Recent PapersHealth and Wealth in a Lifecycle Model (with Ananth Seshadri), August, 2012
A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education (with Meta Brown and Ananth Seshadri), Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming
An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States (with Yonatan Ben-Shalom and Robert Moffitt, May 2011, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty, P. Jefferson (ed.), Oxford University Press
The National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Evidence on Participation and Noncompliance (with Molly Dahl), March 2011
Facial Attractiveness and Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from a Cohort Study (with Kamil Sicinski), February 2011
Are All Americans Saving "Optimally" for Retirement? (with William Gale and Ananth Seshadri), December 2009
Children and Household Wealth (with Ananth Seshadri), July 2009
The Effects of Financial Education in the Workplace: Evidence from a Survey of Employers (with Pat Bayer and Doug Bernheim), 2009, Economic Inquiry, October, 605-624 (winner of best paper award in 2009)
Trends in Income Support (with Robert Moffitt and Benjamin Cowan), in Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, M. Cancian and S. Danziger (eds.), Russell Sage Foundation, New York: New York, 2009, 203-241
Introduction, in Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better (with Carolyn Heinrich), Russell Sage Foundation, New York: New York, 2009, 1-22
The Assets and Liabilities Held By Low-Income Families (with Ananth Seshadri), in Insufficient Funds, R. Blank and M. Barr (eds.), Russell Sage Foundation, New York: New York, 2009, 25-65
Can Administrative Data on Child Support Be Used to Improve the EITC? Evidence from Wisconsin (with Joe Hotz), National Tax Journal, 61, June 2008, 189-203
Taxation and Poverty, New Palgrave, L. Blume and S. Durlauf (eds), 2008
Employment-Based Tax Credits, December 2007, a Hamilton Project Discussion Paper and Policy Brief
Tied Transfers (with Meta Brown, Maurizio Mazzocco, and Ananth Seshadri), September 2006
Are Americans Saving 'Optimally' for Retirement? (with Ananth Seshadri and Surachai Khitatrakun), Journal of Political Economy, 114(4), August 2006, 607-643
Examining the Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare (with Joe Hotz and Charlie Mullin), December 2005
Do Estate and Gift Taxes Affect the Timing of Private Transfers? (with Doug Bernheim and Rob Lemke), Journal of Public Economics, 88(12), December 2004, 2617-2634.
U.S. Black-White Wealth Inequality: A Survey (with Kara Levine), in Social Inequality, K. Neckerman (ed.), Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, 895-929
The Earned Income Tax Credit (with Joe Hotz), in Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, R. Moffitt (ed.), The University of Chicago Press and NBER, 2003, 141-197
WIC Eligibility and Participation (with Marianne Bitler and Janet Currie), Journal of Human Resources, Special Issue on Income Volatility and Implications for Food Assistance Programs, Volume 38, 2003, 1139-1179
"Saving Incentives in the U.S." (with Surachai Khitatrakun), in Pension Policy in an Integrating Europe, E. Fornero and O. Castellino (editors), Edward Elgar, 2003, 127-151
Welfare, Employment and Income: Evidence on the Effects of Benefit Reductions in California (with Joe Hotz and Charlie Mullin), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2002, 380-384
"Measuring Employment and Income Outcomes for Low-Income Populations with Administrative and Survey Data," with V. Joseph Hotz, in Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues, National Research Council: National Academy Press, 2002, 275-315
The Evolution of Income Support Policy (with Kara Levine), in Understanding Poverty, Danziger and Haveman (eds.), Harvard University Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2001, 193-228
"Welfare Reform in the United States" (with Robert Haveman), in A New Paradigm for Social Welfare in the New Millennium, (L. Cho, H. Moon, Y. Kim, and S. Lee, eds.), Korean Development Institute Press, 2005, 25-53
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