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Date of Birth: April 19, 1944
Place of Birth: Chicago, IL
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1. Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Honor of the Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2000.
2. Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1992-
3. Doctor Honoris Causis, Universidad Chile, 2002.
   
4. Doctor Honoris Causis, UAEM, Mexico, 2003.
   
5. Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2001.
6. Honorary Doctorate, Colorado College, 2001.
7. Honorary Professor, Huazhong University, Wuhan, China, 2001.
8. Honorary Member, Latin and Caribbean Economic Association, 1999.
9. Honorary Professor, University of Tucuman, October, 1998.
10. President, Midwest Economics Association, 1998.
11. Elevated to Distinguished Service Professorship, 1995-
12. Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 1991-
13. A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1988-1990.
14. Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1985-
15. Henry Schultz Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, 1985-
16. Statistician of the Year, Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2002.
17. First Annual Louis T. Benezet Distinguished Alumnus Award, Colorado College, 1985.
18. Irving Fisher Professor, Yale University, Fall 1984.
19. John Bates Clark Medal (American Economics Association), 1983.
20. Fellow, Econometric Society, 1980.
21. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1978-1979.
22. Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1978-1979.
23. Social Science Research Council Training Fellow, 1977-78.
24. Harry Scherman Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1972-1973.
25. President-elect, Midwest Economics Association, 1996-1997.
26. President, Midwest Economics Association, 1998.
    

Professional Experience
University of Chicago
Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor 1995-
Henry Schultz Professor 1985-1995
Professor of Economics 1977-
Associate Professor 1973-1977 (tenured, 1974)
Irving Harris School of Public Policy, 1990-
Director, Center For Evaluation of Social Programs 1991-

Yale University
A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics 1988-1990
Professor of Statistics - 1990

Yale Law School
Lecturer 1989-1990

National Bureau of Economic Research
Research Associate 1971-1985, 1987-
Research Fellow 1972-1973

National Opinion Research Center: Economics Research Center
Research Associate 1979-

Social Science Research Council Committee on Research Methods for Longitudinal Data
Member 1976-1979, 1981-1982

National Science Foundation Evaluation Panel in Economics
Member 1977-1979

Annals of Economic and Social Measurement
Editor of special issue on the Analysis of Discrete Data

Center for Research on the Economics of Education London School of Economics
Visitor, Spring 1977

University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty
Visiting Professor, Fall 1977

Journal of Econometrics
Editor of the Special Issue on Panel Data, 1981

Academic Press
Editor of Labor Economics Series, 1980-1984

Member, National Academy of Sciences Panel on Statistical Assessments as Evidence in the Courts
1982-1985

Member, Board of Overseers, Michigan Panel Survey of Income Dynamics
1981-1984

Member, Advisory Board Chicago Urban League
1980-1987

Member, National Academy of Sciences Panel on the Status of Black Americans
1985-1988

Member, Advisory Board and Dean's Search Committee,
Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
1985-1988

Books

Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data (edited with Burton Singer), Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Performance Standards in A Government Bureaucracy (edited collection), forthcoming Upjohn Monograph Series and University of Chicago Press (Joint Publication).

Lecture Notes on Longitudinal Data Analysis (with B. Singer, and G. Tsiang), forthcoming, Westview Press, 1997.
 

Journal Articles

1. "A Note on Second Best Conditions for Public Goods,'" (with R. Nelson), Public Finance , 1, (1972).

2. "Empirical Evidence on the Functional Form of the Earnings-Schooling Relationship," (with S. Polachek), Journal of the American Statistical Association , (June 1974), 69(346), 350-354. Also, NBER, mimeo (October 1972).

3. "The Estimation of Income and Substitution Effects in a Model of Family Labor Supply," (with O. Ashenfelter), Econometrica , (January 1974), 42(1), 73-86. Presented at the Econometric Society Winter Meetings, (1971).

4. "Shadow Prices, Market Wages and Labor Supply,'' Econometrica , (July 1974), 679-94.

5. "The Effect of Day Care Programs on Women's Work Effort," Journal of Political Economy , (March/April 1974). Reprinted in T.W. Schultz (ed.), Economics of the Family: Marriage, Children, and Human Capital , (University of Chicago Press, 1974), 491-518.

6. "Life Cycle Consumption and Labor Supply: An Explanation of the Relationship Between Income and Consumption over the Life Cycle," American Economic Review , (March 1974).

7. "A Stochastic Model of Reproduction: An Econometric Approach," (with R. Willis), Papers and Proceedings of the American Statistical Association , Social Statistics Section, 1974.

8. "Estimating Labor Supply Functions,'' (with O. Ashenfelter), in G. Cain and H. Watts (eds.), Labor Supply and Income Maintenance , (Chicago: Markham Publishing Company, 1974).

9. "Measuring the Effect of an Antidiscrimination Program," (with O. Ashenfelter), July 1974 mimeo, in Evaluating The Labor Market Effects of Social Programs . (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975). Presented at the American Economic Association Winter Meetings, 1972.

10. "Estimation of a Stochastic Model of Reproduction: An Econometric Approach," (with R. Willis), in N. Terleckyj (ed.), Household Production and Consumption , 40, 99-145, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976). Presented at the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Washington, D.C., November 1973.

11. "Simultaneous Equation Models with both Continuous and Discrete Endogenous Variables With and Without Structural Shift in the Equations," in Goldfeld and Quandt (eds.), Studies in Nonlinear Estimation , Ballinger, (1976).

12. "A Life Cycle Model of Earnings, Learning and Consumption," Journal of Political Economy , (August 1976), 84(2), pt. 2, S11-S44.

