"The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings, and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men." (with John Eric Humphries, and Ling Zhong). In 50th Celebratory Volume, Research in Labor Economics vol. 50, pp. 25-81. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023. Final Working Paper
Altonji, Joseph G., Disa M. Hynsjö, and Ivan Vidangos. "Individual earnings and family income: dynamics and distribution." Review of Economic Dynamics (2022). Final Working Paper
"The Labor Market Returns to Graduate Degrees." (with Ling Zhong). Altonji, Journal of Labor Economics 39, no. 2 (2021): 303-360. Lead Article. Web Appendix . Final Working Paper
“The Cost and Net Return to College Major” (with Seth Zimmerman). in Productivity in Higher Education. Edited by Caroline Hoxby and Kevin Stange. NBER, 2019, 133-176 .
“Quantifying Family, School, and Location Effects in the Presence of Complementarities and Sorting,” (with Mohit Agrawal and Richard K. Mansfield) , Journal of Labor Economics M 37(S1) January 2019: 11-83. Web Appendix
“Estimating Group Effects Using Averages of Observables to Control for Sorting on Unobservables” (with Richard K. Mansfield). American Economic Review, 108 (10) October 2018: 2902-46 . . Web Appendix Final Working Paper
“Identifying Sibling Influence on Teenage Substance Use”, with Sarah Cattan and Iain Ware, October 2010, revised July 2015. Journal of Human Resources, (Winter 2017): 1-48. Lead Article
“The Analysis of Field Choice in College and Graduate School: Determinants and Wage Effects” (with Peter Arcidiacono and Arnaud Maurel), in R. Hanushek, S. Machin, and L. Worrseman (eds) The Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume V. 2016
“Cashier or Consultant? Entry Labor Market Conditions, Field of Study, and Career Success”,(with Lisa B. Kahn and Jamin D. Speer). Preliminary draft, May 2013. NBER Working Paper No 20531, September 2014. Journal of Labor Economics vol 34 no 1, pt (2016). Supplemental Material
“Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of School Choice,” with Ching-I Huang and Christopher R. Taber, Journal of Political Economy, 123(2) (April 2015): 266-324. Lead Article. Supplemental Material
“Trends in Earnings Differentials Across College Majors and the Changing Task Composition of Jobs”, with Lisa B. Kahn and Jamin D. Speer. American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 104(5) (May 2014): 387–393
“Modeling Earnings Dynamics”, (with Anthony Smith and Ivan Vidangos). NBER Working Paper No. 14743. February 2009. Econometrica, 81(4) (July 2013): 1395-1454. Supplemental Appendices Data and Programs
“Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes”, (with Prashant Bharadwaj and Fabian Lange), Journal of Labor Economics, 30(4) (October 2012): 783-828. Supplemental Appendices and Data
See also: Joseph G. Altonji, Prashant Bharadwaj, and Fabian Lange (2008), "The Anemic Response of Skill Investment to Skill Premium Growth" at VoxEU.
Data Note: “Joseph G. Altonji, Prashant Bharadwaj and Fabian Lange (2009 ) "Constructing AFQT Scores that are Comparable Across the NLSY79 and the NLSY97”g AFQT Scores that are Comparable Across the NLSY79 and the NLSY97”
“Heterogeneity in Human Capital Investments: High School Curriculum, College Major,and Careers”, (with Erica Blom, and Costas Meghir) NBER Working Paper No. 17985 (April 2012), Annual Reviews of Economics , Volume 4, pages 185-223. Supplemental material
"Estimating Derivatives in Nonseparable Models with Limited Dependent Variables", (with Hidehiko Ichimura and Taitsuke Otsu). Econometrica, 80(4) (July 2012): 1097-1128 Supplemental material
“The Role of Family, School and Community Characteristics in Inequality in Education and Labor Market Outcomes”, with Richard Mansfield, in “Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality and the Uncertain Life Chances of Low-Income Children,” edited by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, Russell Sage (2011).
“Using Selection on Observed Variables to Assess Bias from Unobservables when Evaluating Swan-Ganz Catheterization”, (with Todd Elder, and Christopher Taber), American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, (May 2008): 345-350.
“The Marginal Propensity to Spend on Adult Children”, (with Ernesto Villanueva), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Advances), April 2007.
