computational Economics,1996.
“Inequality, Income Growth and Mobility: the Basic Facts”. Journal of Economic
Perspectives. , Vol. 11 (2), 21-40, Spring 1997. “Cross-National Comparisons of Earnings and Income Inequality” (with Timothy
Smeeding) Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 35 (2), 633-688, June 1997. “Cross-National Differences in the Rise in Earnings Inequality-- Market and
Institutional Forces” (with Mary Joyce) Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 80 (4), 489-502, 1998.
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“An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: the Michigan Panel of Income Dynamics” (with John Fitzgerald and Robert Moffitt) Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 33(2), 251-299, Spring 1998.
“An Analysis of the Impact of Sample Attrition on the Second Generation of
Respondents in the Michigan Panel of Income Dynamics” (with John Fitzgerald and Robert Moffitt) Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 33 (2), 300-344, Spring 1998.
“Changes in Job Instability and Insecurity Using Monthly Survey Data” (with
Robert Moffitt) Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 17. (4), 1S91-S126, 1999. “Sample Attrition in Panel Data" The Role of Selection on Observables” (with
Robert Moffitt and John Fitzgerald) Annales: d'Economie et de Statistique, 55-56, 129-152. December 1999.
“Empirical Evidence on Income Inequality in Industrial Countries” (with Timothy
Smeeding) Handbook of Income Distribution (edited by Atkinson and Bourguignon. 2000.
"Trends in the Transitory Variance of Earnings in the U.S." (with Robert Moffitt)
The Economic Journal, Vol. 112 (478), C68-C73, 2002. “On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility” (with Enrico Spolaore) Review of
Economic Studies, Vol. 69, 191-208, 2002. “Is the Proportion of College Workers in ‘Non-College’ Jobs Increasing?” (with
Michael Hansen) Journal of Labor Economics, Vol 21 (2), 449-472, 2003, reprinted in Modern Classics in the Economics of .Education, 2005
“Inequality of Wage Rates, Earnings and Family Income in the United States,
1975-2002” Review of Income and Wealth 51, no 2, June 2005. “Can Work Alter Welfare Recipients’ Beliefs?” Journal of Policy Analysis and
Management vol 24 no3 pp485-498, 2005
“Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility--Real or Measurement Error?” Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(3) pp 556-568, August 2005
"Wage Cuts as Investment in Future Wage Growth" (joint with Helen Connolly)
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, February 2008.
“ Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? –the Impact of Non-Classical
Measurement Error”(with Minh Huynh) Review of Economics and Statistics,, forthcoming.
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"Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice? The Impact of SSP Subsidies on Job
Turnover and Wage Growth" (with Helen Connolly), Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 42, No. 4 Nov 2004.
Other Articles and Reviews
Review of S. Lebergott's The American Economy in Monthly Labor Review, March 1977. "Does a Younger Male Labor Force Mean Greater Earnings Inequality?" (with Martin Dooley), Monthly Labor Review, November 1982. "Have We Already Lost the 'War on Poverty?' "Challenge, reprinted in Readings
from Challenge , May 1982. "U.S. Labor Market Policies Since 1960--A Survey of Programs and Their
Effectiveness," in Policy to Combat Unemployment, 1984. "Macroeconomic Conditions, Income Transfers and the Trend in Poverty" (with
Sheldon Danziger), in The Social Contract Revisited (D.C.: Urban Institute), 1984.
"Comment on 'The Role of Income Transfers in Reducing Inequality Between and
Within Regions'" in Economic Transfers in the U.S., NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, edited by Marilyn Moon, 1984.
Review of Five Thousand American Families in Journal of Economic Literature, June 1985. "The Poverty of Losing Ground" (with Sheldon Danziger), Challenge, May 1985. Review of Unequal Treatment in Journal of Economic Literature, 1986. Review of the Economics of Women, Men and Work in Science, October 1986. "Unemployment Insurance and the Safety Net for the Unemployed," (with Sheldon
Danziger) in Unemployment Compensation: The Second Half Century, University of Wisconsin Press, Lee Hansen, editor,1990.
"Health Care Financing in the U.S., U.K. and Netherlands--Distributional
Consequences" (with Barbara Wolfe and Robert Haveman), in Changes in Revenue Structures edited by Ken Messere and Aldo Chianconi, 1988.
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"Retrenchment in Antipoverty Programs in the U.S.: Lessons for the Future" in The Reagan Revolution, Dorsey Press, B. B. Kymlicka and Jean Matthews, editors, 1989.
