Institute for Policy Resarch at Northwestern University

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• 99-14 The PSID and Me
  by Greg J. Duncan [Downloadable!]
• 99-13 Rules and Responsibility: What Kinds of Rule Systems Encourage Responsibility Rather than Accountability?
  by Carol A. Heimer
• 99-12 Business Associations and Economic Development
  by Richard F. Doner & Ben Ross Schneider
• 99-11 Sacred Claims and Environmental Struggle
  by Paul Friesema [Downloadable!]
• 99-10 Determinants of Donations in Private Nonprofit Markets
  by Cagla Okten & Burton A. Weisbrod
• 99-9 The Roles of Government and Nonprofit Suppliers in Mixed Industries
  by Kanika Kapur & Burton A. Weisbrod [Downloadable!]
• 99-8 Revival of the New Deal Coalition? Social Groups and Political Change in the 1990s
  by Jeff Manza & Clem Brooks
• 99-7 Deliberative Opinion Change and Consistency: Citizens in the 1994 Illinois Gubernatorial Election
  by Jason Barabas
• 99-6 Is Social Security Reform Ready for the American Public?
  by Benjamin I. Page [Downloadable!]
• 99-5 An Empirical Analysis of Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Couples: Do "Likes" Still Like "Likes" in the '90s?
  by Lisa K. Jepsen & Christopher A. Jepsen [Downloadable!]
• 99-4 Is There Justice in Children's Rights? The Critique of Federal Family Preservation Policy
  by Dorothy E. Roberts [Downloadable!]
• 99-3 Distributed Leadership: Toward a Theory of School Leadership Practice
  by James P. Spillane & Richard Halverson & John B. Diamond
• 99-2 Considering the Major Arguments Against Random Assignment: An Analysis of the Intellectual Culture Surrounding Evaluation in American Schools of Education
  by Thomas D. Cook [Downloadable!]
• 99-1 Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men: 1910 - 1990
  by Robert W. Fairlie & Bruce D. Meyer [Downloadable!]
• 98-34 Layoffs and Litigation
  by Paul Oyer & Scott Schaefer
• 98-33 Environmental Movements Since Love Canal: Hope, Despair, and (Im)mobilization
  by Allan Schnaiberg
• 98-32 Why Not For-Profit? Conversions and Public Policy
  by John H. Goddeeris & Burton A. Weisbrod
• 98-31 Reassessing Public Opinion Stability
  by Jason Barabas
• 98-30 The New Politics of Social Security
  by Fay Lomax Cook
• 98-29 Understanding Family Change: Past, Present, and Future Effects of Family Events on Children
  by Rachel Dunifon
• 98-28 Tax Reform and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from an Empirical General Equilibrium Model of Skill Formation
  by Christopher Taber
• 98-27 Worker Perceptions of Job Insecurity in the Mid-1990s: Evidence from the Survey of Economic Expectations
  by Charles F. Manski & John D. Straub [Downloadable!]
• 98-26 So Much Reform, So Little Change; Building-Level Obstacles to Urban School Reform
  by Charles M. Payne
• 98-25 Comer's School Development Program in Prince George's County, Maryland: A Theory-Based Evaluation
  by Thomas D. Cook & Farah-naaz Habib & Meredith Phillips & Richard A. Settersten & Shobha C. Shagle & Serdar M. Degirmencioglu
• 98-24 Comer's School Development Program in Chicago: A Theory-Based Evaluation
  by Thomas D. Cook & H. David Hunt & Robert F. Murphy
• 98-23 How to Distinguish Among Migrants in a Migration Chain: Those Who are Links and Those Who Build links
  by Vilna Bashi
• 98-22 The Changing Nature of Women's Poverty: An Analysis of Two Cohorts of African-American and White Women
  by Susan Thistle
• 98-21 The Invisible Black Middle Class
  by Mary Pattillo-McCoy
• 98-20 Poverty in the Family: Siblings of the Black and White Middle Class
  by Mary Pattillo-McCoy & Colleen M. Heflin
• 98-19 The Ethics of Punishing Indigent Parents
  by Dorothy Roberts [Downloadable!]