13. "Does The Contract Compliance Program Work?: An Analysis of Chicago Data," (with K. Wolpin), Industrial and Labor Relations Review ,(Summer 1976). Presented at a Symposium on the Effect of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance on Minority Status, Cornell University, May 1975.

14. "The Common Structure of Statistical Models of Truncation, Sample Selection and Limited Dependent Variables,'' Annals of Economic and Social Measurement , (December 1976).

15. "Introduction," Annals of Economic and Social Measurement, Special issue on Discrete, Qualitative and Limited Dependent Variables , (December, 1976).

16. "New Evidence on the Dynamics of Female Labor Supply," in E. Andrews and C. Lloyd (eds.), Women in the Labor Market. Columbia University Press, 1978. Presented at a Labor Department Conference, "Women in the Labor Market," Columbia University, September 1977.

17. "A Partial Survey of Recent Research on the Labor Supply of Women," AEA Papers and Proceedings , (May 1978). Invited paper, presented to the American Economic Association, New York, 1977.

18. "An Economic Analysis of the Contract Compliance Program," Essay in Labor Market Analysis and Economic Demography in Memory of Peter Comay , (Halstead, 1977).

19. "The Impact of the Government on the Labor Market Status of Black Americans: A Critical Review," (with R. Butler), in L. Hausman, (ed), Equal Rights and Industrial Relations , Madison, Wisconsin: Industrial Relations Research Association, Ch. 9.

20. "A Beta-Logistic Model For the Analysis of Sequential Labor Force Participation by Married Women," (with R. Willis), Journal of Political Economy , (February 1977), 85(1), 27-58, read at the Third World Econometric Society Meetings, Toronto, 1975.

21. "Comments on 'The Labor Supply Responses of Wage Earnings in the Rural Negative Income Experiment," in J. Palmer and J. Pechman (eds), The Labor Supply Responses of Wage Earners in Welfare in Rural Areas: The North Carolina-Iowa Maintenance Experiment, Brookings, 1977, Presented at the Brookings Conference on Evaluating the Results of the Rural Negative Income Tax Experiment, Washington, D.C., (January, 1977).

22. "Dummy Endogenous Variables in a Simultaneous Equation System," Econometrica , (July 1978). Original draft, April 1973. Final draft, April 1977, 46(4), 931-959.

23. "Labor Supply Estimates for Public Policy Evaluation," (with G. Borjas), Proceedings of The Industrial and Labor Relations Research Association , Chicago meetings, 1978.

24. "Simple Statistical Models for Discrete Panel Data Developed and Applied to Test the Hypothesis of True State Dependence Against The Hypothesis of Spurious State Dependence," Annals de INSEE , Paris, (1978), 227-269, (September, Special Issue).

25. "Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error," Econometrica , (February 1979), 47(1), 153-161.

26. "Reply to Mincer and Ofek," (with R. Willis), Journal of Political Economy , (February 1979).

27. "Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error with an Application to the Estimation of Labor Supply Functions," March, 1977 in J. Smith (ed.), Female Labor Supply: Theory and Estimation , (Princeton University Press, 1980).

28. "Addendum To Sample Selection Bias As A Specification Error," in E. Stromsdorfer and G. Farkas, Evaluation Studies Review Annual, Vol. 5, (Sage Publications, 1980), 69-74.

29. "Does Unemployment Cause Future Unemployment? Definitions, Questions and Answers from a Continuous Time Model of Heterogeneity and State Dependence," (with G. Borjas). Special Symposium issue on Unemployment, Economica, (May 1980).

30. "A Life Cycle Model of Female Labour Supply," (with T. MaCurdy), Review of Economic Studies , 1980, XLVII, 47-74.

31. "A Life Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply," in B. Weisbrod and H.Hughes (eds), Human Resource, Employment and Development, Proceedings of Sixth World Congress, (IEA, McMillan, 1983).

32. "Statistical Models for Discrete Panel Data," in C. Manski and D. McFadden (eds.), Structural Analysis of Discrete Data With Econometric Applications, (M.I.T. Press).

33. "The Incidental Parameters Problem and the Problem of Initial Conditions in Estimating a Discrete Time-Discrete Data Stochastic Process and Some Monte Carlo Evidence," read at the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Panel Data, Harvard University, (August 1978). In C. Manski and D. McFadden (eds.), Structural Analysis of Discrete Data With Econometric Applications, (M.I.T. Press), (originally scheduled for 1979; due to delays, published in 1981).

34. "Heterogeneity and State Dependence," in S. Rosen (ed.), Studies in Labor Markets , (University of Chicago Press, 1981), 91-139.

35. "Current Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Labor Supply: Second Generation Studies," (with T. MaCurdy), Research in Labor Economics , (JAI Press Inc., 1981).

36. "Recent Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Labor Supply: A Partial Survey," with M. Killingsworth and T. MaCurdy, presented at Oxford, 1979, in Z. Hornstein (ed), Studies of The Labor Market , HMS Treasury, (1981).

37. "The Impact of the Minimum Wage on the Employment and Earnings of Workers in South Carolina," (with Sedlacek), in Vol. 5, Report of the Minimum Wage Study Commission, U.S. Government Printing Office, 225-272, (June 1981).

38. "Models for the Analysis of Labor Force Dynamics," (with C. Flinn), Advances in Econometrics , 1, 35-95, (New York: JAI Press, 1982).

39. "The Identification Problem in Econometric Models for Duration Data," in W. Hildenbrand (ed), Advances in Econometrics , Proceedings of Fourth World Congress of Econometric Society, (Cambridge University Press, 1982).

