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The following is a complete list of BLS Working Papers. Copies of unpublished working papers that are currently available can be obtained from the designated program office of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, D.C. 20212, or via email. Reprints may be available for published papers.

2008

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-416 Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students

 Charlene Marie Kalenkoski (Ohio University) and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (March 2008).
WP-415 The Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the Labor Market Outcomes of Evacuees Jeffrey A. Groen and Anne E. Polivka Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (March 2008).

2007

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-414 Women's Increasing Wage Penalties from Being Overweight and Obese

 David Lempert Available in the Boston/New York Regional Office (December 2007).
WP-413 Network of Tinkerers: A Model of Open-Source Technology Innovation Peter B. Meyer Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (November 2007).
WP-412 Household Spending Patterns: A Comparison of Four Census Regions

 Cassandra Yocum Available in the Kansas City Office of Economic Analysis and Information (November 2007).
WP-411 Improving the CPI’s Age-Bias Adjustment: Leverage, Disaggregation and Model Averaging

 Joshua Gallin (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) and Randal Verbrugge Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (October 2007).
WP-410 Explaining the Rent-OER Inflation Divergence, 1999-2006 Robert Poole and Randal Verbrugge Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (October 2007).
WP-409 The Puzzling Divergence of U.S. Rents and User Costs, 1980-2004: Summary and Extensions Thesia I. Garner and Randal Verbrugge Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (October 2007).
WP-408 R&D and Productivity Growth: A Review of the Literature Leo Sveikauskas Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (September 2007).
WP-407 An Update on Bridge Jobs: The HRS War Babies Michael D. Giandrea, Kevin E. Cahill (Analysis Group, Inc.), and Joseph F. Quinn (Boston College) Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (May 2007).
WP-406 Are Those Who Bring Work Home Really Working Longer Hours? Implications for BLS Productivity Measures Lucy P. Eldridge and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (May 2007).
WP-405 Workplace Organization and Innovation Cindy Zoghi, Robert D. Mohr (University of New Hampshire), and Peter B. Meyer Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (May 2007).
WP-404 The Strength of Occupation Indicators as a Proxy for Skill Alec Levenson (University of Southern California) and Cindy Zoghi Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (March 2007).
WP-403 Establishment Wage Differentials Julia I. Lane (The National Opinion Research Center), Laurie A. Salmon, and James R. Spletzer Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (March 2007).
WP-402 Some New Evidence on Overtime Use, Total Job Compensation, and Wage Rates Anthony J. Barkume Available in the Compensation and Working Conditions (January 2007).

2006

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-401 Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students Charlene Marie Kalenkoski (Ohio University) and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia See revised version, WP-416.
WP-400 A Micro-level Analysis of Recent Increases in Labor Force Participation among Older Workers Kevin E. Cahill (Analysis Group, Inc.), Michael D. Giandrea, and Joseph F. Quinn (Boston College) Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (October 2006).
WP-399 Industry Competition and Total Factor Productivity Growth Michael D. Giandrea Office of Productivity and Technology (September 2006).
WP-398 Wage Compression and the Division of Returns to Productivity Growth: Evidence from EOPP Harley Frazis and Mark A. Loewenstein Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (August 2006).
WP-397 The Effects of Rounding on the Consumer Price Index Elliot Williams Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (August 2006).
WP-396 Discussion and Presentation of the Disability Test Results from the Current Population Survey Terence McMenamin, Stephen M. Miller and Anne E. Polivka Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (August 2006).
WP-395 Which Workers Gain Upon Adopting a Computer? Cindy Zoghi and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia See Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 40, No. 2, May 2007, pp. 423-444.
WP-394 Income Imputation and the Analysis of Expenditure Data in the Consumer Expenditure Survey Jonathan Fisher Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (May 2006).
WP-393 How Does Household Production Affect Earnings Inequality? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (May 2006).
WP-392 How Much Do Employers Learn from Referrals? Joshua C. Pinkston Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (February 2006).
WP-391 Job Flows and the Recent Business Cycle: Not All "Recoveries" Are Created Equal R. Jason Faberman Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (February 2006).
WP-390 A Model of Asymmetric Employer Learning with Testable Implications Joshua C. Pinkston Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (January 2006).
WP-389 Is Job Enrichment Really Enriching? Robert D. Mohr (University of New Hampshire) and Cindy Zoghi Available in the Office of Production and Technology (January 2006).

