Working Papers
“Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of School Choice,” with Ching-I Huang and Christopher R. Taber, NBER Working Paper No 16579, December 2010, http://www.nber.org/papers/w16579,
“Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for
Adult Outcomes”, (with Prashant Bharadwaj and Fabian
Lange), NBER Working paper No. W13883 (March 2008), revised
December 2010. See also: Joseph G. Altonji, Prashant Bharadwaj,
and Fabian Lange (2008), The Anemic Response of Skill Investment to Skill
Premium Growth at VoxEU Http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1110.
Data
Note: “Constructing AFQT Scores that are Comparable Across
the NLSY79 and the NLSY97”, available at: http://www.econ.yale.edu/~fl88/AFQTmatch.pdf
"Estimating
Derivatives in Nonseparable Models with Limited
Dependent Variables", (with Hidehiko Ichimura
and Taitsuke Otsu. ). (First
draft November 1997), NBER Working
Paper No. 14161, (July 2008). Revised February
2010.
“Modeling
Earnings Dynamics”, (with Anthony Smith and Ivan Vidangos). NBER Working Paper No. 14743. February 2009. Under revision for resubmission to Econometrica at the
request of the editor.
“Identifying Sibling Influence on Teenage Substance Use”, with Sarah Cattan and Iain Ware, NBER Working Paper 16508, October 2010.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w16508
“The Contribution of
Family, School, and Community Characteristics to Inequality in Education and
Labor Market Outcomes” (with Richard Mansfield), November 2010
``Methods for Using
Selection on Observed Variables to Address Selection on Unobserved Variables’’,
(with Timothy Conley, Todd Elder and Christopher Taber.) preliminary draft,
September 2010.
“Nonparametric
Intermediate Order Regression Quantiles,”. With Hidehiko Ichimura
and Tatsuke Otsu, working paper, http://www.econ.yale.edu/~to64/Extreme17.pdf
(November 2008).
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Work in Progress:
“Multiple
Skills, Types of Education, and Careers” (with Erica Blum and Costas Meghir)
“Marriage, the Labor Market, and Family Income
Dynamics” (with Ivan Vidangos and Seth Zimmerman).
“The Value of English in the US and Abroad” (with Mark
Rosenzweig).
“The Determinants of the Wages of Immigrants in the
Home Country and the
“Family
Income Dynamic” (with Seth Zimmerman and Ivan Vidangos)
“An
Analysis of Black-White Differences in the Wealth Gap Using Nonseparable
Models”, (with Seik Kim and Rosa Matzkin),
preliminary draft: May 2008.
Publications
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“The Role of Family,
School and Community Characteristics in Inequality in Education and Labor
Market Outcomes”, with Richard Mansfield, forthcoming in “
Whither
Opportunity? Rising Inequality and the Uncertain Life Chances of
Low-Income Children,”
edited by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, Russell Sage.
“Using Selection
on Observed Variables to Assess Bias from Unobservables when Evaluating
Swan-Ganz Catheterization”, (with Todd Elder, and
Christopher Taber), American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, (May
2008): 345-350.
“The Marginal
Propensity to Spend on Adult Children”, (with Ernesto Villanueva),
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy
(Advances),
April 2007.
“Work Hours, Wages, and Vacation Leave”,
(with Emiko Usui) Industrial and Labor Relations
Review, 6 No. 3 (April 2007): 408-428
“Discussion of `Dynamic Models for
Policy Evaluation' and `Microeconometric
Search-Matching Models and Matched Employer-Employee Data', in Advances
in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Ninth World
Congress, edited by Richard Blundell, Whitney K. Newey
and Torsten Persson,
Chapter 12, 9th World Congress, Econometric Society, (2007).
“An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable
Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schooling”
(with Todd Elder, and Christopher Taber,) Journal of Human
Resources 40(4) (2005): 791-821
Cross
Section and Panel Data Estimators for Nonseperable
Models with Endogenous Regressors”, with Rosa Matzkin) Econometrica, 73 No 4, (July
2005):1053-1102. Lead Article
“Employer Learning, Statistical Discrimination, and
Occupational Attainment”, American Economic Review Papers and Proceeding,
May 2005.
"Selection
on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic
Schools" (with Todd Elder and Christopher Taber) Journal of Political
Economy. February 2005.
"Do Wages Rise with Job
Seniority? A Reassessment"
(with Nicholas Williams). Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 2005.
"The
Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in
Wealth", (with Ulrich Dorazelski) Journal of
Human Resources Winter 2005.
Lead Article
"Cross Section and Panel Data Estimators for Nonseperable Models with Endogenous Regressors”, revised April 2004. (with Rosa Matzkin) , forthcoming in Econometrica, 2005.
"Selection
on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic
Schools" (with Todd Elder and Christopher Taber) January 2000, revised
October 2003, forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy, 2005
"Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools" (with Todd Elder and Christopher Taber) January 2000, revised April 2002.
