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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barbara Wolfe is an economist and the Richard A. Easterlin Professor of Economics, Population Health Sciences, and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Wolfe is also a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty. She is a research associate at the NBER, and the Levy Institute of Bard College. She is also an emeritus fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics .
Barbara Wolfe's Published Works
Published Works
- The Determinants of Children's Attainments: A Review of Methods and Findings (1995) (2081)
- Association of Child Poverty, Brain Development, and Academic Achievement. (2015) (698)
- Schooling and Economic Well-Being: The Role of Nonmarket Effects (1984) (567)
- Child Care Quality: Does It Matter and Does It Need To Be Improved?. (2000) (548)
- Do Schools Make a Difference (1977) (532)
- Family Poverty Affects the Rate of Human Infant Brain Growth (2013) (368)
- How does mother's schooling affect family health, nutrition, medical care usage, and household sanitation? (1987) (361)
- Association between Income and the Hippocampus (2011) (302)
- Childhood events and circumstances influencing high school completion (1991) (281)
- Neighborhood Attributes as Determinants of Children's Outcomes How Robust are the Relationships? (2000) (277)
- Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage. (2016) (270)
- More evidence on nutrition demand: Income seems overrated and women's schooling underemphasized (1984) (243)
- Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects (2008) (220)
- Determinants of child mortality, health, and nutrition in a developing country. (1982) (199)
- Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of Adhd Revisited (2007) (184)
- Before and After TANF: The Economic Well‐Being of Women Leaving Welfare (2002) (174)
- The Socioeconomic Impact of Schooling in a Developing Country (1984) (170)
- Out of Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital Fertility (2003) (170)
- The Effect of the Medicaid Program on Welfare Participation and Labor Supply (1990) (170)
- The Effect of Health on the Work Effort of Single Mothers (1995) (156)
- Women's schooling and children's health. Are the effects robust with adult sibling control for the women's childhood background? (1987) (151)
- Nonmarket Outcomes of Schooling. (1997) (146)
- Long-Term Consequences of Childhood ADHD on Criminal Activities (2009) (141)
- Market Work, Wages, and Men's Health (1989) (130)
- Is Income Overrated in Determining Adequate Nutrition? (1983) (125)
- The economics of disability and disability policy (2000) (124)
- Assessing the maintenance of savings sufficiency over the first decade of retirement (2005) (121)
- Adult Sibling Random and Fixed Effects Estimates for Nicaragua (1989) (105)
- The Decline in Male Labor Force Participation: Comment (1984) (103)
- Nutrients: Impacts and Determinants (1988) (100)
- Disability transfers and early retirement: a casual relationship? (1984) (97)
- Investments in schooling in two generations in pre-revolutionary Nicaragua: The roles of family background and school supply (1987) (96)
- The "Window Problem" in Studies of Children's Attainments: a Methodological Exploration (1992) (90)
- Physician responses to fee-for-service and capitation payment. (1992) (89)
- Who is schooled in developing countries? The roles of income, parental schooling, sex, residence and family size (1984) (88)
- The Effects of Teenage Fatherhood on Young Adult Outcomes (2010) (83)
- The Economic Well-Being of the Disabled: 1962-84 (1990) (82)
- The devil may be in the details: how the characteristics of SCHIP programs affect take-up. (2005) (82)
- Labor force participation and earnings determinants for women in the special conditions of developing countries (1984) (75)
- Determinants of Women's Health Status and Health-Care Utilization in a Developing Country: A Latent Variable Approach (1984) (75)