Review of Not So Free to Choose in Journal of Economic Literature, March 1987. "The Declining Significance of Age in the United States: Trends in the Well-Being
of Children and the Elderly Since 1939" (with Sheldon Danziger and Eugene Smolensky) in The Vulnerable: America's Young and Old in the Industrial World edited by J. Palmer, T. Smeeding and B. Torrey, 1988.
"Decomposing Changes in the Black White Earnings Gap," (with Sheldon Danziger
and John Engberg) in Research in Inequality, Vol. 1, edited by D. Slottje. "Reducing Gender and Racial Inequality--The Role of Public Policy" in New
Developments in the Labor Market edited by K. Abraham and R. McKersie. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1990.
"Comment on "Effects of Cohort Size on Post High School Training" by Datcher-
Loury in A Future of Lousy Jobs edited by Gary Burtless. Washington DC: Brookings, 1990.
Review of The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of
America by Harrison and Bluestone in Journal of Economic Literature, June 1990.
"Income Transfers: Are They Compensation for Past Discrimination?" (with
Sheldon Danziger) in The Wealth of Races edited by Richard America, 1990. "Trend and Cycle in Family Income and Male Earnings Inequality: Recent U.S.
Experience" (with Sheldon Danziger and Eugene Smolensky) in Public Finance and Steady Economic Growth edited by Gerold Krause- Junk, 1990.
"Poverty," in Encyclopedia of Economics, editor: D. Greenwald (New York,
McGraw Hill), 1992.
Review of Jobs, Earnings, and Employment Growth Policies in the United States edited by J. Kasarda in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1992.
"Working Wives and Family Income Inequality among Married Couples" with Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger; in Uneven Tides, edited by S. Danziger and P. Gottschalk, Sage Press, 1992.
"Family Structure, Family Size and Family Income: Accounting for Changes in the Economic Well-being of Children" in Uneven Tides, edited by S. Danziger and P. Gottschalk, Sage Press, 1992.
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Review of Panel Data and Labor Market Studies edited by J. Hartog, G. Ridder and J. Theeuwes in Society for Economic Dynamics and Control's Sightings, Winter 1992.
"Equity in the Finance and Delivery of Health Care in the United States" (with Barbara Wolfe) in Equity in the Finance and Delivery of Health Care: An International Perspective edited by E. van Doorslaer, A. Wagstaff and F. Rutten Oxford University Press 1993
"The Changing Contributions of Men and Women to the Level and Distribution of Family Income, 1968-88" (with Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger) in Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the Late Twentieth Century edited by D. Papadimitriou and E. Wolff Macmillan Press 1993
"The Impact of Technological Change, Deindustrialization and the Internationalization of Trade on Earnings Inequality: An International Perspective" (with Mary Joyce) in Poverty, inequality and the Future of Social Policy: Western States in the New World Order edited by K. McFate, R. Lawson and W. J. Wilson Sage Press 1995
"Hardly Making It" (with Sheldon Danziger) in Working Poor in Urban America, edited by T. Swarz and K Weigert, Notre Dame University Press, 1995
"The International Evidence on Income Distributions: Where Do We Stand?" (with Timothy Smeeding) in Contemporary Economic Issues, volume 2 Labour, Food and Poverty edited by Michael Kaiser and Yair Mundlak, Oxford University Press, 1997
“Policy Changes and Growing Earnings Inequality in the US and Six other OECD Countries” in Changing Patterns in the Distribution of Economic Welfare. Cambridge University Press 1997
“Income Distribution in Sweden and the U.S.” in Labor Market Policy and Job Creation: Swedish and U.S. Experiences, United States Information Service, Stockholm, 1997
“Family Income Mobility—How Much Is There, and Has It Changed?” (with Sheldon Danziger) in The Inequality Paradox edited by James Auerbach and Richard Belous Washignton D.C.: National Policy Association, 1998
Review of New Inequalities (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) edited by John Hills for the Journal of Economic Literature.
Cross-National Income Inequality: How Great Is It and What Can We Learn from It?” International Journal of Health Science with Timothy Smeeding) 1999
“Work as a Stepping Stone for Low-Skilled Workers: What is the Evidence? ” in The Low-Wage Labor Market: Challenges and Opportunities for Economic
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Self-Sufficiency, edited by Kelleen Kaye and Demitra Smith Nightingale. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 2000,.
Review of "Economic Inequality and Income Distribution" (Cambridge University Press) by Champernowne and Cowell for the Economic Journal.