2005

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-388 Studying the Labor Market with the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey R. Jason Faberman Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (December 2005).
WP-387 Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students Charlene Marie Kalenkoski (Ohio University) and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia See revised version, WP-416.
WP-386 What's In a City?: Understanding the Micro-Level Employer Dynamics Underlying Urban Growth R. Jason Faberman Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (December 2005).
WP-385 Business Employment Dynamics: Tabulations by Employer Size Shail J. Butani, Richard L. Clayton, Vinod Kapani, James R. Spletzer, David M. Talan, and George S. Werking Jr. See Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 129, No. 2, February 2006, pp. 3-22.
WP-384 Are Traditional Retirements a Thing of the Past? New Evidence on Retirement Patterns and Bridge Jobs Kevin E. Cahill (Tinari Economics Group), Michael D. Giandrea, and Joseph F. Quinn (Boston College) Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (September 2005).
WP-383 Proposed Category System for 1960-2000 Census Occupations Peter B. Meyer and Anastasiya M. Osborne Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (September 2005).
WP-382 Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are? Cindy Zoghi, Alec Levenson (University of Southern California), and Michael Gibbs (University of Chicago GSB and IZA) Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (June 2005).
WP-381 Economic Well-Being Based on Income, Consumer Expenditures and Personal Assessments of Minimal Needs Thesia I. Garner and Kathleen Short (U.S. Census Bureau) See Studies on Economic Well-being: Essays in the Honor of John P. Formby, John A. Bishop and Yoram Amiel, eds., Vol. 12 of the Series Research on Economic Inequality, February 2004, pp. 319-361.
WP-380 A Comparison of Income, Expenditures, and Home Market Value Distributions Using Luxembourg Income Study Data from the 1990's Eva Sierminska (Georgetown University) and Thesia I. Garner Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (March 2005).
WP-379 Personal Assessments of Minimum Income and Expenses:  What Do They Tell Us about "Minimum Living" Thresholds and Equivalence Scales? Thesia I. Garner and Kathleen Short (U.S. Census Bureau) See Inequality, Welfare and Poverty:  Theory and Measurement, Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 9, John A. Bishop and Yoram Amiel, eds., 2003, pp. 191-243.
WP-378 Developing a New Poverty Line for the USA:  Are There Lessons for India? Thesia I. Garner and Kathleen Short (U.S. Census Bureau) See National Income Accounts and Data Systems, B.S. Minhas, ed., 2002.
WP-377 Returning to the Returns to Computer Use Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia and Cindy Zoghi See American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 314-317.
WP-376 Occupation-Specific Human Capital and Local Labor Markets Jeffrey A. Groen See Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 58, No. 4, October 2006, pp. 722-741.
WP-375 Turbulence, Inequality, and Cheap Steel Peter B. Meyer Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (February 2005).

2004

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-374 Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students Charlene Marie Kalenkoski (Ohio University) and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia See revised version, WP-387.
WP-373 Which Workers Gain from Computer Use? Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia and Cindy Zoghi See Perspectives on Labour and Income, Vol. 6, No. 7, July 2005, pp. 3-12.
WP-372 Gross Job Flows over the Past Two Business Cycles:  Not all "Recoveries" are Created Equal R. Jason Faberman Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (June 2004).
WP-371 What Do Male Nonworkers Do? Jay Stewart Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (April 2004).

2003

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-370 Alternative Consumer Price Index Aggregations:  Plutocratic and Democratic Approaches Mary Kokoski Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (December 2003).
WP-369 Minimum Wages, Employment and Monopsonistic Competition V. Bhasker (University of Essex) and Ted To Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (December 2003).
WP-368 Episodes of Collective Invention Peter B. Meyer Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (August 2003).
WP-367 Reexamining the Returns to Training:  Functional Form, Magnitude, and Interpretation Harley Frazis and Mark A. Loewenstein See Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 40, No. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 453-476.
WP-366 Maternal Employment and Adolescent Risky Behavior Alison Aughinbaugh and Maury Gittleman See Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 23, No. 4, July 2004, pp. 815-838.
WP-365 A Model of Asymmetric Employer Learning with Testable Implications Joshua C. Pinkston See revised version, WP-390.
WP-364 Differences in Intergenerational Mobility across the Earnings Distribution Rosemary Hyson Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (January 2003).

2002

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-363 The Distribution of Decisions Rights within the Workplace:  Evidence from Canadian, Australian, and UK Establishments Cindy Zoghi Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (December 2002).
WP-362 On the Estimation of Classical Human Capital with Two Independent Sources of Data on Actual Work Experience Linda L. Moeller Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (June 2002).
WP-361 An Examination of the Difference Between the CPI and the PCE Deflator Dennis Fixler and Ted Jaditz Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (June 2002).
WP-360 Is Adverse Selection Simply Moral Hazard?  Evidence from the 1987 Medical Expenditure Survey Ralph Bradley Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (May 2002).
WP-359 Duration Dependence in Personal Bankruptcy Jonathan Fisher See Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 28, No. 3, Fall 2004, pp. 348-360.
WP-358 Experimental Poverty Measures Under Alternative Treatments of Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenditures:  An Application of the Consumer Expenditure Survey Kathleen Short (U.S. Census Bureau) and Thesia I. Garner Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (May 2002).
WP-357 The Influence of Demographics and Household Specific Price Indices on Consumption Based Inequality and Welfare:  A Comparison of Spain and the United States Thesia I. Garner, Javier Ruiz-Castillo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), and Mercedes Sastre (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) See Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 70, No. 1, July 2003, pp. 22-48.
WP-356 Recent Trends in Job Stability and Job Security Jay Stewart Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (March 2002).
WP-355 Estimating Linear Regressions with Mismeasured, Possibly Endogenous, Binary Explanatory Variables Harley Frazis and Mark A. Loewenstein See Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 117, No. 1, November 2003, pp. 151-178.
WP-354 Constructing Household Specific Consumer Price Indexes:  An Analysis of Different Techniques and Methods Robert A. Cage, Thesia I. Garner, and Javier Ruiz-Castillo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (March 2002).
WP-353 Modeling Consumer Demand for a Large Set of Quality Differentiated Goods:  Estimation and Welfare Results from a Systems Approach Roger H. von Haefen, Daniel J. Phaneuf (North Carolina State University), and George R. Parsons (University of Delaware) Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (February 2002).
WP-352 Compensation Supplements and Use of Incentive Pay in U.S. Job Markets Anthony J. Barkume See Industrial Relations, Vol. 43, No. 3, July 2004, pp. 618-633.