- The role of economic incentives in teenage nonmarital (2001) (74)
- Disability Transfers and the Work Decision of Older Men (1991) (74)
- Children's Utilization of Medical Care (1980) (71)
- A Sibling Death in the Family: Common and Consequential (2013) (68)
- The Influence of Health on School Outcomes: A Multivariate Approach (1985) (61)
- Which School Resources Help Learning? Efficiency and Equity in Philadelphia Public Schools. Business Review. (1975) (61)
- Health status and medical expenditures: is there a link? (1986) (61)
- The Role of Expectations in Adolescent Schooling Choices: Do Youths Respond to Economic Incentives? (2005) (58)
- Children's Prospects and Children's Policy (1993) (56)
- The Importance of Family Income in the Formation and Evolution of Non-Cognitive Skills in Childhood (2016) (55)
- Social and nonmarket benefits from education in an advanced economy (2002) (54)
- Private Education: Studies in Choice and Public Policy, edited by Daniel C. Levy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986,272 pp. Price: $34.95, cloth (1988) (54)
- The Income and Health Effects of Tribal Casino Gaming on American Indians (2012) (54)
- Trends in the prevalence of work disability from 1962 to 1984, and their correlates. (1990) (51)
- Special Education and School Achievement: An Exploratory Analysis With a Central-City Sample (1999) (51)
- Early Intervention Inservice Training Strategies: Perceptions and Suggestions from the Field (1996) (50)
- Equality of Educational Opportunity Quantified: A Production Function Approach. (1975) (50)
- The Biological Consequences of Socioeconomic Inequalities (2012) (49)
- How people with disabilities fare when public policies change (1993) (48)
- Do Newly Retired Workers in the United States Have Sufficient Resources to Maintain Well-Being? (2006) (48)
- Increasing Our Understanding of the Health-Income Gradient in Children (2012) (48)
- Testing the HMO competitive strategy: an analysis of its impact on medical resources. (1997) (43)
- Inequality and health: Is housing crowding the link? (2006) (42)
- Health status and medical expenditures: more evidence of a link. (1987) (41)
- Child Care Use and Parental Desire to Switch Care Type Among a Low-Income Population (2004) (41)
- Intelligence and family size: another look (1980) (40)
- Long-term effects of public low-income housing vouchers on neighborhood quality and household composition (2012) (37)
- Intergenerational Effects of Non-Marital and Early Childbearing (1999) (37)
- Post-Exit Earnings and Benefit Receipt among Those Who Left AFDC in Wisconsin (1999) (34)
- Ripple effects of developmental disabilities and mental illness on nondisabled adult siblings. (2014) (34)
- The benefits and costs of the Section 8 housing subsidy program: A framework and estimates of first-year effects (2011) (32)
- Intradistrict Distribution of School Inputs to the Disadvantaged: Evidence for the Courts (1976) (31)
- Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing (2009) (30)
- Labor market behavior of older men: Estimates from a Trichotomous choice model (1988) (29)
- Human Capital and Earnings Distribution in a Developing Country: The Case of Prerevolutionary Nicaragua (1985) (29)
- Long-term earnings and employment effects of housing voucher receipt (2012) (29)
- A New Index to Value In-Kind Benefits (1991) (28)
- Incentives, Challenges, and Dilemmas of TANF: A Case Study. (2002) (26)
- Measuring disability and health. (1984) (25)
- Am I My Brother&Apos;S Keeper? Sibling Spillover Effects: The Case of Developmental Disabilities and Externalizing Behavior (2012) (24)
- How the Disabled Fare in the Labor Market. (1980) (24)
- Do youth nonmarital childbearing choices reflect income and relationship expectations? (2007) (24)
- Social security, age of retirement, and economic well-being: Intertemporal and demographic patterns among retired-worker beneficiaries (2003) (23)
- A Note on Some Evidence on the Easterlin Hypothesis (1978) (22)