40. "Earnings and The Distribution of Income," (with R. Michael), in Part II, Behavioral and Social Science Research , A National Resource, (National Academy of Science Press, 1982).

41. "New Methods For Analyzing Individual Event Histories," (with C. Flinn), Sociological Methodology , 99-140, (Josey-Bass, 1982).

42. "Are Unemployment and out of the Labor Force Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?," (with C. Flinn), Journal of Labor Economics , 28-42, (January, 1983).

43. "The Likelihood Function For The Multistate-Multiepisode Model in 'Models For The Analysis of Labor Force Dynamics'," (with C. Flinn), in R. Bassman and G. Rhodes, (eds), Advances in Econometrics , 2, 225-231, (1983).

44. "Natural Monopoly," (with D. Evans), in D. Evans (ed.), Breaking Up Bell: Essays on Industrial Organization and Regulation , 127-156, (North Holland, 1983).

45. "Multiproduct Cost Function Estimates and Natural Monopoly Tests for the Bell System," (with D. Evans), in D. Evans, (ed.), Breaking Up Bell: Essays on Industrial Organization and Regulation, Chapter 10, 253-282, (North Holland, 1983).

46. "A Method for Minimizing the Impact of Distributional Assumption in Econometric Models for Duration Data," (with B. Singer), Econometrica, (1984), 271-320.

47. "The Identifiability of the Proportional Hazard Model," (with B. Singer), Review of Economic Studies , 231-241, (April, 1984).

48. "Population Heterogeneity in Demographic Models," (with B. Singer), in A. Rodgers and K. Land (eds.), Multidimensional Mathematical Demography , (1984), 271-320.

49. "Comments on the Ashenfelter and Kydland Papers," Carnegie Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy , (1984), 209-224.

50. "Econometric Duration Analysis," (with B. Singer), Journal of Econometrics , (January, 1984), 63-132.

51. "The c2 Goodness of Fit Statistic For Models with Parameters Estimated From Microdata," Econometrica , (November, 1984), 52(6), 1543-1547.

52. "A Test for Subadditivity of the Cost Function With An Application to the U.S. Bell System," (with D. Evans), American Economic Review , (September, 1984), 615-623.

53. "Introduction," (with B. Singer), Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data , (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).

54. "Social Science Duration Analysis," (with B. Singer), Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data , (University Press, 1985).

55. "A Simultaneous Equations Linear Probability Model," (with T. MaCurdy), Canadian Journal of Economics , (January, 1985), XVIII(1), 28-37.

56. "Alternative Methods for Estimating The Impact of Interventions," (with R. Robb), presented at Social Science Research Council Conference, Mt. Kisco, N.Y., October, 1978. In J. Heckman and B. Singer (eds.), Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data, (Cambridge University Press, 1985).

57. "New Evidence on the Timing and Spacing of Births," (with J. Hotz and J. Walker), American Economic Review , (May, 1985), 179-184.

58. "Using Longitudinal Data to Estimate Age, Period and Cohort Effects in Earnings Equations," (with R. Robb), in William M. Mason and Stephen E. Fienberg, (ed), Cohort Analysis in Social Research Beyond the Identification Problem , (Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1985).

59. "Heterogeneity, Aggregation and Market Wage Functions: An Empirical Model of Self-Selection in the Labor Market," (with G. Sedlacek), Journal of Political Economy , (December, 1985), 93(6), 1077-1125.

60. "The Influence of Early Fertility and Subsequent Births And The Importance of Controlling For Unobserved Heterogeneity," (with J. Hotz and Jim Walker), Bulletin of The International Statistical Institute , (1985), 51(2).

61. "A Dynamic Model of Aggregate Output Supply, Factor Demand and Entry and Exit For A Competitive Industry with Heterogeneous Plants," (with V. K. Chetty), Journal of Econometrics , (1986), 33, No.1/2, 237-262.

62. "Labor Econometrics," (with T. MaCurdy), in Z. Griliches and M.D. Intriligator (ed), Handbook of Econometrics , Vol. 3, Chapter 3, (Elsevier Science Publishers), (1986), 1918-1977.

63. "Econometric Analysis of Longitudinal Data," (with B. Singer), in Z. Griliches and M.D. Intriligator (ed), Handbook of Econometrics , Vol. 3, Chapter 29, (Elsevier Science Publishers), (1986), 1690-1763.

64. "Alternative Methods For Solving The Problem of Selection Bias in Evaluating The Impact of Treatments on Outcomes,'" (with R. Robb) in Howard Wainer, (ed), Drawing Inference From Self Selected Samples , (Springer-Verlag), (1986), 63-107.

65. "The Earnings of Panamanian Males," (with J. Hotz), Journal of Human Resources , September, 1986.

66. "Alternative Identifying Assumptions in Econometric Models of Selection Bias," (with R. Robb), in G. Rhodes, (ed), Advances in Econometrics , Vol. 5, 243-287, (JAI Press, 1986).

67. "The Importance of Bundling in a Gorman-Lancaster Model of Earnings," Review of Economic Studies , (1987) (with J. Scheinkman), LIV, 243-255.

68. "Female Labor Supply: A Survey," (with M. Killingsworth), Chapter 2, in O. Ashenfelter and R. Layard, Handbook of Labor Economics , (ed.), (North Holland, 1987).

69. "Using Goodness of Fit and Other Criteria to Choose Among Competing Duration Models: A Case Study of Hutterite Data," (with J. Walker), Sociological Methodology , (1987), Chapter 9, 248-307.

