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Working Papers,
Alan B. Krueger
565. Krueger, Alan B. and Ilyana Kuziemko. "The Demand for Health Insurance among Uninsured Americans: Results of a Survey Experiment and Implications for Policy," April 2011. This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
563. Dale, Stacy and Alan B. Krueger. "Estimating the Return to College
Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data,"
February 2011. This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
562. Krueger, Alan B. and Andreas Mueller. "Job Search and Job Finding
in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal
Data," January 2011. This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
549. Kleiner, Morris M. and Alan B. Krueger. "Analyzing the Extent and
Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market," May 2009. This
Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
533. Krueger, Alan B. "What Makes a Homegrown Terrorist? Human Capital
and Participation in Domestic Islamic Terrorist Groups in the
U.S.A.," September 2008. This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
532. Krueger, Alan B. and Andreas Mueller. "Job Search and Unemployment
Insurance: New Evidence from Time Use Data," August 2008. This Working
Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
531. Kleiner, Morris and Alan B. Krueger. "The Prevalence and Effects
of Occupational Licensing," August 2008. This Working Paper may be
downloaded as a pdf
file.
524. Krueger, Alan B. and Andreas Mueller. "The Lot of the Unemployed:
A Time Use Perspective," May 2008. This Working Paper may be downloaded as
a pdf file.
523. Krueger, Alan B., Daniel Kahneman; David Schkade; Norbert Schwarz and
Arthur A. Stone. "National Time Accounting: The Currency of Life,"
April 2008. This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
517. Krueger, Alan B. and David Schkade. "Sorting in the Labor Market:
Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?" January 2007. This
Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
516. Krueger, Alan B. and David Schkade. "The Reliability of Subjective
Well-Being Measures," January 2007. This Working Paper may be downloaded
as a pdf
file.
499. Connolly, Marie and Alan B. Krueger. "Rockonomics: The Economics
of Popular Music," March 2005. This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
ERS 9. Krueger, Alan B.; Jesse Rothstein and Sarah
Turner. "Race, Income and College in 25 Years: The Continuing Legacy of
Segregation and Discrimination," November 2004.
Education Research Section.
496. Blinder, Alan S. and Alan B. Krueger. "What Does the Public Know
about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?" September 2004. This
Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
484. Krueger, Alan B. "The Economics of Real Superstars: The Market for
Rock Concerts in the Material World." April 2004. This Working Paper may
be downloaded as a pdf
file.
ERS 5.Rouse, Cecilia and Alan B. Krueger. "Putting
Computerized Instruction to the Test: A Randomized Evaluation of a
"Scientifically-based" Reading Program,"
October 2003. Education Research Section.
ERS 4.Krueger, Alan B. "
Rejoinder to Peterson and Howell," October 2003. Education Research
Section.
ERS 1.
Krueger, Alan B. and Pei Zhu. "Another Look at the New York City School
Voucher Experiment," April 2003. Education
Research Section.
470. Krueger, Alan and Pei Zhu. "Another Look at the New York City
School Voucher Experiment." November 2002. This Working Paper may be
downloaded as a pdf
file. American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 47, no. 5, January 2004.
466. Krueger, Alan. "Inequality, Too Much of a Good Thing." April
2002. This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
461. Krueger, Alan B. and Alexandre Mas. "Strikes, Scabs and Tread
Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone
Tires." January 2002.This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. Journal
of Political Economy, vol 112, no. 2, 2004.
455. Angrist, Joshua D. and Alan B. Krueger. "Instrumental Variables
and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural
Experiments." August 2001.This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. Journal
of Economic Perspectives, Vol 15, No 4, Fall 2001.
454. Hines Jr., James R., Hilary Hoynes and Alan B. Krueger. "Another
Look at Whether a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats." July 2001. This Working
Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
451. Krueger, Alan B. and Diane M. Whitmore. "Would Smaller Classes
Help Close the Black-White Achievement Gap?" March 2001. This Working
Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
449. Kling, Jeffrey R. and Alan B. Krueger. "Cost, Benefits and
Distributional Consequences of Inmate Labor." January 2001. This Working
Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
447. Krueger. Alan B. "Economic Considerations and Class Size."
September 2000. This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
434. Krueger, Alan B. "The Digital Divide in Educating
African-American Students and Workers." March, 2000. This Working Paper
is available for downloading as a pdf file. Building Skills for Black Workers: Preparing for The Future Labor Market (The Black Worker in the 21st Century, vol. 2.), edited by Cecilia Conrad and Margaret Simms, Joint Center for
Political and Economic Studies, Washington, DC:2004.
429. Krueger, Alan B. and Mikael Lindahl. "Education for Growth: Why
and For Whom?" January, 2000. This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. Journal of Economic Literature,
Vol 39, No 4, December 2001.