- The Loss of Earnings Capability from Disability/Health Limitations: Toward a New Social Indicator (1995) (22)
- Child Quantity and Quality in a Developing Country: Family Background, Endogenous Tastes, and Biological Supply Factors (1986) (22)
- Time allocation, market work, and changes in female health. (1983) (21)
- A New Health Status Index for Children (1981) (20)
- The changing economic status of disabled women, 1982–1991 Trends and their determinants (2000) (20)
- Micro determinants of female migration in a developing country: labor market, demographic marriage market and economic marriage market incentives. (1984) (20)
- Disability Status as an Unobservable: Estimates from a Structural Model (1989) (19)
- Estimating demand for medical care: health as a critical factor for adults and children (1991) (19)
- The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Adult Dependent Coverage Expansion on Mental Health. (2016) (19)
- Health, Income, and Inequality (2018) (18)
- SCHIP expansion and parental coverage: an evaluation of Wisconsin's BadgerCare. (2006) (18)
- The Health, Earnings Capacity, and Poverty of Single-Mother Families (1991) (18)
- Maximizing research on the adverse effects of child poverty through consensus measures (2020) (17)
- Dynamic and heterogeneous effects of sibling death on children’s outcomes (2017) (17)
- Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects. (2009) (17)
- Welfare to Work in the U.S.: A Model for Other Developed Nations? (2000) (16)
- The effect of patient reminders and gas station gift cards on patient adherence to testing guidelines for diabetes. (2011) (16)
- Schooling and earnings distributions with endogenous labour force participation marital status and family size. (1988) (15)
- A More General Approach to Fertility Determination in a Developing Country: The Importance of Biological Supply Considerations, Endogenous Tastes and Unperceived Jointness (1984) (15)
- The impact of demographic changes on income distribution in a developing country. (1982) (15)
- Education, Productivity, and Well-Being: On Defining and Measuring the Economic Characteristics of Schooling. (1982) (14)
- Do Schools Make a Difference? Reprint Series 266. (1977) (14)
- Medicaid, Welfare Dependency, and Work: Is There a Causal Link? (1993) (14)
- Attrition in the new beneficiary survey and followup, and its correlates. (2000) (14)
- Why changing the U.S. health care system is so difficult. (1993) (14)
- Poverty and poor health: Can health care reform narrow the rich-poor gap? (2011) (14)
- Education and Economic Well-Being: The Role of Non-Market Effects. (1983) (14)
- The synthesis economic fertility model (1992) (13)
- Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD Revisited. NBER Working Paper No. 13474. (2007) (13)
- Correction: Family Poverty Affects the Rate of Human Infant Brain Growth (2015) (13)
- Long-Term Effects of Public Low-Income Housing Vouchers on Work, Earnings, and Neighborhood Quality (2008) (13)
- Health Status, Health Shocks, and Asset Adequacy Over Retirement Years (2017) (13)
- Income and Access to Higher Education: Are High Quality Universities Becoming More or Less Elite? A Longitudinal Case Study of Admissions at UW-Madison (2016) (12)
- Income Transfers and Work Effort: The Netherlands and the United States in the 1970s (1984) (12)
- Health Inequality between Black and White Women (2002) (12)
- The young and the not quite so young: Age variation in the impact of AFDC benefits on nonmarital childbearing (2001) (11)
- Economic inequality and educational attainment across a generation (2005) (11)
- Disparities in well-being among U.S. children over two decades: 1962-1983 (1988) (11)
- How developmental neuroscience can help address the problem of child poverty (2020) (10)
- The Employment , Earnings , and Income of Single Mothers in Wisconsin Who Left Cash Assistance : Comparisons among Three Cohorts (2003) (10)
- Mandating Insurance Offers for Low-Wage Workers: An Evaluation of Labor Market Effects (2003) (10)
