Lance Lochner

Other Publications and Working Papers

Publications

"Education Policy and Crime," in P. Cook, J. Ludwig and J. McCrary (eds.), Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs, Chapter 11, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

"Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship" in E. Hanushek, S. Machin and L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 4, Chapter 2, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science (forthcoming).

"Education and Crime," in B. McGraw, P. Peterson and E. Baker (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition, Amsterdam: Elsevier (2010).

"Earnings Functions and Rates of Return," Journal of Human Capital, 2(1): 1-31 (Spring 2008), with James J. Heckman and Petra Todd.

"Intergenerational Transmission," in L. Blume and S. Durlauf (eds.), New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, Palgrave Macmillan (2008).

"Borrowing Constraints on Families with Young Children," Innovation in Education, Cleveland: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland: 39-48 (2006), with Elizabeth Caucutt.

"Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation," in E. Hanushek and F. Welch (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 1, Chapter 12, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science (2006), with Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman and Dimitriy Masterov.

"Earnings Functions, Rates of Return, and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond," in E. Hanushek and F. Welch (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 1, Chapter 7, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science (2006), with James J. Heckman and Petra Todd.

"The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital" American Economic Review, forthcoming, with Alexander Monge-Naranjo. (Online Appendix)

"The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement," Journal of Human Capital, 1(1): 37-89 (Winter 2007), with Philippe Belley.

Working Papers

"Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada: What Role for Financial Aid Policy?" (June 13, 2011) with Philippe Belley and Marc Frenette (Online Appendix)

"Estimating and Testing Non-Linear Models Using Instrumental Variables" (April 2011) with Enrico Moretti
- Stata code for specification test
- Help file for stata code

"Measuring the Impacts of the Tangelo Park Project on Local Residents" (December, 2010).

"Social Networks and the Aggregation of Individual Decisions," NBER Working Paper No. 8979 (2004), with D. Lee Heavner.

"Human Capital Formation with Endogenous Credit Constraints," NBER Working Paper No. 8815 (2004), with Alexander Monge-Naranjo.

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Courses

  • 9639A - Applied Microeconometrics
    Section - 001
  • 3390G - Special Topics - The Economics of Human Behaviour
    Section - 001