• 98-18 Race and Gender in the Labor Market
  by Joseph G. Altonji & Rebecca M. Blank
• 98-17 Institutionalizing the Recycling Movement: The Structuring of Dialogue in the Solid Waste Field
  by Michael Lounsbury & Paul Hirsch & Marc Ventresca
• 98-16 The Human Mind as a Barrier to Wiser Environmental Agreements
  by Max H. Bazerman & Don A. Moore & James J. Gillespie
• 98-15 African-American and Latino Views of Local Chicago TV News
  by Cynthia C. Linton & Robert K. LeBailly [Downloadable!]
• 98-14 Academic Health Centers and the Provision of Collective Outputs: The Financing Dilemma
  by Burton A. Weisbrod
• 98-13 The Impact of Deregulation on America's Infrastructure Industries: A "Process Model" with Illustrations from Banking
  by Paul Hirsch & Steven Klinkerman & Michael Lounsbury
• 98-12 The Social Structure of World Trade Advantage: Structural Autonomy and Contingent Value, 1965-1980
  by Michael Alan Sacks & Brian Uzzi & Marc Ventresca
• 98-11 Industries as Organizational Fields: Infrastructure and Formative Dynamics in U.S. Online Database Services
  by Marc Ventresca & Rodney Lacey & Michael Lounsbury & Dara Szyliowicz
• 98-10 Social Embeddedness and Corporate Financing: The Benefits of Social Networks in the Acquisition and Cost of Capital
  by Brian Uzzi & James J. Gillespie
• 98-9 Responses of Medical R&D to Changing Economic Incentives: Implications for the Future of Health Care Costs and Quality
  by David Dranove & Burton A. Weisbrod
• 98-8 Personal Liabilities and Bankruptcy Reform: An International Perspective
  by Michelle Alexopoulos & Ian Domowitz
• 98-7 Incentives and Bankruptcy Chapter Choice: Evidence from the Reform Act of 1978
  by Ian Domowitz & Robert L. Sartain
• 98-6 Lawyers and Their Discontents: Findings from a Survey of the Chicago Bar
  by John P. Heinz & Kathleen E. Hull & Ava A. Harter
• 98-5 Challenging Instruction for "All Students": Policy, Practitioners, and Practice
  by James P. Spillane
• 98-4 School Spending and Student Achievement: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data
  by Jens Ludwig & Laurie J. Bassi
• 98-3 Education, Overeducation, and Youth Employment in the United States and Germany: The Mechanics of Restructuring
  by James C. Witte
• 98-2 Using a Natural Experiment to Estimate the Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax on Layoffs, Employment, and Wages
  by Patricia M. Anderson & Bruce D. Meyer
• 98-1 The Role of Values in Determining Welfare Attitudes
  by Patrick Kulesa & Alice H. Eagly
• 97-32 Infrastructures and Relationships in Urban Environmental Protection: A Tale of Two Cities
  by David N. Pellow & Allan Schnaiberg & Adam S. Weinberg
• 97-31 Politicizing the Treadmill of Production: Reshaping Social Outcomes of "Efficient Recycling"
  by David N. Pellow & Allan Schnaiberg & Adam S. Weinberg
• 97-30 A Mixed-Motive Perspective on the Economics versus Environment Debate
  by Andrew J. Hoffman & James Gillespie & Don Moore & Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni & Leigh L. Thompson & Max H. Bazerman
• 97-29 The Political Power of TV Broadcasters: Covert Bias and Anticipated Reactions
  by James H. Snider & Benjamin I. Page
• 97-28 Pricing and Rationing by Nonprofit Organizations with Distributional Objectives
  by Richard Steinberg & Burton A. Weisbrod
• 97-27 Interdependence of Commercial and Donative Revenues
  by Lewis M. Segal & Burton A. Weisbrod
• 97-26 Country and Currency Risk Premia in an Emerging Market
  by Ian Domowitz & Jack Glen & Ananth Madhavan
• 97-25 Two Hundred Years of Bankruptcy: A Tale of Legislation and Economic Fluctuations
  by Ian Domowitz & Elie Tamer
• 97-24 Gendered Career Paths in Law: Recent Evidence from a Survey of Urban Lawyers
  by Kathleen Hull & Robert L. Nelson
• 97-23 The Organization of Lawyers' Work: Hemispheres, Tectonic Plate Movements, and Continental Drift
  by John P. Heinz & Robert L. Nelson & Edward O. Laumann & Ethan Michelson
• 97-22 Shortcut: High School Grades as a Signal of Human Capital
  by Shazia Rafiullah Miller
• 97-21 College-for-All: Do Students Understand What College Demands?
