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:

Labor Economics, Economics of the Family, Applied Econometrics, Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Changing Effects , Schooling, Work Experince, Earnings of Americans, Models , Parent-Child Interactions, using game theory , Effects of Regulations, the Child Care Market, role of the family, living arrangements of America's elderly, Hispanics

Recent Publications

1. with Peter Arcidiacono and Songman Kang, Modeling College Major Choices using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals, Journal of Econometrics, vol. 166 no. 1 (January, 2012), pp. 3-16 [abs]
2. P. Arcidiacono, E. Aucejo, P. Coate, V. J. Hotz, The Effects of Proposition 209 on College Enrollment and Graduation Rates in Californi (Submitted, December, 2011) [pdf] [abs]
3. with Mo Xiao, The Impact of Regulations on the Supply and Quality of Care in Child Care Markets, American Economic Review, vol. 101 no. 5 (August, 2011), pp. 1775-1805 [abs]
4. with K. McGarry and E. Wiemers, Living Arrangements of Mothers and their Adult Children over the Life Course (Submitted, December, 2010) (Under review.) [pdf] [abs]
5. with Federico Bugni, Esteban Aucejo, Identification of Regressions with Missing Covariate Data (August, 2010)