- The Sufficiency of Retirement Savings: A Comparison of Two Cohorts of Retired Workers at the Time of Retirement (2006) (9)
- Do Newly Retired Workers in the U.S. Have Sufficient Resources to Maintain Well-Being? (2005) (9)
- The changing economic status of U.S. disabled men: Trends and their determinants, 1982–1991 (2000) (9)
- Government Mandates and Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Who Is Still Not Covered? (2002) (8)
- Poverty, Children's Health, and Health Care Utilization (1999) (8)
- Children of Early Childbearers as Young Adults (2018) (8)
- Resources Devoted to Child Development by Families and Society (2002) (7)
- Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity (2013) (7)
- Universal Preschool: Much To Gain But Who Will Pay? Working Paper Series. (2002) (7)
- Incentives, Challenges, and Dilemmas of TANF (2000) (7)
- Is dumping socially inefficient?: An analysis of the effect of Medicare's prospective payment system on the utilization of Veterans Affairs inpatient services (1993) (7)
- The Effects of Financial Aid Grant Offers on Postsecondary Educational Outcomes: New Experimental Evidence from the Fund for Wisconsin Scholars (2019) (7)
- HMO growth and hospital expenses: a correction. (1989) (6)
- The general equilibrium approach : Relevant for public policy? (1987) (6)
- Trends in Autism Prevalence in the U.S.: A Lagging Economic Indicator? (2019) (6)
- Universal Preschool: Much to Gain but Who Will Pay? Discussion Paper No. 1271-03. (2003) (5)
- US Health Care Reform: A Primer and an Assessment (2010) (5)
- What influences children's health? (1982) (5)
- Estimating Household Income from Location (1978) (5)
- The changing economic status of U.S. disabled men: Trends and their determinants, 1982-1991 (1999) (5)
- The Sufficiency of Retirement Savings: Comparing Cohorts at the Time of Retirement (2006) (5)
- The Effect of Housing Assistance on Student Achievement: Evidence from Wisconsin (2017) (5)
- The Take-Up of Medicaid and Food Stamps by Welfare Leavers : The Case of Wisconsin (2001) (5)
- Mystery of the Crooked Cell: An Investigation & Laboratory Activity about Sickle-Cell Anemia (1999) (4)
- Is Schooling Productivity in Developing Countries Often Misunderstood (1982) (4)
- Economic Inactivity of Young Adults: An Intergenerational Analysis (1994) (4)
- Early Childhood Research Collaborative ─ Discussion Paper 111 2 Child Interventions that May Lead to Increased Economic Growth (2007) (4)
- Have Disability Transfers Caused the Decline in Older Male Labor Force Participation? A Work-Status Rational Choice Model (1981) (4)
- EXTENDING HEALTH CARE COVERAGE TO THE LOW- INCOME POPULATION: THE INFLUENCE OF THE WISCONSIN BADGERCARE PROGRAM ON INSURANCE COVERAGE AND LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION (2003) (3)
- Nutrition in a Developing Country (2007) (3)
- Trends in the Health of the Poor and Near Poor: Have the Poor and Near Poor Been Catching Up to the Non Poor in the Last 25 Years? (2006) (3)
- Health and Wealth in Early Retirement (2012) (3)
- Labor and Transfer Income and Older Women&Apos;S Work: Estimates from the United States (1988) (3)
- The distribution of health care financing in the overall population and among the elderly (1987) (3)
- Socioeconomic characteristics of women in a developing country and the degree of urbanization. (1980) (2)
- Treating children fairly (1991) (2)
- Health and Medical Care Costs to Society of Teen Pregnancy: Children from Birth to Age 14 (1995) (2)
- CASINO REVENUE AND AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH: THE LINK BETWEEN TRIBAL GAMING AND THE HEALTH STATUS AND BEHAVIORS OF AMERICAN INDIANSF (2008) (2)
- Youth Responses to Expected Income and "Relationship" Consequences in Nonmarital Childbearing Choices: Are Youths Rational? (2004) (2)
- The well being of children and disparities among them over two decades: 1962-1983. (1987) (2)
- Oregon Statewide Writing Assessment 1991 and 1992 with Student Writings Grades 8 and 11. (1993) (2)