2001

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-351 Estimated U.S. Manufacturing Capital and Technology Based on an Estimated Dynamic Economic Model Baoline Chen (Rutgers University) and Peter A. Zadrozny Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (November 2001).
WP-350 An Anticipative Feedback Solution for the Infinite-Horizon, Linear-Quadratic, Dynamic, Stackelberg Game Baoline Chen (Rutgers University) and Peter A. Zadrozny See Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 26, Issue 9-10, August 2002, pp. 1397-1416.
WP-349 Incorporating Observed Choice into the Construction of Welfare Measures from Random Utility Models Roger H. von Haefen Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (November 2001).
WP-348 Higher Moments in Perturbation Solution of the Linear-Quadratic Exponential Gaussian Optimal Control Problem Baoline Chen (Rutgers University) and Peter A. Zadrozny See Computational Economics, Vol. 21, No. 1-2, April 2003, pp. 45-64.
WP-347 The Impact of Worker and Establishment-level Characteristics on Male-Female Wage Differentials: Evidence from Danish Matched Employee-Employer Data Nabanita Datta Gupta (Aarhus School of Business, DK) and Donna S. Rothstein Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (October 2001).
WP-346 The Effect of Transfer Programs on Personal Bankruptcy Jonathan D. Fisher See Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 23, No. 4, October 2005, pp. 483-492.
WP-345 Some Explanations for Changes in the Distribution of Household Income in Slovakia: 1988 and 1996 Thesia I. Garner and Katherine Terrell (University of Michigan Business School) Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (July 2001).
WP-344 Using Hedonic Methods for Quality Adjustment in the CPI: The Consumer Audio Products Component Mary Kokoski, Keith Waehrer, and Patricia Rozaklis Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (March 2001).
WP-343 Random Errors and Superlative Indexes John S. Greenlees Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (March 2001).
WP-342 Firm-Wide Versus Employment-Specific Labor-Market Practices David S. Kaplan (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México) and Brooks Pierce Available in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions (March 2001).

Working Papers 333-338 were included in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference on Issues in Measuring Price Change and Consumption in Washington, DC, June 2000. Three additional papers are forthcoming.

WP-338 The Used Car Price Index: A Checkup and Suggested Repairs B. Peter Pashigian (University of Chicago) Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (March 2001).
WP-337 Quality Adjusted Price Indexes for Four Year Colleges Amy Ellen Schwartz (New York University) and Benjamin P. Scafidi (Georgia State University) Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (March 2001).
WP-336 Explaining Tranquility in the Midst of Turbulence: U.S. Multinationals' Intrafirm Trade, 1966-1997 Subramanian Rangan (INSEAD) Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (January 2001).
WP-335 Imputation and Price Indexes: Theory and Evidence from the International Price Program Robert C. Feenstra (University of California, Davis) and Erwin W. Diewert (University of British Columbia) Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (January 2001).
WP-334 Transfer Pricing, Intrafirm Trade and the BLS International Price Program Lorraine Eden (Texas A&M University) Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (January 2001).
WP-333 The Behavior of Intrafirm Trade Prices in U.S. International Price Data Kimberly A. Clausing (Reed College) Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (January 2001).

2000

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-332 A Complete Characterization of the Implications of Slutsky Symmetry for the Linear, Log-Linear, and Semi-Log Incomplete Demand System Models Roger H. von Haefen Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (September 2000).
WP-331 Supervisory Status and Upper-level Supervisory Responsibilities: Evidence from the NLSY79 Donna S. Rothstein See Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 54, No. 3, April 2001, pp. 663-680.
WP-330 Did Job Security Decline in the 1990's Jay Stewart Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (August 2000).
WP-329 U.S. Public Infrastructure and Its Contribution to Private Sector Productivity Aklilu A. Zegeye Available in the Office of Productivity and Technology (June 2000).
WP-328 Inflation and Establishment Turnover David S. Kaplan and Gaetano Antinolfi (Washington University in St. Louis) Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (May 2000).
WP-327 A Comparison of the Substitution Effect for Input and Output Price Indexes Keith A. Waehrer Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (April 2000).

