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273: Social Security Expectations and Retirement Savings Decisions

Jeff Dominitz, Charles Manski and Jordan Heinz

272: The Interactive Effects of Housing Assistance and Food Stamps

Joseph Harkness and Sandra J. Newman

271: Is a Family-focused Program More Effective in Helping Low-Income Parents Enter the Workforce? Insights from a Multimethod Evaluation of the Jobs for Youth/Full Family Partnership Demonstration

Carolyn Heinrich and Rachel Gordon

270: Did the Medicaid-Eligibility Expansions Increase the Reporting of Children's Health Problems? Evidence from the SIPP

Elizabeth Powers

269: Adolescent Outcomes, Poverty Status, and Welfare Reform: An Analysis based on the Survey of Program Dynamics

Eileen Trzcinski and Jerry Brandell

268: Accidents Will Happen? Unintentional Childhood Injuries and the Effects of Child Care Regulations

Janet Currie and V. Joseph Hotz

267: Explaining Child Support Trends: Economic, Demographic, and Policy Effects

Anne Case, I-Fen Lin and Sara McLanahan

266: The Roles of Child Support Enforcement and Welfare In Nonmarital Childbearing

Irwin Garfinkel, Daniel S. Gaylin, Chien-Chung Huang and Sara McLanahan

265: Are Cohabiting Relationships More Violent than Marriages?

Catherine T. Kenney and Sara McLanahan

264: For Richer or Poorer?

Wendy Sigle-Rushton and Sara McLanahan

263: Shared Parenting in Fragile Families

Marcia J. Carlson and Sara McLanahan

262: The Living Arrangements of New Unmarried Mothers

Wendy Sigle-Rushton and Sara McLanahan

261: Welfare Reform, Fertility and Father Involvement

Sara McLanahan and Marcia J. Carlson

260: Union Formation and Stability in Fragile Families

Marcia J. Carlson, Sara McLanahan and Paula England

259: Fragile Families and Welfare Reform: An Introduction

Irwin Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, Marta Tienda and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

258: Do Unmarried Parents' Expectations Predict Marital Transitions? Early Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study

Maureen Waller and Sara McLanahan

257: Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Decisions, and the Path of Least Resistance

James Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian and Andrew Metrick

256: For Better or For Worse: Default Effects and 401(k) Savings Behavior

James Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian and Andrew Metrick

255: Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Job Mobility: A Critical Review of the Literature

Jonathan Gruber and Brigitte Madrian

254: Does it Pay to Move from Welfare to Work?

Sheldon Danziger, Colleen M. Heflin, Mary Corcoran and Elizabeth Oltmans

253: Challenging Instruction for "All Students": Policy, Practitioners, and Practice

James P. Spillane

252: Crossing Class Boundaries: Race, Siblings and Socioeconomic Heterogeneity

Colleen M. Heflin and Mary E. Pattillo

251: Assessing the Implications of Welfare Reform for Children's SSI Receipt

Loretta E. Bass and Jane Mosley

250: The Social Outcomes of Street Gang Involvement

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

249: Associations Between Participation in the National School Lunch Program, Food Insecurity, and Child Well-Being

Rachel Dunifon and Lori Kowaleski-Jones

248: Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions

David Card and Lara Shore-Sheppard

247: The Impact of Welfare Waivers on Female Headship Decisions

John Fitzgerald and David Ribar

246: The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Nonmarital and Marital Births: Does It Differ by Racial and Age Groups?

Chien-Chung Huang

245: Trends in Employment Outcomes of Young Black Men, 1979-2000

Harry Holzer and Paul Offner

244: An Assessment of Relationship Between Growth and Inequality Using Micro Data from Thailand

Hyeok Jeong

243: Food Insecurity and Public Assistance

George Borjas

242: Good Things Come in Threes: Single-parent Multigenerational Family Structure and Adolescent Adjustment

Thomas DeLeire and Ariel Kalil

241: The Measurement of Medicaid Coverage in the SIPP: Evidence from California, 1990-1996

David Card, Andrew K. G. Hildreth and Lara Shore-Sheppard

240: Comparing Father and Mother Reports of Father Involvement among Low-Income Minority Families

Rebekah Levine Coley and Jodi Eileen Morris

239: How Safe Is the Local Safety Net? Fiscal Distress, Public Spending, and the Budgetary Repercussions of Capital Convictions

Katherine Baicker

238: Will Employers Hire Ex-Offenders? Employer Preferences, Background Checks, and Their Determinants

Harry Holzer, Steven Raphael and Michael Stoll

237: Taxes and Unmarried Fathers' Participation in the Underground Economy

Lauren M. Rich and Sun-Bin Kim

236: To What Degree Does Food Assistance Help Poor Households Acquire Enough Food?

Beth Osborne Daponte, Amelia Haviland and Joseph B. Kadane

235: How Economic Segregation Affects Children's Educational Attainment

Susan Mayer

234: Welfare Reform and Household Saving

Erik Hurst and James Ziliak

233: Reorganizing the Welfare State: New Administrative Models, Old Bureaucratic Problems

Evelyn Brodkin

232: Adolescents' School Enrollment and Employment:Effect of State Welfare Policies

Lingxin Hao, Nan M. Astone and Andrew Cherlin

231: Job Performance and Retention Among Welfare Recipients

Harry Holzer, Michael Stoll and Douglas Wissoker

230: How the Growth in Income Inequality Increased Economic Segregation

Susan Mayer

229: Savings of Young Parents

Annamaria Lusardi, Ricardo Daniel Cossa and Erin L. Krupka

228: Why Are Black Employers More Likely to Hire African Americans than White Employers?

Michael Stoll, Steven Raphael and Harry Holzer

227: Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed?

Susan Mayer and Leonard Michael Lopoo

226: The Rise in Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment

David Autor and Mark Duggan

225: Bullets Don't Got No Name: Consequences of Fear in the Ghetto

Jeffrey Kling, Jeffrey Liebman and Lawrence Katz

224: Returns to Tenure and Experience Revisited -- Do Less Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience?

Helen Connolly and Peter Gottschalk