Kenneth Wolpin
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American economist
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- Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kenneth I. Wolpin is an American economist, currently the Distinguished Research Professor and Lay Family Professor of Economics at Rice University. At University of Pennsylvania, he was previously the Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Professor of Social Sciences and Lawrence R. Klein Professor of Economics. From 2008 to 2011, he was also Editor of Wiley journal International Economic Review and also, from 1987 to 1997, co-editor of University of Wisconsin journal Journal of Human Resources.
Kenneth Wolpin's Published Works
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Published Works
- On the Specification and Estimation of the Production Function for Cognitive Achievement (2003) (1583)
- The Career Decisions of Young Men (1997) (1460)
- Credit Market Constraints, Consumption Smoothing, and the Accumulation of Durable Production Assets in Low-Income Countries: Investments in Bullocks in India (1993) (1414)
- Testing the quantity-quality fertility model: the use of twins as a natural experiment. (1980) (771)
- The Effect of Parental Transfers and Borrowing Constraints On Educational Attainment (1999) (724)
- Natural "Natural Experiments" in Economics (2000) (668)
- The Production of Cognitive Achievement in Children: Home, School, and Racial Test Score Gaps (2007) (637)
- The Solution and Estimation of Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming Models by Simulation and Interpol (1994) (562)
- Why Youths Drop out of High School: The Impact of Preferences (1999) (555)
- Assessing the Impact of a School Subsidy Program in Mexico: Using a Social Experiment to Validate a Dynamic Behavioral Model of Child Schooling and Fertility. (2006) (536)
- Intersectoral Labor Mobility and the Growth of the Service Sector (2004) (430)
- An Estimable Dynamic Stochastic Model of Fertility and Child Mortality (1984) (391)
- Life-Cycle Labor Supply and Fertility: Causal Inferences from Household Models (1980) (372)
- Evaluating the Effects of Optimally Distributed Public Programs: ChildHealth and Family Planning Interventions (1986) (358)
- Dynamic Labour Force Participation of Married Women and Endogenous Work Experience (1989) (356)
- Specific Experience, Household Structure and Intergenerational Transfers: Farm Family Land and Labor Arrangements in Developing Countries (1984) (325)
- Education and Screening (1975) (315)
- Social Security and the Retirement and Savings Behavior of Low Income Households. (2008) (308)
- Estimating a Structural Search Model: The Transition from School to Work (1987) (277)
- The Specification and Estimation of Dynamic Stochastic Discrete Choice Models: A Survey (1989) (264)
- Intergenerational Support and the Life-Cycle Incomes of Young Men and Their Parents: Human Capital Investments, Coresidence, and Intergenerational Financial Transfers (1993) (254)
- Are There Increasing Returns to the Intergenerational Production of Human Capital? Maternal Schooling and Child Intellectual Achievement (1994) (235)
- Life-cycle Economies and Aggregate Fluctuations (1995) (232)
- Sisters, siblings, and mothers: the effect of teen-age childbearing on birth outcomes in a dynamic family context. (1995) (217)
- ESTIMATING A MARKET EQUILIBRIUM SEARCH MODEL FROM PANEL DATA ON INDIVIDUALS (1990) (207)
- Heterogeneity, intrafamily distribution and child health (1984) (200)
- Parental and Public Transfers to Young Women and Their Children (1994) (184)
- An Economic Analysis of Crime and Punishment in England and Wales, 1894-1967 (1978) (182)
- Endogenous fertility and optimal population size (1985) (178)
- The Production of Cognitive Achievement in Children: Home, School and Racial Test Score Gaps (2004) (163)
- The Role of Labor and Marriage Markets, Preference Heterogeneity, and the Welfare System in the Life Cycle Decisions of Black, Hispanic, and White Women (2010) (161)
- The Determinants of Black-White Differences in Early Employment Careers: Search, Layoffs, Quits, and Endogenous Wage Growth (1992) (153)
