Elizabeth Caucutt

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Working Papers:

"Incarceration, Unemployment, and the Racial Marriage Divide", with Nezih Guner and Chris Rauh, revise and resubmit, The Review of Economic Studies  

“Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-based Time and Goods Investments,” with Lance Lochner, Joseph Mullins, and Youngmin Park, accepted, The Journal of Political Economy

Publications:

“Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family,” 2020, with Lance Lochner, The Journal of Political Economy, 128 (3), pp. 1065-1147. Online Appendix.

“Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints: Why do Poor Children Perform so Poorly?,” 2017, with Lance Lochner and Youngmin Park, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 119 (1), pp. 102-147. Online Appendix.

“The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security,” 2013, with Nezih Guner and Thomas Cooley, Journal of Economic Growth, 18 (1), pp. 1-32.

“Africa: Is Aid an Answer?,” 2008, with Krishna Kumar, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), 8(1), Article 32.

“Education for All: A Welfare-Improving Course for Africa?,” 2007, with Krishna Kumar, Review of Economic Dynamics, 10 (2), pp. 294-326.

“Does the Progressivity of Income Taxes Matter for Human Capital and Growth?,” 2006, with Krishna Kumar and Selahattin Imrohoroglu, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 8 (1), pp. 95-118.

“Evolution of the Income Distribution and Education Vouchers,” 2004, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 8 (2), pp. 226-249.

“Growth and Welfare Analysis of Tax Progressivity in a Heterogeneous-Agent Model,” 2003, with Krishna Kumar and Selahattin Imrohoroglu, Review of Economic Dynamics, 6 (3), pp. 546-577.

“Higher Education Subsidies and Heterogeneity: A Dynamic Analysis,” 2003, with Krishna Kumar, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 27 (8), pp. 1459-1502.

“Why Do Women Wait? Matching, Wage Inequality, and the Incentives for Fertility Delay,” 2002, with Nezih Guner and John Knowles, Review of Economic Dynamics, 5 (4), pp. 815-855.

“Educational Vouchers When There Are Peer Group Effects – Size Matters,” 2002, International Economic Review, 43 (1), pp. 195-222.

“Peer Group Effects in Applied General Equilibrium,” 2001, Economic Theory, 17 (1), pp. 25-51.