With Josh McGee, “Toward An Economic Reformulation of Public Pension Funding Policy,” EdWorkingPaper: 22-674, Annenberg Institute at Brown University: January 2023. (revise and resubmit for Journal of Pension Economics and Finance 20th Anniversary Special Issue.
With Josh McGee, “Economics of Sustainable Public Pension Funding (PDF),” EDRE Working Paper 2022-07, June 2022. (Conference Paper for AEFP, Denver, March 27, 2022)
With Josh McGee, “Sins of the Past, Present, and Future: Alternative Pension Funding Policies,” EdWorkingPaper: 20-272, Annenberg Institute at Brown University: August 7, 2020; conference paper for Brookings Municipal Finance Conference, July 13-14, 2020.
“Reforming Teacher Pension Plans: The Case of Kansas, the 1st Teacher Cash Balance Plan,” EdWorkingPaper: 20-92, Annenberg Institute at Brown University: November 18, 2019; revised September 28, 2020. (forthcoming, Education Finance and Policy)
with Josh McGee, “Cross-Subsidization of Teacher Pension Costs: The Impact of Assumed Market Returns,” Social Science Research Network, U of Arkansas Department of Education Reform Working Paper 2017-19 (PDF): October 30, 2017.
with Josh McGee, “Cross-Subsidization of Teacher Pension Normal Cost: The Case of CalSTRS,” Social Science Research Network. October 22, 2016.
“The 80 Percent Pension Funding Target, High Assumed Returns, and Generational Inequity,” Social Science Research Network, U of Arkansas Department of Education Reform Working Paper 2016-04: April 7, 2016.
“Assessing the Impact of Investment Shortfalls on Unfunded Pension Liabilities: The Allure of Neat, but Faulty Counterfactuals,” Social Science Research Network, U of Arkansas Department of Education Reform: Nov. 3, 2015.
“You Can’t Get There From Here: Transition Costs to Teacher Pension Reform, Real and/or Imaginary,” University of Arkansas and George W. Bush Institute, October 2011.
with Martin Lueken, “The Simple Analytics of Teacher Pension Funding and Reform,” University of Arkansas, March 2011.
with Joshua McGee, “Teacher Pension Incentives, Retirement Behavior, and Potential for Reform in Arkansas (PDF),” National Center for Performance Incentives, Conference Paper 2009-10, September 2009. (revised version published in EFP refereed special issue)
with Michael Podgursky, “Distribution of Benefits in Teacher Retirement Systems and Their Implications for Mobility (PDF),” National Center for Performance Incentives, Conference Paper 2009-04, October 2009. (revised version published in EFP refereed special issue)
Appears also as CALDER/Urban Institute Working Paper 39, December 2009.
with Julie Trivitt, “Charter School Participant Effects in Massachusetts,” November 2008.
with Eric Hanushek and Susanna Loeb, 2007, “What Do Cost Functions Tell Us About the Cost of an Adequate Education?” conference paper for From Equity to Adequacy to Choice: Perspectives on School Finance and School Finance Litigation, Show-Me Institute and the Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri-Columbia, Education Working Paper Archives (refereed), December 2007.
with Michael Podgursky, 2007, “Peaks, Cliffs and Valleys: The Peculiar Incentives in Teacher Retirement Systems and their Consequences for School Staffing,” University of Arkansas Education Working Paper Archives (refereed), November 2007.
with Michael Podgursky, 2007, “Efficiency and Equity in the Time Pattern of Teacher Pension Benefits: An Analysis of Four State Systems,” Washington, D.C. The Urban Institute. CALDER Working Paper #6.
“Massachusetts’ Hancock Case and the Adequacy Doctrine,” Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston discussion paper, April 2006;
also University of Arkansas Education Working Paper Archives (refereed), August 2006.
“Are High Standards Good or Bad for Those Who Fail?” October 1999.
with Glenn C. Loury, “Information and Job-Matching: Is There an Efficiency-Equity Tradeoff?” July 1996.
with Glenn C. Loury, “Some Welfare Economics of Testing,” June 1995.
“Can National Educational Standards Raise Welfare?” Working Paper 1994-6, University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics (November 1994).
“A Simple Model of Educational Standards,” Working Paper 1992-6, University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics (March 1992).
“Industrial Employment Shift and Wage Growth, 1948-87,” Working Paper 1990-5, University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics (January 1990).
“The Effects of Industrial and Regional Employment Shifts on Wage Growth: 1969-87,” (August 1989).
“When Can Technical Progress Reduce Aggregate Productivity?” (July 1987).
“Equilibrium and Optimal Product Diversity Under Consistent Conjectures with Free Entry,” (May 1986).
“Appropriability of R&D, Efficiency, and Competition, Under Certainty,” (revised September 1984).
“Appropriability, Duplication, and Diversification of R&D Under Competition,” (revised June 1984).
“Rent Acquisition Expenditures and Investment in Macro Models,” (June 1982).
“Anatomy of Market Failures in Research,” (March 1982).
“Symmetric and Asymmetric Price Dynamics,” (revised February 1982).
“Quantity Expectations in Macro Models,” (revised February 1982).
“The Composition of Risky Inventive Activity Under Social and Private Incentives,” (Jan. 1982).
“An Extension of the Class of CES Functions to Some Non-Differentiable Forms,” (July 1980).