“Change in Home Production and Trends in Economic Inequality” (with Susan Mayer) in The New Economics of Rising Inequality, Oxford University Press, 2000
“Income Mobility & Exits from Poverty of American Children, 1970-1992” (with Sheldon Danziger) ) in The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialized Countries, edited by Bradbury, Jenkins, and Michelwright, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge university Press, 2001.
"Job Instability and Insecurity for Males and Females in the 1980s and 1990s" (with Robert A. Moffitt), in On the Job: Is Long-Term Employment A Thing of the Past? edited by David Neumark, Russell Sage Foundation, 2000
“Ethnic and Racial Differences in Welfare Receipt in the United States” (with Robert A. Moffitt), in America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences Vol. II edited by Smelser, Wilson, and Mitchell, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2001
Review of Inequality in America by Heckman and Krueger and Poor Kids in a Rich Country by Rainwater and Smeeding for Journal fo Policy Analysis and Management, 2004.
“Diverging Fortunes: Trends in Poverty and Inequality” (with Sheldon Danziger) in The American People-Census 2000, edited by Reynolds Farley and John Haaga Russell Sage Foundation and Population Reference Bureau, 2005
Review of The Anatomy of Racial Inequality by Glenn Loury for the Journal of Economic Inequality, 2006
“The National Picture” (with Helen Connolly and Katherine Newman) Chapter 5 of Chutes and Ladders, Katherine Newman editor, Harvard University Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2006
Review of Staircases or Treadmills? Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Changing Economy by Chris Benner, Laura Leete and Manual Pastor for the Journal of Economic Literature, 2009
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: 1977
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Consultant to the Center for Research on Women in Higher Education and the Professions (at Wellesley College), 1977-78.
1978 Discussant at American Economic Association Meetings (Chicago) 1978. Discussant at Eastern Economic Association Meetings (D.C.) 1978. 1979 Discussant at Eastern Economic Association Meetings (Boston) 1979. Consultant to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation/Income Security Policy in the U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare, 1979.
1981 Paper presented at the Winter meeting of the Econometric Society (D.C.), 1981. Paper presented at Brandies University, 1981. 1982 Attended Summer Workshop on Longitudinal Data Analysis at the University of
Chicago, 1982. Paper presented and session chaired at the Winter meeting of the Econometric
Society, N.Y., 1982. Discussant at NBER Conference on "Economic Transfers in the U.S.," Madison,
Wisconsin, May 1982. Paper presented to Economics Department, Tufts University, 1982. 1983 Paper presented at the Workshop on Poverty Policy, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, sponsored by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ASPE/ISP, and the Institute for Research on Poverty, June 1983.
Paper presented at Conference on "Policy to Combat Unemployment," Nuremberg,
Germany, June 1983. Paper presented at Urban Institute Conference on "An Assessment of Reagan's
Social Welfare Policy," Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., July 1983.
"The Measurement of Poverty: Implications for Antipoverty Policy" (with Sheldon Danziger). Testimony prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives,
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Subcommittee on Census and Population. Also published in American Behavioral Scientist, August 1983.
"Will a Resumption of Economic Growth Reverse the Recent Increase in Poverty?"
Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation of the House Ways and Means Committee, November 1983.
1984 Invited Member of the Conference on Research in Incomes and Wealth of the
National Bureau of Economic Research, 1984. Paper presented at Conference on "Income Transfer Policies and the Economic
Well-Being of the Poor," at Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio Italy, May 1984.
Paper presented at the Workshop on Poverty Policy, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ASPE/ISP, and the Institute for Research on Poverty, June 1984.
"Causes of Recent Increases in Poverty and Prospects for the Future," Testimony
before House Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, September 1984.
Consultant to Government Accounting Office on the valuation of medical benefits in
determining poverty, 1984. Participant at Conference on the Effects of the OBRA-AFDC Amendments, sponsored by
the Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., 1984. Paper presented at the National Tax Association Conference on Taxation,
Nashville, Tennessee, 1984. Discussant at Conference on "Poverty and Policy: Retrospect and Prospects,"
Williamsburg, VA, 1984. Paper presented at joint session of American Economic Association and National
Economic Association Meetings, Dallas, 1984. 1985 "Impact of Budget Cuts on Poverty" (with Sheldon Danziger), Testimony before the
Education and Labor Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, February 1985.
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Paper presented to the Labor Workshop-Harvard University, March 1985. Discussant at the Workshop on Poverty Policy, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
sponsored by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ASPE/ISP, and the Institute for Research on Poverty, May 1985.