428. Krueger, Alan B. "Labor Policy and Labor Research Since the 1960s:
Two Ships Sailing in Orthogonal Directions?" December, 1999. This Working
Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. Economic Events, Ideas and Policies: The 1960s and After,
edited by George Perry and James Tobin, Washington, DC:Brookings Press, 2000.
427. Krueger, Alan B. and Diane M. Whitmore. "The Effect of Attending a
Small Class in the Early Grades on College-Test Taking and Middle School Test
Results: Evidence from Project STAR." October, 1999. This Working Paper is
available for downloading as a pdf file. Economic
Journal, 111 (468) January 2001.
424. Krueger, Alan. "From Bismarck to Maastricht: The March to European
Union and the Labor Compact." September, 1999. This Working Paper is
available for downloading as a pdf file. Labour
Economics, vol. 7, no. 2, March 2000.
416. Katz, Lawrence F. and Alan B. Krueger. "The High-pressure U.S.
Labor Market of the 1990s." May, 1999. This Working Paper may be
downloaded as a pdf
file. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol 0, No. 1, 1999.
413. Krueger, Alan B. "Measuring Labor's Share" January, 1999.
This Working Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. AEA
Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 89 No. 2, May, 1999. Reprinted in Michael
Sattinger, ed., Income Distribution (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001.
411. Krueger, Alan B. and Mikael Lindahl. "Education for Growth in
Sweden and the World." December, 1998. This Working Paper is available for
downloading as a pdf
file. Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 6, no. 2, Autumn 1999.
409. Dale, Stacy Berg and Alan B. Krueger. "Estimating the Payoff to
Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables
and Unobservables." December, 1998. This Revised Working Paper is
available for downloading as a pdf file. Quarterly
Journal of Economics, November 2002.
403. Krueger, Alan B. and Stephen Wu. "Forecasting Successful Economics
Graduate Students." September, 1998. This Working Paper is available for
downloading as a pdf
file. Journal of Economic Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter 2000.
401. Angrist, Joshua D. and Alan B. Krueger. "Empirical Strategies in
Labor Economics." June, 1998. This Revised Working Paper is available for
downloading as a pdf
file. Revised October, 1998. Handbook of Labor Economics, vol. 3A,
edited by Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, Amsterdam:Elsevier.
395. Krueger, Alan B. "Reassessing the View that American Schools Are
Broken." January, 1998. This Working Paper is available for downloading as
a pdf file. Economic
Policy Review, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, vol. 4, no. 1, March 1998.
393. Card, David and Alan B. Krueger. "A Reanalysis of the Effect of
the New Jersey Minimum Wage Increase on the Fast-Food Industry with
Representative Payroll Data." December, 1997. This revised Working Paper
is available for downloading as a pdf files. American Economic Review, 2000.
392. Krueger, Alan B. and Aaron Siskind. "Assessing Bias in the
Consumer Price Index from Survey Data" December, 1997. This Working Paper
is available for downloading as a pdf file. Monthly
Labor Review, vol. 121, no. 4, April 1998.
390. Krueger, Alan B. and Jorn-Steffan Pischke. "Observations and
Conjectures on the U.S. Employment Miracle" August, 1997. This Working
Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. In
Third Public German-American Academic Council Symposium, 1998, Bonn Germany,
pp. 99-125. Excerpt reprinted in Wirtschafts Politsche Blätter, vol. 3,
January 1999, pp. 259-67.
389. Fuchs, Victor; Alan B. Krueger; and James M. Poterba. "Why Do
Economists Disagree About Policy? The Roles of Beliefs About Parameters and
Values" August, 1997. This Working Paper is available for downloading as a
pdf file.
"Economists' Views about Parameters, Values, and Policies: Survey Results
in Labor and Public Economics," Journal of Economic Literature,
Vol. 35 (September 1998), pp. 1387-1425.
379. Krueger, Alan B. "Experimental Estimates of Education Production
Functions" May, 1997. The revised version is
available as a pdf
file. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 114, Issue 2, May 1999.
377. Autor, David H.; Lawrence F. Katz and Alan B. Krueger. "Computing
Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?" March, 1997. This
Working Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. The
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 113, No. 4, November 1998.
375. Krueger, Alan B. "Labor Market Shifts and the Price Puzzle
Revisited." January, 1997. This Working Paper is available for downloading
as a pdf
file.
370. Krueger, Alan and Helen Levy. "Accounting for the Slowdown in
Employer Health Care Costs." November, 1996. 89th Annual Conference on
Taxation of the National Tax Association, 1996. This Working Paper is available
for downloading as a pdf file.
367. Krueger, Alan. "Do Markets Respond More To More Reliable Labor
Market Data? A Test of Market Rationality." September, 1996. This Working
Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file.