1999

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-326 Recent Trends in Job Stability and Job Security Jay Stewart See revised version, WP-356.
WP-325 Reexamining the Returns to Training: Functional Form, Magnitude, and Interpretation Harley Frazis and Mark A. Loewenstein See revised version, WP-367.
WP-324 Small Sample Bias in Geometric Mean Seasoned CPI Component Indexes Robert McClelland and Marshall Reinsdorf Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (August 1999).
WP-323 Compensation Inequality Brooks Pierce See Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 116, No. 4, November 2001, pp. 1493-1525.
WP-322 The Effects of Mergers in Open Auction Markets Keith A. Waehrer and Martin Perry (Rutgers University) Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (June 1999).
WP-321 Constructing Instruments for Regressions With Measurement Error When No Additional Data Are Available:  Comment Timothy Erickson See Econometrica, Vol. 69, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 221-222.
WP-320 Wage Inflation in the ECI and Across-Group Inequality Michael K. Lettau See Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 792-805.

1998

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-319 Executive Compensation: Six Questions That Need Answering John M. Abowd (Cornell University) and David S. Kaplan See Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 13, No. 4, Fall 1999, pp. 145-168.
WP-318 Principal-Age Models of CEO Pay-For-Performance Relationships David S. Kaplan Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (December 1998).
WP-317 The Implications of Flexible Staffing Arrangements for Job Security Susan H. Houseman and Anne E. Polivka Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (June 1998).
WP-316 Job Security in the 1990’s Jay Stewart See revised version, WP-330.
WP-315 Developing Poverty Thresholds Using Expenditure Data David Johnson, Thesia I. Garner, and Stephanie Shipp (US Bureau of the Census) See Proceedings of the Government and Social Statistics Section, American Statistical Association (Alexandria, VA: ASA, 1997), pp. 28-37.
WP-314 A Gini Decomposition Analysis of Inequality in the Czech and Slovak Republics During the Transition Thesia I. Garner and Katherine Terrell (Univ. of Michigan) Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (May 1998).
WP-313 Measurement Error and the Relationship Between Investment and Q Timothy Erickson & Toni M. Whited (Univ. of Delaware) See Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 108, No. 5, October 2000, pp. 1027-1057.
WP-312 The Ambiguous Effect of new and Improved Goods on the Cost-of-Living Timothy Erickson See Economics Letters, Vol. 68, No. 2, August 2000, pp. 143-147.
WP-311 Cyclical Aggregation Bias Michael K. Lettau Available in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions (April 1998).
WP-310 The Contribution of Establishment Births and Deaths To Employment Growth James R. Spletzer Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (March 1998).
WP-309 Determinants of Training: An Analysis Using Both Employer and Employee Characteristics Harley Frazis, Maury Gittleman and Mary Joyce See Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 53, No. 3, April 2000, pp. 443-462.
WP-308 Has Job Mobility Increased? Evidence from the Current Population Survey: 1975-1995 Jay Stewart Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (February 1998).
WP-307 The Productivity of the Banking Sector: Intergrating Financial and Production Approaches to Measuring Financial Services Output Dennis J. Fixler and Kimberly Zieschang Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (January 1998).

1997

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-306 "Using Earnings Data From The Current Population Survey After Redesign " Anne E. Polivka Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (November 1997).
WP-305 The Effect of a Lump Sum Transaction Cost on Cost-of-Living Index Timothy Erickson Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (October 1997).
WP-304 Addressing the Quality Change Issue in the Consumer Price Index Brent R. Moulton and Karin Moses Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (October 1997)
WP-303 Hazardous Facility Siting When Cost Information is Private: An Application of Multidimensional Mechanism Design Keith A. Waehrer Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (October 1997).
WP-302 A Brief Note on Formula Bias in the CPI Ralph Bradley Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (June 1997).
WP-301 Out of Sample Forecast Performance as a Test for Nonlinearity in Time Series Ted Jaditz and Chera L. Sayers See Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 16, No. 1, January 1998, pp. 110-117.
WP-300 Experimental Poverty Measurement for the 1990s Thesia Garner, Geoffrey Paulin, Stephanie S. Shipp, Kathleen Short and Chuck Nelson See Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 121, No. 3, March 1998, pp. 39-68.
WP-299 Hedonic Adjustment of Hospital Service Price Inflation: An Application to Medicare Prices Dennis J. Fixler and Ted Jaditz Available in the Office of Price and Living Conditions (April 1997).
WP-298 Early Career Supervisor Gender and the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Workers Donna S. Rothstein See Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace eds. Russell Sage Foundation. 210-255 (June 1997).

