Publications
Caucutt, Elizabeth, Lance Lochner, Joseph Mullins, and Youngmin Park, “Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments”, Journal of Political Economy, accepted for publication.
Park, Youngmin, and Lance Lochner, “Earnings Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Skill”, Journal of Econometrics, 243(1-2), 2024: 1-25. [Online Appendix]
Bowlus, Audra, Eda Suleymanoglu, Lance Lochner and Chris Robinson, “Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change: The Canonical Model Revisited”, Journal of Human Resources, 58(6), 2023:1783-1819.
Gervais, Martin, Qian Liu, and Lance Lochner, “The Insurance Implications of Government Student Loan Repayment Schemes”, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 113, 2023.
Bowlus, Audra, Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant, Huju Liu, Lance Lochner, and Youngmin Park, “Four Decades of Canadian Earnings Inequality and Dynamics Across Workers and Firms”, Quantitative Economics, 13(4), 2022: 1447-1491. [Online Appendix]
Bastian, Jacob, and Lance Lochner, “The EITC and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?” Journal of Labor Economics, 40(3), 2022: 573-611.
Lochner, Lance, and Qian Liu, and Martin Gervais, “Innis Lecture: Return on Student Loans in Canada”, Canadian Journal of Economics, 54(4), 2021: 1495-1524.
Lochner, Lance, Todd Stinebrickner, and Utku Suleymanoglu, “Parental Support, Savings and Student Loan Repayment,” American Economic Journal – Policy, 13(1), 2021: 329-371.
Caucutt, Elizabeth, and Lance Lochner, “Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family,” Journal of Political Economy, 128(3), 2020: 1065-1147.
Lochner, Lance, “Education and Crime,” in S. Bradley and C. Green (eds.), The Economics of Education: A Comprehensive Overview, 2nd Edition, Chapter 9, London: Academic Press, 2020.
Cano-Urbina, Javier, and Lance Lochner, “The Effect of Education and School Quality on Female Crime,” Journal of Human Capital, 13(2), 2019: 188-235.
Dahl, Gordon and Lance Lochner, “The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit: Reply,” American Economic Review, 107(2), 2017: 629-631.
Caucutt, Elizabeth, Lance Lochner and Youngmin Park, “Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints: Why Poor Children Perform so Poorly?” Scandinavian Journal of Economics,119(1), 2017: 102-147.
Lochner, Lance and Alexander Monge-Naranjo, “Student Loans and Repayment: Theory, Evidence and Policy”, in E. Hanushek, S. Machin, and L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, vol. 5, Chapter 8, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2016.
Lochner, Lance, and Alexander Monge-Naranjo, “Default and Repayment among Baccalaureate Degree Earners,” in Brad Hershbein and Kevin Hollenbeck (eds.), Student Loans and the Dynamics of Debt, Chapter 8, Kalamazoo: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2015.
Lochner, Lance and Enrico Moretti, “Estimating and Testing Models with Many Treatment Levels and Limited Instruments,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 97(2), 2015: 387-397.
Belley, Philippe, Marc Frenette, and Lance Lochner, “Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada: Do Financial Aid Policies Explain the Differences?” Canadian Journal of Economics, 47(2), May 2014, 664-696.
Dahl, Gordon and Lance Lochner, “The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit,” American Economic Review, 102(5), August 2012: 1927-1956. [Online Appendix]
Hjalmarsson, Randi, and Lance Lochner, “The Impact of Education on Crime: International Evidence,” CESifo DICE Report, 2/2012 (Summer): 49-55.
Lochner, Lance, and Alexander Monge-Naranjo, “Credit Constraints in Education,” Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 4, 2012: 225-256.
Lochner, Lance, “Nonproduction Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship,” in E. Hanushek, S. Machin, and L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 4, Ch. 2, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2011.