"Do Wages Rise with Job Seniority? A Reassessment" (with Nicholas Williams). NBER Working Paper No. 6010 (April 1997). Revised June 2004, forthcoming in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review
"The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in Wealth", (with Ulrich Dorazelski) Journal of Human Resources forthcoming Winter 2005
“Vacation
Laws and Annual Work Hours”, (with Jennifer Oldham) Economic
Perspectives Federal Reserve Bank of
"Dynamic Factor Models of Consumption, Hours, and Income" (with A. Martins and A. Siow), Research in Economics, 2002.
"Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination" (with Charles R. Pierret), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116(1) (February 2001): 313-350.
"The Extent and Consequences of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity." (with Paul Devereux), Research in Labor Economics, Vol 19, Elsevier Science Inc. (2000): 383-431.
"An Intergenerational Model of Wages, Hours, and Earnings" (with Thomas Dunn), Journal of Human Resources , 35(2), (Spring 2000): 221-258.
"The
Effects of Income and Wealth on Time and Money Transfers between Parents and
Children" (with F. Hayashi and L. Kotlikoff)
in Andrew Masson and Georges Tapinos, Editors,
Sharing the Wealth: Demographic Change and Economic Transfers between
Generations,
"The Role of Permanent Income and Domographics on Black/White Differences in Wealth." (with U. Doraszelski
and L. Segal), Economic Perspectives
Federal Reserve Bank of
[Economic Growth Center Working Papers Version]
"Race and Gender in the Labor Market" (with Rebecca Blank) in O. Ashenfelter and D. Card, (eds), Handbook of Labor Economics Volume 3c Elsevier Science B.V. (1999): 3144-3259
"The Effects of Labor Market Experience, Job Seniority and Mobility on Wage Growth" (with Nicolas Williams), Research in Labor Economics, Vol 17 (1998):233-276.
“Effects
of Personal and School Characteristics on Estimates of the Return to Education”, Economics Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank
of
"Employer Learning and the Signalling Value of Education" (with Charles Pierret). in I. Ohashi and T. Tachibanaki editors, Internal Labour Markets, Incentives and Employment, McMillan Press. (1998): 159-195
"Parental Altruism and Intervivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence" (with Fumio Hayashi and L. Kotlikoff), Journal of Political Economy 6 No. 105 (December 1997): 1121-1166.
"The Effects of Family Characteristics on the Return to Education" (with Thomas Dunn), Review of Economics and Statistics , (November 1996): 692-704
"Using Siblings to Estimate the Effects of School Quality on Wages" (with Thomas Dunn). Review of Economics and Statistics. (November 1996): 665-671.
"Small Sample Bias in GMM Estimation of Covariance Structures" (with Lewis Segal)) Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Vol 14 No. 3 (July 1996): 353-366.
"Risk Sharing Between and Within Families" (with Fumio Hayashi and Laurence Kotlikoff, Hayashi is first author.) Econometrica, 64 No. 2 (March 1996): 261-294.
"The Effects of High School Curriculum on Education and Labor Market Outcomes," Journal of Human Resources, 30(3) (Summer 1995): 410-438.
"The Demand for and Return to Education When Education Outcomes are Uncertainty", Journal of Labor Economics, 11 No 1(1) (January 1993):48-83.
"Using
Wage Growth Models to Estimate the Returns to Experience, Seniority and
Mobility Wage Growth" (with Nicolas Williams), in Labour
Demand and Equilibrium Wage Formation,
"Is the Extended Family Altruistically Linked? Direct Tests Using Micro Data" (with Fumio Hayashi and Laurence Kotlikoff), American Economic Review, 82 No 5 (December 1992): 1177-1198.
"Labor Supply, Hours Constraints, and Job Mobility" (with Christina Paxson), Journal of Human Resources. 27 No. 2 (Spring 1992): 256-278.
"Relationships Among the Family Incomes and Labor Market Outcomes of Relatives" (with Thomas Dunn). Research in Labor Economics, 12 (1991): 269-310.
"Worker Characteristics, Job Characteristics, and the Receipt of On-the-Job Training", (with James Spletzer). Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 45(1) (October 1991): 58-79. (To be reprinted in O. Ashenfelter and R. LaLonde, editor, The Economics of Training, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.)
"The
Effects of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Less-Skilled Natives"
(with David Card), in John Abowd and Richard Freeman
(eds.), Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market, University of
Substitution, Exogeneity and Surprises: Estimating Life-Cycle Models for Canada
" (with J. Ham), Canadian Journal of Economics, XXIII No 1 (February 1990): 1‑43.
"'Econometric Approaches to the Specification of Life-Cycle Labour Supply and Commodity Demand
Behavior: Comment," Econometric Reviews, Vol 5, No. 1 (1986): 147-151.
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~jga22/website/research_papers/FamSchoolCharacteristics_Altonji_1988.pdf