Econ 262A Topics in Labor Economics Public Policy and Human Capital Formation

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1 Spring 2001 Department of Economics UCLA April 1, 2001 Version Econ 262A Topics in Labor Economics Public Policy and Human Capital Formation Janet Currie V. Joseph Hotz This course will focus on the evaluation of a range of public policies that affect human capital formation, broadly defined. The course will emphasize the evaluation of these policies, using a range of empirical techniques, and will highlight areas of expertise of the two instructors. The grade will be based on continued progress towards the paper assignment, class participation, and one written critical discussion of one of the papers on the reading list below. In this critical discussion, students should: (a) summarize the article, including its motivation, theoretical framework, critical assumptions, econometric methods used and main results; (b) critically assess the contribution of the paper; including the strengths and weaknesses of the paper s approach, appropriateness of theory, methods and data used, and whether the paper addresses an important issue and assessment of how convincing are the findings of the paper. This assessment should be between 5-10 pages in length (double-spaced). The schedule for progress on the paper assignment is as follows: April 9: June 4: July 9: Submission and class presentation of 5-10 page progress report. Submission and class presentation of draft paper (20-25 pages) Submission of final draft of paper (30+ pages) July 10-14: Presentation and oral defense of research. Additional presentations may be scheduled as necessary. In addition to the above course requirements, all students are urged to regularly attend the "Labor and Population" Workshop which is being jointly sponsored by UCLA and RAND. Many eminent people will be giving talks about

2 their work in progress. Regular attendance is the best way to find out what s hot and what s not, and to see how successful economists approach empirical problems. Please contact the instructors if you need a ride to a seminar held at RAND. Readings that are not available electronically already (i.e. on JSTOR, the NBER web site, or the instructor s own web sites) will be made available on the course web site for downloading. The URL for the course website is:

3 April 2: Introduction The Role of Government Atkinson, Anthony. "Income Maintenance and Social Insurance," in Handbook of Public Economics Vol. 2, Auerbach and Feldstein (eds), 1986, especaily pages , Bertrand, Marianne, E. Luttmer, and S. Mullainathan. "Network Effects and Welfare Cultures, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August Inman, Robert. "Markets, Government, and the New Political Economy," in Handbook of Public Economics Vol. 2, Auerbach and Feldstein (eds), 1986, pages The Welfare System Blank, Rebecca and Patricia Ruggles. "When do Women use AFDC and Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility vs. Participation," Journal of Human Resources, Winter Currie, Janet. "The Effects of Welfare on Child Outcomes: What We Know and What We Need to Know" in The Effects of Welfare on the Family, Robert Moffitt (ed), Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, Currie, Janet and Nancy Cole. "Welfare and Child Health: The Link Between AFDC Participation and Birth Weight," American Economic Review, Sept Hoynes, Hilary. "Welfare Spells over the Last Two Decades: Do Changes in Benefits Explain the Trends?" American Economic Review, May Moffitt, Robert. "Incentive Effects of the U.S. Welfare System: A Review," Journal of Economic Literature, March Moffitt, Robert, ed. The Effects of Welfare on the Family, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, Moffitt, Robert, ed. Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, forthcoming (see NBER web page, books in progress). Murray, Charles. Losing Ground: American Social Policy, , New York: Basic Books, 1984, Chaps. 2, 4, 12. 3

4 Slesnick, Daniel. "Gaining Ground: Poverty in the Postwar United States," Journal of Political Economy, February 1993, Empirical Issues Angrist, Joshua and Alan B. Krueger. "Empirical Strategies in Labor Economics" in Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 3A, Ashenfelter and Card (eds.), Heckman, James, Robert Lalonde, and Jeffrey Smith. "The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programs," in Handbook of Labor Economics, V. 3A, Ashenfelter and Card (eds.), Moffitt, Robert. "New Developments in Econometric Methods for Labor Market Analysis," in Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 3A, Ashenfelter and Card (eds.), Stafford, Frank. "Forestalling the Demise of Empirical Economics: The Role of Microdata in Labor Economics Research," in Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 1, Ashenfelter and Card (eds)., April 3: Special Lecture by Prof. David Cutler "Public Policy for Health Care" (NOTE: This is a Tues. The lecture will be held from 9:30-11 in a room 9383) April 9: Presentation of Preliminary Research Papers April 11 and 16: Estimating the Causal Effects fo Social Programs with Application to Training programs Burtless, G. (1995), "The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp Dehejia, R., and S. Wahba (1999), "Causal Effects in Non- Experimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 94, No. 448, pp Heckman, J. and J. Smith (1998), "Assessing the Case for Social 4