366. Card, David and Alan Krueger. "School Resources and Student
Outcomes: An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South
Carolina." July, 1996. This Working Paper is available for downloading as
a pdf file. Journal
of Economic Perspectives, Vol 10 No . 4, Fall
1996.
362. Krueger, Alan. "Observations on International Labor Standards and
Trade," April, 1996. This Working Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. Annual
World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 1996 (Washington, DC: The
World Bank, 1996).
358. Krueger, Alan B and Jorn-Steffen Pischke. "A Statistical Analysis
of Crime Against Foreigners in Unified Germany." February, 1996. This
Working Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. Journal
of Human Resources, Vol 32, No. 1, Winter, 1997.
357. Card, David and Alan B. Krueger. "Labor Market Effects of School
Quality: Theory and Evidence," January, 1996. This Working Paper is
available for downloading as a pdf files. NBER
Working Paper No. 5450. In Gary Burtless, (ed.) Does Money Matter? The Link
Between Schools, Student Achievement and Adult Success, (Washington, DC:The
Brookings Institution, 1996.)
349. Krueger, Alan and Douglas Kruse. "Labor Market Effects of Spinal
Cord Injuries in the Dawn of the Computer Age." October, 1995. This
Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
337. Card, David and Alan B. Krueger. "The Effect of the Minimum Wage
on Shareholder Wealth." November, 1994. This Working Paper is available
for downloading as a pdf file.
334. Card, David and Alan Krueger. "The Economic Return to School
Quality: A Partial Survey." October, 1994. This Working Paper is available
for downloading as a pdf file. In
William E. Becker and William J. Baumol (eds.), Assessing Educational
Practices: The Contribution of Economics, (Cambridge, MA:MIT Press, 1995.)
333. Card, David and Alan Krueger. "A Living Wage? The Effects of the
Minimum Wage on the Distribution of Wages, the Distribution of Family Earnings,
and Poverty." October, 1994. This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
332. Forslund, Anders and Alan Krueger. "An Evaluation of the Swedish
Active Labor Market Policy: New and Received Wisdom." July, 1994. This
Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. In
Richard Freeman, Brigitta Swedenborg and Robert Topel (eds.), The Welfare
State in Transition, (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1996.)
330. Krueger, Alan B. "The Effect of the Minimum Wage When It Really
Bites: A Reexamination of the Evidence from Puerto Rico." May, 1994. This
Working Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. In
Solomon Polachek (ed.) Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 14, (Greenwich,
CT:JAI Press, 1995.)
329. Krueger, Alan and Cecilia Rouse. "New Evidence on Workplace
Education." May, 1994. This Working Paper is available for downloading as
a pdf file.
(The Effect of Workplace Education on Earnings, Turnover, and Job Performance) The Journal of
Labor Economics,
Vol. 16, No. 1, 1998.
323. Krueger, Alan. "Observations on Employment-Based Government
Mandates, With Particular Reference to Health Insurance". January, 1994.
This Working Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. In
Michael Bruno and Boris Pleskovic (eds.) Annual World Bank Conference on
Development Economics, 1996 (Washington, DC:The World Bank, 1997.)
320. Angrist, Joshua and Alan B. Krueger. "Split Sample Instrumental
Variables." October, 1993. This Working Paper is available for downloading
as a pdf
file. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 13, No. 2,
April, 1995.
316. Card, David; Lawrence F. Katz and Alan B. Krueger. "Comment on
David Neumark and William Wascher, 'Employment Effects of Minimum and
Subminimum Wages: Panel Data on State Minimum Wage Laws'". April 1993.
This Working Paper is available as a pdf file. Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 47, No. 3, April, 1994.
315. Card, David and Alan B. Krueger. "Minimum Wages and Employment: A
Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania."
March, 1993. This Working Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. American Economic Review,
Vol. 84, No. 4, September, 1994.
310. Card, David and Alan Krueger. "Trends in Relative Black/White
Earnings Revisited." This Working Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. American Economic Review Papers and
Proceedings, 83 May, 1993.
307. Krueger, Alan B. and Jorn-Steffen Pischke. "A Comparative Analysis
of East and West German Labor Markets: Before and After Unification."
August, 1992. This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. In
Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz (eds.) Differences and Changes in
Wage Structures (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1995.)
306. Farber, Henry S. and Alan B. Krueger. "Union Membership in the
United States: The Decline Continues." This Working Paper may be
downloaded as a pdf
file. In Employee Representation: Alternatives and Future Directions,
Bruce Kaufman and Morris Kleiner, editor s. Industrial Relations Research Association,
1993.
304. Ashenfelter, Orley and Alan Krueger. "Estimates of the Economic
Return to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins." July, 1992. This Working
Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. American Economic Review,
Vol. 84, No. 5, December, 1994.