70. "Selection Bias and The Economics of Self Selection," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics , (MacMillian Press, Stockton, New York), 287-296.

71. "Do We Need Experimental Data To Evaluate The Impact of Training on Earnings," (with J. Hotz and M. Dabos), Evaluation Review , (August 1987), 28(4), 397-427.

72. "Are Classical Experiments Necessary For Evaluating The Impact of Manpower Training Programs?: A Critical Assessment," with (J. Hotz and M. Dabos), Industrial Relations Research Association: Proceedings Of The Annual Meeting , (1987), 40, 291-302.

73. "Empirical Tests of Labor Market Equilibrium: A Microeconomic Perspective," Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy , (with T. MaCurdy), 28, (Spring 1988), 231-258.

74. "Time Constraints and Household Demand Functions," in T. P. Schultz, (ed.), Research in Population Economics , (1988).

75. "Natural Monopoly and The Bell System: A Response to Charnes, Cooper and Sueyoshi," (with D. Evans), Management Science , (January, 1988), 27-38.

76. "The Value of Longitudinal Data For Evaluating The Impact of Treatments on Outcomes," (with R. Robb) in G. Duncan and G. Kalton, (eds.), Panel Surveys , (Wiley: New York, 1988), 512-538.

77. "The Impact of the Economy and the State on the Economic Status of Blacks: A Study of South Carolina," (with R. Butler and B. Payner) in D. Galenson, (ed.), Markets and Institutions , (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 321-343.

78. "How Voluntary is Black Unemployment and Black Labor Force Withdrawal?" in W. Darity and S. Schulman, (eds), The Question of Discrimination: Racial Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market , (Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1989), 50-80.

79. "Determining The Impact of Federal Anti-discrimination Policy on The Economic Status of Blacks: A Study of South Carolina," (with B. Payner), American Economic Review , (March 1989), 79(1), 138-177.

80. "Affirmative Action and Black Employment," Proceedings Of The Industrial Relations Research Association, (1989), 41, 320-329.

81. "The Identifiability Of The Competing Risks Model," (with Bo Honore), Biometrika , (June 1989), 76(2), 325-30.

82. "Choosing Among Alternative Non-experimental Methods For Estimating The Impact of Social Programs: The Case of Manpower Training," (with V. J. Hotz). Symposium paper with invited discussion, featured invited paper, American Statistical Association meeting, Journal of the American Statistical Association , (December 1989), 84(408), 862-874.

83. "Forecasting Aggregate Period Specific Birth Rates: Time Series Properties of a Microdynamic Neoclassical Model of Fertility," (with J.Walker), Journal of The American Statistical Association , (December, 1989), 84(408), 958-965.

84. "The Empirical Content of the Roy Model," with Bo Honore, Econometrica , (September, 1990), 58(5), 1121-1149.

85. "Self Selection and The Distribution of Hourly Wage Rates," with (G. Sedlacek), Journal of Labor Economics , (January 1990), 8(1), Part 2, S329-S363.

86. "Causal Inference and Nonrandom Samples," Symposium on Selection Bias Models, Journal of Educational Statistics, 14(2), (Summer 1989), 159-168, reprinted in J. Schaeffer, (ed.), The Role of Models in Non-experimental Social Science: Two Debates , 1991.

87. "The Third Birth in Sweden," (with J. Walker), Journal of Population Economics, (1990), 3(4), 235-275.

88. "A Method of Moments Estimator for The Mixing Distribution of a Mixture of Exponentials Model and A Mixture of Geometrics Model," presented at IC2 Conference, Durham, N.C., (May 1988), in W. Barnett, J. Powell and G. Tauchen, (eds.), Nonparametric Estimation of Econometric Models , (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1990).

89. "Estimating Fecundability from Data on Waiting Times to First Conceptions," (with J. Walker), The Journal of the American Statistical Association , (June, 1990), 85(410), 283-294.

90. "The Relationship Between Wages and Income and the Timing and Spacing of Births: Evidence from Swedish Longitudinal Data," (with J. Walker), Econometrica , (November, 1990), 58(6), 235-275.

91. "A Nonparametric Method of Moments Estimator for the Mixture of Geometrics Model," in J. Hartog, et. al., Panel Data and Labor Market Studies , (North Holland, 1990).

92. "Economic Models of Fertility Dynamics: A Study of Swedish Fertility," (with J. Walker), in T. P. Schultz, (ed.), Research in Population Economics , (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1990), Vol. 7, 3-91.

93. "Testing The Mixture of Exponentials Hypothesis and Estimating The Mixing Distribution by the Method of Moments,'' (with R. Robb and J. Walker), Journal of The American Statistical Association , (June 1990), 85(410), 582-589.

94. "The Impact of The Great Society on Social Science," Journal of Human Resources , (Spring, 1990), 25(2), 297-304.

95. "Understanding The Economic Progress of Black Americans," in Business in the Contemporary World , (Summer 1990), 19-22.

96. "The Central Role of the South in Accounting For The Economic Progress of Black Americans," Papers and Proceedings Of The American Economic Association , (May 1990), 80(2), 242-246.

97. "Varieties of Selection Bias," American Economic Review , (May 1990), 80(2), 313-318.

98. "Racial Disparity and Employment Discrimination Law: An Economic Perspective" and "Rejoinder," (with R. Verkerke), Yale Law and Policy Review , (Summer 1990), 8(2), 276-298.

99. "Accounting for the Economic Progress of Black Americans," in R. Cornwall and P.V. Wunnava, (eds.), New Approaches to Economics and Social Analyses of Discrimination , New York: Praeger, (1991), 331-337.