5 Experiments," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp Heckman, J. and J. Smith (1998), "Evaluating the Welfare State", Frisch Centenary, Econometric Monograph Series, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Heckman, J. and V. J. Hotz (1989), "Choosing Among Alternative Nonexperimental Methods for Estimating the Impact of Social Programs: The Case of Manpower Training" Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 84, No. 408, pp Heckman, J., H. Ichimura, and P. Todd (1997), "Matching as an Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Program", Review of Economic Studies, 64, Heckman, J., H. Ichimura, and P. Todd (1998), "Matching as an Econometric Evaluation Estimator", Review of Economic Studies, 65, Heckman, J., H. Ichimura, J. Smith, and P. Todd (1998), "Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data," Econometrica, 66, Heckman, J., J. Smith, and C. Taber (1998), "Accounting for Dropouts in the Evaluation of Social Experiments," Review of Economics and Statistics, pp Heckman, J., J. Smith, and N. Clements (1997), "Making the Most Out of Programme Evaluations and Social Experiments: Accounting for Heterogeneity in Programme Impacts," Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 64, pp Heckman, J., R. Lalonde, and J. Smith (1999), "The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programs," Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3, Ashenfelter, A. and D. Card, eds., Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. LaLonde, R. (1986), "Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs with Experimental Data," American Economic Review, Vol. 76, No. 4, pp Card, D. and D. Sullivan, (1988), "Measuring the Effect of Subsidized Training Programs on Movements In and Out of Employment," Econometrica, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp April 18: Discrimination and Human Capital Formation 5

6 Altonji, Joseph and Rebecca Blank. "Race and Gender in the Labor Market," in Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 3C, Ashenfelter and Card (eds.), Altonji, Joseph and Charles Pierret. "Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination," Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming (see NBER working paper). Arrow, Kenneth. "The Theory of Discrimination," in Discrimination in Labor Markets, Ashenfelter and Rees (eds)., Becker, Gary. The Economics of Discrimination, University of Chicago Press, 2nd edition, Blau, Francine. "Trends in the Well-Being of American Women," Journal of Economic Literature, March 1998 (also, NBER Working Paper #6206, October 1997). Borjas, George. "Discrimination in HEW: Is the Doctor Sick or the Patient Healthy," Journal of Law and Economics, XXI, April Borjas, George and Stephen Bronars. "Consumer Discrimination and Self-Employment," Journal of Political Economy, June Carrington, William and Kenneth Troske. "Interfirm Segregation and the Black/White Wage Gap," Journal of Labor Economics, April Currie, Janet and Richard Chaykowski. "Male Jobs, Female Jobs, and Gender Gaps in Benefits Coverage in Canada," Research in Labor Economics, Cutler, David, Edward Glaeser and Jacob Vigdor. "The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto?" Journal of Political Economy, June 1999 (also NBER Working Paper, #5881). Freeman, Richard and John Bound. "What Went Wrong? The Erosion of Relative Earnings and Employment Among Young Black Men in the 1980s," Quarterly Journal of Economics, February Goldin, Claudia. The Gender Gap, University of Chicago Press, 1990, chapter 3. Hamermesh, Daniel and Jeff Biddle. "Beauty and the Labor Market," American Economic Review, December

7 Heckman, James and Brook Payner. "Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks: A Case Study of South Carolina," American Economic Review, March Heckman, James and John Donohue. "Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Affirmative Action and Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks," Journal of Economic Literature, December 1991 (also NBER Working Paper, #3894, November 1991). Loprest, Pamela. "Gender Differences in Wage Growth and Job Mobility" American Economic Review 82(2), May 1992, Lundberg, Shelly and Richard Startz. "On the Persistence of Racial Inequality," Journal of Labor Economics, 16 #2, Neale, Derek and William R. Johnson. "The Role of Premarket Factors in Black-White Wage Differences," Journal of Political Economy, October Oaxaca, Ronald. "Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets," International Economic Review, October Phelps, Edmund. "The Statistical Theory of Racism and Sexism," American Economic Review, September, Smith, James and Michael Ward. "Women in the Labor Market and in the Family," Journal Economic Perspectives, Winter Smith, James and Finis Welch. "Black Economic Progress After Myrdal," Journal of Economic Literature, June April 23: Special Lecture by Nicole Fortin "Wage Inequality and Labor Market Institutions April 25 and 30: Recent Developments in the Effects of Social and Welfare Programs on Behavior The Earned Income Tax Credit Blundell, Richard, Alan Duncan, Julian McCrae, and Costas Meghir, "The Labour Market Impact of the Working Families Tax Credit," JCPR 7

