Department of Economics
Public Publications: 2000-2007
Holland, “Is Real-Time Pricing Green?: The Environmental Impacts of Electricity Demand Variance,” with Erin Mansur, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
Leyden, “The Ayers Case and Legislative Constraints on Judicial Intervention,” Public Finance/Finances Publique, forthcoming.
Ribar, “Watching the Clocks: The Role of Food Stamp Recertification and TANF Time Limits in Caseload Dynamics,” with Marilyn Edelhoch and Qiduan Liu, Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.
Ruhm, “A Healthy Economy Can Break Your Heart,” Demography, forthcoming.
Link, “Public Accountability: Evaluating the US Small Business Innovation Research Program,” with Wessner, International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management, 2007, forthcoming.
Link, “Evaluating Public-Sector Intramural Research Programs: The Case of the US Advanced Technology Program's Intramural Research Initiative,” with Scott, International Journal of Public Policy, 2007, forthcoming.
Link, “An Empirical Analysis of the Propensity of Academics to Engage in Informal University Technology Transfer,” with Siegel, Industrial and Corporate Change, 2007, forthcoming.
Leyden and Link, “A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Decision to Locate on a University Research Park,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2007, forthcoming.
Ruhm, “The Persistence of Preschool Effects: Do Subsequent Classroom Experiences Matter?,” with Magnuson and Waldfogel, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2007, Vol. 22 (1), First Quarter, 18-38.
Ruhm, “Family Expenditures on Child Care,” with Link, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, Vol. 7 (1), Article 34, 1-30.
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 and Swann, “The Take-up of Cash Assistance among Private Kinship Care Families,” Children and Youth Services Review, 2007, Vol. 29, 973-987.
Swann, “The Timing of Prenatal WIC Participation,” Berkeley Electronic Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, Vol. 7 (1), Article 5, 18-38.
Holland, “Privatization of Water-Resource Development,” Environmental Resource Economics, 2006, Vol. 34, 291-315.
Holland, “The Short-Run Effects of Time-Varying Prices in Competitive Electricity Markets,” with Erin Mansur, Energy Journal, 2006, Vol. 27 (4), 127-155.
Ribar, “Exchange, Role Modeling and the Intergenerational Transmission of Elder Support Attitudes: Evidence from Three Generations of Mexican-Americans,” with Wilhelm, Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, Vol. 35 (3), 514-531.
Ruhm, “Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence from the OECD,” with Gerdtham, Economics and Human Biology, 2006, 298-316.
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.
Bearse, “Endogenous Public Expenditures on Education,” with Glomm and Patterson, Journal of Public Economic Theory, October, 2005, 7, No. 4, 561-577.
Holland, “On the Efficiency of Competitive Electricity Markets with Time-Invariant Retail Prices,” with S. Borenstein, The RAND Journal of Economics, 2005, Vol. 36 (3), 469-493.
Layson, “The Estimation of Consumer Surplus Benefits from a City Owned Multipurpose Coliseum Complex,” Journal of Real Estate Research, April-June, 2005, Vol. 27 (2), 221-234.
Link, “An Economic Evaluation of the Baldrige National Quality Program,” with J. Scott, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2005, 1-18.
Link, “Evaluating Public Sector R&D Programs: The Advanced Technology Program’s Investment in Wavelength References for Optical Fiber Communications,” with J. Scott, Journal of Technology Transfer, January 2005, Vol. 30 (1-2), 241-251.
Link, “Opening the Ivory Tower Door: An Analysis of the Determinants of the Formation of U.S. University Spin-Off Companies,” with J. Scott, Research Policy, 2005, 1106-1112.
Swann, “Welfare Reform when Recipients are Forward-Looking,” Journal of Human Resources, Winter 2005, Vol. 40 (1), 31-56.
Ribar, “Welfare Reform and Female Headship,” with John M. Fitzgerald, Demography, May 2004, Vol. 41 (2), 189-212.
Ruhm, “Inequality in Preschool Education and School Readiness,” with K. Magnuson, M. Meyers and J. Waldfogel, American Educational Research Journal, Spring 2004, Vol. 41 (1), 115-157.
Holland, “Cadillac Desert Revisited: Property Rights, Public Policy, and Water Resource Depletion,” with M. R. Moore, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, November 2003, Vol. 46 (3), 539-556.
Leyden, “Legal Constraints and the Choice of Educational Grant Structures,” Public Choice, April 2003, Vol. 115 (1), 83-107.
Link, “Innovation Policy in Search of an Economic Foundation: The Case of Research Partnerships in the United States,” with K. Combs, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, June 2003, Vol. 15 (2), 177-187.
Link, “Universities as Research Partners,” with B. Hall and J. Scott, Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2003, Vol. 85 (2), 485-491.
Link, “An Analysis of Policy Initiatives to Promote Strategic Research Partnerships,” with D. Paton and S. Siegel, Research Policy, December 2002, Vol. 31 (8-9), 1459-1466.
Link, “Public/Private Technology Partnerships: Evaluating SBIR-Supported Research,” with D. Audretsch and J. Scott, Research Policy, January 2002, Vol. 31 (1), 145-158.
Neufeld, “The Market for Capital and the Origins of State Regulation of Electric Utilities in the United States,” with William J. Hausman, Journal of Economic History, 2002, Vol. 47 (3), 693-709.
Ribar, “Economic Restructuring and the Retreat from Marriage,” with Daniel T. Lichter and Diane K. McLaughlin, Social Science Research, June 2002 Vol. 31 (2), 230-256.
Ribar, “Altruistic and Joy-of-Giving Motivations in Charitable Behavior,” with Mark O. Wilhelm, Journal of Political Economy, April 2002, Vol. 110 (2), 425-447.
Bearse, “Composition of Government Budget, Non-single Peakedness and Majority Voting,” with G. Glomm and E. Janeba, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2001, Vol. 3 (4), 471-481.
Bearse, “On the Political Economy of Means-Tested Education Vouchers,” with G. Glomm and B. Ravikumar, European Economic Review, 2000, Vol. 44, 904-915.
Bearse, “Why Poor Countries Rely Mostly on Redistribution In-Kind,” with G. Glomm and E. Janeba, Journal of Public Economics, 2000, Vol. 75, 463-481.
Ruhm, “Parental Leave and Child Health,” Journal of Health Economics, November 2000, Vol. 19 (6), 931-960.