1996

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-297 Constructing Interarea Compensation Cost Indexes With Data from Multiple Surveys Brooks Pierce, John Ruser, and Kimberly D. Zieschang Available in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions (September 1996).
WP-296 Belated Training: The Relationship Between Training, Tenure, and Wages Mark A. Loewenstein and James R. Spletzer Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (September 1996).
WP-295 On the Validity of Season of Birth as an Instrument in Wage Equations: A Comment on Angrist and Krueger’s "Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect School and Earnings" David A. Jaeger and John Bound See Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 19, 2000, pp. 83-108.
WP-294 Bias in the Consumer Price Index: What is the Evidence? Brent Moulton See Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 10, No. 4, Fall 1996, pp. 159-177.
WP-293 Price Dispersion and Cost-of-Living Indexes Robert McClelland Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (October 1996).
WP-292 Nondurables and Services Responsiveness in a Nonlinear Model: More Evidence of Binding Borrowing Constraints Thomas G. Moehrle Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (September 1996).
WP-291 Interarea Price Comparisons for Heterogeneous Goods and Several Levels of Commodity Aggregation Mary F. Kokoski, Brent Moulton and Kimberly D. Zieschang Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (September 1996).
WP-290 New Results on Signing Coefficients in Regressions Containing a Proxy, with an Application to Financial Constraints and Investment Timothy Erickson and Toni Whited (University of Delaware) Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (September 1996).
WP-289 Evaluating Formula Bias in Various Indexes Using Simulations Robert McClelland Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (September 1996).
WP-288 Tracking the Returns to Education in the Nineties: Bridging the Gap Between the New and the Old CPS Education Items Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart See Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 34, No. 3, Summer 1999, pp. 629-641.
WP-287 Regional and Local Area Impacts of Immigration on Natives’ Wages David A. Jaeger Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (September 1996).
WP-286 The Price of Temporary Help Services and the Growth of Temporary Work Anthony J. Barkume Available in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions.
WP-285 The Role of Employer/Employee Interactions in Labor Market Cycles: Evidence from the Self-Employed William J. Carrington, Kristin McCue and Brooks Pierce See Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 14, No. 4, October 1996, pp. 571-602.
WP-284 Effects of Mismeasuring Base Period Prices When Estimating the Laspeyres Index: Some Idealized Cases Timothy Erickson Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (May 1996).
WP-283 A General Dependence Test and Applications David Johnson and Robert McClelland See Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 13, No. 6, 1998, pp. 627-644.
WP-282 A General Nonparametric Test for Misspecification Ralph Bradley and Robert McClelland Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (May 1996).
WP-281 A Kernel Test for Neglected Nonlinearity Ralph Bradley and Robert McClelland See Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Vol. 2, 1996, pp. 119-130.
WP-280 Two-Step GMM Estimation of the Errors-in-Variables Model Using High-Order Moments Timothy Erickson and Toni Whited See Econometric Theory, Vol. 18, No. 3, June 2002, pp. 776-799.
WP-279 The Sato-Vartia Index and the Monotonicity Axiom Marshall B. Reinsdorf and Alan H. Dorfman Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (April 1996).
WP-278 Log-Change Indexes in Fixed Basket Form Marshall B. Reinsdorf Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (April 1996).
WP-277 Constructing Basic Component Indexes for the US CPI from Scanner Data: A Test Using Data on Coffee Marshall B. Reinsdorf Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (April 1996).
WP-276 New Ways of Handling Quality Change in the US Consumer Price Index Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Paul Liegey, and Kenneth Stewart Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (April 1996).
WP-275 Changing Welfare in a Changing World? Income and Expenditure Inequalities in the Czech and Slovak Republics Thesia I. Garner Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (March 1996).
WP-274 Moral Hazard, Asymmetric Decisions, and the Shadow Price for Quality Adjustment in Medical Services Ralph Bradley Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (March 1996).

1995

 

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-273 Skill Differences and the Effect of Immigrants on the Wages of Natives David A. Jaeger Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (December 1995).
WP-272 Adverse Selection and Pay Equality Jay Stewart Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (December 1995).
WP-271 Do Older Workers Respond to Changes in Social Security Benefits? A Look at the Time Series Evidence Jay Stewart Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (December 1995).
WP-270 Reconciling the Old and New Census Bureau Education Questions: Recommendations for Researchers David A. Jaeger See Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 15, No. 3, July 1997, pp. 300-309.
WP-269 The CPS After the Redesign: Refocusing the Economic Lens Anne E. Polivka and Stephen M. Miller Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (October 1995).
WP-268 A Note on Escalation Requirements, Cost of Living Comparisons, and Homeownership Costs Anthony J. Barkume See Public Finance Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 1, January 1996, pp. 75-87.
WP-267 Existing Labor Market Data: Current and Potential Research Uses Marilyn E.. Manser See Labor Statistics Measurement Issues, John Haltiwanger, Marilyn E. Manser, and Robert Topel, eds., 1998, pp. 9-50.
WP-266 Do Expenditures Explain Income? A Study of Variables for Income Imputation Geoffrey D. Paulin and David L. Ferraro See Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1996, pp. 103-128.
WP-265 The Changing Food at Home Budget: 1980 and 1992 Compared Geoffrey D. Paulin Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (March 1995).
WP-264 Promotions and Job Tenure Michael R. Pergamit and Jonathan R. Veum See Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 52, No. 4, July 1999, pp. 581-601.
WP-263 Improvements to the Food at Home, Shelter, and Prescription Drug Indexes in the US Consumer Price Index Paul A. Armknecht, Brent R. Moulton, and Kenneth J. Stewart Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (February 1995).
WP-262 Training, Wages, and the Human Capital Model Jonathan R. Veum See Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 65, No. 3, January 1999, pp. 526-538.
WP-261 The Construction of Basic Components of Cost of Living Indexes Marshall B. Reinsdorf and Brent R. Moulton See The Economics of New Goods, University of Chicago Press NBER Studies in Income and Wealth Vol. 58, 1997 pp. 397-423.

