John Pepper  

Research Information:               CV, Google Scholar

            Working Papers

• “The Intergenerational Transmission of Food Security: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis,” (with Craig Gundersen and Brent Kreider), November 2024.  FS-Generations

• “The Effect of Vocation Rehabilitation for People Who are Blind or Vision-Impaired,” (with Chris Clapp, Robert Schmidt, and Steven Stern), March 2024.  Blind

• “Problems in Using Measures of Taxpayer Return on Investment to Evaluate Work Force Programs,” November 2023 (with Chris Clapp, Steven Stern and Robert Schmidt)

            Selected Recent and Forthcoming Publications

• “Measurement of Learning Disabilities and Intellectual Disabilities: Racial Patterns and Labor Market Biases in RSA-911 Data,” (with Chris Clapp, Steven Stern and Robert Schmidt) Journal of Human Capital, 2024, 18(3). LD

• “Causal Effects of Mental Health on Food Security,” (with Greder, Jensen, Kreider and Zhylyevskyy), Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 92. MI

Best Economics Paper Award, Food Safety and Nutrition section of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, Honorable Mention, 2024.

• “Reexamining the Evidence on Gun Ownership and Homicide Using Proxy Measures of Ownership,” (with K. Chalak, D. Kim and M. Miller), Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 208. Proxy

• "Does the Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC) Improve Infant Health Outcomes?" (with Brent Kreider and Manan Roy), Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58(4). WIC

• “Assessing the Effect of Firearms Regulations Using Partial Identification Methods: A Case Study of the Impact of Stand Your Ground Laws on Violent Crime,” (with Megan Miller), Law and Contemporary Problems, 2020, 83(3), 213-230 . SYG

• "The Effect of Youth Transition Programs on Labor Market Outcomes," (with David Dean, Robert Schmidt, and Steven Stern), Economics of Education Review, 2019, 68: 68-88., PERT

• “How do Right-to-Carry Laws Affect Crime Rates? Coping with Ambiguity Using Bounded-Variation Assumptions,” (with Charles Manski), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(2): 232-244.  RTC

• “The Effect of Vocation Rehabilitation for People with Physical Disabilities,” (with David Dean, Robert Schmidt, and Steven Stern), Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12(1), 1-37.   PI

• "The Effect of Vocation Rehabilitation for People with Mental Illness,: (with David Dean, Robert Schmidt, and Steven Stern), Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52(3), 826-858.  MI

• “Identifying the Effects of SNAP (Food Stamps) on the Nutritional Health of Children when Program Participation is Misreported,” (with Craig Gunderson, Dean Jolliffe, and Brent Kreider), Journal of the American Statistical Association, (JASA), 107(499), September 2012, 958-975. SNAP

             Edited Books and Reports

• Deterrence and the Death Penalty, National Research Council, Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty; Committee on Law and Justice; Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, 2012, (Editor with Daniel S. Nagin).  Death Penalty

• Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review, National Research Council, Committee on Law and Justice and Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, D.C., 2004  (with Carol V. Petrie, Charles F. Wellford). Firearms

• Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us, National Research Council, Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2001. (with Charles F. Manski and Carol Petrie).  Drugs

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