100. "Continuous vs. Episodic Change: The Impact of Affirmative Action and Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks," (with J. Donohue), Journal of Economic Literature , (December 1991),
29(4), 1603-1643.

101. "Reevaluating Federal Civil Rights Policy," (with J. Donohue), Georgetown Law Journal, (1991).

102. "Identifying the Hand Of The Past: Distinguishing State Dependence from Heterogeneity," American Economic Review , (May, 1991), 81(2), 75-79.

103. " A Nonparametric Method of Moments Estimator for the Mixtures of Exponentials Model and the Mixture of Geometrics Model," in W. Barnett, J. Powell and G. Tauchen, (eds.), Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods in Econometrics and Statistics , (Cambridge University Press, 1991)

104. "Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation," paper presented at Institute For Research on Poverty conference at Arlie House in Charles Manski and Irwin Garfinkel, (eds.), Evaluating Welfare and Training Programs , (Harvard University Press, 1992), 201-230.

105. "Understanding Third Births in Sweden," in J. Trussell, R. Hankinson and J. Tilton, (eds.), Demographic Applications of Event History Analysis , (Oxford University Press, 1992).

106. "Haavelmo and the Birth of Modern Econometrics: A Review of The History of Econometric Ideas by Mary Morgan," Journal of Economic Literature , (June 1992), Vol. 30.

107. "Evaluating an Argument For Affirmative Action," (with T. Philipson), Rationality and Society , (July 1992).

108. "The Urban Institute Audit Studies: Their Methods and Findings," (with P. Siegelman), in M. Fix and R. Struyk, (eds.), Clear and Convincing Evidence: Measurement of Discrimination in America , Chapter 5, 187-258, (Urban Institute, Fall 1993).

109. "The Nonequivalence of High School Equivalents," (with S. Cameron), Journal of Labor Economics , (January 1993), 11(1), 1-47.

110. "Determinants of Young Male Schooling and Training Choices," in Lisa Lynch, (ed), Private Sector Skill Formation: International Comparisons , (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993). 201-231.

111. "What Has Been Learned About Labor Supply In The Past Twenty Years?," AEA Papers and Proceedings , (May 1993), 83(2), 116-121.

112. "Assessing The Case For Randomized Evaluation of Social Programs," in K. Jensen and P. Madsen, (eds), Measuring Labor Market Program: Evaluating The Effects of Active Labor Market Initiatives, Ministry of Labor, (Copenhagen, DK., May 1993).

113. "Is Job Training Oversold?," The Public Interest , (Spring 1994), Number 115, 91-115.

114. "Econometric Mixture Models and More General Models for Unobservables," (with C. Taber), Statistical Methods in Medical Research: Frailty Models in Survival Analysis , (1994), 3(3), 279-299.

115. "U. S. Education and Training Policy: A Reevaluation of The Underlying Assumptions Behind The New Consensus," (with J. Smith and R. Roselius), in A. Levenson and L. C. Solmon, (eds), Labor Markets, Employment Policy and Job Creation, (Santa Monica, CA: Milken Institute for Job and Capital Formation), (October 1994), 83-121.

116. "Assessing The Case For Randomized Social Experiments," (with J. Smith), Journal of Economic Perspectives , (Spring 1995), 9(2), 85-110.

117. "The Economics of Eligibility Rules for a Social Program: A Study of the Job Training Partnership Act -- A Summary Report," (with T. Devine), Canadian Journal of Economics , (1995).

118. "Lessons From The Bell Curve," Journal of Political Economy , (October 1995), 103(5), 1091-1120.

119. "Coleman's Contribution to Education: Theory and Research Styles and Empirical Research," (with D. Neal), in Jon Clark, (ed), The Contributions of James Coleman: Falmer Sociology Series, (Falmer Press: London/N.Y., Philadelphia), (1996), 81-102.

120. "Does Measured School Quality Really Matter? An Examination of the Earnings-Quality Relationship," (with A. Layne-Farrar and Petra Todd), in G. Burtless, (ed), Does Money Matter? The Effect of School Resources on Student Achievement and Success , (Brookings), (July 1996).

121. "Randomization As An Instrumental Variable," Review of Economics and Statistics , (May 1996), LXXVIII, 336-341.

122. "Experimental and Non-experimental Evaluation," (with J. Smith), in G. Schmid, (ed.), International Handbook of Labor Market Policy and Evaluation , (Elgar Publishing Company, 1996).

123. "What Do Bureaucrats Do? The Effects of Performance Standards and Bureaucratic Preferences on Acceptance Into the JTPA Program,'' (with J. Smith and C. Taber), in G. Liebcap, (ed.), Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth , Vol. 7, 191-217, (JAI Press, 1996).

124. "Human Capital Pricing Equations with an Application to Estimating the Effect of Schooling Quality on Earnings," with (A. Layne-Farrar and P. Todd), Review of Economics and Statistics , (November 1996), 562-610.

125. "Consequences of Eligibility Rules for A Social Program: A Study of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)," (with T. Devine), in S. Polachek, Research in Labor Economics , (JAI Press, 1996), 15, 111-170.

126. "What Should be our Human Capital Investment Policy?," in G. Mangum, Of Heart and Mind , (Upjohn, 1996), 323-342.

127. "Social Experiments: Theory and Evidence," (with J. Smith), Okonomie and Gesellschaft , Jahrbuch, 13, (1996), 186-214.

128. "Sources of Selection Bias in Evaluating Programs: An Interpretation of Conventional Measures and Evidence on The Effectiveness of Matching as a Program Evaluation Method," (with H. Ichimura, J. Smith and P. Todd), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , (November 1996), 93,
13416-13420.

