VJ Hotz… - The Review of Economic Studies, 1993 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper develops a new method for estimating the structural parameters of
(discrete choice) dynamic programming problems. The method reduces the computational
burden of estimating such models. We show the valuation functions characterizing the ...
V Joseph Hotz, JA Klerman… - Handbook of population and family …, 1997 - Elsevier
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hidden text. Chapter7 THE ECONOMICS OF FERTILITY IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES V.
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VJ Hotz - 2003 - nber.org
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) grew from $3.9 billion in 1975 (in 1999 dollars), the
first year it was part of the tax code, to $31.5 billion in 2000. No other federal antipoverty
program has grown at a comparable rate. In 2000 EITC spending was within $4 billion of ...
VJ Hotz… - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1988 - JSTOR
This paper examines household fertility and female labor supply over the life cycle. We
investigate how maternal time inputs, market expenditures on offspring, as well as the
benefits they yield their parents, vary with ages offspring, and influence female labor ...
JJ Heckman… - Journal of Human Resources, 1986 - JSTOR
This paper presents empirical evidence on the determinants of labor market earnings and
inequality for males in Panama. Using newly available microdata, we estimate earnings
equations based on the measurement framework of Mincer (1974) and compare them with ...
VJ Hotz, SG Sanders… - 1999 - nber.org
In this paper, we exploit a'natural experiment'associated with human reproduction to identify
the effect of teen childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor
market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In particular, we exploit the fact that a ...
VJ Hotz, FE Kydland… - Econometrica: Journal of the …, 1988 - JSTOR
Recently, several authors have argued for the use for the use of dynamic preference
structures for leisure which incorporate forms of intertemporally nonseparable utility in the
analysis of intertemporal labor supply decisions. In this paper, we examine whether such ...
VJ Hotz, RA Miller, S Sanders… - The Review of …, 1994 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper analyses a new estimator for the structural parameters of dynamic
models of discrete choice. Based on an inversion theorem due to Hotz and Miller (1993),
which establishes the existence of a one-to-one mapping between the conditional ...
VJ Hotz, CH Mullin… - The Review of …, 1997 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract In this paper, we consider what can be learned about causal effects when one uses
a contaminated instrumental variable. In particular, we consider what inferences can be
made about the causal effect of teenage childbearing on a teen mother's subsequent ...
VJ Hotz, SW McElroy… - Kids having kids: Economic …, 1997 - econ.duke.edu
There is growing concern in the United States about the number of children born to teen
mothers and the proportion of these births that occur out of wedlock. A decade ago, the
National Research Council concluded that" adolescent pregnancy and childbearing are ...
RB Avery, LP Hansen… - International Economic Review, 1983 - JSTOR
The availability of panel data sets on individuals or firms has generated considerable
interest in techniques for estimating multiperiod econometric models with limited dependent
variables. For instance, such data sets have been used in estimating econometric models ...
VJ Hotz,
L Xu, M Tienda… - 1999 - nber.org
This paper examines the impacts of work experience acquired while youth were in high
school (and college) on young men's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous
studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while ...
VJ Hotz, GW Imbens… - 2000 - nber.org
As part of recent reforms of the welfare programs in the US, many states and localities have
refocused their Welfare-to-Work programs from an emphasis on human capital acquisition
(ie, providing basic education and vocational training) to an emphasis on" work-first,"(ie, ...
A Ahituv, VJ Hotz… - Journal of Human Resources, 1996 - JSTOR
This paper investigates the degree to which the local prevalence of AIDS increases the
demand for disease-preventing methods of contraception among young adults. Using data
from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY-1979), we find substantial evidence ...
JJ Heckman, VJ Hotz… - Evaluation Review, 1987 - erx.sagepub.com
Abstract This article assesses several recent studies in the manpower training evaluation
literature claiming that (1) nonexperimental methods of program evaluation produce
unreliable estimates of program impacts and (2) randomized experiments are necessary ...
VJ Hotz, CH Mullin… - Poverty Research News, 2001 - ipr.northwestern.edu
Abstract In this paper we examine the effect of the EITC on the employment rates of adults
who received welfare (AFDC) during the 1990s. The first part of the paper begins with a
description of the changes in the EITC over the last ten years, its administration, and what ...
VJ Hotz, GW Imbens… - 2006 - nber.org
In this paper, we explore ways of combining experimental data and non-experimental
methods to estimate the differential effects of components of training programs. We show
how data from a multi-site experimental evaluation in which subjects are randomly ...