- Migration selectivity and the effects of public programs. (1988) (149)
- A New Test of the Permanent Income Hypothesis: The Impact of Weather on the Income and Consumption of Farm Households in India (1982) (148)
- Determinants and consequences of the mortality and health of infants and children (1993) (145)
- Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools (2012) (145)
- The Structural Estimation of Behavioral Models: Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming Methods and Applications (2011) (144)
- Duration to First Job and the Return to Schooling: Estimates from a Search-Matching Model (1995) (137)
- Governmental interventions and household behavior in a developing country : Anticipating the unanticipated consequences of social programs (1982) (127)
- Using a Social Experiment to Validate a Dynamic Behavioral Model of Child Schooling and Fertility: Assessing the Impact of a School Subsidy Program in Mexico (2003) (124)
- Ex Ante Evaluation of Social Programs (2006) (113)
- The Usefulness of Survey Information on the Wantedness of Children (1993) (106)
- The Limits of Inference without Theory (2013) (99)
- Does the Contract Compliance Program Work? An Analysis of Chicago Data (1976) (98)
- Accounting for Wage and Employment Changes in the U.S. from 1968-2000: A Dynamic Model of Labor Market Equilibrium (2010) (97)
- A Quantitative Analysis of Swedish Fertility Dynamics: 1751-1990 (1998) (96)
- Exploring the Usefulness of a Nonrandom Holdout Sample for Model Validation: Welfare Effects on Female Behavior (2007) (89)
- Short-run fluctuations in fertility and mortality in pre-industrial Sweden (1984) (87)
- THE IMPACT OF EXOGENOUS CHILD MORTALITY ON FERTILITY: A WAITING TIME REGRESSION WITH DYNAMIC REGRESSORS (1983) (85)
- Exploring the Usefulness of a Non-Random Holdout Sample for Model Validation: Welfare Effects on Female Behavior (2005) (84)
- Eliminating Race Differences in School Attainment and Labor Market Success (2000) (80)
- Estimating Welfare Effects Consistent with Forward-Looking Behavior. Part I: Lessons from a Simulation Exercise (2000) (70)
- A Time Series-Cross Section Analysis of International Variation in Crime and Punishment (1980) (69)
- Estimating Welfare Effects Consistent with Forward-Looking Behavior. Part Ii: Empirical Results (2000) (58)
- Inequality at birth: The scope for policy intervention (1991) (57)
- Fertility choice, land, and the Malthusian hypothesis (1988) (57)
- The Transition from School to Jail: Youth Crime and High School Completion among Black Males (2008) (49)
- Public-Policy Uses of Discrete-Choice Dynamic Programming Models (1996) (48)
- Empirical applications of discrete choice dynamic programming models (2009) (47)
- On the Use of Holdout Samples for Model Selection (2012) (42)
- Estimating the Effect of Racial Discrimination on First Job Wage Offers (1999) (41)
- Ex Ante Policy Evaluation, Structural Estimation and Model Selection (2007) (41)
- Structural Estimation and Policy Evaluation in Developing Countries (2009) (39)
- Capital Punishment and Homicide in England: A Summary of Results (1978) (38)
- Chapter 10 Determinants and consequences of the mortality and health of infants and children (1997) (35)
- Within-Family Program Effect Estimators: The Impact of Oportunidades on Schooling in Mexico (2006) (35)
- Structural Estimation of a Becker-Ehrlich Equilibrium Model of Crime: Allocating Police across Cities to Reduce Crime (2018) (34)
- Youth Employment and Academic Performance in High School (1998) (33)
- The Role of Labor and Marriage Markets, Preference Heterogeneity and the Welfare System in the Life Cycle Decisions of Black, Hispanic and White Women (2006) (28)
- Empirical Methods for the Study of Labour Force Dynamics (2002) (26)
- Inequality among Young Adult Siblings, Public Assistance Programs, and Intergenerational Living Arrangements (1994) (24)
- Teacher Quality in Public and Private Schools under a Voucher System: The Case of Chile (2016) (22)
- To Hold Out or Not to Hold Out (2013) (18)