129. "On Air: Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables," Journal of The American Statistical Association , (June 1996).

130. "The Empirical Foundations of Calibration,"(with Lars Hansen), Journal of Economic Perspectives , 10(1), (Winter 1996), 87-104.

131. "Linear Probability Models of the Demand for Attributes with an Empirical Application to Estimating The Preferences of Legislators," (with J. Snyder), RAND Journal of Economics , (1997), 28(0), S142-S189.

132. "Assessing the Performance of Performance Standards in Public Bureaucracies," (with C. Heinrich and J. Smith), AEA Papers and Proceedings , (May 1997), 389-395.

133. "Cognitive Ability, Wages, and Meritocracy," (with John Cawley, Karen Coneeley and Ed Vytlacil)," in B. Devlin, S. E. Fienberg, D. Resnick and K. Roeder, (eds), in Intelligence Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to the Bell Curve , 179-192, (Copernicus:Springer-Verlag, 1997).

134. "The Value of Quantitative Evidence on the Effect of the Past on the Present," AEA Papers and Proceedings , (May 1997), 87(2), 404-408.

135. "Intellectual Roots of the Law and Economics Movement," Law and History Review , (Fall 1997), 15(2), 327-332.

136. "The Effects of Government Policy on Human Capital Investment and Wage Inequality," (with L. Lochner, J. Smith, C. Taber), Chicago Policy Review , (Spring 1997), 1(2), 1-40.

137. "Instrumental Variables: A Study of Implicit Behavioral Assumptions Used in Making Program Evaluations," Journal of Human Resources , (Summer 1997), 32(3), 441-462

138. "Making The Most Out of Programme Evaluations and Social Experiments: Accounting For Heterogeneity in Programme Impacts," (with J. Smith, N. Clements), (March 1993), Review of Economic Studies , (October 1997), 64, 487-535.

139. "Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme," (with H. Ichimura and P. Todd), Review of Economic Studies , (October 1997), 64, 605-654.

140. "Accounting For Dropouts in the Evaluation of Social Experiments," (with J. Smith and C. Taber), Review of Economics and Statistics , (February 1998), 80(1), 1-14.

141. "The Effects of Government Policies on Human Capital Investment, Unemployment and Earnings Inequality," in Publications of the GAAC, Symposia, Volume 5 : Third Public GAAC Symposium - Labor Markets in the USA and Germany, German-American Academic Council Foundation, Bonn, Germany, (1998).

142. "The Sensitivity of Experimental Impact Estimates: Evidence From The JTPA Study," (with J. Smith), in R. Freeman, (ed), Youth Unemployment , August, 1993, revised, May, 1996 and presented at a conference on Youth Transitions, Konstanz, Germany, University of Chicago and NBER, 1998.

143. "Evaluating The Welfare State," (with J. Smith), in S. Strom (ed.), Econometrics and Economic Theory in the 20th Century : The Ragnar Frisch Centennial Symposium, Econometric Society Monograph Series, 16, (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Chapter 8, 241-318.

144. "General Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy," (with L. Lochner and C. Taber), American Economic Review , (May 1998), 88(2), 381-386.

145. "Tax Policy and Human Capital Formation," (with L. Lochner and C. Taber), American Economic Review , (May 1998), 88(2), 293-297.

146. "Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts of American Males,'' (with S. Cameron), Journal of Political Economy , (April 1998), 106(2), 262- 311.

147. "Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations With A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Earnings," (with L. Lochner and C. Taber), Review of Economic Dynamics , (1998), 1, 1-58.

148. "Human Capital Policy," (with Peter Klenow), in M. Boskin, (ed), Capital Formation, Hoover Economic Growth Conference, Hoover Institution, (1998).

149. "Detecting Discrimination," Journal of Economic Perspectives, (Spring 1998), 12(2).

150. "What Should Be Our Human Capital Investment Policy?," Fiscal Studies , 19(2), (Spring 1998).

151. "Instrumental Variables Methods For the Correlated Random Coefficient Model: Estimating The Average Rate of Return to Schooling When the Return Is Correlated With Schooling," (with E. Vytlacil), Journal of Human Resources , 33(4), (Fall 1998), 974-1002.

152. "Human Capital Formation and General Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tax and Tuition Policy," (L. Lochner and C. Taber), Fiscal Studies , 20(1), 25-40, (March 1999).

153. "Doing it Right: Job Training and Education," The Public Interest , 135, (Spring 1999).

154. "Meritocracy in America: An Examination of Wages Within and Across Occupations," (with J. Cawley, and E. Vytlacil), Industrial Relations , 38(3), 250-296, (1999) Also published as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper #63.

155. "Should College Attendance be Further Subsidized to Reduce Rising Wage Inequality?" (with Stephen Cameron) in M. Kosters, (ed), Financing College Tuition: Government Policies and Educational Priorities , (AEI: Washington, DC., 1999).

156. "The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programs," (with R. LaLonde and J. Smith) in O. Ashenfelter and D. Card, (eds), Handbook of Labor Economics , (North Holland, Vol. 3, 1999), 1865-2086.

157. "Local Instrumental Variables and Latent Variable Models for Identifying an Bounding Treatment Effects," with (Edward Vytlacil), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , (April 1999), 96, 4730-4734.

158. "The Pre-Programme Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in A Social Programme Implications For Simple Programme Evaluation Strategies," (with Jeffrey A. Smith), Economic Journal, 109, 1-37, (July 1999), Won Prize as Best Paper Published in the journal in 1999.