VJ Hotz, SW McElroy… - 1995 - ideas.repec.org
We examine the effects of the failure of teen mothers to delay their childbearing on their
subsequent behavior and socioeconomic attainment. We estimate these causal effects by
exploiting an innovative evaluation design in which women who first become pregnant as ...
RK Crump, VJ Hotz, GW Imbens… - 2006 - nber.org
Estimation of average treatment effects under unconfoundedness or exogenous treatment
assignment is often hampered by lack of overlap in the covariate distributions. This lack of
overlap can lead to imprecise estimates and can make commonly used estimators ...
VJ Hotz… - … : Data Collection and Research Issues, eds …, 2002 - books.google.com
With passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
(PRWORA) of 1996 and the expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) over the
past decade, increasing attention has been paid to the employment experiences, labor ...
VJ Hotz - Evaluating Welfare and Traiing Programs, 1992 - books.google.com
Over the last 25 years, the federal government has funded a series of programs to improve
the human capital of the nation's labor force. This effort began with the Manpower
Development and Training Act (MDTA) of 1962, was modified and expanded under the ...
B Duncan, VJ Hotz… - Hispanics and the Future of …, 2006 - books.google.com
As the first two chapters of this volume have noted, Hispanics constitute a large and rapidly
growing segment of the US population. Much of the public debate and controversy
concerning Hispanics focuses on their integration and success in the US labor market. In ...
JA Seltzer, CA Bachrach,
SM Bianchi… - Journal of Marriage …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Twenty years ago, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
issued a request for proposals that resulted in the National Survey of Families and
Households (NSFH), a unique survey valuable to a wide range of family scholars. This ...
VJ Hotz… - 2000 - dukespace.lib.duke.edu
As is clear from our comments below, we believe the EITC is a generally effective, beneficial
policy for US low-wage workers. But our views on the EITC are influenced, in part, by several
features of low-wage labour markets in the US that are particularly helpful in enhancing its ...
VJ Hotz… - 2006 - nber.org
This paper examines the employment effects of the earned income tax credit (EITC). We use
a unique dataset, created by matching administrative data from public assistance records,
unemployment insurance records, and federal tax returns for a sample of California ...
VJ Hotz, MR Kilburn… - 1994 - econ.duke.edu
Abstract In this paper, we examine the effects of existing state-level child care regulations on
the cost, or price, of non-parental child care, the demand for (non-parental) child care by
parents, and the mother's decision to enter the labor force. We distinguish between the ...
VJ Hotz, GW Imbens… - 1999 - nber.org
We investigate the problem of predicting the average effect of a new training program using
experiences with previous implementations. There are two principal complications in doing
so. First, the population in which the new program will be implemented may differ from the ...
VJ Hotz, R Goerge, J Balzekas… - Report of the Advisory …, 1998 - econ.duke.edu
1.1 The Research Potential of Administrative Data............ 3 1.1. 1 The advantages of
administrative data............ 3 1.1. 2 Examples that demonstrate the potential of administrative
data..... 4 1.1. 3 The use of administrative data outside of social assistance...... 6 1.2 The ...
VJ Hotz, MR Kilburn… - 1991 - harrisschool.uchicago.edu
Summary This paper investigates the patterns and determinants of how families care for
their pre-school age children. In contrast to almost all existing studies, we analyze the child
care decisions of households with non-working mothers as well as those with working ...
VJ Hotz… - 2006 - nber.org
We examine the incentives for firms to voluntarily disclose otherwise private information
about the quality attributes of their products. In particular, we focus on the case of
differentiated products with multiple attributes and heterogeneous consumers. We show ...
J Currie… - Journal of Health Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
Accidents are the leading cause of death and injury among children in the United States, far
surpassing diseases as a health threat. We examine the effects of child care regulation on
rates of accidental injury using both micro data from the National Longitudinal Survey of ...
J Currie… - 2001 - nber.org
In western countries, accidents are the leading cause of death and injury among children, far
surpassing diseases as a health threat. We examine the effect of maternal employment and
child care policy on rates of accidental injury using both micro data from the National ...
VJ Hotz, GW Imbens… - Journal of Econometrics, 2005 - econ.duke.edu
Abstract We investigate the problem of predicting the average effect of a new training
program using experiences with previous implementations. There are two principal
complications in doing so. First, the population in which the new program will be ...
RK Crump, VJ Hotz, GW Imbens… - 2006 - nber.org
A large part of the recent literature on program evaluation has focused on estimation of the
average effect of the treatment under assumptions of unconfoundedness or ignorability
following the seminal work by Rubin (1974) and Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983). In many ...
