Working Papers

The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College: Comparing the Labor-Market Returns to For-Profit Schools and Community Colleges
(with Christopher Jepsen, Peter Mueser and Kyung-Seong Jeon), August 2023

Government Supported Job Training in the US: The Workforce Innovaationand Opportunity Act Moving Forward
(with Peter Mueser), July 2023
(includes comments by Brett Orrell)

Evaluation of a New Job Training Program: Code Louisville
(with Christopher Bollinger), June 2023

Online Appendix for Evaluation of a New Job Training Program: Code Louisville
June 2023

State Merit Aid and the Supply Curve of Higher Education
(with Sam Glick), January 2023

Trade and Labor Market Segregation in Colombia
(with Josh Ederington, and Jenny Miner), January 2023

Hospital Closures and Access to Emergency Care Measured by Patient Time in an Ambulance
(with SuZanne Troske, Sookti Chaudhary, and Alison Davis), November 2019

Ambulance Service Ownership and Management: How It Affects Quality of Service Delivery for Medicare Patients
(with Sookti Chaudhary, SuZanne Troske, and Alison Davis), January 2019

Published Papers

How Will State-Run Auto-IRAs Affect Workers?
(with Timothy F. Harris and Aaron Yelowitz)
Journal of Retirement, Fall 2018

Second Chance for High School Dropouts? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Postsecondary Educational Returns to the GED
(with Christopher Jepsen and Peter Mueser)
Journal of Labor Economics, July 2017

Labor-Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis
(with Christopher Jepsen and Peter Mueser)
Journal of Political Economy, June 2016

The Labor-Market Returns for Community College Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates
(with Christopher Jepsen and Paul Coomes)
Journal of Labor Economics, April 2014

Comparative advantage or discrimination? Studying differences in male-female labor market dynamics using displaced workers
(with Astrid Kunze),
Southern Economic Journal, July 2015

Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to Pay for Community and Technical Colleges
(with Glenn Blomquist, Paul Coomes, Christopher Jepsen, and Brandon Koford)
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, January 2014

Using Nonexperimental Methods to Estimate Program Impacts: A Guide to Evaluating Employment and Job Training Programs
(with Peter Mueser and Carolyn Heinrich)
IZA Journal of Labor Economics, October 2013

The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women
(with Alexandru Voicu)
Empirical Economics, August 2013

Estimating Consumer Willingness to Supply and Willingness to Pay for Curbside Recycling
(with Brandon Koford, Glenn Blomquist and David Hardesty)
Journal of Land Economics, November 2012

Addressing the Employment Situation is the Aftermath of the Great Recession
(with David Neumark)
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Winter 2012

Life-Cycle Patterns in Male/Female Difference in Job Search
(with Astrid Kunze)
Labour Economics, April 2012

Down from the Mountain: Skill Upgrading and Wages in Appalachia
(with Christopher Bollinger and James P. Ziliak)
Journal of Labor Economics, October 2011

A Nonexperimental Evaluation of WIA Programs
(with Heinrich, Carolyn J., Peter R. Mueser, Kyung-Seong Jeon, and Daver C. Kahvecioglu),
in The Workforce Investment Act: Implementation Experiences and Evaluation Findings, Douglas J. Besharov and Phoebe H. Cottingham, eds., 2011

Joint estimation of sequential labor force participation and fertility decisions using Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques
(with Alexandru Voicu)
Labour Economics, January 2010

The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Low-wage Worker Advancement
(with Carolyn Heinrich and Peter Mueser)
in Studies of Labor Market Intermediation, David Autor (ed.), 2009

The Impact of Welfare Reform on Leaver Characteristics, Employment and Recidivism: An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri
(with Peter R. Mueser and David Stevens)
in Welfare Reform and its Long-Term Consequences for America's Poor, James P. Ziliak (ed.), 2009

An Examination of Incentives to Attract and Retain Businesses: Evidence from Kentucky
(with Christopher Jepsen and William H. Hoyt),
State Tax Notes, 2008