Participant in Conference on "Alternatives to the 'Losing Ground' Perspective,"
Washington, D.C. May 1985.
"The Successes and Limitations of the War on Poverty and Great Society Programs," Testimony before Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, June 1985.
Paper presented at a Conference on the "Unraveling of the Welfare State," at the
University of California, Santa Cruz, June 1985. "Work, Poverty and the Working Poor" (with Sheldon Danziger), Testimony before
the Employment and Housing Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations, December 1985. Published in Monthly Labor Review, September 1986, and winner of the Lawrence R. Klein Award.
Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, Dallas, Texas,
November 1985. Paper presented to the Labor Workshop - University of Wisconsin, October, 1985. Paper presented to the Economics Department, Mount Holyoke College, November
1985. Paper presented to the Economics Department, Wesleyan University, December
1985. Attended U.S. Census Bureau Conference on "Measurement of Noncash Benefits,"
Williamsburg, VA, December 1985. Chaired and presented a paper at an invited session of the American Economic
Association Meetings, New York, December 1985. 1986
"Poverty and the Underclass" (with Sheldon Danziger), Testimony before the Select
Committee on Hunger, U.S. House of Representatives, August 1986. Paper prepared for the National Academy of Sciences, Committee on the Status of
Black Americans, February 1986.
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Paper presented at the Lafollette Institute Conference on Unemployment Compensation: The Second Half Century," Racine, Wisconsin, February 1986.
"How Have Families with Children Been Faring?" (with Sheldon Danziger), Paper
prepared for the U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, November 1985. Published in Challenge, March 1986.
Paper presented at the University of Pennsylvania's Economics Day Conference on
"Equality of Opportunity: Poverty, Welfare and Income Distribution," Philadelphia, April 1986.
Paper presented at the U.S.-French Conference on "The Efficiency and Equity
Effects of Social Welfare Policies," Paris, France, June 1986. Testimony prepared for the Maine Public Utilities Commission on "The Impact of
Changes in Utility Rates on Low Income People," August 1986. Participant in Working Group on Health Equity, sponsored by the European
Economic Community, Brussels, Belgium, August 1986 and December 1986. Paper prepared for session on "Changes in Revenue Structures" of the 42nd
Congress of International Institute of Public Finance, Athens, Greece, August 1986.
Paper presented at invited session of American Economic Association Meetings,
New Orleans, December 1986. 1987 Paper presented at Colby College, February 1987. Participant at Roundtable on the Underclass sponsored by the Joint Center for
Political Studies, Washington, D.C., March 1987. Paper presented to the Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Work and Welfare,
University of Pennsylvania, March 1987. Participant at Sloan Conferences on "The Changing Economic Status of the Aged
and Children in the U.S.," Airlie Conference Center, May 1986; Washington, D.C., February 1987; Luxembourg, June 1987.
Paper presented at Labor Workshop, Boston University, October 1987. Participant in Social Science Research Council working group on "Research on the
Concentrated Poor," October 1987.
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Chaired Roundtable on "Inequality" at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., October 1987.
Paper presented and discussant at Econometric Society Meetings, Chicago,
December 1987. 1988 Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Meetings, Boston, February 1988. Paper presented at the Labor Workshop, University of Michigan, March 1988. Paper presented at the Joint Center for Political Studies, Washington, D.C., April
1988. Discussant at Small Grants Workshop, University of Wisconsin, April 1988. Paper presented at the International Workshop on "Problems in Income
Distribution," Gatlinberg, Tennessee, July 1988.
Organized and chaired conference (with Sheldon Danziger) on "Changes in Inequality," at Russell Sage Foundation, September 1988.
Participant in workshop on "The Distributive Aspects of Health Care Policies,"
sponsored by the European Economic Community, Lisbon, Portugal, September 1988.
Participant in Roundtable on "Inner City Males: Research and Policy Implications," sponsored by the Joint Center for Political Studies, Washington, D.C., October
1988. Paper presented at the Industrial Relations Research Seminar, M.I.T., November
1988. Participant in conference on "Rural Poverty," sponsored by the Ford Foundation,
Wye Plantation, Maryland, November 1988. Participant in Roundtable on "Neighborhoods: Research and Policy Implications,"
sponsored by the Joint Center for Political Studies, Washington, D.C., November 1988.
Paper presented at invited session of American Economic Association Meeting,
New York, December 1988.
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1989 "Increased Inequality in the Current Recovery," Testimony before the Joint
Economic Committee, May 1989.
Presented College-wide Lecture on "Changes in Poverty," Smith College, February 1989.
