"Some Effects of Taxes on Schooling and Training," with W. Dupor, C. Taber, and M. B. Wittekind, American Economic Review, vol. 86(2), 1996, pp. 340-6.

"The Effects of Government Policy on Human Capital and Wage Inequality," with J. Heckman, J. Smith, and C. Taber, Chicago Policy Review, vol. 1(2), 1997.

"The Effects of Government Policies on Human Capital Investment, Unemployment and Earnings Inequality," with J. Heckman, J. Smith, and C. Taber, in Third Public GAAC Symposium: Labor Markets in the USA and Germany, Washington D.C.: GAAC, 1998.

"Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents," with J. Heckman and C. Taber, Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 1(1), 1998 (and NBER Working Paper #6384, 1998).

"General Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy," with J. Heckman and C. Taber, American Economic Review, vol. 88(2), 1998 (and NBER Working Paper #6426, 1998). [pdf]

"A Life-Cycle Model of Human Capital and Crime: Estimating Deterrent Effects of Wage and Education Subsidies," PhD Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1998.

 "Tax Policy and Human Capital Formation," with J. Heckman and C. Taber, American Economic Review, vol. 88(2), 1998 (and NBER Working Paper #6462, 1998). [pdf]

"General Equilibrium Cost Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies," with C. Taber and J. Heckman, in G. Ranis and L.K. Raut (eds.) Trade, Growth and Development: Essays in Honor of Professor T.N. Srinivasan, Elsevier Science B.V.: Amsterdam, 1999. [pdf]

“Human Capital Formation and General Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tax and Tuition Policy,” with J. Heckman and C. Taber, Fiscal Studies, 20(1), pp. 25-40, 1999.

"Understanding the Role of Cognitive Ability in Accounting for the Recent Rise in the Economic Return to Education," with J. Cawley, J. Heckman, and E. Vytlacil, in K. Arrow, S. Bowles, and S. Durlauf (eds.), Meritocracy and Economic Inequality, Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1999. [pdf]

"Rethinking Myths About Education and Training: Understanding the Sources of Skill Formation in a Modern Economy," with J. Heckman, forthcoming in S. Danziger and J. Waldfogel (eds.),  Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to College, Russell Sage Foundation: New York, 2000.

"Wage Subsidies and Skill Formation: A Study of the Earned Income Tax Credit," with R. Cossa and J. Heckman, forthcoming in E. Phelps (ed.), Subsidies to Low-Wage Employment, Russell Sage Foundation: New York, 1999. [pdf]

"Education, Work, and Crime: Theory and Evidence," Working Paper, 1999. [pdf]

"Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions," with J. Heckman and P. Todd, Working Paper, 1999.

"Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System: An Empirical Study of Auto Theft," Working Paper, 1999. [pdf]
 

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