  by James E. Rosenbaum
• 97-20 The Structure of Achievement and Behavior Across Middle Childhood
  by Lori Kowaleski-Jones & Greg J. Duncan
• 97-19 State Hospitals and Community Care
  by Dan A. Lewis & Rachel L. Anderson
• 97-18 Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
  by Joseph G. Altonji & Charles R. Pierret
• 97-17 Electoral Coalitions and Market Reforms: Evidence from Argentina
  by Edward L. Gibson & Ernesto Calvo
• 97-16 Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, the Institutional Construction of Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women
  by Robert L. Nelson & William P. Bridges
• 97-15 Differential Taxation of Nonprofits and the Commercialization of Nonprofit Revenues
  by Joseph J. Cordes & Burton A. Weisbrod
• 97-14 Conversion from Nonprofit to For-Profit Legal Status: Why Does It Happen and Should We Care?
  by John H. Goddeeris & Burton A. Weisbrod
• 97-13 When Morality and Economics Collide (or Not) in a Texas Community
  by Dennis Chong & Anna-Maria Marshall
• 97-12 Does Media Ownership Affect Media Stands? The Case of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
  by James H. Snider & Bejamin I. Page
• 97-11 The Funding Perils of Public Broadcasting
  by Craig L. LaMay & Burton A. Weisbrod
• 97-10 Public Support for Social Welfare Programs, 1984-1996: Description and Explanation
  by Fay Lomax Cook & Jason Barabas
• 97-9 Creation and Maintenance of Effective School-Work Linkages: Implications for Systemic Reform
  by Stephanie Alter Jones & James E. Rosenbaum
• 97-8 "I Don't Want Your Nasty Pot of Gold": Urban School Climate and Public Policy
  by Charles M. Payne
• 97-7 Staying Out of Trouble: Neighborhood Influences on Adolescent Problem Behavior
  by Lori Kowaleski-Jones
• 97-6 Trouble for Workers and the Poor: Economic Globalization and the Reshaping of American Politics
  by Benjamin I. Page
• 97-5 Economic Impacts of Subsidized Housing Location
  by Michael P. Johnson & Arthur P. Hurter
• 97-4 The Effects of Violence on Women's Employment
  by Susan Lloyd
• 97-3 Time Limits and Welfare Reform: New Estimates of the Number and Characteristics of Affected Families
  by Greg J. Duncan & Kathleen Mullan Harris & Johanne Boisjoly
• 97-2 Political Support for Targeted versus Universalistic Welfare Policies
  by Karl Ove Moene & Michael Wallerstein
• 97-1 Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?
