Michelle Sheran
Department of Economics


Research

Published Journal Articles

  • "The Take-up of Cash Assistance Among Private Kinship Care Families" with Christopher Swann, Children and Youth Services Review, Vol. 29, 2007, pp. 973-987.

  • "The Career and Family Decisions of Women. Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 10(3), July 2007, pp. 367-399.

  • "The Foster Care Crisis: What Caused Caseloads to Grow? with Christopher Swann, Demography, Vol. 43, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 309-335.

  • "Does the Child Welfare System Serve the Neediest Kinship Care Families? with Christopher Swann, Children and Youth Services Review, 28(10), 2006, pp. 1213-1228.

    Book Chapters

    "The Economic Determinants of Marriage," with Michael Brien, in Marriage and the Economy: Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies, edited by Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, March 2003.

    Work in Progress

  • "Home Schooling: Revelation or Revolution?" with Jessica Howell.