1994

 

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-260 Compensation in Part-Time Jobs versus Full-Time Jobs: What if the Job is the Same? Michael K. Lettau See Economics Letters, Vol. 56, 1997, pp. 101-106.
WP-259 Income Imputation and Household Income Inequality in Belize Patrick W. Cardiff Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (December 1994).
WP-258 Models of the Patterns of Returns to Education Harley Frazis See Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 54, Issue 3, April 2002, pp. 298-320.
WP-257 Dividing the Costs and Returns to General Training Mark A. Loewenstein and James R. Spletzer See Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1998 pp. 142-171.
WP-256 Interarea Price Indices for Consumer Goods and Services: An Hedonic Approach Using CPI Data Mary Kokoski, Patrick Cardiff, and Brent Moulton Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (July 1994).
WP-255 Household Income Reporting: An Analysis of US Consumer Expenditure Survey Data Thesia I. Garner and Laura A. Blanciforti See Journal of Official Statistics, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1994.
WP-254 Informal Training: A Review of Existing Data and Some New Evidence Mark A. Loewenstein and James R. Spletzer See Research in Labor Economics., Vol. 18, 1999, pp. 402-438.
WP-253 Wage Adjustment in Local Labor Markets: Do the Wage Rates in All Industries Adjust? Michael K. Lettau Available in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions (May 1994).
WP-252 Price Dispersion, Seller Substitution and the US CPI Marshall Reinsdorf Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (March 1994).
WP-251 Searching for Nonlinearity in the Mean and Variance Ted Jaditz and Chera L. Sayers Forthcoming, Nonlinear Dynamics and Economics, W.A. Barnett, Alan Karman, and Mark Salmon, Editors, Cambridge University Press.
WP-250 The Prediction Test for Nonlinear Determinism Ted Jaditz See Chaos in the Social Sciences, Euel Elliot and Douglas Kiel, eds., University of Michigan Press, 1995.

1993

 

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-249 A Comparison of Consumer Expenditures by Housing Tenure: Homeowners, Renters, and Condominium Owners Geoffrey D. Paulin Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (December 1993).
WP-248 Sources of Training and its Influence on Wages Jonathan R. Veum See Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 48, No. 4, July 1995, pp. 812-826.
WP-247 Dismissals and Match-Specific Rents Dan A. Black and Mark Loewenstein Available in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions (September 1993).
WP-246 A New Functional Form for Price Indexes' Elementary Aggregates Marshall Reinsdorf See Journal of Official Statistics, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1994, pp. 103-108.
WP-245 Self-Correction versus Persistence of Establishment Injury Rates John W. Ruser See Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 62, March 1995.
WP-244 Income Sufficiency v. Poverty: Results from the United States and the Netherlands Thesia I. Garner and Klaas de Vos See Journal of Population Economics, Vol 8, 1995, and a slightly different version is published in the book Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality, Wolfgang Eichhorn (editor), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1994.
WP-243 An Improved Nonparametric Test for Misspecification of Functional Form Ralph Bradley and Robert McClelland Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (Revised May 1996).
WP-242 Non-Linearity in the Interest Rate Risk Premium Ted Jaditz and Chera L. Sayers See Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics in the Financial Markets. R. Trippi, ed., Irwin Professional Publishing, 1995.
WP-241 A Heteroskedastic Autocorrelation Consistent Test for Statistical Dependence Ralph Bradley Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (February 1993).
WP-240 Employer Effects on Earnings and Tenure Melissa Famulari and Stephen G. Bronars Available in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions (January 1993).
WP-239 Estimating Unique Equivalence Scales David S. Johnson and Thesia I. Garner See Journal of Income Distribution, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1995, pp. 215-234.
WP-238 Interarea Indexes of the Cost of Shelter Using Hedonic Quality Adjustment Techniques Brent R. Moulton See Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 68, No. 1, July 1995, pp. 181-204.