  by Robert W. Fairlie & Bruce D. Meyer
• 96-35 Print Media Support for Social Welfare Programs: The View from the Opinion Pages of the Elite Press
  by Fay Lomax Cook & Gretchen Caspary
• 96-34 New Models for Struggle: Environmental Decision Making Through Consensus
  by David N. Pellow
• 96-33 Mesa Verde and the Utes: Boundary Issues of a World Heritage Site
  by Paul Friesema
• 96-32 Bureaucratizing Democracy, Democratizing Bureaucracy
  by Wendy Nelson Espeland
• 96-31 Network Interpretations of Non-Market Bureaucracies: The Case of a State Children's Services Agency
  by Mark T. Shanley & Michael Lounsbury
• 96-30 Regulation of Automated Trading Systems
  by Ian Domowitz & Ruben Lee
• 96-29 The Impact of Changing State and Federal Roles on Local Governments
  by Donald Haider
• 96-28 Elite Networks Among Urban lawyers
  by John P. Heinz & Edward O. Laumann & with Robert L. Nelson & Paul S. Schnorr
• 96-27 Changes in Tracking Policy in Japan: Unintended Consequences of Detracking Policy
  by Takehiko Kariya & James E. Rosenbaum
• 96-26 Unintended Policy Impacts of Outcome-Based Measures in a New Era of Service Delivery: Examples from Preschool Immunization
  by Lynn Olson & Andrew Gordon
• 96-25 Fathers' Activities and Children's Attainments
  by Greg J. Duncan & Martha Hill & Jean Yeung
• 96-24 Personal Bankruptcy in the United States
  by Ian Domowitz
• 96-23 Vim Will Win: Long-Run Effects of Motivation and Other "Noncognitive" Traits on Success
  by Greg J. Duncan & Rachel Dunifon & Dave Knutson
• 96-22 Initial Welfare Spells: Trends, Events, and Duration, with Implications for Welfare Reform
  by Johanne Boisjoly & Kathleen Mullan Harris & Greg J. Duncan
• 96-21 The Effect of the 1996 Welfare Reforms
  by Rebecca Blank
• 96-20 Complaints and Geographic Mobility as Responses to Dissatisfaction with Public Services
  by Paul J. Devereux & Burton A. Weisbrod
• 96-19 The Market for Equity Markets: The Classification and Regulation of Automated Trading Systems
  by Ian Domowitz & Ruben Lee
• 96-18 In Defense of "Descriptive" Representation
  by Jane Mansbridge
• 96-17 It's a Man's Job, or So They Say: The Production of Sex Segregation in Occupations
  by Judith A. Levine
• 96-16 Employment Effects on East German Fertility After Unification
  by James C. Witte & Gert G. Wagner
• 96-15 The Missing Link: Social Infrastructure and Employers' Use of Information
  by Shazia Raffiullah Miller & James E. Rosenbaum
• 96-14 The Impact of Immigration on Natives in the Antebellum U.S. Labor Market, 1850-60
  by Joseph P. Ferrie
• 96-13 Job Creation and Job Destruction with Local and Centralized Wage-Setting
  by Karl Ove Moene & Michael Wallerstein
• 96-12 Unions, Employers Associations, and Wage-Setting Institutions in North and Central Europe, 1950-1992
  by Michael Wallerstein & Miriam Golden & Peter Lange
• 96-11 Employer Learning and the Signaling Value of Education
  by Joseph G. Altonji & Charles R. Pierret
• 96-10 Using Siblings to Estimate the Effect of School Quality on Wages
  by Joseph G. Altonji & Thomas A. Dunn
• 96-9 Individuals in Institutional Contexts: A Reexamination of Factors Influencing Degree Attainment
  by James C. Witte & Curtis Askew
• 96-8 Parent Involvement in Shared Decision Making: Barriers to Democratic Participation in Urban Elementary Schools
  by John Diamond
• 96-7 Lake Parc Place: A Study of the First Four Years of a Mixed-Income Housing Program
  by James E. Rosenbaum & Linda K. Stroh & Cathy Flynn
• 96-6 Street Literacy and Performative Writing
  by Dwight Conquergood
• 96-5 The Effects of Income and Wealth on Time and MOney Transfers Between Parents and Children
  by Joseph G. Altonji & Fumio Hayashi & Laurence Kotlikoff
• 96-4 Single Mothers' Living Arrangements: The Effect of Household Composition on AFDC Participation
  by Rebecca A. London
• 96-3 Welfare, Work, and Choices: Expanding Notions of Policy Incentives
  by Judith A. Levine
• 96-2 Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children?
  by Greg J. Duncan & Wei-Jun Yeung & Jeanne Brooks-Gunn & Judith Smith
• 96-1 Do Official Poverty Rates Provide Useful Information about Trends in Children's Economic Welfare?
