Recent Publications
Books
Watt, Helen M. G., and Eccles, Jacquelynne S. 2008. Gender and occupational outcomes : longitudinal assessments of individual, social, and cultural influences. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Blank, Rebecca M., Sheldon H. Danziger, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2006. Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes Are Affecting Low-Wage Workers. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Xie, Yu, and Kimberly Goyette. 2004. A Demographic Portrait of Asian Americans. Russell Sage and Population Reference Bureau.
Xie, Yu, and Kimberlee A. Shauman. 2003. Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes. Boston, MA : Harvard University Press.
Journal Articles
2008
Brand, Jennie, and Sarah Burgard. 2008. "Job Displacement and Social Participation: Findings for a Cohort of Joiners." Social Forces, 87(1) 211-242.
2007
Levison, Deborah, Jasper Hoek, David Lam, and Suzanne Duryea. 2007. "Intermittent child employment and its implications for estimates of child labour." International Labour Review, 146(3-4): 217-251.
Reed, D., and Sheldon H. Danziger. 2007. "The effects of recent immigration on racial/ethnic labor market differentials." American Economic Review, 97:373-377.
2006
Wu, Xiaogang. 2006. "Communist Cadres and Market Opportunities: Entry into Self-employment in China, 1978-1996." Social Forces, 85(1): 389-411.
Bailey, Martha J., and William J. Collins. 2006. "The wage gains of African-American women in the 1940s." Journal of Economic History, 66(3): 737-777.
Bailey, Martha J. 2006. "More Power to the Pill: The Impact of Contraceptive Freedom on Women's Labor Supply." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(1): 289-320.
Haider, Steven J., and Gary Solon. 2006. "Life-cycle variation in the association between current and lifetime earnings." American Economic Review, 96(4): 1308-1320.
2005
Kim, B., and Gary Solon. 2005. "Implications of Mean-Reverting Measurement Error for Longitudinal Studies of Wages and Employment." Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(1): 193-196.
Giles, J., Albert F. Park, and J.W. Zhang. 2005. "What is China's true unemployment rate?" China Economic Review, 16(2): 149-170.
Black, Dan, Daniel Kermit, and Jeffrey A. Smith. 2005. "College Quality and Wages in the United States." German Economic Review, 6(3): 415-443.
2004
Liaw, Kao-Lee, and M.Z. Qi. 2004. "Lifetime Interprovincial Migration in Canada: Looking Beyond Short-Run Fluctuations." Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien, 48(2): 168-190.
Levy, Helen, and Thomas DeLeire. 2004. "Worker Sorting and the Risk of Death on the Job." Journal of Labor Economics, 22(4): 925-953.
Heckman, J.J., and Jeffrey A. Smith. 2004. "The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence From a Prototypical Job Training Program." Journal of Labor Economics, 22:243-298.
Barnow, Burt, and Jeffrey A. Smith. 2004. "Performance Management of U.S. Job Training Programs: Lessons from the Job Training Partnership Act." Public Finance and Management, 4(3): 247-287.
2003
Avellar, Sarah, and Pamela Smock. 2003. "Has the Price of Motherhood Declined Over Time? A Cross-Cohort Comparison of the Motherhood Wage Penalty." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 65(3): 597-607.
Brown, Charles C., and James Medoff. 2003. "Firm Age and Wages." Journal of Labor Economics, 21(3): 677-697.
Stinebrickner, Todd R. 2003. "Working During School and Academic Performance." Journal of Labor Economics, 21(2): 473-491.
Duryea, Suzanne, and Mary P. Arends-Kuenning. 2003. "School Attendance, Child Labor and Local Labor Market Fluctuations in Urban Brazil." World Development, 31(7): 1165-1178.
Ono, Hiromi. 2003. "Women's Economic Standing, Marriage Timing, and Cross-National Contexts of Gender." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 65(2): 275-286.
Page, Marianne E., and Gary Solon. 2003. "Correlations between Brothers and Neighboring Boys in Their Adult Earnings: The Importance of Being Urban." Journal of Labor Economics, 21(4): 831-855.