Pre-1993

 

Number Title Author(s) Publication Status / Disposition
WP-237 Reexamining the Added Worker Effect James R. Spletzer See Economic Inquiry, Vol. XXXV, 1997, pp. 417-427
WP-236 Structural Model-Based Seasonal Adjustment of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Series Raj K. Jain Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (September 1992).
WP-235 Estimates of Cash-Equivalent Values from a Flexible Demand System for the US Marilyn E. Manser Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (September 1992).
WP-234 Is Chaos Generic in Economic Data? Ted Jaditz and Chera L. Sayers See The International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, Vol. 3, 1993, pp. 745-755.
WP-233 Another Look at Evidence on the Distribution of Certain Speculative Prices Ted Jaditz, David S. Johnson, and Robert McClelland See The International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, Vol. 3, 1993, pp. 597-606.
WP-232 The Allocation of Consumption by Married-Couple Families in the US: An Analysis Conditioning on Labor Supply Marilyn E. Manser See Annales D'Economie et de Statistique, January/March 1993, pp. 83-108.
WP-231 Nonparametric Tests for the Independence of Regressors and Disturbances David S. Johnson and Robert McClelland See Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 79, No. 2, 1997, pp. 335-340.
WP-230 Nonparametric Regression Using Instrumental Variables Ralph Bradley Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (June 1992).
WP-229 A State Space Modelling Approach to the Seasonal Adjustment of the Consumer Price and Other BLS Indexes: Some Empirical Results Raj K. Jain Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (June 1992).
WP-228 A State Space Model-Based Approach to Intervention Analysis in the Seasonal Adjustment of BLS Series: Some Empirical Results Raj K. Jain Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (June 1992).
WP-227 Restricting Regression Slopes in the Errors-in-Variables Model by Bounding the Error Correlation Timothy Erickson See Econometrica, Vol. 61, No. 4, July 1993, pp. 959-969.
WP-226 Bidding for Workers Dan A. Black and Mark A. Loewenstein Available in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions (May 1992).
WP-225 Wages, Family Background, and Endogenous Schooling Harley Frazis Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (April 1992).
WP-224 Gender Differences in Training, Capital, and Wages John M. Barron, Dan A. Black, and Mark A. Loewenstein See Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 28, No. 2, Spring 1993, pp. 343-364.
WP-223 Testing for the Presence of Liquidity Constraints in Post-Secondary Educational Attainment James R. Spletzer Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (November 1991).
WP-222 Measuring Financial Service Output and Prices in Commercial Banking Dennis J. Fixler Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (October 1991).
WP-221 Economic Dimension of Household Gift-Giving Thesia I. Garner and Janet Wagner See Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 18, December 1991, pp. 368-379.
WP-220 Procyclical Labor Productivity, Increasing Returns to Labor, and Labor Hoarding in US Auto Assembly Plant Employment Ana M. Aizcorbe See Economic Journal, Vol. 102, No. 413, June 1992, pp. 860-873.
WP-219 A Household-Based, Nonparametric Test of Demand Theory Melissa Famulari See Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 77, No. 2, May 1995, pp. 372-382.
WP-218 The Potential Effects of Mandatory Child Support Programs on Poverty Jonathan R. Veum Available in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics (August 1991).
WP-217 Team Behavior in the Family: An Analysis of the Rotten Kid Theorem David S. Johnson Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (Spetember 1991).
WP-216 Testing for Nonlinear Dynamics Ted Jaditz, David Johnson, and Robert McClelland Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (September 1991).
WP-215 An Evaluation of Subjective Poverty Definitions: Comparing Results from the US and The Netherlands Klaas De Vos and Thesia I. Garner See Review of Income and Wealth, Ser. 37, No. 3, September 1991, pp. 267-285.
WP-214 The Price of Giving: Taxes, Education, and Econometric Issues Robert McClelland and Mary F. Kokoski See Public Finance Quarterly, Vol. 22, 1994, pp. 498-517.
WP-213 The Effect of Price Dispersion on Cost of Living Indexes Marshall B. Reinsdorf See International Economic Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, February 1994, pp. 137-149.
WP-212 Selection Bias and the Diploma Effect Harley Frazis See Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 28, No. 3, Summer 1993, pp. 538-554.
WP-211 Workers' Compensation and the Distribution of Occupational Injuries John W. Ruser See Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 28, No. 3, Summer 1993, pp. 593-617.
WP-210 New Evidence on the Relation Between Inflation and Price Dispersion Marshall B. Reinsdorf See American Economic Review, Vol. 84, No. 3, June 1994, pp. 720-731.
WP-209 Differences in Food Prices Across US Cities: Evidence from CPI Data Diane F. Primont and Mary F. Kokoski Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions (January 1991).
WP-208 A Note on Empirical Tests of Separability and the "Approximation" View of Functional Forms Ana M. Aizcorbe See Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 59, No. 2, July 1992, pp, 310-318.
WP-207 A Simulation of the General Equilibrium Effect of Transfer Payments upon Charitable Contributions Robert McClelland Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions.