159. "Meritocracy in America: An Examination of Wages Within and Across Occupations," (with J. Cawley and E. Vytlacil), Industrial Relations , (July 1999), 38(3), 250-296.

160. "On Policies to Reward the Value Added by Educators," (with J. Cawley and E. Vytlacil), Review of Economics and Statistics , (November 1999), 81(4), 720-728.

161. "Micro Data and General Equilibrium Models," (with M. Browning and L. Hansen) in J. Taylor and M. Woodford (eds), Handbook of Macroeconomics , (Amsterdam: Elsevier. 1999), Chapter 8, 543-633.

162. "Understanding the Role of Cognitive Ability in Accounting For The Recent Rise In The Economic Return to Education," (with J. Cawley, L. Lochner and E. Vytlacil) in K. Arrow, S. Bowles, and S. Durlauf (eds.), Meritocracy and Economic Inequality , (Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1999).

163. "General Equilibrium Cost Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies," (with L. Lochner and C. Taber), in Gustav Ranis and Lakshmi K. Raut, (ed), Trade, Growth and Development: Essays in Honor of T.N Srinivasan , Chapter 14, (Elseiver Science, B.V., Amsterdam, 2000), 291-393.

164. "Causal Parameters and Policy Analysis In Economics: A Twentieth Century Retrospective," Quarterly Journal of Economics , (2000), 45-97.

165. "The Relationship Between Treatment Parameters within a Latent Variable Framework," with (E. Vytlacil), Economic Letters , (January 2000), 66(1), 33-39.

166. "Substitution and Dropout Bias in Social Experiments: A Study of an Influential Social Experiment," with Neil Hohmann, Michael Khoo and Jeffrey Smith, Quarterly Journal of Economics, (May 2000), 651-690.

167. "Local Instrumental Variables," (with E. Vytlacil), in Nonlinear Statistical Inference: Essays in Honor of Takeshi Amemiya, C. Hsiao, K. Morimune, and J. Powell, (eds.), Essays in Nonlinear Econometrics, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), (2000).

168. "Rethinking Myths about Education and Training: Understanding the Sources of Skill Formation in a Modern Economy," (with L. Lochner) in S.Danzinger and J. Waldfogel, (eds.), Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to College , Chapter 2, 47-83, (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000).

169. "Policies to Foster Human Capital," (with Discussion), Research in Economics, (2000), 54(1), 3-56.

170. "Understanding Black-White Wage Differentials 1960-1990," (with T. Lyons and P. Todd), American Economic Review , (May 2000).

171. "The Cost of Job Security Regulation: Evidence from the Latin American Labor Markets, (with Carmen Pages-Serra), Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association , 1(1), (Fall 2000), 109-154.

172. "Accounting for Heterogeneity, Diversity and Social Policy Evaluation," Economic Journal , (2001).

173. "Identifying The Role of Cognitive Ability in Explaining The Level of and Change In the Return to Education,"(with E. Vytalcil), Review of Economics and Statistics , (February, 2001), 83(1),1-12.

174. "The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Whites and Hispanics," (with S. Cameron), Journal of Political Economy , (June 2001), 109(3), 455-499.

175. "Instrumental Variables, Selection Models, and Tight Bounds on the Average Treatment Effect," in Econometric Evaluations of Active Labor Market Policies in Europe , edited by M. Lechner and F. Pfeiffer, (2001).

176. "Essays: Econometrics and Empirical Economics," Journal of Econometrics , (2001), 100(3-5).

177. "Policy Relevant Treatment Effects," (with E. Vytlacil), American Economic Review , 91(2), (2001), 107-111.

178. "The Importance of Noncognitive Skills: Lessons from the GED Testing Program," (with Y. Rubinstein), AEA Papers and Proceedings , (May, 2001).

179. "Four Parameters of Interest in the Evaluation of Social Programs," (with J.L. Tobias and E. Vytlacil), Southern Economic Journal, (2001), 68 (2), 210-223.

180. "Micro Data, Heterogeneity, and the Evaluation of Public Policy: Nobel Lecture", Journal of Political Economy , (2001) 109(4), 673-748.

181. "Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Accessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies," (with Pedro Carneiro and Karsten Hansen), Swedish Policy Review , Vol 8, (2001).

182. "The Schooling of Southern Blacks: The Roles of Legal Activism and Private Philanthropy, 1910-1960,"(with J. Donohue and P. Todd), The Quarterly Journal of Economics, (February, 2002), 225-268.

183. "Identifying Hedonic Models," (with I. Ekeland and L. Nesheim), American Economic Review , (2002) 92(2), 304-309.

184. "The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling," (with Pedro Carneiro), Economic Journal , (October, 2002).

185. "The Performance of Performance Standards," (with C. Heinrich and J. Smith), Journal of Human Resources, (Fall, 2002).

186. "Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice," (with Pedro Carneiro, Karsten Hansen), Forthcoming, International Economic Review , (2003).

188. "Wage Subsidies and Skill Formation: A Study of the Earned Income Tax Credit," (with R. Cossa and L. Lochner) in E. Phelps, (ed.), Designing Inclusion , (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

189. "Treatment Effects For Discrete Outcomes when Responses to Treatment Vary Among Observationally Identical Persons: An Application to Norwegian Vocational Rehabilitation Programs," (with A. Aakvik and E. Vytlacil), Forthcoming, Journal of Econometrics, (2003).

190. "Human Capital Policy," (with P. Carneiro), Forthcoming, in J. Heckman and A. Krueger, Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policy? , (MIT Press, 2003).

