david a. jaeger -- research

Citations

Over 860 in the Social Science Citation Index (as of October 2009).

Research: Education

"Natives, the Foreign-Born, and High School Equivalents: New Evidence on the Returns to the GED" (with Melissa A. Clark), Journal of Population Economics, 19(4):769-793 (October 2006).
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"Estimating the Returns to Education using the Newest Current Population Survey Education Questions," Economics Letters, 78(3):385-394 (March 2003).
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"Do Compulsory Attendance Laws Alone Explain the Association between Earnings and Quarter of Birth?" (with John Bound), Research in Labor Economics, 19:83-108 (2000).
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"Methods for Reconciling the Change in the Educational Attainment Question in the Current Population Survey and Census," Monthly Labor Review, 120(8):36-40 (August 1997).
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"Reconciling the Old and New Census Bureau Education Questions: Recommendations for Researchers," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics , 15(4):300-309 (August 1997).
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"Degrees Matter: New Evidence on Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education" (with Marianne Page), Review of Economics and Statistics, 78(4):733-740 (November 1996). Reprinted in The Economics of Higher Education, Clive R. Belfield and Henry M. Levin, eds., pp. 146-153. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar (2003).
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"Proprietary Higher Education and the Labor Market: What Would We Like to Know?", November 1999.
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Research: Conflict

"The Shape of Things to Come? On the Dynamics of Suicide Attacks and Targeted Killings" (with M. Daniele Paserman), Quarterly Journal of Political Science 4(4):315-342 (December 2009).
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"The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict" (with M. Daniele Paserman), American Economic Review, 98(3):1591-1604 (September 2008).
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"Israel, the Palestinians Factions, and the Cycle of Violence" (with M. Daniele Paserman), American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 96(2):45-49 (May 2006).
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"The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada" (with Esteban Klor, Sami Miaari, and M. Daniele Paserman), revised June 2009, in submission. Revised version of NBER Working Paper 13956 (also IZA Discussion Paper 3439 and CEPR Discussion Paper 6793), April 2008.
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Research: Immigration and Migration

"Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration," (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, and Holger Bonin), Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
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"Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000," Research in Labor Economics, 27:131-183 (2007).
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"The Economic Diversity of Immigration Across the United States" (with Rachel M. Friedberg), IZA Discussion Paper 4555, November 2009, in submission.

"Skill Differences and the Effect of Immigrants on the Wages of Natives", revised April 2007, revision requested from Research in Labor Economics.
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"The Persistence of Self-Employment across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States" (with Randall K. Q. Akee and Konstantinos Tatsiramos), IZA Discussion Paper 3250, December 2007. Revised January 2008, submitted.

"Internal Migration in Post-Reunification Germany" (with Thomas Bauer), draft, April 2004.

"Local Labor Markets, Admission Categories, and Immigrant Location Choice", June 2000
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Research: Applied Econometrics

"On the Sensitivity of Return to Schooling Estimates to Estimation Methods, Model Specification, and Influential Outliers if Identification is Weak" (with Juliane Parys), IZA Discussion Paper 3961, January 2009, in submission.

"Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instrument and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable Is Weak" (with John Bound and Regina M. Baker), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 90(430):443-450 (June 1995). Revised version of "The Cure Can Be Worse than the Disease: A Cautionary Tale Regarding Instrumental Variables," NBER Technical Working Paper 137, June 1993.
[Data from the 1970 Census on the 1920-29 birth cohort in Stata format:
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[Data from the 1980 Census on the 1930-39 birth cohort in Stata format:
use http://www.djaeger.org/data/ak3039.dta]
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Research: Other

"Variability in Punitive Damages: Comment," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 166:33-37 (March 2010).

"Is Job Stability in the United States Falling? Reconciling Trends in the Current Population Survey and Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (with Ann Huff Stevens), Journal of Labor Economics 17(4):S1-S28 (October 1999). Reprinted with minor additions in On the Job: Is Long-Term Employment a Thing of the Past?, David Neumark, ed. pp. 31-69. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (2000).
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"Coding Geographic Areas Across Census Years: Creating Consistent Definitions of Metropolitan Areas", NBER Working Paper 6772, October 1998.
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Reports and Other Publications

"'Heckit' Two-step Sample Selection Correction Estimation in SAS," in Vivek, Ajmani, Applied Econometrics Using SAS, John Wiley and Sons, forthcoming. See also the routine at the SAS Institute.

"Illegal Immigrants and the Economy," Letter to the Editor, New York Times, 10 June 2006, p. A26. The letter is in reaction to this Op-Ed by Barry Chiswick.

"Replacing the Undocumented Workforce," Center for American Progress, April 2006.
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"Deporting the Undocumented: A Cost Assessment" (with Rajeev Goyle), Center for American Progress, July 2005. This report was mentioned in Jay Leno's monologue on The Tonight Show on 27 July 2005!
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"'Heckit' Two-step Sample Selection Correction Estimation in SHAZAM," in White K.J., et al., SHAZAM User's Reference Manual, Version 7.0, McGraw-Hill, 258-261 (1993). Also in SHAZAM User's Reference Manual Versions 8 (1996), 9 (2001), and 10 (2004).
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