301. Boozer, Michael A.; Alan B. Krueger and Shari Wolkon.
"Race and School Quality Since Brown vs. Board of
Education." This Working Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. Brookings Papers on Economic
Activity: Microeconomics,1992.
298. Katz, Lawrence F. and Alan B. Krueger. "The
Effect of the Minimum Wage on the Fast Food Industry." February,
1992. This Working Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. Industrial and Labor Relations
Review Vol 46, No. 1, October, 1992.
291. Krueger, Alan B. "How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure:
Evidence From Microdata, 1984-89." This Working
Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. Quarterly
Journal of Economics, Vol
108, No. 1, February 1993.
290. Angrist, Joshua D. and Alan B. Krueger. "Estimating the Payoff to Schooling Using the Vietnam-era
Draft Lottery." August, 1991. This Working Paper may be downloaded
as a pdf
file. NBER Working Paper No.
4067, May, 1992.
282. Katz, Lawrence F. and Alan B. Krueger. "Changes
in the Structure of Wages in the Public and Private Sectors."
March, 1991. This Working Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. Research in Labor Economics,
Vol. 12 (Greewich, CT:JAI
Press, 1991.)
280. Katz, Lawrence F. and Alan B. Krueger. "The
Effect of the New Minimum Wage Law in a Low-Wage Labor Market." January
1991. This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. IRRA 43rd. Annual Proceedings, Vol. 43, 1991.
279. Gruber, Jonathan and Alan B. Krueger. "The Incidence of Mandated
Employer-Provided Insurance: Lessons from Workers' Compensations
Insurance." This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. In
David Bradford (ed.), Tax Policy and the Economy, Vol
5, (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991.)
274. Angrist, Joshua D. and Alan B. Krueger.
"The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment: An
Application of Instrumental Variables with Moments from Two Samples."
October 1990. This Working Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. Journal of the American Statistical
Association, Vol. 87, No. 418, June 1992.
273. Angrist, Joshua D. and Alan B. Krueger.
"Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?"
June 1990. This Working Paper is available for downloading as a pdf file. Quarterly
Journal of Economics, Vol. 106, No. 4, November 1991.
272. Card, David and Alan B. Krueger. "School Quality and Black/White
Relative Earnings: A Direct Assessment." This Working Paper is available
for downloading as a pdf file. The Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Vol. 106, No. 1, November, 1991.
265. Card, David and Alan B. Krueger. "Does School
Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the
Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States." May 1990.
This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. Journal of
Political Economy,
Vol. 100, No. 1, 1992.
261. Krueger, Alan B. "Worker's Compensation Insurance and the Duration
of Workplace Injuries." This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 3253, February, 1990.
258. Krueger, Alan B. "The Evolution of Unjust-Dismissal Legislation in
the United States." This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol
44, no. 4, July 1991.
255. Krueger, Alan and Jorn-Steffen Pischke. "The Effect of Social Security on Labor Supply:
A Cohort Analysis of the Notch Generation." This Working Paper may be
downloaded as a pdf
file. Journal of Labor
Economics, Vol 10, no.2, October, 1992.
254. Angrist, Joshua D. and A. Krueger. "Why
Do World War II Veterans Earn More Than Nonveterans?" This Working Paper
may be downloaded as a pdf file. Journal of Labor Economics,
Vol. 12, No. 1, January, 1994.
240. Krueger, Alan B. and J. Bound. "The Extent of
Measurement Error in Longitudinal Earnings Data." This Working
Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. Journal of Labor Economics, Vol 9, no 1, January 1991.
239. Krueger, Alan B. "Moral Hazard in Workers' Compensation."
September 1988. This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file.
238. Krueger, Alan B. "The Employers' Costs of Workers' Compensation
Insurance: Magnitudes and Determinants." This Working Paper may be
downloaded as a pdf
file. The Review of Economics
and Statistics, Vol 72, no 2, May 1990. (with John Burton, Jr.)
230. Holzer, Harry J., Lawrence F. Katz and Alan
B. Krueger. "Job Queues and Wages: New Evidence on the
Minimum Wage and Inter-Industry Wage Structure." This Working Paper
is available for downloading as a pdf file. Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Vol 106, August 1991.
227. Krueger, Alan B. "The Determinants of Queues for Federal
Jobs." This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. Industrial and Labor Relations
Review, vol 41, no 4, July 1988.
226. Krueger, Alan B. "Ownership, Agency and Wages: An Examination of
the Fast Food Industry." This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 9, no. 1, January, 1991,
(with John Bound).
225. Krueger, Alan B. "Are Public Sector Workers Paid More Than Their
Alternative Wage? Evidence from Longitudinal Data and Job
Queues." This Working Paper may be downloaded as a pdf file. In Richard Freeman and B. Casey Ichniowski
(eds.), When Public Sector
Workers Unionize, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988), pp
217-240.

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