The U.S. economy experienced a dramatic rise in the price of owner occupied housing during 1999-2007, and then a precipitous decline from 2007 through 2009. In this paper we utilize data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) during 1999-2009 to study first the factors and borrowing...

This article explores representativeness of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) during the period from 1976 to 2007 by comparing earnings equations in the PSID and the Current Population Survey (CPS). We find that CPS-PSID differences in parameter estimates have increased and become...

Using Social Security Administration (SSA) data on employment and Census population estimates, we re-examine the labor supply effect of a public health insurance disenrollment that took place in Tennessee in 2005. The disenrollment left about 4 percent of Tennessee's non-elderly, adult...

This paper examines self-employment rates among workers with work limitations and disabilities in the US. Using data from the Current Population Survey, we show that, during the 1989-2009 period, those with work limitations were more likely to be self-employed in unincorporated businesses than...