Education:

• Ph.D., University of Michigan, Economics, 1977
• M.A., University of Michigan, Economics, 1975
• M.U.P., University of Michigan, 1973
• B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1971

Teaching Interests:

• Labor Economics
• Women and the Economy
• Microeconomics

Research Interests:

• Labor Economics
• Economic Demography/Economics of the Family
• Microeconomic Theory
• Economics of Welfare and Poverty

Activities and Honors:

• Member, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Effective Programs and Research Committee, 2001-2006, Research Advisory Panel, 2007-.
• Core Associate Faculty, Program in Women's Studies, University of Delaware
• Research Associate, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
• Honor Society Membership, Phi Kappa Phi
• Grants:  NICHD, HHS, Smith-Richardson Foundation, W. T. Grant Foundation, C. S. Mott Foundation, W. E. Upjohn Foundation 
• Visiting Professor, Faculté de Sciences Economiques et de Gestion, Université Lumière (Lyon 2), Lyon, France, 1998

Recent Publications:

• Women and the Economy:  Family, Work, and Pay, (with Susan L. Averett), Addison Wesley, 2nd Edition - forthcoming, January, 2009.
• “Revisiting Marshall's Law: Why Does Labor’s Share Interact with the Elasticity of Substitution to Decrease the Elasticity of Labor Demand?” Journal of Economic Education, forthcoming.
• "NJ and PA Once Again: What Happened to Employment When the PA-NJ Minimum Wage Differential Disappeared?" (with Diane Trace), Eastern Economic Journal, forthcoming.
• Kids Having Kids: Revised Edition, editor, (with Rebecca A. Maynard), Urban Institute Press, forthcoming.
• “A Good Policy Goes Bad: The Strange Case of the Non-Refundable State EITC,“ State Tax Notes, Vol. 44, No. 8, pp. 551-558, May 21, 2007.
• By the Numbers: The Public Costs of Teen Childbearing. Washington: National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, October, 2006.
• Women and the Economy:  Family, Work, and Pay, (with Susan L. Averett), Addison Wesley, 2005.
• "Marriage Tax Relief in the Earned Income Tax Credit:  EGTRRA 2001 and Beyond," Tax Notes, Aug. 30, 2004, pp. 935-941.
• "Getting Back to the Earned Income Tax Credit: The Next EITC Reform," (with Laurence S. Seidman), Tax Notes Vol. 100, No.11, pp. 1429-1436, 2003.
• "Then and Now–The Earned Income Tax Credit," Employment Research, (with Laurence S. Seidman) The W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, January, 2003.
• "Tax Cuts and Tax Reform -- Let’s Fix the EITC," (with Laurence S. Seidman) Indicators, Vol. 2, No.2,  pp. 64-84, Spring 2003.
• Helping Working Families: The Earned Income Tax Credit (with Laurence S. Seidman), Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI, 2003.