Discussant at French-American Colloquium on "Wealth, Poverty and Family
Size,"New York University, February 1989. Discussant at Conference on "Future Job Prospects," Brookings Institution, March
1989. Guest Lecturer on "Intergenerational Welfare Participation," University of
Michigan, March 1989. Paper presented and participated in invited panel on "Author Meets Critics: Dollars
and Dreams," at the Population Association of America Meetings, Baltimore, March 1989.
Paper presented at Microeconomics Workshop, Michigan State University, May
1989 Panel Member at Conference on "Approaches to Analyzing Poverty: A Conference
in Honor of Robert Lampman," University of Wisconsin, May 1989. Paper presented at European Society for Population Economics, Bouray, France,
June 1989. Participant in workshop on "The Distributive Aspects of Health Care Policies,"
(joint with Barbara Wolfe) sponsored by the European Economic Community, Lyon, France, September 1989.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy and
Management, Arlington, Virginia, November 1989. Participant in Roundtable on "Crime, Drugs and the Urban Poor," sponsored by the
Joint Center for Political Studies, Washington, D.C., November 1989. Participated in Conference on "Poverty and Public Policy in the US and Europe,"
by the Joint Center for Political Studies, Paris, France. December 1989. Participant in Working Group on "Hispanic Participation in Means-Tested and
Other Benefit Programs" sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, New York, December 1989.
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1990
Paper presented to the Workshop on Poverty Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1990.
Paper presented at the "Forum on Models of Underclass Behavior" sponsored by
the Joint Center for Political Studies and the U. S Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C., March 1990.
Paper presented at Labor Economics Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge
Massachusetts, March 1990. Paper presented at the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin, June 1990. Discussant at Conference on "Changing Occupational Skill Requirements:
Gathering and Assessing the Evidence", Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University, Providence RI. June 1990.
Organized and Chaired a Conference on "Causes of Increasing Inequality in the
U.S."(with Sheldon Danziger), Russell Sage Foundation, New York, June 1990. Discussant at Conference on "Labor Market Prospects for the Disadvantaged",
Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1990.
Lecturer at the Summer Workshop of the Luxembourg Income Study, Luxembourg,
July 1990. Paper presented at the Policy Forum on "Dimensions of Vulnerability: Economic
Insecurity within the U.S. Population," Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, September 1990.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy and
Management, San Francisco, California, October 1990. Paper presented (joint with Barbara Wolfe) at conference sponsored by the
European Economic Community in Bellagio, Italy and at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Association, D.C., December 1990.
1991
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Presented address at Forum on "Wages and Family Structure: Accounting for Changes in Child Poverty and the Well Being of American Families" sponsored by the National Health Policy Forum, D.C., January 1991.
Paper presented at Conference on "Poverty and Public Policy in the US and
Europe," sponsored by the Joint Center for Political Studies, Paris, France. January 1991.
"Changes in Inequality and Poverty-- an International Perspective," Testimony
before the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, February 1991.
Paper presented (joint with Sheldon Danziger) at Conference on "Economic
Inequality at the Close of the Twentieth Century" sponsored by the Jerome Levy Economics Institute, Annandale-on-Hudson, February 1991.
Paper presented to members of the Research Working Group on "Problems of the
Low-Income Population", Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 1991.
Paper presented to the Workshop on Poverty Research, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1991. Paper presented to the Industrial Relations Workshop, Sloan School, M.I.T.,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 1991.
Presented and discussed paper at Summer Workshop of the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 1991.
Paper presented to Workshop on the Economics of Health Care at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 1991.
Paper presented at a Conference on "Poverty, Inequality and the Crisis of Social Policy" sponsored by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, DC September 1991.
Paper presented at Labor Seminar, Harvard University, October 1991.
Paper presented at Labor Seminar, M.I.T., October 1991.
Paper presented at Labor Workshop, Cornell University, October 1991. 1992
Panel Member at Roundtable Sponsored by Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. D.C. January 1992.
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Participant in Working Group on Problems of the Low Income Population, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 1992.
Paper presented at the "Economics/ Demography Symposia on Women and Families", Brown University, March 1992.
"Achieving Self- sufficiency for Welfare Recipients" Testimony before the Select
Committee on Hunger, U.S. House of Representatives, March 1992.
Paper presented at Conference on "Poverty and Public Policy: What Do We Know? What Should We Do?", University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 1992.
Participated in Conference on "Social Welfare in Industrialized Societies", at the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, June 1992.
Paper presented at the Summer Research Workshop, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 1992.
