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Labor Publications: 2000-2007


Allen, Link, and Rosenbaum, “Entrepreneurship and Human Capital: Evidence of Patenting Activity from the Academic Sector,” Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, November 2007, 937-951.

Ribar, “The Effect of Family Structure on Parents’ Child Care Time in the United States and the United Kingdom,” with C. Kalenkoski and L. Stratton, Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, vol. 5 (4) 353-385..

Rosenbaum and Ruhm, “Family Expenditures on Child Care,” with Ruhm, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, Vol. 7 (1), Article 34, 1-30.

Ruhm, “Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development,” Labour Economics, forthcoming.

Ruhm, “Does Prekindergarten Improve High School Education and Performance?,” with K. A. Magnuson and J. Waldfogel, Economics of Education Review, February 2007, Vol. 26 (1), 33-51.

Sheran, “The Career and Family Decisions of Women,” The Review of Economic Dynamics, July 2007, Vol. 10 (3), 367-399.

Swann and Link, “A Time Allocation Study of University Faculty,” with B. Bozeman, Economics of Education Review, April 2007.

Swann and Sylvester, “Does the Child Welfare System Serve the Neediest Kinship Care Families?,” Children and Youth Services Review, 2006, Vol. 28 (10), 1213-1228.

Swann and Sylvester, “The Foster Care Crisis: What Caused Caseloads to Grow?,” Demography, May 2006, Vol. 43 (2), 309-335.

Ribar, “Transitions from Welfare and the Employment Prospects of Low-skill Workers,” Southern Economic Journal, January, 2005, Vol. 71 (3), 514-533.

Ribar, “Transitions in Welfare Participation and Female Headship,” with John M. Fitzgerald, Population Research and Policy Review, December, January 2005, Vol. 23 (5-6), 647-670.

Ruhm, “Parental Employment and Child Cognitive Development,” Journal of Human Resources, Winter 2004, Vol. 39 (1), 301-305.

Ruhm, “Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector,” with Carey Borkoski, Journal of Human Resources, Fall 2003, Vol. 38 (4), 992-1021.

Link, “Unions and Technology Adoption: A Qualitative Analysis of the Use of Real-Time Control Systems in U.S. Coal Firms,” with D. Siegel, Journal of Labor Research, Fall 2002, Vol. 23 (4), 615-630.

Ribar, “The Effects of Local Employment Opportunities on Youths’ Work and Schooling,” Economics of Education Review, August 2001, Vol. 20 (4), 401-413.

Ribar, “A Sibling Analysis of the Effects of Alcohol Consumption Onset on Educational Attainment,” with Steven F. Kock, Contemporary Economic Policy, April 2001, Vol. 19 (2), 162-174.

Rosenbaum, “Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers,” with Bruce D. Meyer, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2001, Vol. 116 (3), 1063-1114.

Rosenbaum, “Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects,” with Bruce D. Meyer, 53:4.2, National Tax Journal, December 2000, 1027-1062.

Ruhm, “Parental Leave and Child Health,” Journal of Health Economics, November 2000, Vol. 19 (6), 931-960.

Ruhm, “Trade and Displacement in Manufacturing,” with John T. Addision and Douglas A. Fox, Southern Economic Journal, January, 2000, Vol. 66 (3), 682-699.

 

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