CJ Hill, VJ Hotz, CH Mullin… - unpublished paper, March, 1999 - econ.duke.edu
Executive Summary In this report, we examine the eligibility for and participation in the
earned income tax credit (EITC) for low-income families in California during the 1990s. The
EITC is a federal income tax credit available to working poor families, with the amount of ...
L Hao, VJ Hotz… - The Economic Journal, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines parental reputation formation in intra-familial interactions. In a
repeated two-stage game, children decide whether to drop out of high school or daughters
decide whether to have births as teens and parents then decide whether to provide ...
SM Bianchi, VJ Hotz, KM McGarry… - 2006 - escholarship.org
Relationships between parents and children are legitimately the province of diverse
academic disciplines including the social sciences, humanities, and biological sciences.
One need only to compare the plot in Shakespeare's King Lear with the exchange model ...
[CITATION] The sources of inequality for males in Panama's labor market
JJ Heckman… - Journal of Human Resources, 1986
VJ Hotz… - University of Chicago-Population Research …, 1985 - ideas.repec.org
No abstract is available for this item. ... To our knowledge, this item is not available for
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VJ Hotz, CH Mullin… - The American Economic Review, 2002 - JSTOR
In recent years there have been unprecedented changes in welfare. The 1996 Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act abolished AFDC and created
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), a set of block grants that gave states ...
P Arcidiacono, VJ Hotz… - 2010 - nber.org
The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of
college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future
earnings streams associated with the different majors. We survey students about what ...
…, V Joseph Hotz - Economics of Education Review, 2006 - Elsevier
This study examines the changes in the school-to-work transition of young adults in the
United States over the latter part of the twentieth century. Their transition is portrayed using
data from National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women, Young Men, and Youth 1979. ...
VJ Hotz, CH Mullin… - Focus, 2002 - irp.wisc.edu
diploma, and the overall employment rate of prime-age workers with less than a high school
diploma was 68 percent. As the average educational attainment of workers increases over
time and technological changes in the economy place an ever-increasing premium on ...
VJ Hotz, S Sanders… - 1994 - harrisschool.uchicago.edu
Abstract In this paper we explore a strategy for constructing non-parametric bounds on the
effects of treatments actually received in experiments. While treatment statuses may be
randomly assigned, experiments involving human subjects potentially are vulnerable to ...
VJ Hotz… - 2005 - escholarship.org
Abstract We examine the impact of minimum quality standards on the supply side of the child
care market, using a unique panel data set merged from the Census of Services Industries,
state regulation data, and administrative accreditation records from the National ...
VJ Hotz… - … diversity: A demographic challenge for the …, 2002 - books.google.com
The transition from school to work represents a defining feature of the early life course. An
assumption pervading the literature on youth employment is that early labor market activity is
desirable, both because it signals youth's awareness of adult activities and because these ...
P Arcidiacono, V Joseph Hotz… - Journal of Econometrics, 2011 - Elsevier
The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of
college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future
earnings streams associated with the different majors. We survey students about what ...
[CITATION] The returns to early work experience in the transition from school to work for young men in the US: an analysis of the 1980s
VJ Hotz, L Xu, M Tienda… - University of Chicago, 1995
[CITATION] A life cycle model of fertility and married women's labor supply
VJ Hotz - Mimeographed. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon Univ, 1980
[CITATION] Intertemporal substitution and labor supply
VJ Hotz, FE Kydland… - Econometrica, 1988
VJ Hotz, RA Miller… - 1992 - harrisschool.uchicago.edu
ABSTRACT This paper develops a new method for estimating the structural parameters of
dynamic programming problems in which choices are discrete. The method reduces the
computational burden of estimating such models. We show the valuation functions ...
A Ahituv, M Tienda,
L Xu… - University of Chicago- …, 1994 - ideas.repec.org
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L Hao, VJ Hotz… - 2000 - nber.org
In this paper, we examine the empirical implications of reputation formation using a game-
theoretic model of intra-familial interactions. We consider parental reputation in repeated two-
stage games in which daughters' decision to have a child as a teenager and the ...
JA Klerman, VJ Hotz, E Reardon, AG Cox… - 2002 - 192.5.14.43
In response to national welfare reform legislation, California passed legislation on August
11, 1997, that replaced the existing Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and
Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN) programs with the California Work Opportunity ...
[CITATION] The effects of state regulations on child care prices and choices
VJ Hotz… - xerox, Dept. of Economics, UCLA, 2000
VJ Hotz - 1980 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract Thesis--University of Wisconsin, Madison.." Prepared for the Employment and
Training Administration, US Department of Labor under research and development grant no.