“Work Hours, Wages, and Vacation Leave”, (with Emiko Usui) Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 6 No. 3 (April 2007): 408-428
“Discussion of `Dynamic Models for Policy Evaluation' and `Microeconometric Search-Matching Models and Matched Employer-Employee Data', in Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Ninth World Congress, edited by Richard Blundell, Whitney K. Newey and Torsten Persson, Chapter 12, 9th World Congress, Econometric Society, (2007).
“An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schooling” (with Todd Elder, and Christopher Taber,) Journal of Human Resources 40(4) (2005): 791-821
"Cross Section and Panel Data Estimators for Nonseparable Models with Endogenous Regressors”, with Rosa Matzkin) Econometrica, 73 No 4, (July 2005):1053-1102. Lead Article
“Employer Learning, Statistical Discrimination, and Occupational Attainment”, American Economic Review Papers and Proceeding, May 2005.
"Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools" (with Todd Elder and Christopher Taber) Journal of Political Economy. February 2005. 2002 Working Paper Version with more formal theoretical analysis
"Do Wages Rise with Job Seniority? A Reassessment" (with Nicholas Williams). Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 2005.
"The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in Wealth", (with Ulrich Dorazelski) Journal of Human Resources Winter 2005. Lead Article
[Economic Growth Center Working Papers Version]
“Vacation Laws and Annual Work Hours”, (with Jennifer Oldham) Economic Perspectives Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Fall 2003, pp 19-29..
"Dynamic Factor Models of Consumption, Hours, and Income" (with A. Martins and A. Siow), Research in Economics, 2002.
"Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination" (with Charles R. Pierret), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116(1) (February 2001): 313-350.
"The Extent and Consequences of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity." (with Paul Devereux), Research in Labor Economics, Vol 19, Elsevier Science Inc. (2000): 383-431.
"An Intergenerational Model of Wages, Hours, and Earnings" (with Thomas Dunn), Journal of Human Resources , 35(2), (Spring 2000): 221-258.
"The Effects of Income and Wealth on Time and Money Transfers between Parents and Children" (with F. Hayashi and L. Kotlikoff) in Andrew Masson and Georges Tapinos, Editors, Sharing the Wealth: Demographic Change and Economic Transfers between Generations, Oxford University Press. 2000: 306-357.
"The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics on Black/White Differences in Wealth." (with U. Doraszelski and L. Segal), Economic Perspectives Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Winter 2000.
"Race and Gender in the Labor Market" (with Rebecca Blank) in O. Ashenfelter and D. Card, (eds), Handbook of Labor Economics Volume 3c Elsevier Science B.V. (1999): 3144-3259
"The Effects of Labor Market Experience, Job Seniority and Mobility on Wage Growth" (with Nicolas Williams), Research in Labor Economics, Vol 17 (1998):233-276.
“Effects of Personal and School Characteristics on Estimates of the Return to Education”, Economics Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Winter 1998.
"Employer Learning and the Signalling Value of Education" (with Charles Pierret). in I. Ohashi and T. Tachibanaki editors, Internal Labour Markets, Incentives and Employment, McMillan Press. (1998): 159-195
"Parental Altruism and Intervivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence" (with Fumio Hayashi and L. Kotlikoff), Journal of Political Economy 6 No. 105 (December 1997): 1121-1166.
"The Effects of Family Characteristics on the Return to Education" (with Thomas Dunn), Review of Economics and Statistics , (November 1996): 692-704
"Using Siblings to Estimate the Effects of School Quality on Wages" (with Thomas Dunn). Review of Economics and Statistics. (November 1996): 665-671.
"Small Sample Bias in GMM Estimation of Covariance Structures" (with Lewis Segal)) Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Vol 14 No. 3 (July 1996): 353-366.
"Risk Sharing Between and Within Families" (with Fumio Hayashi and Laurence Kotlikoff, Hayashi is first author.) Econometrica, 64 No. 2 (March 1996): 261-294.
"The Effects of High School Curriculum on Education and Labor Market Outcomes," Journal of Human Resources, 30(3) (Summer 1995): 410-438.
"The Demand for and Return to Education When Education Outcomes are Uncertainty", Journal of Labor Economics, 11 No 1(1) (January 1993):48-83.
"Using Wage Growth Models to Estimate the Returns to Experience, Seniority and Mobility Wage Growth" (with Nicolas Williams), in Labour Demand and Equilibrium Wage Formation, North Holland, (1993): 327-355.
"Is the Extended Family Altruistically Linked? Direct Tests Using Micro Data" (with Fumio Hayashi and Laurence Kotlikoff), American Economic Review, 82 No 5 (December 1992): 1177-1198.
