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My new book Welfare Reform and its Long Term Consequences for America's Poor is now available at Cambridge University Press.
 
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Research

Selected Recent Publications
 
Kniesner, Thomas J., W. Kip Viscusi, and James P. Ziliak. 2009. "Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of a Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions." Forthcoming, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
 
Kniesner, Thomas J., and James P. Ziliak. 2008. "Evidence of Tax-Induced Individual Behavioral Responses," with Thomas J. Kniesner, in Fundamental Tax Reform: Issue, Choices, and Implications John Diamond and George Zodrow, eds., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 375-411.
 

Ziliak, James P. 2008. “Filling the Poverty Gap, Then and Now.” In Frontiers of Family Economics Vol. 1, Peter Rupert, ed., Emerald Publishing Group, 39-114.

 

 
 
 
 
Jolliffe, Dean, and James P. Ziliak, eds. 2008. Income Volatility and Food Assistance Programs in the United States. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Heflin, Colleen, and James P. Ziliak. 2008. “Food Insufficiency, Food Stamp Participation, and Mental Health.” Social Science Quarterly 89(3): 706-727.

 

Ziliak, James P. 2007. “Making Work Pay: Changes in Effective Tax Rates and Guarantees in U.S. Transfer Programs, 1983–2002,” Journal of Human Resources, 42(3): 619–642.
 
 

Hurst, Erik, and James P. Ziliak. 2006. “Do Welfare Asset Limits Affect Household Saving? Evidence from Welfare Reform,” Journal of Human Resources, 41(1): 46–71.

 

Ziliak, James P. 2006. “Understanding Poverty Rates and Gaps: Concepts, Trends, and Challenges,” Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 1(3): 127–199.

 

Ziliak, James P., and Thomas J. Kniesner. 2005. “The Effect of Income Taxation on Consumption and Labor Supply,” Journal of Labor Economics, 23(4): 769–796.
 
 
Current Projects
 
 
Bollinger, Christopher, James P. Ziliak, and Kenneth R. Troske. 2009. "Down from the Mountain: Skill Upgrading and Wages in Appalachia." Mimeo.
 

Bollinger, Christopher, and James P. Ziliak. 2008. "Changes in the Distribution of Single Mother Families: Murphy Brown meets Inequality." University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper DP2008-08.

 

Ziliak, James P., Craig Gundersen, and Margaret P. Haist. 2008. "The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Senior Hunger in America." University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Special Report to the Meals on Wheels Association of America Foundation.

 

Kniesner, Thomas J., W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock, and James P. Ziliak. 2008. "The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Panel Data." Mimeo.
 
Ziliak, James P. 2008. "Effective Tax Rates and Guarantees in the Food Stamp Program." A Report to the Food and Nutrition Research Program, Economic Research Service, USDA.
 

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