Research Interests for V. Joseph Hotz

Professor Hotz specializes in the subjects of applied econometrics, labor economics, economic demography, and economics of the family. His studies have investigated the impacts of social programs, such as welfare-to-work training; the relationship between childbearing patterns and labor force participation of U.S. women; the effects of teenage pregnancy; the child care market; the Earned Income Tax Credit; and other such subjects. He began conducting his studies in 1977, and has since published his work extensively in books and leading academic journals. Many of his projects have been funded by grants awarded by the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation. He is currently completing a project with Duncan Thomas on, “Preference and Economic Decision-Making” under a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. His recent works also include, “Tax Policy and Low-Wage Labor Markets: New Work on Employment, Effectiveness and Administration” with John Karl Scholz and Charles Mullin; and “Designing New Models to Explain Family Change and Variation” with S. Philip Morgan. Along with his duties as an independent researcher, Professor Hotz has also held positions as a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the National Poverty Center, the Institute for the Study of Labor, and the Institute for Research on Poverty. He is presently a member of the Committee on National Statistics for the National Academy of Sciences’ Research Council.

Keywords:

Accidents, Adolescent, Applied Econometrics, Changing Effects , Child, Child Day Care Centers, Child Welfare, Child, Preschool, Decision Making, Earnings of Americans, Economics of the Family, Effects of Regulations, Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Female, Fertility, Hispanics, Humans, Infant, Labor Economics, Labor economics, living arrangements of America's elderly, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Manpower policy, Microeconomics, Models , Models, Statistical, Parent-Child Interactions, Program Evaluation, role of the family, Schooling, the Child Care Market, United States, using game theory , Work Experince, Wounds and Injuries

Recent Publications

1. Wiemers, EE; Lin, I-F; Wiersma Strauss, A; Chin, J; Hotz, VJ; Seltzer, JA, Age Differences Experiences of Pandemic-related Health and Economic Challenges among Adults Aged 55 and Older., The Gerontologist (March, 2024), pp. gnae023 [doi] [abs]
2. Hotz, VJ; Bollinger, CR; Komarova, T; Manski, CF; Moffitt, RA; Nekipelov, D; Sojourner, A; Spencer, BD, The key role of absolute risk in the disclosure risk assessment of public data releases., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 121 no. 11 (March, 2024), pp. e2321882121 [doi]
3. Kwiatek, SM; Cai, L; Cagney, KA; Copeland, WE; Hotz, VJ; Hoyle, RH, Comparative assessment of the feasibility and validity of daily activity space in urban and non-urban settings., PLoS One, vol. 19 no. 1 (2024), pp. e0297492 [doi] [abs]
4. Hotz, VJ; Wiemers, EE; Rasmussen, J; Koegel, KM, The Role of Parental Wealth and Income in Financing Children’s College Attendance and Its Consequences (January, Submitted, 2023), pp. 1850-1880, University of Wisconsin Press [doi] [abs]
5. Hotz, VJ; Bollinger, CR; Komarova, T; Manski, CF; Moffitt, RA; Nekipelov, D; Sojourner, A; Spencer, BD, Balancing data privacy and usability in the federal statistical system., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 119 no. 31 (August, 2022), pp. e2104906119 [doi] [abs]