V. Joseph Hotz
Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center
Professor of Economics
Arts and Sciences Professor of Economics
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Overview
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.
Publications
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Hotz, VJ; Imbens, GW; Klerman, JA (2006). Evaluating the differential effects of alternative welfare-to-work training components: A reanalysis of the California GAIN program. Journal of Labor Economics, 24 (3), 521-566.
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Hotz, VJ (2006). The economic approach to modeling adolescent sexual behavior: Empirical implications. Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Risks and Opportunites, 213-219.
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Seltzer, JA; Bachrach, CA; Bianchi, SM; Bledsoe, CH; Casper, LM; Chase-Lansdale, PL; Diprete, TA; Hotz, VJ; Morgan, SP; Sanders, SG; Thomas, D (2005). Explaining Family Change and Variation: Challenges for Family Demographers.. Journal of Marriage and Family, 67 (4), 908-925.
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Hotz, VJ; Imbens, GW; Mortimer, JH (2005). Predicting the efficacy of future training programs using past experiences at other locations. Journal of Econometrics, 125 (1-2 SPEC. ISS.), 241-270.
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Hotz, VJ; McElroy, SW; Sanders, SG (2005). Teenage childbearing and its life cycle consequences: Exploiting a natural experiment. Journal of Human Resources, 40 (3), 683-715.
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Currie, J; Hotz, VJ (2004). Accidents will happen? Unintentional childhood injuries and the effects of child care regulations.. Journal of Health Economics, 23 (1), 25-59.
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Currie, J; Joseph Hotz, V (2004). Inequality in life and death: What drives racial trends in U.S. child death rates?. 569-632.
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Hotz, VJ; Scholz, JK (2003). The earned income tax credit. 141-197.
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Hotz, VJ; Xu, LC; Tienda, M; Ahituv, A (2002). Are there returns to the wages of young men from working while in school?. Review of Economics and Statistics, 84 (2), 221-236.
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Hotz, VJ; Scholz, J (2002). Measuring Employment and Income Outcomes for Low-Income Populations with Administrative and Survey Data. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues, 275-315.