Page, Marianne E., and Gary Solon. 2003. "Correlations between Sisters and Neighbouring Girls in Their Subsequent Income as Adults." Journal of Applied Econometrics, 18(5): 545-562.
Juster, F. Thomas, Hiromi Ono, and Frank P. Stafford. 2003. "An Assessment of Alternative Measures of Time Use." Sociological Methodology, 33: 19-54.
Bound, John, Timothy A. Waidmann, Michael Schoenbaum, and Jeffery Bingenheimer. 2003. "The Labor Market Consequences of Race Differences in Health." Milbank Quarterly, 81(3): 441-473.
Harding, David J. 2003. "Jean Valjean's Dilemma: The Management of Ex-Convict Identity in the Search for Employment." Deviant Behavior, 24(6): 571-595.
Black, D.A., Jeffrey A. Smith, M.C. Berger, and B.J. Noel. 2003. "Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective Than the Services Themselves? Evidence From Random Assignment in the UI System." American Economic Review, 93:1313-1327.
2002
Bound, John, and Timothy A. Waidmann. 2002. "Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates Among the Working-Aged Disabled." Journal of Human Resources, 37(2): 231-250.
Wu, Xiaogang. 2002. "Work Units and Income Inequality: The Effect of Market Transition in Urban China." Social Forces, 80(3): 1069-1099. Reprint No. 592.
Stinebrickner, Todd R. 2002. "An Analysis of Occupational Change and Departure From the Labor Force - Evidence of the Reasons That Teachers Leave." Journal of Human Resources, 37(1): 192-216.
Pienta, Amy M., and Mark D. Hayward. 2002. "Who Expects to Continue Working After Age 62: The Retirement Plans of Couples." Journal of Gerontology: Social Science, 57B(4): S199-S208.
Wang, Guangzhou. 2002. "Research on the Developing Trend of Labor Force and the Countermeasures in China." International Conference on Management Science & Engineering, 8.
Chapters
Smock, Pamela, and Mary C. Noonan. 2005. "Intersections: Gender, Work, and Family Research in the United States." In Work, Family, Health and Well-being edited by Suzanne M. Bianchi, Lynne M. Casper, and Rosalind Berkowitz King. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Bjorklund, Anders, Markus Jantti, and Gary Solon. 2005. "Influences of Nature and Nurture on Earnings Variation: A Report on a Study of Various Sibling Types in Sweden." In Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne Groves . New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Shauman, Kimberlee, and Yu Xie. 2003. "Explaining Sex Differences in Publication Productivity among Postsecondary Faculty." In Equal Rites, Unequal Outcomes: Women in American Research Universities edited by Lilli Hornig. Pp. 175-208. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Duryea, Suzanne, and Carmen Pages. 2003. "What Human Capital Policies Can and Cannot Do for Productivity and Poverty Reduction in Latin America." In Latin American Democracies in the New Global Economy edited by Ana Margheritis . Pp. 145-172. Coral Gables, FA: North-South Center Press.
Duryea, Suzanne, and Carmen Pages. 2003. "Human Capital Policies: What they Can and Cannot do for Productivity and Poverty-Reduction in Latin America." In Latin American Democracies in the New Global Economy edited by Ana Margheritis. Coral Gables, FL: North South Center Press.
Duryea, Suzanne, Alejandra Cox Edwards, and Manuelita Ureta. 2003. "Adolescents and human capital formation." In Critical Decisions at a Critical Age: Adolescents and Young Adults in Latin America edited by Suzanne Duryea, Alejandra Cox Edwards, and Manuelita Ureta. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank.
PSC Reports
Xie, Yu, and Margaret Gough. 2009. "Ethnic Enclaves and the Earnings of Immigrants." PSC Research Report No. 09-685. August 2009.
Farley, Reynolds. 2008. "The Kerner Commission Report Plus Four Decades: What Has Changed? What Has Not?" PSC Research Report No. 08-656. September 2008.
