Recent working papers & work in progress

 

AChildbearing, Marriage and Human Capital Investment,@ U. Oregon Working Paper, 

          with Jo Anna Gray and Jean Stockard. (go- working paper version (wpv))

 

“Cohort Effects on Nonmarital Fertility," U. Oregon Working Paper, with Jean

          Stockard, Jo Anna Gray, and Robert O’Brien. (go - wpv)

 

“Ranking State Fiscal Structures using Theory and Evidence,” U. Oregon Working

          Paper, with Neil Bania. (go - wpv). 

 

Recent publications

 

AGrowth, Taxes, and Government Expenditures: Growth Hills for U.S. States,”

          National Tax Journal 60:2, 2007, pp. 193-204, with Neil Bania and Jo

          Anna Gray. (go)

 

AFor Whom the Pell Tolls: The Response of University Tuition to Federal Grants in Aid,@ Economics of Education Review 26:3, 2007,  with Larry Singell. (go -- article; go-- wpv)

 

AA Tale of Two Shares: The Relationship between the AIllegitimacy@ Ratio and the Share of Unmarried Women,@ Economics Letters, 90:2, 2006, with Jo Anna Gray and Jean Stockard. ( go -- wpv)

  

AThe Rising Share of Nonmarital Births: Fertility Choice or Marriage Behavior?@ Demography, 43:2, May 2006, pp. 241-53, with Jo Anna Gray and Jean Stockard.  (go -- wpv)

 

“Ricardian Equivalence for Sub-national States,” Economics Bulletin, 5:1, 2006, pp. 1-12, with Jo Anna Gray. (go -- wpv)

   

ATeachers Unions: Outcomes and Reform Initiatives,@ in Teachers Unions and

            Education Policy, Ronald D. Henderson, Wayne Urban, and Paul Wolman,

            eds., Elsevier Press: 2004. (go -- wpv)

 

 “Guns  and Butter in U.S. Presidential Elections,@ Economic Bulletin, 2004, 1:5, pp. 1-8, with Stephen E. Haynes. (go -- wpv)

 

 

AThe Good, the Poor, and the Wealthy: Who Responds More to College Financial Aid,@

           Bulletin of Economic Research, 54:2, October 2002, pp. 393-407, with Larry

           D. Singell, Jr.  (go -- article)

 

ATeacher Performance Incentives and Student Outcomes,@ Journal of Human

          Resources 37:4, 2002, pp. 913-27, with Randall W. Eberts and Kevin

          Hollenbeck. (go -- wpv)

 

ACan Public Policy Affect Private-School Cream Skimming?@ Journal of Urban

          Economics 49:2, March 2001, pp. 240-66, with David Figlio. (go -- article)

 

ACollective Bargaining and Public Schools,@ in Conflicting Missions?  Teachers=

          Unions and Educational Reform, Tom Loveless, ed., Washington, D.C.:

          Brookings Institution Press, 2000. (go -- chapter)

 

“Are Private Schools Really Better?” in Research in Labor Economics, Solomon

          Polacheck, ed., vol. 19, Stamford, CN: JAI Press, 1999, with David Figlio.

          (go -- wpv)

 

“Spatial Dynamics and Heterogeneity in the Cyclicality of Real Wages,” Review of

            Economics and Statistics,81(2), May 1999, pp.1‑10., with Jim Ziliak and Beth

            Wilson. (go -- article)