Recent Publications (see bottom for current working papers)

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• “Abortion, Contraception, and Non-Marital Births: Re-Interpreting the Akerlof-Yellen-Katz Model of Pre-Marital Sex and Shot-Gun Marriage,” Eastern Economic Journal, forthcoming.
• Women and the Economy:  Family, Work, and Pay (with Susan Averett), 3rd edition, Palgrave MacMillan, December, 2015.
• “Are the Effects of Minimum Wage Increases Always Small? A Re-Analysis of Sabia, Burkhauser, and Hansen,” ILR Review, DOI: 10.1177/0019793915610558, October, 2015.  See blog coverage by John Schmitt of the Center for Economic and Policy Research here and  the New York Times  here.
• “Teen Childbearing and Economics: A Short History of a 25-Year Research Love Affair,” Societies, Special Issue on Adolescent Pregnancy: Past, Present and Future Trends and Issues, 2015 (5), pp. 646-663; doi:10.3390/soc5030646.
• “Financial Development and Economic Growth In Transition Economies:  Evidence from the CEE and CIS Countries” (with Evangelos Falaris, Jeffrey Miller, and Laura Cojocaru), Emerging Markets, Finance and Trade, on-line publication July, 2015.
• “Geography and Gender: Variation in the Gender Earnings Ratio Vary Across U.S. States,” Social Science Quarterly, Volume 96 (1), March 2015, pp. 235-250;  on-line appendix.
• “Employment Effects of the 2009 Minimum Wage Increase:  Evidence from State Comparisons of Workers by Skill Level,” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Contributions), Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 695-721, July, 2014.
• “Wage Inequality and the Labor Market Impact of Economic Transformation: Croatia, 1970-2008,” (with Ivo Bićanić and Oriana Vukoja), Economic Systems, Vol. 36, Issue 2, pp. 206–217, June 2012.
• “Revisiting Marshall’s Third Law: Why Does Labor’s Share Interact with the Elasticity of Substitution to Decrease the Elasticity of Labor Demand?” Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 40, No.4, pp. 437-445, 2009.
• “The Changing Impact of Marriage and Children on Women’s Labor Force Participation,” Monthly Labor Review, February, 2009.
• Women and the Economy:  Family, Work, and Pay (with Susan Averett), 2nd edition, Pearson Publishing, January, 2009.
• “NJ and PA Once Again: What Happened to Employment When the PA-NJ Minimum Wage Differential Disappeared?” (with Diane Trace), Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 35, No 1, pp. 115-128, 2009.
• Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy, Second Edition, (with Rebecca A. Maynard, co-ed.), Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, October, 2008.
• “A Good Policy Goes Bad: The Strange Case of the Non-Refundable State EITC,” State Tax Notes, Vol. 44, No. 8, pp. 551-558, May 21, 2007.
• By the Numbers: The Public Costs of Teen Childbearing, Washington: National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, October, 2006.

Working Papers/Research in Progress

• “State Minimum Wage Changes and the Employment of Low-Wage Workers:  New Evidence from 2011-2014,” with Wai-Kit (Ricky) Shum, September, 2014. See blog coverage by Ben Wolcott of the Center for Economic and Policy Research here and in The New Republic here.