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List of works by Melissa Kearney

College Attainment, Income Inequality, and Economic Security: A Simulation Exercise

scientific article published in February 2020

Comprehensive Approaches to Increasing Student Completion in Higher Education: A Survey of the Landscape

scientific article published in November 2020

Do Lottery Payments Induce Savings Behavior: Evidence from the Lab

scientific article published in June 2013

Early Childhood Education by MOOC: Lessons from Sesame Street

scientific article published in June 2015

Explaining Recent Trends in the U.S. Teen Birth Rate

scientific article published in March 2012

Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Employment-to-Population Ratio: a Review of the Evidence

article published in 2018

House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

scientific article published in October 2011

How economic inequality shapes mobility expectations and behaviour in disadvantaged youth

scientific article published on 11 February 2019

Income Inequality and Early Non-Marital Childbearing: An Economic Exploration of the "Culture of Despair"

scientific article published in June 2011

Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Decision to Drop Out of High School

scientific article published in June 2014

Increasing Community College Completion Rates among Low-Income Students: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation of a Case Management Intervention

scientific article published in December 2017

Is Lottery Gambling Addictive?

scientific article published in February 2009

Is There an Effect of Incremental Welfare Benefits on Fertility Behavior? A Look at the Family Cap

scientific article published in August 2002

Lucky Stores, Gambling, and Addiction: Empirical Evidence from State Lottery Sales

Making Savers Winners: An Overview of Prize-Linked Savings Products

scientific article published in October 2010

Male Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Nonmarital Fertility: Evidence from the Fracking Boom

scholarly article published May 2017

Parental Education and Parental Time With Children

scientific article published in May 2008

Product Recalls, Imperfect Information, and Spillover Effects: Lessons from the Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls

Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and Prices

scientific article published in September 2005

Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Early Childbearing

scientific article published in September 2007

State Lotteries and Consumer Behavior

scientific article published in November 2002

Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior

scientific article published in April 2007

The Economic Winners and Losers of Legalized Gambling

scientific article published in March 2005

The Economics of Non-Marital Childbearing and The “Marriage Premium for Children”

The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation

The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

scientific article published in January 2006

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program

scientific article published in June 2015

Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists

scientific article published in September 2005

Why is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States so High and Why Does it Matter?

scientific article published in March 2012