91-42-78-15.". Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-150).
VJ Hotz… - University of Chicago-Economics …, 1989 - econpapers.repec.org
By V. Joseph Hotz and RA Miller; CONDITIONAL CHOICE PROBABILITIES AND
THE ESTIMATION OF DYNAMIC DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS.
[CITATION] The Transition from School to Work: Black, Hispanic and White Men in the 1980's
A Ahituv, M Tienda… - Back to shared prosperity, 2000
VJ Hotz, C Mullin… - Los Angeles: University of California, …, 2003 - econ.duke.edu
SUMMARY In this report, we examine the patterns and trends in EITC participation and
amounts of credit received for adults on California's AFDC and adults on California's welfare
(AFDC and TANF) caseloads for the period 1992-1999. Over the 1990s, EITC utilization ...
[CITATION] Regulating Childcare: Effects on Childcare Prices and Demand
VJ Hotz… - RAND, Labor and Population Program Working Paper …, 1995
[CITATION] Initial Labor Market Experiences of Minority and Nonminority Men
A Ahituv, M Tienda, L Xu… - Industrial Relations Research Association 46th …, 1994
A Ahituv, VJ Hotz, T Philipson… - 1993 - harrisschool.uchicago.edu
Abstract This paper investigates the degree to which the local prevalence of AIDS increases
the demand for disease-preventing methods of contraception among young adults. Using
data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we find substantial evidence ...
VJ Hotz… - 2005 - nber.org
We examine the impact of state child care regulations on the supply and quality of care in
child care markets. We exploit panel data on both individual establishments and local
markets to control for state, time, and, where possible, establishment-specific fixed effects ...
[CITATION] Mothers: Effects of early childbearing on the lives of the mothers
VJ Hotz, SW McElroy… - Kids Having …, 1997 - Washington, DC: Urban Institute …
[CITATION] Estimating the Demand for Child Care and Child Care Costs: Should We Ignore Families with Non-Working Mothers?
VJ Hotz… - Unpubl. manuscript, University of Chicago, 1992
J Currie… - Social Inequality, 2004 - econ.ucla.edu
Abstract This paper examines the trends in and determinants of child death rates in the US
over the period 1980 to 1998. We extend the previous literature on childhood death rates in
three ways. First, we look at how trends differ across causes of death, ages of children, ...
[CITATION] Are classical experiments necessary for evaluating the impact of manpower training programs? A critical assessment
JJ Heckman, VJ Hotz… - … Research Association: Proceedings of the Annual …, 1987
[CITATION] Introduction to JHR's Special Issue on Child Care
VJ Hotz… - Journal of Human Resources: Special Issue on Child …, 1992
[CITATION] Pathways from school to work among black, Hispanic and white young men in the 1980s
A Ahituv, M Tienda… - Unpublished manuscript, Princeton University, 1997
JA Klerman, VJ Hotz, G Imbens, P Steinberg… - 2000 - DTIC Document
Abstract: In response to national welfare reform legislation--the Personal Responsibility and
Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which was signed in August 1996--
California passed legislation on August 11, 1997, that replaced the existing Aid to ...
[CITATION] HOTZTRAN User's Manual. Old Greenwich, CT: CERA Economic Consultants
RB Avery… - 1985 - Inc
VJ Hotz, J Klerman… - … of Population and Family Economics. North …, 1996 - rand.org
Abstract Ь this chapter we survey the intellectual development and empirical implications of
the literature on the economics of fertility as it applies to fertility behavior in developed
economies. We have two primary objectives. First, we seek to review the important ...
VJ Hotz - 1992 - spa.ucla.edu
♦ Virtually all of these evaluations use nonexperimentally-based statistical methods for es- ...
♦ Problem confronted in such analyses is selection bias. ... ♦ In the recent literature on program
evaluation, several authors have argued that alternative ... “...estimates of program effects ...
[CITATION] Assessing the effects of teenage childbear% ing on maternal outcomes in the US: exploiting a very natural experiment
VJ Hotz, S McElroy… - Unpublished paper, Carnegie Mellon University, 1995
[CITATION] Accidents will happen? Unintentional childhood injuries and child care policy
J Currie… - 2001 - … of California at Los Angeles, June
VJ Hotz… - 2005 - irp.wisc.edu
Summary The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest cash or near-cash US
antipoverty program, but a large fraction of its payments appear to go to taxpayers who are
not eligible for the credit. The most recent study of EITC noncompliance (for tax year 1999) ...