  by Christopher Jencks & Susan E. Mayer
• 95-31 Why Don't Men Do More Housework? A Job Characteristics Exploration of Gender and Housework Satisfaction
  by Pamela K. Adelmann
• 95-30 Journalists and the Condemned: The Limits of Media Agenda-Setting in Capital Cases
  by David L. Protess
• 95-29 Arranged Alliance: Business and the New Deal's Cross-Class Coalition
  by Peter Swenson
• 95-28 The Economic and Social Importance of Nonprofit Organizations
  by Burton A. Weisbrod
• 95-27 The Governance of Trial Judges: The Internal Politics of a Judges' Sponsoring Organization
  by Herbert Jacob
• 95-26 Democratic Society-Undemocratic Medicine: Limited Resources in Medical Care
  by Burton A. Weisbrod
• 95-25 The Impact of Pre-existing Health Conditions on Job Mobility: A Measure of Job Lock
  by Kanika Kapur
• 95-24 Repeat Use of Unemployment Insurance
  by Bruce D. Meyer & Dan T. Rosenbaum
• 95-23 The Incidence of a Firm-Varying Payroll Tax: The Case of Unemployment Insurance
  by Patricia M. Anderson & Bruce D. Meyer
• 95-22 Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence
  by Joseph G. Altonji & Fumio Hayashi & Laurence Kotlikoff
• 95-21 Public Support for Programs for Older Americans: Continuities Amidst Threats of Discontinuities
  by Fay Lomax Cook
• 95-20 Using Sibling Data to Estimate the Impact of Neighborhoods on Children's Educational Outcomes
  by Daniel Aaronson
• 95-19 Welfare Reform in Illinois: Recent Efforts in the Context of the National Debate
  by Dan A. Lewis & Christine C. George & Deborah Puntenney
• 95-18 Slow Motion:Earnings Mobility of Young Workers in the 1970s and 1980s
  by Greg J. Duncan & Johanne Boisjoly & Timothy Smeeding
• 00-13 Getting the Best Deal: The Governance Benefits of Social Networks in Commercial Loans
  by Brian Uzzi
• 00-12 How Embedded Ties Transfer Benefits Through Networks: Banking Relationships and the Firm's Strategic Use of Trade Credit Financing
  by Brian Uzzi & James J. Gillespie
• 00-11 Commercialization of the Internet: The Interaction of Public Policy and Private Choices
  by Shane Greenstein
• 00-10 Framing Globalization: The Battle for Definitions of a Contested Issue
  by Peer C. Fiss & Paul M. Hirsch
• 00-9 The Paradox of Globalization: Turning the Tables on Labor and Capital in German Industrial Relations
  by Kathleen Thelen & Christa van Wijnbergen
• 00-8 Gender, Class, and Social Policy in the 21st Century
  by Susan Thistle
• 00-7 Farewell to Maternalism: Welfare Reform, Liberalism, and the End of Mothers' Right to Choose Between Employment and Full-time Care
  by Ann Shola Orloff
• 00-6 Experimental Tests of an Attitudinal Theory of the Gender Gap in Voting
  by Alice H. Eagly & Amanda Diekman & Monica Schneider & Patrick Kulesa
• 00-5 Invoking Public Opinion: Polls, Policy Debates, and the Future of Social Security
  by Fay Lomax Cook & Jason Barabas & Benjamin I. Page
• 00-4 Probabilistic Polling
  by Charles F. Manski
• 00-3 How Extended is the Extended African-American Family? The Case of Family Caregiving to Older African-Americans
  by Peggye Dilworth-Anderson & Sharon Wallace Williams & Paula Goodwin & Theresa Cooper
• 00-2 The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment
  by Robert W. Fairlie & Bruce D. Meyer [Downloadable!]
• 00-1 Using Performance Standards to Evaluate Social Programs with Incomplete Outcome Data: General Issues and Application to a Higher Education Block Grant Program
  by Charles F. Manski & John Newman & John V. Pepper

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