- Introduction to the JBES Special Issue on Structural Estimation in Applied Microeconomics (1997) (16)
- OF THE PRODUCTION FUNCTION FOR COGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENT (2003) (15)
- On the Use of Expectations Data in Micro Surveys: The Case of Retirement (1985) (15)
- Estimating a Coordination Game in the Classroom (2012) (14)
- Accounting for Mathematics Performance of High School Students in Mexico: Estimating a Coordination Game in the Classroom (2018) (13)
- Wage Equations and Education Policy (2000) (10)
- On the Estimation of Labour Force Participation, Job Search, and Job Matching Models Using Panel Data (1990) (9)
- Commentary on “Analysis of Choice Expectations in Incomplete Scenarios” (1999) (8)
- Smoking: Making the Risky Decision. (1993) (8)
- Education data in the NLSY 79 : a premiere research tool (2005) (8)
- On the Malthusian Hypothesis and the Dynamics of Population and Income in an Equilibrium Growth Model With Endogenous Fertility (1989) (5)
- Testing the Quantity-Quality Fertility Model: Results from a Natural Experiment (1978) (5)
- Education, Screening and the Demand for Labor of Uncertain Quality. (1974) (4)
- Education Data in the NLSY79: A Premiere Research Tool: Social Science Researchers Widely Use the NLSY79 Schooling Data Because of Its Longitudinal Nature and Range of Content (2005) (4)
- LATE With Missing or Mismeasured Treatment (2021) (4)
- The Impact of School Voucher Systems on Teacher Quality in Public and Private Schools : The Case of Chile (4)
- Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Wage Equations and Education Policy (2003) (4)
- Accounting for Wage and Employment Changes in the U.S. From 1968-2000: A Dynamic Model of Labor Market Equilibrium, Second Version (2006) (4)
- The Specification and Estimation of Dynamic Stochastic Discrete (2016) (3)
- Introduction to the Journal of Human Resources Special Issue on Data Quality (2001) (2)
- Externalities, Heterogeneity and the Optimal Distribution of Public Programs: Child Health and Family Planning Interventions (1984) (2)
- Endogenous Fertility in an Overlapping Generations Growth Model (2020) (1)
- The household structure of U.S. immigrants and natives. (1984) (1)
- An Economic Analysis of the Extended Family in a Less Developed Country: The Demand for the Elderly in an Uncertain Environment (1979) (1)
- Upcoming workshops (2013) (1)
- Discrete Choices in a Continuous Time Model: Lifecycle Time Allocation and Fertility Decisions (2013) (1)
- Social Security and the Retirement and Savings Behavior of Low Income Households (2005) (1)
- Supplementary Material to Accompany: “The Role of Labor and Marriage Markets, Preference Heterogeneity and the Welfare System in the Life Cycle Decisions of Black, Hispanic and White Women by (2007) (1)
- Estimating the Effect of Labor Market Discrimination on Black-White Differences in Wage Offers Using a Search- Matching-Bargaining Model (1995) (1)
- Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Empirical and Theoretical Issues in the Analysis of Education Policy: A Discussion of the Papers by Raquel (2003) (0)
- 2 THECOMMONEMPIRICAL STRUCTURE OF STATICANDDYNAMICDISCRETECHOICE MODELS 2 . 1 Latent Variable Framework (2009) (0)
- ON T HE SPECIFICATION A ND ESTIMATION OF T HE PRODUCTION F UNCTION F OR COGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENT (2003) (0)
- Migration Selectivity and the Effects of Government Programs (1984) (0)
- Two Estimation Methods for a Lifetime Discrete Choice Model Under Uncertainty (1984) (0)
- Estimating a General Equilibrium Model of Intersectoral Mobility with Aggregate Shocks (2004) (0)
- Book Review:Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Social Programs Orley Ashenfelter, James Blum (1978) (0)
- The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling (2023) (0)
- RISE Working Paper 14-018 “ To Hold Out or Not To Hold Out ” by Frank Schorfheide , Kenneth I . Wolpin RISE RICE INITIATIVE for the STUDY of ECONOMICS (2014) (0)
- Fertility Choice in a Growth Model with Land: Malthus Reconsidered (2020) (0)
- The Three-State Job Search Model (2013) (0)
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