Using State Administrative Data to Measure Program Performance
(with Peter Mueser and Alexey Gorislavsky)
Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2007

The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Program Activities on Labor Market Outcomes
(with Andrew Dyke, Carolyn J. Heinrich Peter R. Mueser, and Kyung-Seong Jeon)
Journal Labor Economics, July 2006

Technology Adoption and Workforce Skill in U.S. Manufacturing Plants
(with Timothy Dunne)
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, July 2005

Welfare to Temporary Work: Implications for Labor Market Outcomes
(with Carolyn J. Heinrich and Peter Mueser)
Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2005

Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing: The Role of Computer Investment
(with Timothy Dunne, Lucia Foster, and John Haltiwanger)
Journal of Labor Economics, April 2004

New Evidence on Sex Segregation and Sex Differences in Wages from Matched Employer-Employee Data
(with Kimberly Bayard, Judith Hellerstein, and David Neumark)
Journal of Labor Economics, October 2003

Market Forces and Sex Discrimination
(with Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark)
Journal of Human Resources, Spring 2002

The Relative Importance of Employer and Employee Effects on Compensation: A Comparison of France and the United States
(with John Abowd, Francis Kramarz and David Margolis)
Journal of Japanese and International Economies, December 2001

The New Worker Establishment Characteristics Database
(with Kimberly Bayard, Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark)
in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Establishment Surveys, 2000

Politiques salariales et performances des entreprises: une comparaison France / Etats-Unis, [Corporate Wage Policies and Performance: Comparing France with the United States]
(in French with John Abowd, Francis Kramarz, and David Margolis)
Economie et Statistique, Feb/March 2000

Increasing Wage Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing: Plant-Level Evidence on the Role of Trade and Technology
(with J. Bradford Jensen)
in Growing Apart: The Causes and Consequences of Global Wage Inequality, Albert Fishlow and Karen Parker, eds., 1999

Wages, Productivity, and Worker Characteristics: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions and Wage Equations
(with Judith K. Hellerstein and David Neumark)
Journal of Labor Economics, July 1999

Why are Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Larger for Men than for Women? Exploring the Role of Segregation Using the New Worker-Establishment Characteristics Database
(with Kimberly Bayard, Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark)
in The Creation and Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data, John Haltiwanger, Julia Lane, James Spletzer, Jules Theeuwes, and Kenneth Troske, eds., 1999

Examining the Employer-Size Wage Premium in the Manufacturing, Retail Trade, and Services Industries Using Employer-Employee Matched Data
(with Kimberly Bayard)
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, May 1999

Evidence on the Employer Size-Wage Premium from Worker-Establishment Matched Data
The Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1999

The Worker Establishment Characteristic Database
in Labor Statistics Measurement Issues, John Haltiwanger, Marilyn Manser and Robert Topel eds., 1998

Interfirm Racial Segregation and the Black/White Wage Gap
(with William J. Carrington)
Journal of Labor Economics, April 1998

Sex Segregation in U.S. Manufacturing
(with William J. Carrington)
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1998

On Measuring Segregation in Samples with Small Units
(with William J. Carrington)
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 15 (October 1997): 402-409.

Technology and Jobs: Secular Change and Cyclical Dynamics
(with Timothy Dunne and John Haltiwanger)
The Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, June 1997

Workers, Wages and Technology
(with Mark Doms and Timothy Dunne)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, February, 1997

The Dynamic Adjustment Process of Firm Entry and Exit in Manufacturing, and Finance, Insurance and Real Estate
Journal of Law and Economics, October 1996

Using Longitudinal Data on Establishments to Analyze the Effects of Union Organizing Campaigns in the United States
(with Robert J. LaLonde and Gerald Marschke)
Annales D'Economie et de Statistique, June 1996

Gender Segregation in Small Firms
(with William J. Carrington)
Journal of Human Resources, Summer 1995