191. "China Neglects Investment in its People," Forthcoming, Economic Development and Cultural Change , (2003).

192. "Structural Equations, Treatment, Effects and Econometric Policy Evaluation," (with Edward Vytlacil), Forthcoming, Econometrica, (2003).

193. "Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters within a Latent Variable Framework," (with J. Tobias and E. Vytlacil), Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics , (2003).

194. "Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs," (with E. Vytlacil) in Handbook of Econometrics , Volume 5, J. Heckman and E. Leamer, (eds.), (North Holland: Amsterdam), (2003).

195. "Understanding The Contribution of Legislation, Social Activism, Markets and Choice To The Economic Progress of African Americans in the Twentieth Century," (with Petra Todd), forthcoming in B. Garth and V. Wuosete, (eds.), ABF Anthology , (May 2003).

196. "Causality", Journal of Econometrics , (2002).

197. "Identification and Estimation of Hedonic Models: Using All of the Economics of The Model to Identify It," (with Ivar Ekeland and Lars Nesheim), Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy , 2003.

198. "The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores,"(with Karsten T. Hansen, Kathleen J. Mullen), Forthcoming, Journal of Econometrics , 2003.

199. "Flexibility and Job Creation: Lessons from Germany," Forthcoming in P. Aghion, R. Frydman, J. Stiglitz, and M. Woodford (eds.), Knowledge, Information, and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics , (January, 2003).

200. "Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models," (with S. Navarro) Review of Economics and Statistics , 2003.

201. "Three Observations on Wages and Measured Cognitive Ability," (with John Cawley and Edward Vytlacil) 2001, Labour Economics .

202. "The Supply Side of the Race Between Supply and Demand: Policies to Foster Skill in the Modern Economy," (Netherlands Economic Review), Quarterly Review of the Royal Netherlands Economic Association , March 2003, Tinbergen Lecture (October 2002).

Working Papers, Papers In Progress And Papers Under Review

"The Relationship Between Treatment Parameters within a Latent Variable Framework," with (E. Vytlacil), 1999, Economic Letters , forthcoming.

"Three Observations on Wages and Measured Cognitive Ability," (with J. Cawley and E. Vytlacil), forthcoming, 1998.

"Cognitive Ability and the Rising Wage Return to Education," (with J. Cawley and E. Vytlacil), submitted to Review of Economics and Statistics . Also came out as: NBER Working Paper #6388.

"The Optimal Policy to Reward the Value Added by Educators," (with J. Cawley and E. Vytlacil), forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics , 1997.

"Ashenfelter's Dip and The Determinants of Participation in A Social Program," (with J. Smith), under review, Economic Journal .

"Alternative Approaches To The Evaluation of Social Programs: Econometric and Experimental Methods," Barcelona Lecture, Sixth World Meetings of The Econometric Society, submitted to Econometrica .

"Substitution Bias in Social Experiments: Evidence From the National JTPA Study," with Neil Hohmann, Michael Khoo and Jeffrey Smith, January, 1996., under revision, Quarterly Journal of Economics .

"Public Action. Private Choice and Philanthropy: Understanding The Sources of Improvement in Black Schooling Quality in Georgia 1911-1960. (with Donohue and Todd), under revision, Quarterly Journal of Economics .

"The Case For Simple Estimators: Experimental Evidence From the National JTPA Study," unpublished manuscript, University of Chicago, November, 1993.

"The Performance of Performance Standards" with J. Smith, under revision, American Economic Review , July, 1995.

"Determinants of Participation in A Social Program," with J. Smith under revision, Quarterly Journal of Economics .

"Nonparameteric Characterization of Selection Bias Using Experimental Data: A Study of Adult Males in JTPA", "Part I: Definitions, Applications and Empirical Results", and "Part II: Econometric Theory and Monte Carlo Evidence," (with H. Ichimura, P. Todd and J. Smith), (both parts are under revision at Econometrica , June, 1995).

Cognitive Ability and the Changing Wage Return to Education, (with J. Cawley,J. Heckman, , L. Lochner, E. Vytlacil, unpublished manuscript, July, 1992, under revision, Review of Economics and Statistics .

"The Empirical Importance of Randomization Bias in Social Experiments: Evidence from the JTPA Study," (with M. Khoo, R. Roselius and J. Smith), unpublished, University of Chicago, 1995.

"The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Whites and Hispanics", (with S. Cameron), under revision, first draft 1992, final draft 1998.

"A Sequential Model of Schooling" (with S. Cameron), Yale, 1990.

"Internal Adjustment Costs And The Neoclassical Theory of the Firm", (with V. K. Chetty), 1971.

"Dynamic Models of Female Labor Supply," unpublished, University of Chicago, March, 1977.

"Shadow Prices, Market Wages and Labor Supply Revisited: Some Corrections and Computational Simplifications", mimeo, June, 1975.

"New Evidence On The Assertion That The Government Has Shifted The Relative Demand Curve For Labor In Favor of Blacks," (with R. Butler), June, 1978.

"Three State Search Models" (with T. Coleman), unpublished, April, 1981.

"The Empirical Content of Alternative Models of Labor Earnings", unpublished, 1978, revised 1982.
 

Book Manuscripts

Understanding The Structure of Selection into Social Programs , 1995, under review University of Chicago Press.

Evaluating Social Programs: The Harris Lectures , under review, Harvard University Press.
 

Book Reviews

Review of Problems and Issues in Current Econometric Practices (ed.) Journal of Economic Literature December, 1974.

"The Cracked Bell" review of Herrnstein and Murray, The Bell Curve , Reason, March, 1995.