8 Working Paper, October Cossa, Ricardo, James J. Heckman and Lance Lochner, 1999, "Wage Subsidies and Skill Formation: A Study of the Earned Income Tax Credit," manuscript, University of Chicago, May. Eissa, Nada and Hilary Williamson Hoynes, 1998, "The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Supply of Married Couples," NBER Working Paper #6856. Eissa, Nada and Jeffrey B. Liebman, 1996, "Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May, Liebman, Jeffrey B., 1999b, "The Optimal Design of the Earned Income Tax Credit," mimeo, Kennedy School of Government Hotz, V. Joseph and John Karl Scholz, "The Earned Income Tax Credit," in Robert Moffitt (ed). Means Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, forthcoming (see NBER web page, books in progress). The Effects of Welfare Programs on Trends in Labor Force Participation Term Limits Meyer, Bruce D. and Dan T. Rosenbaum, 1999, "Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers," NBER Working Paper #7363, September Meyer, Bruce D. and Dan T. Rosenbaum, 2000, "Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and Its Effects," NBER Working Paper #7491, January Hotz, V. Joseph, Charles Mullin, and John Karl Scholz, 2001, "The Earned Income Tax Credit and Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare," Unpublished manuscript, UCLA, March Grogger, Jeffrey and Charles Michalopoulos, "Welfare Dynamics under Time Limits," JCPR Working Paper #125, January Grogger, Jeff, 2000, "Time Limits and Welfare Use," NBER Working Paper #7709, May

9 Grogger, Jeffrey, 2001, "The Effects of Time Limits and Other Policy Changes on Welfare Use, Work and Income Among Female-Headed Families, NBER Working Paper #8153. Modeling Effects of Multiple Program Participation Keane, Michael and Robert Moffitt, "A Structural Model of Multiple Welfare Program Participation and Labor Supply," International Economic Review, 39(3), August 1998, pp The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Programs Friedlander, Daniel, David Greenberg, and Philip Robins (1997), "Evaluating Government Training Programs for the Economically Disadvantaged," Journal of Economic Literature, 35:4, (December), Couch, Kenneth A. (1992), "New Evidence on the Long-Term Effects of Employment Training Programs." Journal of Labor Economics. 10(4): Dehejia, R. (2000), "Was There a Riverside Miracle: A Framework for Evaluating Multi-site Programs," Department of Economics, Columbia University. Hotz, V. Joseph, Guido Imbens, and Jacob Klerman, 2000, "The Long-Term Gains from GAIN: A Re-Analysis of the Impacts of the California GAIN Program," November 2000, NBER Working Paper #8007. Riccio, J., D. Friedlander, and S. Freedman (1994), GAIN: Benefits, Costs, and Three-Year Impacts of a Welfare-to-Work Program, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. May 2: Unemployment Insurance Anderson, Patricia and Bruce Meyer. "Unemployment Insurance in the United States: Layoff Incentives and Cross Subsidies," Journal of Labor Economics, January Anderson, Patricia. "Time-Varying Effects of Recall Experience, a Reemployment Bonus, and Job Counselling on Unemployment Durations" Journal of Labor Economics, January

10 David Card and Craid Riddell. "A Comparative Analysis of Unemployment in the United States and Canada" in Small Differences that Matter, University of Chicago Press for NBER, Gustafson, Cynthia and Phillip Levine. "Less-Skilled Workers, Welfare Reform, and the Unemployment Insurance System," NBER Working Paper #6489, March Katz, Lawrence and Bruce Meyer. "Unemployment Insurance, Recall Expectations, and Unemployment Outcomes," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Nov Katz, Lawrence and Bruce Meyer. "The Impact of the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment," Journal of Public Economics, Lemieux, Thomas and W. Bentley MacLeod. "Supply Side Hysterisis: The Case of the Canadian Unemployment Insurance System," Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming 2000 (also NBER Working Paper #6732, Sept. 1998). McCall, Brian. "The Impact of Unemployment Insurance Benefit Levels on Recipiency," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, April McCall, Brian. "Unemployment Insurance Rules, Joblessness and Part-Time Work" Econometrica, May Meyer, Bruce. "Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Spells," Econometrica, July Woodbury, Stephen and Robert Spiegelman. "Bonuses to Workers and Employers to Reduce Unemployment: Randomized Trials in Illinois," American Economic Review, Sept May 7: Teenage and Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing Hotz, V. Joseph, Jacob Klerman, and Robert Willis (1997), "The Economics of Fertility in Developed Countries: A Survey," Handbook of Population and Family Economics, M. Rosenzweig and O. Stark, eds., Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland, 1997, pp