- Special training for special needs : a competency-based training program for personnel working with young children who have special needs (1990) (2)
- The Effects of Need-Based Financial Aid on Employment and Earnings: Experimental Evidence from the Fund for Wisconsin Scholars (2020) (2)
- NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION IN EARLY INTERVENTION PERSONNEL PREPARATION Opportunities and Challenges (2002) (2)
- Decreasing Opportunities for Low-Wage Workers: The Role of the Nondiscrimination Law for Employer-Provided Health Insurance (1997) (2)
- Income, Inequality, and Uncertainty: Differences between the Disabled and Nondisabled (1985) (2)
- On the role of budgetary policy during demographic changes : proceedings of the 48th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance/Institut International de Finances Publiques, Seoul 1992 (1993) (2)
- Do Youth Nonmarital Childbearing Choices Reflect Expected Income and Relationship Consequences (2006) (2)
- Do Teens Make Rational Childbearing Choices?: Family, Neighborhood, and Expected Income Determinants of Teen Nonmarital Childbearing (1999) (1)
- Cutbacks in Disability Transfer Programs (1985) (1)
- A Comment on Summers and Wolfe: Reply (1977) (1)
- The 1996 US welfare reform: objectives, effects and lessons (2002) (1)
- Teen Children’s Health and Health Care Use (2018) (1)
- Housing Voucher Receipt and the Quality of Schools Available to Recipient Children. Discussion Paper No. 1418-14. (2014) (1)
- Intelligence and Family Size: Another Look. Discussion Papers No. 467-77. (1977) (1)
- Manual on Procedure for Using Census Data To Estimate Block Income. (1975) (1)
- Welfare Reform in the US: Early Evidence of Impacts (2002) (1)
- My sibling is adopted (2016) (1)
- Association Between Child Poverty and Academic Achivement--In Reply. (2016) (1)
- The Human Capital Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Can We Really Know What They Are? (2007) (1)
- Early childhood interventions (2009) (1)
- The CPS , work , and disability : a reply (2003) (1)
- Disability transfers health status and economic behavior. (1985) (1)
- Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs): Efficiency and/or Quality Producing? — Some Evidence from Surgical Patients (1988) (1)
- Extending Health Care Coverage to the Low-Income Population: The Influence of the Wisconsin Badgercare Program on Labor Market Outcomes (2005) (1)
- Low household income and neurodevelopment from infancy through adolescence (2022) (1)
- The Head Start Home Visitor Handbook: Building a Home-Based Program. (1986) (1)
- Male labor force participation and the social security disability program. (1984) (0)
- Candidate Major Professor References Applied Micro- Economics Econometrics Industrial Organization International Labor Macro-economics Public Theory Other O-health Economics O-consumer Finance O-dynamic Contracting O-international Trade O-health Economics O-illegal Markets O-social Interactions O-de (2014) (0)
- Is University of Wisconsin Education Becoming More Elite? A Partial Answer (2009) (0)
- chapter 1 The ses and health gradient: a Brief Review of the l iterature (2012) (0)
- Training Guide: Development and Implementation of the Individual Service Plan in Head Start. (1982) (0)
- Philadelphia's School Resources and the Disadvantaged. (1974) (0)
- Welfare Reform in the l 04 th Congress : Goals , Options and Tradeoffs (1995) (0)
- Childhood Health Conditions and Lifetime Labor Market Outcomes (2022) (0)
- Weighted Wealth and Income Summary Statistics ( Standard Errors ) for Household Heads Aged 25-54 Total Family Income or Wealth (2003) (0)
- The Implications of Demographic Changes for Public Finance: An Overview (1993) (0)
- The Income-health Gradient Descriptive Evidence Basic Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Health (0)
- Part I. Prospects for Baby Boomer Retirement (2007) (0)
- National health insurance: another alternative. (1980) (0)
- Health Policy for Children Af ' fected by the Family Support Act of 1988 : Economic Issues (2007) (0)
- Working Paper No. 59 (1998) (0)