Burgard, Sarah, Jennie Brand, and James S. House. 2008. "Perceived Job Insecurity and Worker Health in the United States." PSC Research Report No. 08-650. July 2008.
Bound, John, Todd R. Stinebrickner, and Timothy A. Waidmann. 2007. "Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men." PSC Research Report No. 07-630. November 2007.
Johnson, Rucker C., and Robert F. Schoeni. 2007. "The Influence of Early-Life Events on Human Capital, Health Status, and Labor Market Outcomes Over the Life Course." PSC Research Report No. 07-616. January 2007.
Wu, Xiaogang. 2006. "Socialist Workers in the Market Transition: Voluntary and Involuntary Job Mobility and Earnings Inequality in Urban China, 1993-2000." PSC Research Report No. 06-613. December 2006.
Greenman, Emily, and Yu Xie. 2006. "Double Jeopardy or Compensating Disadvantage? The Interaction Effect of Gender and Race on Earnings in the U.S." PSC Research Report No. 06-604. August 2006.
Brand, Jennie, and Yu Xie. 2006. "Composite Causal Effects for Time-Varying Treatments and Time-Varying Outcomes." PSC Research Report No. 06-601. June 2006.
Wu, Xiaogang, and Donald Treiman. 2006. "Inequality and Equality under a State Socialist Regime: Occupational Mobility in Contemporary China." PSC Research Report No. 06-598. April 2006.
Wu, Xiaogang. 2005. "Registration Status, Labor Migration, and Socioeconomic Attainment in China’s Segmented Labor Markets." PSC Research Report No. 05-579. July 2005.
Xie, Yu, and Xiaogang Wu. 2005. "Market Premium, Social Process, and Statistical Naivety: Further Evidence on Differential Returns to Education in Urban China." PSC Research Report No. 05-578. July 2005.
Ono, Hiromi, and James Raymo. 2004. "Housework, Market Work, and “Doing Gender” When Marital Satisfaction Declines." PSC Research Report No. 04-569. November 2004.
Smock, Pamela, Wendy Manning, and Meredith Porter. 2004. ""Everything’s There Except Money”: How Money Shapes Decisions to Marry Among Cohabitors." PSC Research Report No. 04-564. September 2004.
Duryea, Suzanne, David Lam, and Deborah Levison. 2003. "Effects of Economic Shocks on Children's Employment and Schooling in Brazil." PSC Research Report No. 03-541. December 2003.
Dow, William H., Paul Gertler, Robert F. Schoeni, John Strauss, and Duncan Thomas. 2003. "Health Care Prices, Health, and Labor Outcomes: Experimental Evidence." PSC Research Report No. 03-542. December 2003.
Schoeni, Robert F., and Michael Dardia. 2003. "Estimates of Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers Using California Administrative Data." PSC Research Report No. 03-543. December 2003.
Levison, Deborah, Jasper Hoek, David Lam, and Suzanne Duryea. 2003. "Implications of Intermittent Employment for Child Labor Estimates." PSC Research Report No. 03-539. October 2003.
Wu, Xiaogang. 2002. "Embracing the Market: Entry to Self-Employment in Transitional China, 1978 -1996." PSC Research Report No. 02-526. August 2002.
Danziger, Sandra K., Mary E. Corcoran, Sheldon H. Danziger, Colleen M. Heflin, Ariel Kalil, Judith A. Levine, Daniel Rosen, and Kristin Seedfeldt. 2002. "Barriers to the Employment of Welfare Recipients." PSC Research Report No. 02-508. June 2002.
Other Reports
Shin, Donggyun, and Gary Solon. 2006. "New evidence on real wage cyclicality within employer-employee matches." NBER Working Paper No. 12262.
Lam, David, Murray Leibbrandt, and Vimal Ranchhod. 2005. "Labour force withdrawal of the elderly in South Africa." University of Cape Town, Centre for Social Science Research Working Paper 05-118.