11 Willis, Robert (1999), "A Theory of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing." Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, No. 6, Part 2, December Nechyba, Thomas, 1999, "Social Approval, Values, and AFDC: A Re-Examination of the Illegitimacy Debate," NBER Working Paper #7240, July Mullin, Charles and Anandi Mani, 2001, "Social Approval and Teenage Childbearing," Unpublished manuscript, Vanderbilt, February Mullin, Charles, 1999, "A Rational Choice Based Model of Teenage Childbearing," Unpublished manuscript, January Akerloff, G., J. Yellen, and M. Katz (1996), "An Analysis of Out-of- Wedlock Childbearing in the United States," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(2): Hao, L., V. J. Hotz, and G. Z. Jin (2000), "Games Daughters and Parents Play: Teenage Childbearing, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers," Unpublished manuscript, UCLA, March May 9: Consequences of Teen and Out-of-Wedlock Births Angrist, Joshua and William Evans "Children and their Parent s Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size," American Economic Review. (Also see NBER Working Paper 5778, September 1996.) Bronars, Stephen and Jeffrey Grogger (1994), "The Economic Consequences of Unwed Motherhood: Using Twin Births as a Natural Experiment," American Economic Review, 84 (1994): Geronimus, A. and S. Korenman (1992), "The Socioeconomic Consequences of Teen Childbearing Reconsidered," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107, Hotz, V. Joseph, Charles Mullin, and Seth Sanders (1997), "Bounding Causal Effects Using Data from a Contaminated Natural Experiment: Analyzing the Effects of Teenage Childbearing," Review of Economic Studies, 64: Hotz, V. Joseph, Susan McElroy, and Seth Sanders. "The Costs and Consequences of Teenage Childbearing for the Mothers and the 11

12 Government," in Kids having Kids: The Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy, ed. by R. Maynard, Urban Institute Press, 1997, pp (Also see NBER Working Paper #7397, Hotz, McElroy & Sanders, "Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment.") Maynard, Rebecca, ed. Kids having Kids: The Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy, ed. by Urban Institute Press, Rosenzweig, M. and K. Wolpin (1995), "Sisters, Siblings, and Mothers: The Effect of Teen-age Childbearing on Birth Outcomes in a Dynamic Family Context," Econometrica, 63(2), Rosenzweig, Mark R. and Kenneth I. Wolpin, "Life-Cycle Labor Supply and Fertility: Casual Inferences from Household Models." Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 88, No. 2 (1980): May 11: Effects of Social Policies on Family Structure, Fertility, and Abortion Dickert-Conlin, Stacy and Amitabh Chandra (1999), "Taxes and the Timing of Births," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, No. 1, Donohue, John and Steven Levitt. "Legalized Abortion and Crime. JCPR Working Paper, June Hoynes, Hilary (1997), "Does Welfare Paly Any Role in Female Headship Decisions?" Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 65, No. 2, Kane, T. and D. Staiger (1996), "Teen Motherhood and Abortion Access," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(2): Klerman, Jacob (1998), "Welfare Reform and Abortion," in Welfare, the Family, and Reproductive Behavior: Research Perspectives, Robert A. Moffitt, Editor, Committee on Population, National Research Council, Moffitt, R. (1994), "Welfare Effects on Female Headship with Area Effects," Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 29, Spring, Moffitt, Robert (1998), "The Effect of Welfare on Marriage and Fertility," in Welfare, the Family, and Reproductive Behavior: Research Perspectives, Robert A. Moffitt, Editor, Committee on Population, National Research Council,

