V. JOSEPH HOTZ

Current Positions and Affiliations
    Arts and Sciences Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Duke University
    Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
    Research Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin

    Research Affiliate, National Poverty Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan 

    Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Research Interests
    Labor Economics, Economic Demography, Applied Econometrics, Evaluation of Impact of Social Programs

Contents

• Curriculum Vita
• Papers Available Online
• Appendices and Extra Tables to Published Papers
  
• Courses
• Software

Curriculum Vita

      My Curriculum Vita (in PDF format)

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Papers Available Online

• “Strategic Information Disclosure: The Case of Multi-Attribute Products with Heterogeneous Consumers,” (with M. Xiao), July 2009.

• “The Impact of Regulations on the Supply and Quality in Child Care Markets,” (with M. Xiao) July 2009.

• “An Economic Model of Amniocentesis Choice,” (with S. Sanders and E. Fajnzylber), June 2009.

• “Living Arrangements among Elderly Women in the PSID,” (with K. McGarry and E. Wiemers), November 2008.

• “Stategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance,” (with J. Pantano), October 2008.

• “Examining the Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare,” (with C. Mullin and J. K. Scholz), December 2005.

• “Trends in EITC Take-Up and Receipt for California's Welfare Population, 1992-1999,” (with C. Mullin and J. K. Scholz), August 2003.

• “EITC Eligibility, Participation and Compliance Rates for AFDC Households: Evidence from the California Caseload,” (with C. Hill, C. Mullin and J. K. Scholz), April 1999.

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Appendices and Extra Tables to Published Papers

• Additional Proofs for Crump, R., V. J. Hotz, G. Imbens and O. Mitnik, “Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), August 2008, 389-405. 

• Unpublished Appendix and Extra Tables for Hotz, V. J., G. Imbens and J. Klerman, “Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components: A Re-Analysis of the California GAIN Program,” Journal of Labor Economics, 24(3), July 2006, 521-566.

• Detailed Data Appendix for Hotz, V. J., S. McElroy and S. Sanders, “Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment,” Journal of Human Resources. 40(3), Summer 2005, 683-715.

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Courses

Duke Courses:

• Economics 395A: Treatment Effects, Causal Inference and Program Evaluation  (Spring 2009)

• Economics 55D: Intermediate Economics I  (Spring 2009)

• Economics 195S: Economics of Life  (Spring 2008)

• Economics 395A: Human Capital (Spring 2008)

UCLA Courses:

• Economics 262P: Topics in Labor Economics  (Spring 2007)

• Economics 262P: Population Economics  (Spring 2006)

• Economics 188X: Economics of Life  (Winter 2004)

• Economics 232D: Causal Inference and Program Evaluation  (Fall 2001)

• Economics 261A: Labor Economics I   (Fall 1999)

• Economics 262A: Topics in Labor Economics  (Spring 2002)

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Software

• HotzTran User's Manual (in PDF format)

• HotzTran Fortran Source Code (in ZIP file)

• Input, Output, and Data files for Sample HotzTran Runs (in ZIP file)

        

        Please note that the HotzTran program is provided free of charge and is not supported by either V. Joseph Hotz or Robert B. Avery.

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Last revised: August 14, 2009.