Terra G. McKinnish
Contact Information
Terra McKinnish
Associate Professor
Dept of Economics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0256
(303)492-6770
terra.mckinnish@colorado.edu
Education
Research Interests
Poverty, Welfare Programs, Family Structure, Migration
Teaching
Publications
Spousal Mobility and Earnings April 2008. forthcoming Demography
Panel Data Models and Transitory Fluctuations in the Explanatory Variable Advances in Econometrics Vol.21 2008.
Cross-Border Welfare Migration: New Evidence from Micro-Data Journal of Public Economics, April 2007, 437-50.
Sexually-Integrated Workplaces and Divorce: Another Form of On-the-Job Search Journal of Human Resources, Spring 2007, 331-352.
Importing the Poor: Welfare Magnetism and Cross-Border Welfare Migration Journal of Human Resources Winter 2005.
The Economic Impact of the Coal Boom and Bust with Dan Black and Seth Sanders. Economic Journal, April 2005.
Do Economics Departments Search Optimally in Faculty Recruiting? with Yongmin Chen. Economic Inquiry, July 2005
Tight Labor Markets and the Demand for Education: Evidence from the Coal Boom and Bust with Dan Black and Seth Sanders. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Sept 2005
"Lagged Dependent Variables and Specification Bias" Economics Letters, July 2005.
"Occupation, Sex-Integration and Divorce" American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2004.
"Does the Availability of High-Wage Jobs for Low-Skilled Men Affect Welfare Expenditures? Evidence from Shocks to the Coal and Steel Industries," with Dan Black and Seth Sanders, Journal of Public Economics, Sept 2003.
"Estimates of Effective Guarantees and Tax Rates in the AFDC Program for the Post-OBRA Era," with Seth Sanders and Jeffrey Smith, Journal of Human Resources, 34(2):312-345, Spring 1999.
Work in Progress and Unpublished Work
Who Gentrifies Low-Income Neighborhoods? May 2008 (With Randy Walsh and Kirk White). Under review.