- Health economics at UW-Madison and the Department of Population Health Sciences. (2009) (0)
- Women in the Labor Force in a Developing Country : Geographical and Sectoral Labor Market Segmentation and Returns to Human Capital Within a Double Selectivity Model (2007) (0)
- Child Well-Being among W-2 Families (2001) (0)
- Improving the Use of Empirical Research as a Policy Tool: An Application to Education. (1979) (0)
- Gender Issues and Social Security Reform: Assessing the Role of Social Security and Personal Savings in Well-Being During Retirement (2006) (0)
- Institute F()f Re'search on Poverty Discussion Papers (2007) (0)
- Women’s Labour Force Participation and Earnings Determinants in a Developing Country (1983) (0)
- Reviewing Reagan’s Economic Program (1984) (0)
- Educational Attainments of Children with Adopted Siblings (2021) (0)
- The Benefits and Costs of the Section 8 Housing Subsidy Program : A Framework and Estimates of First-Year Effects Deven (2011) (0)
- Trends in Autism Prevalence in the U.S.: A Lagging Economic Indicator? (2019) (0)
- Poverty Discussion Papers Modifying Risk-taking Behavior through Public Policy: the Case of Cigarette Smoking Modifying Risk-taking Behavior through Public Policy: the Case of Cigarette Smoking Modifying Risk-taking Behavior through Public Policy: the Case of Cigarette Smoking (0)
- NIH Selects Five New Members to Serve on the Advisory Committee to the Director (2007) (0)
- How to Conduct a Training Workshop. Outreach Series Paper (Number 1). (1984) (0)
- Government mandates, health insurance, and the deterioration of the lowwage labor market: Are they connected? (2018) (0)
- The Fund for Wisconsin Scholars: Effects on Postsecondary Outcomes (2018) (0)
- Working Paper No. 107 (1998) (0)
- INTRADISTRICT DISTRIBUTION OF SCHOOL RESOURCES TO THE DISADVANTAGED : EVIDENCE FOR THE COURTS By Anita A . Summers (2011) (0)
- What Does Increased Economic Inequality Imply (2004) (0)
- Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity. IRP Discussion Paper No. 1410-13. (2013) (0)
- Long-Term Effects of Public Low-Income Housing Vouchers: Work, Neighborhood, Family Composition and Childcare Usage (2012) (0)
- Socioeconomic Role of Nicaraguan Women, 1977-1978 (1998) (0)
- Review Notices : Lenin. By Robert Conquest. London: Fontana. 1972. 142 pp. £0.35 (1972) (0)
- Oral History Interview: Barbara Wolfe (0783) (2006) (0)
- Association between Income and the Hippocampus Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2011) (0)
- ECE QUALITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES 5 THE CURRENT PICTURE OF 4-YEAR-OLD AND PRESCHOOL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES (2012) (0)
- Interrelations of Fertility and Women's Labor Force Participation, With Particular Emphasis on the Effects of Education. Discussion Papers #388-77. (1977) (0)
- A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Reductions in School Expenditures: An Application of an Educational Production Function. Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers. (1976) (0)
- Rejoinder: Some Further Comments and Corrections. (1989) (0)
- Chapter Fourteen. Health and Wealth in Early Retirement (2020) (0)
- The Long Reach of Childhood Mental, Physical and General Health Problems on the Labor Market over the Life Cycle (2015) (0)
- Commentary [on Chronic Illness and Disability] (2001) (0)
- Monitoring Financial Protection in the US Healthcare System, 2005-2015: Measurement, Trends, and Disparities (2018) (0)
- Inequality in health care access and utilization and the potential role for the public sector (2018) (0)
- " Deriving Targets for Household Retirement Saving, " with Chapter 2: Deriving Targets for Household Retirement Saving (with Dissertation Title: Essays on the Effects of Federal Policies on Health Care Utilization and Health Outcomes (0)
- Researchon Poverty (2007) (0)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison IRP Discussion Papers (2007) (0)
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