Lochner, Lance, “Education Policy and Crime,” in P. Cook, J. Ludwig, and J. McCrary (eds.), Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs, Chapter 10, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Lochner, Lance, and Alexander Monge-Naranjo, “The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital,” American Economic Review, 101(6), October 2011: 2487-2529. [Online Appendix]
Lochner, Lance, “Education and Crime,” in E. Baker, P. Peterson, and B. McGraw (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, Vol. 2, Oxford: Elsevier, 2010. (Reprinted in D. Brewer and P. McEwan (eds.), Economics of Education, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010.)
Heckman, James J., Lance Lochner and Petra Todd, “Earnings Functions and Rates of Return,” Journal of Human Capital, 2(1), Spring 2008: 1-31.
Lochner, Lance, “Intergenerational Transmission,” in L. Blume and S. Durlauf (eds.), New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, Palgrave Macmillian, 2008.
Belley, Philippe, and Lance Lochner, “The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement,” Journal of Human Capital, 1(1), Winter 2007: 37-89.
Lochner, Lance, “Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System,” American Economic Review, 97(1) March 2007: 444-460.
Caucutt, Elizabeth, and Lance Lochner, “Borrowing Constraints on Families with Young Children,” in Innovation in Education, Cleveland: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 2006, pp. 39-48.
Cunha, Flavio, James J. Heckman, Lance Lochner and Dimitriy Masterov, “Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation,” in E. Hanushek and F. Welch (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 1, Chapter 12, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2006.
Heckman, James J., Lance Lochner and Petra Todd, “Earnings Functions, Rates of Return, and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond,” in E. Hanushek and F. Welch (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 1, Chapter 7, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2006.
Lochner, Lance, “Education, Work, and Crime: A Human Capital Approach,” International Economic Review, 45 (3) August 2004: 811-843. (Reprinted in I. Ehrlich and Z. Liu, eds., The Economics of Crime, Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006.)
Lochner, Lance and Enrico Moretti, “The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports,” American Economic Review, 94(1), March 2004: 155-189. (Reprinted in C. Belfield, eds., Modern Classics in the Economics of Education, Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006.)
Heckman, James J., Lance Lochner and Ricardo Cossa, “Learning-By-Doing Versus On-the-Job Training: Using Variation Induced by the EITC to Distinguish Between Models of Skill Formation,” in E. Phelps (ed.), Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low-end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 74-130.
Levitt, Steven D. and Lance Lochner, “The Determinants of Juvenile Crime,” in J. Gruber (ed.), Risky Behavior Among Youths: An Economic Analysis, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. 327-373.
Cawley, John, James Heckman, Lance Lochner and Edward Vytlacil, “Understanding the Role of Cognitive Ability in Accounting for the Recent Rise in the Economic Return to Education,” in K. Arrow, S. Bowles, and S. Durlauf (eds.), Meritocracy and Economic Inequality, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 230-265.
Heckman, James J. and Lance Lochner, “Rethinking Education and Training Policy: Understanding the Sources of Skill Formation in a Modern Economy,” in S. Danziger and J. Waldfogel (eds.), Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to College, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.
Heckman, James J., Lance Lochner and Christopher Taber, “General-Equilibrium Cost-Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies,” in G. Ranis and L. K. Raut (eds.), Trade, Growth and Development: Essays in Honor of Professor T. N. Srinivasan, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science B. V., 1999, pp. 291-349.
Heckman, James J., Lance Lochner and Christopher Taber, “Human Capital Formation and General Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tax and Tuition Policy,” Fiscal Studies, 20(1) March 1999: 25-40.
Heckman, James J., Lance Lochner and Christopher Taber, “Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents,” Review of Economic Dynamics, 1(1) January 1998: 1-58.
Heckman, James J., Lance Lochner and Christopher Taber, “General-Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy,” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 88(2) May 1998: 381-386.
Heckman, James J., Lance Lochner and Christopher Taber, “Tax Policy and Human-Capital Formation,” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 88(2) May 1998: 293-297.
Dupor, Bill, Lance Lochner, Christopher Taber and Mary Beth Wittekind, “Some Effects of Taxes on Schooling and Training,” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 86(2) May 1996: 340-346.