Presenter at "Roundtable on Children-- Welfare Reform and the Family", Urban Institute, D.C., June 1992.
Paper presented (joint with Robert Moffitt) at the NBER Labor Studies Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, July 1992.
Lectured at the 1992 Luxembourg Income Study Summer Workshop, Luxembourg, July 1992.
Presented two papers at "Congress on Longitudinal Perspectives on Income Inequality and Poverty" Abo Akademia University, Abo Finland, August 1992.
Presented an invited paper at "The Tenth World Congress of the International Economic Association", Moscow, August 1992.
Participated in Institute for Research on Poverty "Working Group on Measurement of Dependency and Vulnerability", Madison, September 1992, November 1992.
Paper presented at the Microeconomics Workshop University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. December 1992.
1993
Presented two papers Presented (one joint with Robert Moffitt) at the Allied Social Science Association, Anaheim, California; January 1993.
Paper presented (joint with Robert Moffitt) at the Institute for Research on Poverty, Madison Wisconsin, February 1993.
Participated as an advisor to the Children's Defense Fund's Costs of Child Poverty Research Project, D.C. March 1993.
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Guest speaker at "Symposium on Income Distribution and Poverty" at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 1993.
ICPSR Advisory Committee on the 1990 Census, Detroit, March 1993. Presented paper at conference on "Literacy and the American Worker: Implications
for Public Policy", Williamsburg, Virginia, April 1993. Presented paper at the Public Sector Economics Workshop, University of Chicago,
May 1993. Presented paper at conference on "The Distribution of Economic Well-Being in the
1980's-- an International Perspective", Fiskebackskil, Sweden, June 1993. Presented paper at the Graduate School of the City University of New York,
October 1993.
" Why Have Poverty Rates Remained so High?" Testimony before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, October 1993.
Presented paper to the Seminar on Inner City Poverty at Yale University, November
1993. Presented an open lecture to student body at Swarthmore College, November, 1993 Presented paper to the Economics Department at the University of Delaware,
November 1993. Presented paper to the Department of Economics and Finance at Baruch College,
CUNY, November, 1993. Lectured at the Luxembourg Income Study Workshop, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
D.C. December 1993.
1994
Presented paper (joint with Robert Moffitt) at the Allied Social Science Association, Boston Mass; January 1994.
Presented paper (joint with Susan Mayer) at a conference on "Reshaping the
Family: Social and Economic Changes and Public Policy", Santa Monica, California January 1994.
Presented paper (joint with Robert Moffitt) at the Institute for Research on Poverty,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 1994.
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Presented paper (joint with John Fitzgerald and Robert Moffitt) at the Conference
on Non-Response, DC, February 1994. Presented paper (joint with Robert Moffitt) at the Maxwell School, Syracuse
University, March 1994. Presented paper (joint with Robert Moffitt) at the Urban Poverty Workshop,
University of Chicago, May 1994.
Lectured at the 1994 Luxembourg Income Study Summer Workshop, Luxembourg, July 1994.
Presented paper (joint with Robert Moffitt) at the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, DC, September 1994.
Presented commissioned paper (joint with Pat Ruggles) to the Board of Directors of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, University of Michigan, November 1994.
1995 Discussant at the Allied Social Science Association, DC; January 1995.
Presented paper (joint with Robert Moffitt) at the Economics Workshop, Yale University, February 1995.
Discussant at a Conference on "The Impact of Growing Up Poor", DC., March
1995. Discussant at the Institute for Research on Poverty Small Grants Workshop, DC.,
May 1995. Lectured at the Luxembourg Income Study Workshop, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
D.C., May 1995. Presented paper at the Summer Research Workshop of the Institute for Research on
Poverty, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1995. Organized and presented paper at a Conference on Demand Side Strategies
Affecting Low Wage Labor Markets, Russell Sage Foundation, June 1995 Discussant at a Conference on Spatial and Labor Market Contributions to Earnings
Inequality, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1995. Presented paper at the Industrial Relations Seminar, MIT, November 1995.
1996
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Discussant at the Allied Social Science Association, San Francisco; January 1996. Presented paper at Williams College, Williamstown, MA., February 1996. Participant in Working Group on Problems of the Low Income Population, Institute
for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 1996. Discussant at the Workshop on Welfare and Child Development, National Research
Council, DC, April 1996. Presented paper at the Working Group on Problems of the Low Income Population,
Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 1996.