13 Oettinger, Gerald (1999), "The Effects of Sex Education on Teen Sexual Activity and Teen Pregnancy," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, No. 3, Rosenzweig, Mark (1999), "Welfare, Marital Prospects and Nonmarital Childbearing." Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, No. 6, Part 2, December May 16, 21 23: Public Policy and the Health Sector Cutler, David and Elizabeth Richardson, "Your Money and Your Life: The Value of Health and What Affects It," in Alan Garber (ed). Frontiers in Health Policy, Cambridge MA: MIT Press for NBER, Fuchs, Victor. Who Shall Live? New York: Basic Books, 1982, Introduction Grossman, Michael. "On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health," Journal of Political Economy, Grossman, Michael. "The Human Capital Model of the Demand for Health," NBER Working Paper #7078, April 1999 (prepared for the Handbook of Health Economics). Newhouse, Joseph. "Medical Care Costs: How Much Welfare Loss?" Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer Pauly, Mark. "Taxation, Health Insurance and Market Failure in Medical Care," Journal of Economic Literature, June Weisbrod, Burton. "The Health Care Quadrilemma: An Essay on Technological Change, Insurance, Quality of Care, and Cost Containment," Journal of Economic Literature, June Health and Inequality Bound, John, Michael Schoenbaum, and Timothy Waidmann. "Race and Education Differences in Disability Status and Labor Force Attachment in the Health and Retirement Survey," Journal of Human Resources, Currie, Janet and Brigitte Madrian. "Health, Health Insurance, and the Labor Market" forthcoming in The Handbook of Labor Economics, David 13

14 Card and Orley Ashenfelter (eds)., Currie, Janet and Aaron Yelowitz. "Health Insurance and Less Skilled Workers," Labor Markets and Less Skilled Workers, Rebecca Blank and David Card (eds.), New York: Russell Sage, forthcoming, Currie, Janet and Rosemary Hyson. "Is the Impact of Health Shocks Cushioned by Socioeconomic Status? The Case of Birthweight," American Economic Review, May Deaton, Angus. "Inequalities in Health, Inequalities in Income," NBER Working Paper #7141, May Deaton, Angus and Christina Paxson. "Mortality, Education, Income and Inequality Among American Cohorts," NBER Working Paper #7140, May Gravelle, Hugh. "How Much of the Relation Between Population Mortality and Unequal Distribution of Income is a Statistical Artefact?" British Medical Journal, January 31, Smith, James P. "Healthy Bodies and Thick Wallets: The Dual Relationship Between Health and Economic Status," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring Wilkinson, Richard. Unhealthy Societies: The Affliction of Inequality, Routledge, 1996, especially chapters 9 and 10. Public Health Insurance Currie, Janet and Duncan Thomas. "Medicaid and Medical Care for Children," Journal of Human Resources, Winter, Currie, Janet and Jon Gruber. "Saving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Changes in the Medicaid Eligibility of Pregnant Women," Journal of Political Economy, December Currie, Janet and Jon Gruber. "Health Insurance Eligibility, Utilization of Medical Care, and Child Health," Quarterly Journal of Economics, May Currie, Janet and Jeffrey Grogger. "Medicaid Expansions and Welfare Contractions: Offsetting Effects on Prenatal Care and Infant Health," March,

15 Currie, Janet. "Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance?" Issues in the Economics of Immigration, George Borjas (ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, forthcoming, Currie, Janet, Jon Gruber, and Michael Fischer. "Physician Payments and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid Fee Policy," American Economic Review, May Cutler, David. "The Incidence of Adverse Medical Outcomes Under Prospective Payment," Econometrica, January Cutler, David and Jon Gruber. "Does Public Insurance Crowd out Private Insurance?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, May Gruber, Jonathan and Aaron Yelowitz. "Public Health Insurance and Private Savings," Journal of Political Economy, Dec (also available on Aaron s web site). Gruber, Jon and Leemore Dafny. "Does Public Insurance Improve the Efficiency of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations," NBER Working Paper #7555, February Hanratty, Maria. "Canadian National Health Insurance and Infant Health," American Economic Review, March McClellan, Mark, David Cutler, Victor Fuchs, Uwe Reinhardt, Thomas Savings, "Symposium: The Future of Medicare", in Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2000, v14 #2. Moffitt, Robert and Barbara Wolfe. "The Effect of the Medicaid Program on Welfare Participation and Labor Supply," Review of Economics and Statistics, November (Also available as NBER Working Paper #3286.) Weisman, Joel Arnold Epstein. Falling Through the Safety Net (Johns Hopkins Press: Baltimore) 1990, Chapters 5, 6 and 7. Yelowitz, Aaron. "The Medicaid Notch, Labor Supply and Welfare Participation: Evidence from Eligibility Expansions," Quarterly Journal of Economics Nov

