Working Papers

The CDE Working Paper Series

The Center's Working Paper Series was initiated in 1971 to facilitate communication between Center researchers and other social scientists and also to publicize the broad scope of Center research activities. Working Papers are typically pre-publication manuscripts that are disseminated to stimulate comment or to make results quickly available.

The NSFH Working Paper Series

The NSFH Working Paper Series is a subset of the CDE Working Papers. Papers in the NSFH Series are produced using the data from the National Survey of Families and Households. This separate series of Working Papers, which carries the logos of the Center and of the NSFH, allows its users to see the work resulting from the NSFH as a set. It allows for the dissemination both of technical information about the survey and substantive reports based on NSFH data in a shorter time than can be expected from most journals.

Obtaining a Working Paper

Some working papers are available on-line; these are highlighted in the on-line lists. You may view these papers on-line or request a printed copy. To request a printed copy of a working paper, please send mail to: cdepubs@ssc.wisc.edu. Include your name and mailing address in the message. The paper(s) will be mailed to you.

NOTE: For NSFH papers, if the working paper has been published, publication details are included. If possible, please refer to the publication instead of ordering the working paper. Only order the working paper if you cannot obtain the publication.

To view a paper on-line, simply click on the paper's number (e.g., 95-01 or NSFH 66) in the working papers list. (Remember, only highlighted papers are available on-line.) You will need special software to view a paper; see more information on this below. Some papers have abstracts available. You may view an abstract without using special software. Just click on the word "Abstract" following the paper title.

About file formats

Most papers are published here in Adobe Acrobat format. To view them, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader software. The software is free and is available in Macintosh, Windows, DOS and Unix formats from the Adobe Corporation web site.

A few papers are in PostScript format. You may view these papers on-line using Ghostview. Free Ghostview software is available for Unix, VMS (X11), OS/2 and MS-Windows formats. Or, you can download a PostScript file and print it on your PostScript printer. PostScript files are flagged with the word (PostScript) after the paper number.

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