1997 Invited participant in the Seminar on Income Dynamics, Human Resource
Development Canada, Hull, February 1997. Invited participant at Sloan Conference on Labor Market Inequality, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, February 1997. Presented draft of chapter at Conference for Contributors to the Handbook of
Income Distribution, Florence, Italy, March 1997. Presented paper at a Conference on Labor Market Policy and Job Creation
sponsored by the US Embassy, Stockholm, Sweden, May 1997. Joint organizer (along with Robert Moffitt and Larry Wu) of the Summer Research
Workshop of the Institute for Research on Poverty, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1997.
Lectured at the 1997 Luxembourg Income Study Summer Workshop, Luxembourg,
July 1997.
1998
Presented paper at the University of Chicago/ Northwestern Poverty Center, Chicago, February 1998.
Presented paper at the “Conference on Changes in Job Stability and Job Security”
Russell Sage Foundation, NY February 1998. Participant in a workshop on “Children In and Out of Poverty” UNICEF
International Child Development Center, Florence Italy, March 1998.
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Presented paper at a Center for Economic Policy Research conference on "Social Inequality and Social Mobility" in La Coruna, Spain, April 1998.
Presented paper at seminar sponsored by the National Policy Association DC, May
1998. Discussant at a workshop on "Corporatism or Competition?" at the Tinbergen
Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 1998. Joint organizer (along with Robert Moffitt and Larry Wu) of the Summer Research
Workshop of the Institute for Research on Poverty, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1998.
Presented paper at a seminar sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Washington, DC, July 1998. Presented paper at a Conference on Applied Economics sponsored by the Social
Science Research Council, Arlie, VA, August 1998. Presented paper at the workshop on "Children In and Out of Poverty" UNICEF
International Child Development Center, Florence Italy, September 1998. Presented papers at Economics seminar and Labour Studies seminar, Tel Aviv
University, Tel Aviv Israel, November,1998.
1999
Presented paper (joint with Steve Pizer) at the Allied Social Science Association, New York, January, 1999.
Presented paper at Pennsylvania State University, Colloquium Series on Inequality,
February, 1999. Presented paper (joint with Steve Pizer) at the Applied Microeconomics seminar,
Columbia University, New York, April 1999. Presented paper (joint with Steve Pizer) to the Economics Department, Williams
College, Williamstown MA, April 1999. Presented paper (with Helen Connolly) at the Society of Labor Economists 1999
Meetings, Cambridge, MA. Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly) at the “New Developments in
Retirement Research” Conference. Washington, DC.
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Joint organizer (along with Robert Moffitt and Larry Wu) of the Summer Research Workshop of the Institute for Research on Poverty, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1999
Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly) at the Summer Research Workshop of
the Institute for Research on Poverty, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1999. Presented paper (joint with Steve Pizer) at the Multidisciplinary Program in
Inequality & Social Policy, Summer Institute 1999, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Discussant at a conference on "Tax and Transfer Programs for Low-Income
Participants" sponsored by The Joint Center for Poverty Research, Evanston, IL, November 1999.
2000 Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly) at the Multidisciplinary Program in
Inequality & Social Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 2000. Participated in a conference on "The European-American Employment Gap, Wage
Inequality, Earnings Mobility and Skill", Paris, April 2000. Participated in a Center for Retirement Research conference on “The Outlook for
Retirement Income”, Washington D.C., May 2000. Panel discussant at a conference on “Low-Wage Workers in the New Economy”
Washington, D.C., May 2000. Presented paper and discussant at the Canadian Economics Association meetings,
Vancouver, Canada, June 2000 Presented paper at Workshop on “Earnings Inequality”, Levy Institute, Annandale-
on-Huson, NY, June 2000 Organizor for IRP Summer Research Workshop “Problems of the Low-Income
Population”, Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, June 2000
Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly) at the Labor Workshop, University of
Virginia, October 2000 Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly) at the Labor seminar, Brown
University, October 2000
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Presented paper at a conference on “Low-Wage Employment, Earnings Mobility
and the European-American Employment Gap”, Aberdeen Scotland November 2000
2001
Presented paper at a conference on The Demand for Older Workers, sponsored by
the Retirement Research Consortium. Washington, D.C. March 2001 Discussant at a Conference on Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Maxwell
School of Public Policy, Syracuse University, April 2001
Discussant at NBER University Research conference on Labor in the Global Economy, Cambridge, MA. May 2001
Discussant at a Conference on “Making Hard Choices about Retirement”,
Retirement Research Consortium, DC, May 2001 Joint organizer (along with Robert Moffitt and Larry Wu) of the Summer Research
Workshop of the Institute for Research on Poverty, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2001
Presented keynote address at Conference on Combining Work, Home and
Education. Braga, Portugul October 2001
Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly) at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, November 2001.
Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly) at Northeastern University, Boston,
MA, November 2001.
2002
Visiting Scholar in the Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, January 2002
Presented paper in the Economics Workshop, Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia, January 2002 Presented paper to the research branch of the Australian Department of Family and
Community Services, Canberra, Australia, January 2002 Presented paper (with Helen Connolly and Katherine Newman) at the Inequality
Summer Institute, Harvard University, June 2002
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Joint organizer (along with Robert Moffitt and Larry Wu) of the Summer Research Workshop of the Institute for Research on Poverty, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2002
Presented paper (with Helen Connolly) at the European Association of Labor
Economists, Paris, September 2002
2003 Presented paper (with Helen Connolly and Katherine Newman) to the MacAuthur
Foundation Network on Inequality and Economic Performance, Cambridge Massachusetts May 2003.
Presented paper (with Helen Connolly and Katherine Newman) at the Russell Sage
Foundation, New York May 2003. Presented paper at the International Micro Econometrics Conference, Dublin
Ireland May 2003 Presented paper (joint with Sheldon Danziger) at the WIDER Conference on
Inequality, Poverty and Human Well-being, Helsinki Finland May 2003
2004 Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, University of Bristol, Bristol, England, April
2004 Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly and Katherine Newman) at CASE,
London School of Economics, London England, April 2004. Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly) at the Institute for Fiscal Studies,
University College London, London England, April 2004 Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly) at the Public Economics Workshop,
University of Warwick, Coventry England, April 2004 Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly) to the Canadian Employment Research
Forum (CERF), Toronto, Canada, June 2004 Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly) to the Canadian Economic
Association, Toronto, Canada, June 2004 Presented paper (joint with Sheldon Danziger) at the Inequality Summer Institute,
Harvard, Cambridge, June 2004
2005
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Discussant at session on Alternative Dimensions of Inequality, ASSA meetings of
the American Economic Association, Philadelphia,, January 2005. Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly) to the Economics Department,
Universite di, Milano, Milan Italy, April 2005 Presented paper (joint with Helen Connolly) at Workshop on Inequality and
Mobility, Universite di, Milano, Milan Italy, April 2005 Presented paper and chaired another session at Society of Labor Economists. San
Francisco CA, June 2005, November 2005. Discussant at National Poverty Center conference “Working and Poor: How
Economic Policy Changes Are Affecting Low-wage Workers”, DC June 2005 Presented paper at the Economic Policy Forum, Northeastern University, November
2005
2006 Discussant at MacArthur conference on the “ Economics of the Transition to
Adulthood” New York, January 2006 Presented paper at University College London, March 2006 Presented paper at the ZEW Workshop on Wage Growth and Mobility, Mannheim,
Germany, March 2006 Presented set of lectures at IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics,
Germany, April 2006 Presented paper at Society of Labor Economists, Boston, May 2006 Discussant at Workshop on the Transmission of Inequality, Russell Sage
Foundation, New York, May 2006 Discussant at Workshop on Income Volatility and Implications for Food Assistance
Programs, National poverty Center, DC November 2006
2007 Presented paper at the AEA meetings, Chicago, January 2007 Presented paper at IZA seminar, Bonn Germany, January 2007 Presented paper at the University de Savoi, Annecy France, March 2007
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Discussant at Conference on Evaluating the Long-Term Effects of Welfare Reform,
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, Lexington Kentucky. April 2007
National Academy of Science panel on the Dynamics of Economic Well Being
System (DEWS)., Woods Hole RI, April 2007 Presented paper in the Harvard Inequality Seminar Series, Cambridge MA,
November 2007 Presented paper at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, November
2007 2008
Presented paper at Tsinghau University, Beijing China, May 2008 Presented paper at “International Workshop on Empirical Labor Economics”,
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, May 2008 Presented paper at Summer Workshop, Institute for Research on Poverty,
University of Wisconsin, June 2008. Presented paper at the National Poverty Center conference on Instability, University
of Michigan, November 2008 Presented paper at “Conference on Statistical Regularization and Qualitative
Constraints” . Georg- August- Universitat, Gottingen, Germany, November 2008.
Presented paper at Labor Economics Seminar, Princeton University. December
2008. 2009
Presented paper at the AEA meetings, San Francisco, January 2009 Presented paper at a Conference on Income and Earnings Dynamics, Maaymnooth
University, Maaymnooth, Ireland.
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