Policy Analysis and Management

John Cawley's research is referred to: [John Cawley] found that severely obese white women who weigh more than two standard deviations above average - women who weigh, for example, more than 212 pounds if they’re 5 feet 4 inches tall - are paid up to 9 percent less for their work. Read more in The New York Times Magazine, a story by Daniel Engber, dated October 15, 2009.

Rick Geddes is quoted as saying: "Once upon a time, the postal service was viewed as a way to bind together the nation. In subsidizing mail service to rural communities you were keeping them connected to the rest of the country. But today, it is kind of silly to say we are binding together the nation through advertisements and catalogs." Read more in The New York Times, a story by Joe Nocera, dated August 7, 2009.

Rich Burkhauser is quoted as saying: "Pay or play schemes wind up hurting the very low-wage workers they are supposed to help." Referring to a paper he wrote with Kosali Simon. Read more in The Wall Street Journal, dated July 30, 2009.

John Cawley said that while money was ineffective in these cases, there is surely some amount of money that would persuade most people to lose weight. But no one knows what that amount is. Read more in The New York Times, a story by Nicholas Bakalar, dated July 6, 2009.

John Cawley is quoted as saying: "New York state is really on the frontier of imaginatively tackling the obesity problem, [but] as soon as you start to talk about specifics, there's only modest support for anti-obesity policies." Read more in The Chronicle, a story by Lauren Gold, dated June 25, 2009.

Kelly Musick is quoted as saying: "Our findings suggest that exposure to parental conflict in adolescence is associated with poorer academic achievement, increased substance use and early family formation and dissolution, often in ways indistinguishable from living in a stepfather or single-mother family," Read more in Khabar Express, dated June 17, 2009.

John Cawley was quoted as saying: "After one year, those who were paid quarterly rewards lost an average of 1.4 pounds, which was not significantly different than the control group." Read more in the Cornell Chronicle, a story by Susan Lang, dated June 17, 2009.

Richard Burkhauser's research on minimum wage workers was mentioned in an Opinion article in The Wall Street Journal (dated June 12, 2009), by David Neumark, who ascertained from the research that 34% of minimum-wage workers were in families with incomes exceeding three times the poverty line ($22,050 for a family of four) -- roughly the top half of the income distribution. Read more...

Daniel Lichter is quoted as saying: "It creates a ready marriage market for native-born minority groups, including Hispanics and Asians, to marry co-ethnics — in other words, Asians and other Hispanics." Read more in NPR, dated May 31, 2009.

John Cawley's research with Joshua Price was mentioned in The Wall Street blog, Real Time Economics. Read more in The Wall Street Journal, a blog by Phil Izzo, dated May 29, 2009.

Kelly Musick was interviewed in a news segment with Charles Gibson on ABC News, dated May 13, 2009. The rate of babies born to unwed mothers has doubled since 1980. 4 in 10 babies were born to unwed mothers in the US in 2007. Listen to what Associate Professor Musick has to say.

Kelly Musick is quoted as saying: "In Europe, where there are high levels of childbearing outside of marriage, when childbearing is not happening in marriage, it's happening in cohabitation. Cohabitations are reasonably stable." Read more in USA Today, a story by Sharon Jayson, dated May 13, 2009.

Richard Burkhauser is quoted as saying: "Health-based impairments can lead people to leave the work force permanently, but this need not happen." Read more in Room for Debate - a running commentary on the news in The New York Times, by the Editors, dated May 7, 2009.

Dan Lichter is quoted as saying: "America's growing immigrant population gives today's children of immigrants more choices when picking a partner.
It creates a ready marriage market for native-born minority groups, including Hispanics and Asians, to marry co-ethnics." Read more in NPR, a story by Richard Gonzales, dated April 27, 2009.

Elizabeth Peters is quoted as saying: "That means delving deeper than just the birth, death and migration rates that are traditionally associated with the field of demographics". Read more in the Cornell Chronicle, a story by Sheri Hall, dated February 2, 2009.

William Trochim is quoted as saying: "Like evolutionary theory, evaluation can encourage program managers, decisionmakers, and policymakers to use a 'trial-and-error' approach to evolving better programs that have a greater ‘fitness’ to their environment..." Read more in Human Ecology Magazine (pdf, page 11-13), a story by Liz Bauman, dated Fall 2008.

Elizabeth Peters is quoted as saying: "We’ll be training a whole new generation of population researchers [...] in the long term, they’ll go out into the world with a greater understanding of how these population changes impact people’s lives." Read more in Human Ecology Magazine [pdf, page 14-16], a story by Sheri Hall, dated Fall 2008.

Jordan Matsudaira is quoted as saying: "I immediately saw the possibility of theoretical advances in the way we think about poverty and how those advances could inform interventions on the ground." Read more in Human Ecology Magazine [pdf, pages 18-20], a story by Metta Winter, dated Fall 2008.