Melissa Kearney
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Melissa Schettini Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research . She is also director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group; a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution; a scholar affiliate and member of the board of the Notre Dame Wilson-Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities ; and a scholar affiliate of the MIT Abdul Jameel Poverty Action Lab . She has been an editorial board member of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy since 2019 and of the Journal of Economic Literature since 2017. Kearney served as director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings from 2013 to 2015 and as co-chair of the JPAL State and Local Innovation Initiative from 2015 to 2018.
Melissa Kearney's Published Works
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Published Works
- Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists (2008) (2202)
- The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market (2006) (1482)
- Parental Education and Parental Time with Children (2008) (950)
- Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists (2005) (372)
- Why is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States so High and Why Does it Matter? (2012) (351)
- Media Influences on Social Outcomes: The Impact of MTV’s 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing. (2015) (292)
- VERTICAL ACCRETION IN MARSHES WITH VARYING RATES OF SEA LEVEL RISE (1986) (277)
- Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and Prices (2005) (265)
- Reducing signature variability in unmixing coastal marsh Thematic Mapper scenes using spectral indices (2004) (250)
- Sea level rise : history and consequences (2000) (238)
- State Lotteries and Consumer Behavior (2002) (221)
- Sedimentation and erosion in a Chesapeake Bay brackish marsh system (1985) (199)
- Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior (2007) (192)
- House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby (2011) (188)
- SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND TRAPPING IN MARSH SYSTEMS: IMPLICATIONS OF TIDAL FLUX STUDIES* (1988) (155)
- Island Land Loss and Marsh Vertical Accretion Rate Evidence for Historical Sea-Level Changes in Chesapeake Bay (1991) (133)
- Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Decision to Drop Out of High School (2014) (131)
- Landsat imagery shows decline of coastal marshes in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays (2002) (126)
- Gambling at Lucky Stores: Empirical Evidence from State Lottery Sales (2008) (112)
- MARSH LOSS IN NANTICOKE ESTUARY, CHESAPEAKE BAY* (1988) (106)
- Male Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Nonmarital Fertility: Evidence from the Fracking Boom (2017) (105)
- Product Recalls, Imperfect Information, and Spillover Effects: Lessons from the Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls (2009) (104)
- Georelational Analysis of Soil Type, Soil Salt Content, Landform, and Land Use in the Yellow River Delta, China (2005) (98)
- Freshwater river diversions for marsh restoration in Louisiana: Twenty‐six years of changing vegetative cover and marsh area (2011) (97)
- Reconstruction of Holocene Changes in Alpine Vegetation and Climate in the Maligne Range, Jasper National Park, Alberta (1986) (91)
- Income Inequality and Early Nonmarital Childbearing (2014) (89)
- Investigating recent trends in the U.S. teen birth rate. (2015) (83)
- Making Savers Winners: An Overview of Prize-Linked Savings Products (2010) (78)
- The Economic Winners and Losers of Legalized Gambling (2005) (76)
- Variations in sedimentary environments and accretionary patterns in estuarine marshes undergoing rapid submergence, Chesapeake Bay (1998) (76)
- Spatial and Temporal Changes in Marsh Vertical Accretion Rates at Monie Bay: Implications for Sea-Level Rise (1994) (74)
- Ten Economic Facts about Crime and Incarceration in the United States (2014) (73)
- Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Employment-to-Population Ratio: A Review of the Evidence (2018) (69)
- Holocene Timberline Fluctuations in Jasper National Park, Alberta (1983) (64)
- The Effects of Tidal Inundation on the Reflectance Characteristics of Coastal Marsh Vegetation (2009) (62)
- Postglacial vegetational history of Tonquin Pass, British Columbia (1983) (59)
- A Rational Theory for Barrier-Lagoon Development (1992) (54)
- Accretion rates in brackish marshes of a Chesapeake Bay estuarine tributary (1986) (52)
- Recent seedling establishment at timberline in Jasper National Park, Alta. (1982) (52)
- The impact of child SSI enrollment on household outcomes (2007) (50)
- Early Childhood Education by MOOC: Lessons from Sesame Street (2015) (48)
- Microtidal Marshes: Can These Widespread and Fragile Marshes Survive Increasing Climate–Sea Level Variability and Human Action? (2016) (46)
- Explaining the Decline in the US Employment-to-Population Ratio: A Review of the Evidence (2020) (43)
- How economic inequality shapes mobility expectations and behaviour in disadvantaged youth (2019) (41)