[CITATION] Welfare benefits, employment and income: evidence from the california work pays demonstration project
VJ Hotz, CH Mullin… - Unpublished manuscript, 2002
[CITATION] Bounding causal effects using contaminated instrumental variables: analyzing the effects of teenage childbearing using a natural experiment
VJ Hotz, CW Mullin… - Review of Economic Studies, 1997
[CITATION] Bounding Treatment Effects in Experimental Evaluations Subject to Post-Randomization Treatment Choice
VJ Hotz… - 1996
[CITATION] On the use of nonexperimental methods for estimating the impact of manpower training programs: re-evaluating the evaluations
[CITATION] Estimation of multiple indicator multiple cause (MIMIC) models with dichotomous indicators
RB Avery… - 1981 - Carnegie-Mellon University, Working …
VJ Hotz, SW McElroy… - Kids Having Kids: …, 2008 - books.google.com
V. Joseph Hotz, Susan Williams McElroy, and Seth G. Sanders here is growing concern in
the United States about the number of children born to teen mothers and the proportion of
these births that occur out of wedlock. Two decades ago, the National Research Council ...
M Bacolod… - … Manuscript: http://www. econ. ucla. edu …, 2005 - papers.ccpr.ucla.edu
Abstract This study examines the changes in the school-to-work transition in the United
States over the latter part of the twentieth century and their consequences for the wages of
young adults. In particular, we document the various types of work and schooling ...
[CITATION] Handbook of Population and Family Economics
VJ Hotz, JA Klerman, RJ Willis, MR Rosenzweig… - 1997 - North-Holland Elsevier Press
[CITATION] Games Daughters and Parents Play: Teenage Childbearing
L Hao, VJ Hotz… - Parental Reputation and Strategic Transfers “NBER …, 2000
M Tienda, A Ahituv, VJ Hotz… - 1999 - opr.princeton.edu
Since the mid-1970s, the US experienced substantial changes in the industrial composition
of employment and wages owing to energy price shocks, increased international
competition, and technological change (Hyclak, 1996, Levy and Murnane, 1992). As the ...
[CITATION] The determinants of birth intervals: A multistate approach
J Heckman, VJ Hotz… - Unpublished manuscript, University of Chicago, 1985
S Bianchi, VJ Evans, VJ Hotz, KM McGarry… - 2007 - escholarship.org
In this report we present results from a systematic assessment of the available data and
future data needs for assessing important unanswered questions about intra-generational
and intergenerational relationships. We are especially interested in understanding how ...
[CITATION] Did the Returns to the Schooling and Early Work Experiences of Young Adults Change Across Cohorts over the Last 40 Years?
M Bacolod… - Unpublished manuscript, UCLA, 2005
[CITATION] The family that shares is the family that cares: Are extended families efficient
P Coate, M Dalton, VJ Hotz… - … meeting of the Population Association of …, 2010
[CITATION] Are There Returns to the
VJ Hotz, LC Xu, M Tienda… - 2002
[CITATION] Measuring Employment and Income for Low-Income Populations with Administrative and Survey Data. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection …
VJ Hotz… - 2002
[CITATION] Kin Support, Welfare, and Out-of-Wedlock Births
L Hao… - Manuscript. Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand Corp, 1991
[CITATION] mThe Impacts of Teenage Childbearing on the Mothers and the Consequences of Those Impacts for Government, n in Rebecca Maynard, ed
VJ Hotz, SW McElroy… - Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social …, 1998
[CITATION] Frances Margolin, eds. 1999.“Administrative Data for Policy Relevant Research: Assessment of Current Utility and Recommendations for Development.” …
VJ Hotz, R Goerge… - Joint Center for Poverty Research at Northwestern …
[CITATION] The Eamed Income Tax Credit
VJ Hotz… - NBER Working Paper, 2001
[CITATION] The EITC and Low-Wage Labor Markets in California
VJ Hotz, C Mullin… - Joint Center for Poverty Research Conference Paper, …, 2000
E Aucejo, F Bugni… - 2011 - webmeets.com
Abstract This paper examines the problem of identification and inference on parametric
models when there are missing data, with special focus on the case when covariates,
denoted by X, are missing. Our econometric model is given by a conditional moment ...
[CITATION] Teen Childbearing and its Life-Cycle Consequences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
VJ Hotz, SW McElroy… - 1999 - National Bureau of Economic …
[CITATION] John Karl Scholz (2005): AThe Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare
VJ Hotz… - 2005 - Mimeo, University of Wisconsin
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