RESEARCH

PUBLISHED WORK

• • "Can Economic Incentives for Joint Custody Harm Children of Divorced Parents? Evidence from State Variation in Child Support Laws" (joint with Daniel Fernandez-Kranz and Hugette Sun), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 189, pages 1-27.

  • "Cleaning in the Shadow of the Law? Bargaining, Marital Investment and the Impact of Divorce Law on Husband's Household Work", Journal of Law and Economics, Volume 60, Number 1, pages 115-134.

  • "What Mom and Dad's Match Means for Junior: Marital Matching and Child Outcomes" (joint with Ryan Edwards), Labour Economics, Volume 40, June 2016, pages 43-56.

  • "A Model Of Child Support and the Underground Economy" (joint with Julieta Lugo-Gil), Labour Economics, Volume 19, Issue 5, October 2012, pages 668-681.

  • "Negative Effects of Paternal Age on Children's Neurocognitive Outcomes Can Be Explained By Maternal Education and Number of Siblings" (joint with Ryan Edwards), Plos One, 2010.

  • “Welfare, Child Support, and Strategic Behavior: Do High Orders and Low Disregards Discourage Child Support Awards?”, Journal of Human Resources, Volume 45, Winter 2010, pages 59-86.

  • “A Stackelberg Model of Child Support and Welfare”, International Economic Review, Volume 49, Issue 2, May 2008, pages 515-546.

  • “Mothers’ Transitions from Welfare to Work and the Well-Being of Preschoolers and Adolescents”, by P. Lindsay Chase Lansdale, Robert Moffitt, Brenda Lohman, Andrew Cherlin, Rebekah Levine Coley, Laura Pittman, Jennifer Roff, Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal. Science, Volume 299, March 2003, pages 1548-1552.

WORKING PAPERS, POLICY BRIEFS AND HANDBOOK CHAPTERS

• • "Child Custody Laws and Household Outcomes", joint with Daniel Fernandez-Kranz, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, edited by Klaus Zimmerman, published by Springer. Invited chapter forthcoming as of Fall 2021.

  • “Testing New Ways to Increase the Economic Well-Being of Single-Parent Families: The Effects of Child Support Policies for Welfare Participants” joint with Maria Cancian and Daniel Meyer, Institute for Research on Poverty Working Paper, 2007.

  • “The Characteristics of Families Remaining on Welfare”, by Robert Moffitt, Andrew Cherlin, Linda Burton, Mark King, Jennifer Roff, February 2002, Welfare, Children and Families: A Three City Study, Working Paper 02-02.

  • “The Diversity of Welfare Leavers”, by Robert Moffitt and Jennifer Roff, October 2000, Welfare, Children and Families: A Three City Study, Working Paper 00-01.

CURRENT PROJECTS/ONGOING RESEARCH

• • “Domestic Violence and Income: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit”, joint with Resul Cesur, Nuria Rodriguez-Planas and David Simon.

  • “Bargaining under Threats: The Effect of Joint Custody Laws on Intimate Partner Violence” joint with Daniel Fernandez-Kranz and Natalia Nollenberger-Castro. Under review.

  • "Commitments and the Marital Match: The Effect of Alimony Reform on Assortative Matching" joint with Daniel Fernandez-Kranz.

  • "Alimony Reform and Its Heterogeneous Effects on High and Low Educated Women: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey" joint with Daniel Fernandez-Kranz.

  • The determinants of housing instability, joint with Robert Moffitt.