Austin Nichols
Phone: 202-557-4735
Email:
nicholsa@umich.edu
Most of my papers are available from either
the Urban Institute
or
RePEc
.
Here are direct links to some of my work:
Income variability and inequality
Income Inequality, Volatility, and Mobility Risk in China and the US.
(2010) China Economic Review 21:3-11.
America Insecure: Changes in the Economic Security of American Families
(Feb 2010)
Risk and Recovery: Understanding the Changing Risks to Family Incomes
(paper Oct 2009)
Risk and Recovery: Documenting the Changing Risks to Family Incomes
(brief May 2009)
The Impact of Changing Earnings Volatility on Retirement Wealth
(April 2009)
Trends in Income Inequality, Volatility, and Mobility Risk
Paper presented
at the IRISS 10th Anniversary Workshop in Differdange, Luxembourg, October 25, 2008.
Income Inequality, Volatility, and Mobility Risk
Handout
accompanying
June 3 Forum on Income Volatility
Measuring Trends in Income Variability
(with Seth Zimmerman, May 2008)
Working paper
Discussion of "Trends in Individual Earnings Variability and Household Income Variability Over the Past 20 Years" (Dahl, DeLeire, and Schwabish; draft of Jan 3, 2008).
Slides for presentation at AEA, January 4, 2008, New Orleans LA.
The paper discussed is
available from the CBO website.
Poverty and low-income workers
Poverty in the United States, September 16, 2010
Low-Income Workers and Their Employers: Characteristics and Challenges
(Sept. 2007)
An Assessment of the Income and Expenses of America's Low-Income Families Using Survey Data from the National Survey of America's Families
(with Gregory Acs).
Prepared for the National Poverty Center's May 2006 conference on Consumption, Income, and the Well-Being of Families and Children; version of September 28, 2006
Understanding Changes in Child Poverty Over the Past Decade
.
Assessing the New Federalism
Discussion Paper No. 06-02, May 11, 2006.
Working to Make Ends Meet: Understanding the Income and Expenses of America's Low-Income Families
(with Greg Acs).
Low Income Working Families Papers, No. 2 (UI: Washington, DC, Sept 2005).
Tax-Transfer Policy and Labor-Market Outcomes
(with Nada Eissa).
American Economic Review 95(2), May 2005.
How Have Households with Children Fared in the Job Market Downturn?
(with Greg Acs and Harry Holzer).
No. A-67 in Series, "New Federalism: Issues and Options for States" (UI: Washington, DC, April 29, 2005).
Intergenerational mobility, human capital and fertility
A Detailed Picture of Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Economic Determinants of Fertility Behavior.
Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accepted November 2004.
Education and test scores
Public School Choice and Student Achievement in the District of Columbia
(Working paper Dec 2010)
New Estimates of Design Parameters for Clustered Randomization Studies: Findings from North Carolina and Florida
(Working paper May 2010)
Gender Gaps in Math and Reading Gains During Elementary and High School by Race and Ethnicity
Report, March 2, 2007.
Achievement Gains in Elementary and High School
Report, March 16, 2006.
Nonprofits
The Attack on Nonprofit Status
. (2010) Michigan Law Review 108:1179-1220.
What Do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix
(2009) JHE 28(5):924-937.
(
NBER WP, July 2007.
)
Disability Insurance
The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity
The Journal of Public Economics
88(12):2487-2514.
(North-Holland Pub. Co.: Amsterdam, December 2004). (Prior (working paper) version:
"The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity"
)
Tracking the Household Income of SSDI and SSI Applicants
(with John Bound and Richard V. Burkhauser). In Polachek, Solomon (ed.).
Worker Well-being and Public Policy: Research in Labor Economics.
Vol 22.
(Elsevier JAI Press: Oxford, 2003) pp.113-158. (Prior working paper version:
"Tracking the Household Income of Those Who Apply for Federal Disability Insurance"
Inference
Erratum and discussion of propensity score reweighting
Stata Journal
8(4).
(
Last prepublication draft, December 1, 2008.
)
Causal inference with observational data
Stata Journal
7(4): 507-541.
(
Last prepublication draft, December 12, 2007.
)
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