- Anatomy of a barrier platform: outer barrier lagoon, southern Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia (1989) (41)
- Explaining Recent Trends in the U.S. Teen Birth Rate (2012) (40)
- Sea-level Change during the Last Thousand Years In Chesapeake Bay (1996) (40)
- Do Lottery Payments Induce Savings Behavior: Evidence from the Lab (2013) (38)
- Upland and Coastal Sediment Sources in a Chesapeake Bay Estuary (1991) (38)
- Increasing Community College Completion Rates Among Low-Income Students: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation of a Case Management Intervention (2017) (38)
- Relative sea-level rise and the conterminous United States: Consequences of potential land inundation in terms of population at risk and GDP loss (2013) (37)
- Early Childhood Education by Television: Lessons from Sesame Street (2019) (37)
- Tidal Marshes across a Chesapeake Bay Subestuary Are Not Keeping up with Sea-Level Rise (2016) (36)
- Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Early Childbearing (2007) (36)
- Income Inequality and Early Non-Marital Childbearing: An Economic Exploration of the "Culture of Despair" (2011) (34)
- The Health and Long Term Stability of Natural and Restored Marshes in Chesapeake Bay (2002) (33)
- Intergenerational Mobility for Women and Minorities in the United States (2006) (33)
- Revised 14C age for St. Helens Y tephra at Tonquin Pass, British Columbia (1986) (32)
- Is Lottery Gambling Addictive? (2009) (30)
- Late Pleistocene barrier-island sequence along the southern Delmarva Peninsula: implications for middle Wisconsin sea levels (1988) (29)
- Quantifying moderate resolution remote sensing phenology of Louisiana coastal marshes (2015) (28)
- A mid-holocene vegetational and climatic record from the subalpine zone of the Maligne Valley, Jasper National Park, Alberta (Canada) (1987) (28)
- The Supplemental Security Income (Ssi) Program (2015) (24)
- Sea-Level Rise Tipping Point of Delta Survival (2017) (20)
- Increasing Community College Completion Rates Among Low‐Income Students: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation of a Case‐Management Intervention (2020) (20)
- Forecasting sites of future coastal marsh loss using topographical relationships and logistic regression (2010) (18)
- Giving Secondary Earners a Tax Break: A Proposal to Help Low- and Middle-Income Families (2013) (17)
- Modern Pollen Deposition in the Athabasca Valley, Jasper National Park (1983) (16)
- Inter-annual variability in Delaware Bay brackish marsh vegetation, USA (2011) (16)
- Distribution of pollen in surface sediments of a barrier-lagoon system, Virginia, USA (1998) (15)
- The Role of Childcare Challenges in the US Jobs Market Recovery during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (15)
- In Times of Drought: Nine Economic Facts about Water in the United States (2014) (14)
- The Economics of Non-Marital Childbearing and the “Marriage Premium for Children” (2017) (14)
- Late Holocene sea level variation (2001) (14)
- Ten Shoreline dynamics on the windward and leeward shores of a large temperate estuary (13)
- Post-Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Monitoring of Louisiana Salt Marshes Using Landsat Imagery (2017) (13)
- The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates Since the Great Recession (2021) (12)
- Assessing biomass of diverse coastal marsh ecosystems using statistical and machine learning models (2018) (12)
- Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a policy response to current challenges (2019) (12)
- Drought-associated phenological changes of coastal marshes in Louisiana (2017) (11)
- The Impact of Child Ssi Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (2005) (11)
- Promoting Economic Recovery After COVID-19 (2020) (10)
- Sea-Level Rise and Marsh Vertical Accretion Rates in Chesapeake Bay (1985) (9)
- Comments and Reply on Late Pleistocene barrier-island sequence along the southern Delmarva Peninsula: Implications for middle Wisconsin sea levels (1989) (9)
- Comprehensive Approaches to Increasing Student Completion in Higher Education: A Survey of the Landscape (2020) (9)
- Income Inequality and Early Non-Marital Childbearing: An Economic Exploration of the (2011) (9)
- Feedback of coastal marshes to climate change: Long‐term phenological shifts (2019) (8)
- Loss of Coastal Wetlands in Lake Burullus, Egypt: A GIS and Remote-Sensing Study (2022) (7)
- Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? A Response to Jaeger, Joyce, and Kaestner (2016) (2016) (7)
- Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure : Prediction, Risks, and Solution (2012) (6)
- Teen and Non-Marital Childbearing (2009) (6)
- Do Lottery Gamblers Love Risk or Overweight Small Odds (2011) (6)
- Media Influences on Social Outcomes: The Impact of Mtv&Apos;S 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing (2014) (6)
- The resilience of coastal marshes to hurricanes: The potential impact of excess nutrients. (2020) (6)
- A Cautionary Tale about Emergency Financial Assistance without Services: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation at a Community College (2019) (5)