"Labor Supply, Hours Constraints, and Job Mobility" (with Christina Paxson), Journal of Human Resources. 27 No. 2 (Spring 1992): 256-278.
"Relationships Among the Family Incomes and Labor Market Outcomes of Relatives" (with Thomas Dunn). Research in Labor Economics, 12 (1991): 269-310.
"Worker Characteristics, Job Characteristics, and the Receipt of On-the-Job Training", (with James Spletzer). Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 45(1) (October 1991): 58-79. (To be reprinted in O. Ashenfelter and R. LaLonde, editor, The Economics of Training, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.)
"The Effects of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Less-Skilled Natives" (with David Card), in John Abowd and Richard Freeman (eds.), Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market, University of Chicago Press (1991): 201-234. Reprinted in The New Immigration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Garland Publishing Inc., forthcoming, and in The Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., forthcoming
"Intertemporal Substitution, Exogeneity and Surprises: Estimating Life-Cycle Models for Canada" (with J. Ham), Canadian Journal of Economics, XXIII No 1 (February 1990): 1‑43.
"Variation in Employment Growth in Canada: The Role of External, National, Regional and Industrial Factors" (with J. Ham), Journal of Labor Economics, Vol 8 (January 1990): S198-S236.
"Labor Supply Preferences, Hours Constraints, and Hours-Wage Tradeoffs" (with C. Paxson), in Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 6, No. 2 (April 1988): 254-276.
"'Unions and Job Security in the Public Sector: Comment," in R. Freeman and C. Ichniowksi (eds.), Public Sector Unionism, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL (1988).
"Testing the Response of Consumption to Changes in Income Using (Noisy) Panel Data" (with A. Siow), Quarterly Journal of Economics (May 1987): 293-328.
"Do Wages Rise With Job Seniority?" (with R. Shakotko), Review of Economic Studies, Vol. LIV (3) No. 179 (July 1987): 437-460. Reprinted in O. Ashenfelter and K. Hallock, eds., Labor Economics , Vol III) Edward Algar (1995).
"'Econometric Approaches to the Specification of Life-Cycle Labour Supply and Commodity Demand Behavior: Comment." Econometric Reviews, Vol 5, No. 1 (1986): 147-151.
"Job Characteristics and Hours of Work" (with C. Paxson), Research in Labor Economics,Vol. 8, Part A (1986): 1-55.
"The Collective Impact of Sectoral Shocks on Aggregate Employment Fluctuations" (with J. Ham), in P. Chinloy and E. Stromsdorfer (eds.), Labor Market Adjustments in the Pacific Basin, Kluwer-Nijhoff, Boston (1986): 161-202.
"Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Supply: Evidence from Micro Data," December 1984, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 94, No. 3, Part 2 (June 1986): S176-S215. Reprinted in O. Ashenfelter and K. Hallock, eds., Labor Economics , Vol I, Edward Algar (1995)
"Efficiency Wage Theories: A Partial Evaluation: Comment," in Stanley Fisher (ed.), NBER Macroeconomics Annual, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (1986): 276-284.
"The Intertemporal Substitution Model of Labor Market Fluctuations: An Empirical Analysis," Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 59(5), No. 159 (1982): 783-824. Reprinted in C. A. Greenhalgh, P. R. G. Layard, and A. J. Oswald (eds.), The Causes of Unemployment, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1983): 105-147 and in K. D. Hoover, eds. The Economic Legacy of Robert Lucas Jr. Edward Algar.
"Wage Movements and the Labor Market Equilibrium Hypothesis" (with O. Ashenfelter), Economica (August 1980): 1-29.
"Effects on Motor-Carrier Operations of ICC Regulation of Operating Authority" (with W. B. Tye, P. O. Roberts, and J. T. Kneafsey), Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research Record, 635 (1977): 1-6.
"Estimating Misallocation of Traffic Between Rail and Truck Transport," Transportation Research Forum, (1976): 378-387.
Older Unpublished Papers
“The Effects of Family Background and School Characteristics on Education and Labor Market Outcomes.'' Unpublished manuscript, Yale University.
"Choice of Instruments in the Errors in Variables Approach to Estimating Rational Expectations Models" (August 1983).
"Does the Labor Market Clear? A Test Based on Alternative Expectations Assumptions in the Intertemporal Substitution Framework," Columbia University Economics Discussion Paper No. 110 (September 1981)i