(Note: for information on how to obtain copies of UCSD
Economics Discussion Papers, see the
UCSD Economics home page .)
- (1998), "Educational Crowding Out:
Do Immigrants Affect the Educational Attainment of American Minorities?",
in Daniel S. Hamermesh and Frank D. Bean (Eds.),
Help or Hindrance? The Economic Implications of Immigration for
African-Americans, New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Abstract ||
Postscript file or
PDF File
- (1998), "The Impact of Educational
Standards on the Level and Distribution of Earnings",
American Economic Review,(88:1), pp. 66-76.
Abstract ||
Postscript file or
PDF file
- (1998), "The Two-Legged Stool: The Neglected Role of Educational
Standards in Improving America's Public Schools",
Economic Policy Review, (4:1), pp. 97-116.
Abstract ||
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- (1997), (jointly with Cameron Odgers) "Do Unions Reduce
Investment?",
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, (51:1), pp. 18-36.
Abstract ||
From the discussion paper version of this paper: Postscript file part 1 ||
Postscript file part 2 ||
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- (1997), (with Christopher Ferrall), "Policies for Improving Public Schools", Policy Options, (18:6), pp. 35-39.
- (1997), Review of Arrow, Kenneth J., et al.,
"Education in a Research University",
Journal of Economic Literature, (35:3), pp. 1392-1394.
- (1997), "The Skill Bias of Technological Change in
Canadian Manufacturing Industries", Review of Economics and
Statistics, (79:1), pp. 146-150.
Abstract ||
Postscript file
of the extended version (UCSD Discussion Paper 94-18) ||
PDF file
- (1996), "Do School Resources Matter Only for
Older Workers?", Review of Economics and
Statistics,
(78:4), pp. 638-652.
Abstract ||
Postscript file or
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- (1996), "Is There a Link between School Inputs and
Earnings? Fresh Scrutiny of an Old Literature", in Gary Burtless
(Ed.), "Does Money Matter? The Effect of School
Resources on Student Achievement and Adult Success", Washington, D.C.: Brookings
Institution.
Abstract ||
Postscript file ||
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Information on the Brookings book
- (1996), "What do Students Know about
Wages? Evidence
from a Survey of Undergraduates", Journal of Human Resources,
(31:1), pp. 27-56.
Abstract and a (20Kb) Graph Showing Distribution of Wage Beliefs
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The above paper is available as UCSD Discussion Paper 95-07.
- (1995), "Does School Quality Matter? Evidence
from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth", Review of
Economics and Statistics, (77:2), pp. 231-250.
Abstract
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The above paper is available as UCSD Discussion Paper 93-10R.
- (1995), (with Laurel McFarland) "Safe Port
in a Storm: The Impact of Labor Market Conditions on Community
College Enrollments", Journal of Human Resources,
(30:4), pp. 741-765.
Abstract ||
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|| The above paper is available as UCSD Discussion Paper 93-12R.
- (1995), Review of Hanushek, E.A. et al., "Making
Schools Work: Improving Performance and Controlling Costs",
Issues in Science and Technology, (11:3), pp. 85-87.
- (1994), "Technological Change, Sectoral Shifts and the
Distribution of Earnings: A Human Capital Model", Economica,
(61:244), pp. 475-492.
Abstract
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- (1993), (jointly with Thomas H. McCurdy) "Sources of
Employment Growth by Occupation and Industry in Canada: A
Comparison of Structural Changes in the 1960's and 1970's",
Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, (48:2), pp.
285-304.
Abstract
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- (1989), "Two Exact, Non-Arbitrary and General Methods of
Decomposing Temporal Change", Economics Letters, (30), pp.
151-156.
Abstract
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- (1988), "A Review of Leibenstein, H., Inside the Firm: the
Inefficiencies of Hierarchy", Canadian Journal of Economics,
(21:3), pp. 684-686.
- (1984), "Technology and the Third World: a Review of the
Central Issues", in Mary Thornton and Jane Willms, (Eds.),
Science, Knowledge and Power, Ottawa: CSP Publications.
- (1982), "The Protection of Privacy in a Computerized Society:
the Case for Regulation", in Fraser Homer-Dixon and Anne
Perkins, (Eds.), Science in Society: its Freedom and Regulation,
Ottawa: CSP Publications.