- Towards the Development of Regional Risk Profiles and Adaptation Measures for Sea Level Rise (2011) (5)
- Early Non-Marital Childbearing and the " Culture of Despair " (2011) (5)
- Role Models, Mentors, and Media Influences (2020) (5)
- Shallow Water and Shoreline Ecosystems of the Chesapeake Bay Compared to the Northern Adriatic Sea: Transformation of Habitat at the Land‐Sea Margin (2013) (5)
- College Attainment, Income Inequality, and Economic Security: A Simulation Exercise (2020) (5)
- Racing Ahead or Falling Behind? Six Economic Facts about Transportation Infrastructure in the United States (2015) (3)
- Sea level rise (2016) (3)
- The Supplemental Security Income Program (2015) (3)
- Chapter 2 Late holocene sea level variation (2001) (3)
- Disability Insurance in the Great Recession: Ease of Access, Program Enrollment, and Local Hysteresis (2021) (3)
- A Comment on Jaeger, Joyce, and Kaestner (2018) Did Reality TV Really Cause a Decline in Teenage Childbearing? (2018) (3)
- Sea-level Change during the Last Thousand Years in (1996) (3)
- The Family Formation Response to a Localized Economic Shock: Evidence from the Fracking Boom (2016) (3)
- Ten Economic Facts about Financial Well-Being in Retirement (2015) (3)
- Correlating peak NDVIS of salt marshes with environmental conditions in Louisiana, USA, using principal component analysis (2015) (2)
- The US COVID-19 Baby Bust and Rebound (2022) (2)
- Coastal Risk Versus Vulnerability in an Uncertain Sea Level Future (2013) (2)
- What does critical thinking mean in teaching economics? (2022) (1)
- The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment : Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation * (2006) (1)
- Defining Coastal Science Needs of the Engineering Community for Meeting the Challenge of Sea Level Rise (2012) (1)
- Comment on: “Integrating Successional Ecology and the Delta Lobe Cycle in Wetland Research and Restoration” by Nyman (2014) (2015) (1)
- How Cultural Factors Shape Economic Outcomes: Introducing the Issue (2020) (1)
- Development of Spatial Risk Profiles Resulting from Sea Level Rise (2011) (0)
- The Cyclicality of Births and Babies’ Health, Revisited: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance (2023) (0)
- Accretion Rates at Monie Bay: Implications for Sea-Level Rise (2012) (0)
- Award given by the Vernon Prize Committee for Volume 26 of JPAM (2009) (0)
- The “College Gap” in Marriage and Children’s Family Structure (2022) (0)
- The Two-Parent Privilege (2023) (0)
- RAND Behavioral Finance Forum 2013: Improving Consumer Well-Being through Behavioral Finance (2013) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE ROLE OF CHILDCARE CHALLENGES IN THE US JOBS MARKET RECOVERY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC (2021) (0)
- DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL RISK PROFILES RESULTING FROM SEA LEVEL RISE: WHAT PREDICTIONS OF FUTURE SEA LEVEL RISE MEAN FOR THE BUILT COAST (2011) (0)
- Upland and Coasta in a Chesapea Sediment Sources ce Bay Estuary (1991) (0)
- How economic inequality shapes mobility expectations and behaviour in disadvantaged youth (2019) (0)
- The “College Gap” in Marriage and Children's Family Structure (2022) (0)
- THE NATIONAL TRANSURANIC WASTE PROGRAM: PROVIDING SOLUTIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ALL TRANSURANIC WASTE (2000) (0)
- Stay the Course: A Randomized Evaluation of a Community College Intervention Designed to Increase Persistence and Completion (2015) (0)
- Ottawa harvested hydrogeological information geodatabase (2017) (0)
- Sedimentation and Erosion of Tidal Wetlands in the Choptank Estuary of Chesapeake Bay (2001) (0)
- How Cultural Factors Shape Children’s Economic Outcomes (2020) (0)
- Landsat Detection of the Effects of Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey Coastal Marshes (2015) (0)
- The Great Moderation in Micro Earnings Growth (2010) (0)
- Chapter 11. Summary of Breakout Session Discussion: Potential Solution Tracks, Research Needs, and Directions (2010) (0)
- Replication data for: A Cautionary Tale about Emergency Financial Assistance without Services: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation at a Community College (2019) (0)
- THE NATIONAL TRANSURANIC WASTE PROGRAM: PREPARING WASTE FOR (1999) (0)
- Monitoring Phenology of Coastal Marshes in Louisiana using the Landsat Archive (2016) (0)
- Phenological Impacts of Hurricane Katrina (2005) and Gustav (2008) on Louisiana Coastal Marshes (2015) (0)
- Analysis of the effect of Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey Atlantic coastal marshes based on landsat thematic mapper and operational land imager data: 2000-2015 (2017) (0)
- Essays on public policy and consumer choice : applications to welfare reform and state lotteries (2002) (0)
- Marsh loss from 1984 - 2011 in the Breton Sound, Barataria and Terrebonne Basins, Louisiana, U.S.A.: Impacts of hurricanes and excess nutrients (2012) (0)
- Impact of Sea Level Rise on the Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of Estuarine Systems: ABSTRACT (1988) (0)
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