WP-206 Another Look at the Medically Uninsured Using the 1987 Consumer Expenditure Survey Richard D. Miller Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions.
WP-205 Economic Markets and the Standard Industrial Classification Theodore Jaditz Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions.
WP-204 Comparing Prices Across Cities: A Hedonic Approach Diane F. Primont and Mary F. Kokoski Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions
WP-203 Procyclical Productivity, Increasing Returns to Labor, and Labor Hoarding in US Auto Assembly Plant Employment A.M. Aizcorbe See revised version, WP-220.
WP-202 A DEA Approach to the Problem of New and Disappearing Commodities in the Construction of Price Indexes C.A. Knox Lovell and Kimberly D. Zieschang Forthcoming in A. Charnes, W.W. Cooper, A. Lewin, and L. Sieford, Data Envelopment Analysis: The Theory, Application, and The Process.
WP-201 Multi-good Search and Cost of Living Indexes: Theory and Evidence Marshall Reinsdorf Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions.
WP-200 A Bayesian Approach to Regression Selection and Estimation, with Application to a Price Index for Radio Services Brent R. Moulton See Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 49, 1991, pp. 169-193.
WP-199 Changes in Taxes and the Cost-of-Living: An Analysis of Tax Reform Mary F. Kokoski Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions.
WP-198 Cyclical Movements in Bureau of Labor Statistics Multifactor Productivity Measures and Capacity Utilization Susan G. Powers Available from the Office of Productivity and Technology.
WP-197 Consumer Expenditures and Inequality: An Analysis Using the Gini Coefficient Thesia I. Garner See Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 75, No.1, February 1993, pp. 134-138.
WP-196 Is There a College Diploma Effect? Harley Frazis See revised version, WP-212.
WP-195 Workers' Compensation and Occupational Injuries and Illness John W. Ruser See Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 9 No. 4, October 1991, pp. 325-350.
WP-194 Has Injury Reporting Changed? Looking Again at Firm Size and OSHA Effects John W. Ruser and Robert S. Smith See Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 26, No. 2, Spring 1991, pp. 212-235.
WP-193 Measuring the Nominal Value of Financial Services in the National Income Accounts Dennis J. Fixler and Kimberly D. Zieschang See Economic Inquiry, Vol. XXIX, January 1991, 53-68.
WP-192 Latent Family Influences On Individual Expenditures for Clothing Brent R. Moulton and Julie A. Nelson Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions.
WP-191 The Autocovariance of Expenditure Shares From Consumer Expenditure Jeffrey W. Smith and Mary F. Kokoski Available from the office of Prices and Living Conditions.
WP-190 An Empirical Test of the Labor Market Discrimination Hypothesis for People with Epilepsy Melissa Famulari See Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 1072-1087.
WP-189 Alternative Measures of Capital Inputs in Japanese Manufacturing Edwin Dean, Masako Darrough, and Arthur Neef Available in the Office of Production and Technology.
WP-188 Measures of Percentage Change and the View of Price Indexes as Averages of Percentage Changes Jeffrey Smith Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions.
WP-187 Real Wages Over the Business Cycle: Estimates Using A Fixed-Weight Wage Index Marilyn E. Manser Available in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions.
WP-186 Using a Consumer Price Index Database to Measure Inter-City Difference in Living Cost Douglas O. Love, Diane F. Primont, and Raj K. Jain See Journal of Official Statistics, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1988, pp. 203-221.
WP-185 An Infinite Polynomial Distributed Lag Model and Its Estimation Raj K. Jain Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions.
WP-184 The Seasonal Adjustment Procedures for the Consumer Price Indexes: Some Empirical Results Raj K. Jain See Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 7, No. 4, October 1989, pp. 461-469.
WP-183 The Characteristics Approach to the Problem of New and Disappearing Goods in Price Indexes Kimberly D. Zieschang Available from the Office of Prices and Living Conditions.
WP-182 Aggregation Consistent Restriction Based Improvement of Local Area Estimators William C. Randolph and Kimberly D. Zieschang See Proceedings of the Business and Economic Section, American Statistical Association, 1987.
WP-181 An Illustration of a Pitfall in Estimating the Effects of Aggregate Variables on Micro Units Brent R. Moulton See Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 72, No. 2, May 1990, pp. 334-338.
WP-180 Gift-Giving Behavior: An Economic Perspective Thesia I. Garner and Janet Wagner See revised version, WP-221.
WP-179 A Commercial Bank Output Price Index Dennis J. Fixler See revised version, WP-222.
WP-178 Consumer Information and Industrial Profitability in an Equilibrium Price Dispersion Model Marshall B. Reinsdorf Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions.
WP-177 A Note on the Power of Nonparametric Tests Ana M. Aizcorbe See Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 9, No. 4, October 1991, pp. 463-467.
WP-176 Energy, Obsolescence, and the Productivity Slowdown Charles R. Hulten, James W. Robertson, and Frank C. Wykoff Available in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions.
WP-175 Individual Consumption Within the Household: A Study of Expenditures on Clothing Julie A. Nelson See Journal of Consumer Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 1, Summer 1989, pp. 21-44.
WP-174 Food Quantity Data in the US Consumer Expenditure Survey: An Evaluation of Usefulness for Economic and Statistical Studies