16 Managed Care/Effects of Competition Currie, Janet and John Fahr. "Medicaid Managed Care: Effects on Children s Medicaid Coverage and Utilization of Care," August, 1999, revised January, Cutler, David and Louise Sheiner. "Managed Care and the Growth of Medical Expenditures" in Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Alan Garber (ed), Cambridge MA: MIT Press, Dranove, David, M. Shanley, and Carol Simon. "Is Hospital Competition Wasteful? RAND Journal of Economics, Summer Duggan, Mark. "Hospital Ownership and Public Medical Spending," October Kessler, Daniel and Mark McClellan. "Do Doctors Practice defensive Medicine?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, Kessler, Daniel and Mark McClellan. "Is Hospital Competition Socially Wasteful?" NBER Working Paper #7266, July Induced Demand Dranove, David. "Demand Inducement and the Physician/Patient Relationship," Economic Inquiry, April Dranove, David and Paul Wehner. "Physician-induced Demand for Childbirths," Journal of Health Economics," 13, Pauly, Mark. Doctors and Their Workshops: Economic Models of Physician Behavior (Chicago: NBER) 1980, Chapters 4 and 5. Policies for Public Health Currie, Janet. "Child Health in Developed Countries," forthcoming in Handbook of Health Economics, Cutler and Newhouse (eds) (Amsterdam: North Holland) Cutler, David. "Public Policy for Health Care" in Fiscal Policy: Lessons from Economic Research, Alan Auerbach ed., Cambridge MA: MIT Press,

17 Gruber, Jonathan. "The Efficiency of a Group-Specific Mandated Benefit: Evidence from Health Insurance Benefits for Maternity," American Economic Review, June Krueger, Alan and Uwe Reinhardt. "The Economics of Employer versus Individual Mandates," Health Affairs, Mathios, Alan and Pauline Ippolitto. "Information, Advertising, and Health Choices: A Study of the Cereal Market," RAND Journal of Economics, Fall Phelps, Charles. "Diffusion of Information in Medical Care" Journal of Economic Perspectives, May 28: Memorial Day May 30: Public Housing Policy Borjas, George. "Ethnicity, Neighborhoods and Human-Capital Externalities", American Economic Review, LXXXV (1995), Currie, Janet and Aaron Yelowitz. "Are Public Housing Projects Good for Kids?" Journal of Public Economics LXXV (2000), Cutler, David and Edward Glaeser. "Are Ghettos Good or Bad?", Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXII (1997), (see NBER Working Paper). Katz, Lawrence, Jeffrey Kling, and Jeffrey Liebman. "Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment", NBER Working Paper #7973, October Ludwig, Jens, Greg Duncan and Paul Hirschfield. "Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Mobility Experiment", Quarterly Journal of Economics, May Rosenbaum, James E. "Employment and Earnings of Low-Income Blacks Who Move to the Suburbs" in Christopher Jencks and Paul Peterson, eds. The Urban Underclass (Washington D.C.: Brookings) June 4: Second presentation of research papers 17

18 June 6: Child Care Blau, D. and Hagy, A., "The Demand for Quality in Child Care," Journal of Political Economy, Blau, David M., 2000, "Child Care Subsidy Programs," in Robert Moffitt (ed) Means Tested Transfer Programs in the U.S., Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER (see NBER Working Paper # W7806). Chipty, T. and A. D. Witte (1998), "Effects of Information Provision in a Vertically Differentiated Market," NBER Working Paper 6493, April Currie, Janet and V. Joseph Hotz. "Accidents Will Happen? Unintentional Injury, Maternal Employment, and Child Care Policy", NBER Working Paper #8090, Jan Heeb, Randal, V. Joseph Hotz and M. Rebecca Kilburn. "The Effects of State Regulations On Child Care Prices and Choices." Unpublished Manuscript, March Lemke, Robert, Ann Dryden Witte, Magaly Queralt, and Robert Witt, 2000, "Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition," NBER Working Paper #7583, March June 11: Early Intervention Programs Currie, Janet. "Early Childhood Intervention Programs: What Do We Know?", Journal of Economic Perspectives, forthcoming. Currie, Janet and Duncan Thomas. "Does Head Start Make a Difference?" American Economic Review, June Currie, Janet and Duncan Thomas. "Does Head Start Help Hispanic Children?" Journal of Public Economics, November, Currie, Janet and Duncan Thomas. "The Intergenerational Transmission of "Intelligence": Down the Slippery Slopes of The Bell Curve " Industrial Relations, July Garces, Eliana, Duncan Thomas and Janet Currie. "Longer Term Effects of Head Start", NBER Working Paper # 8054, December