Journal Article
What a waste: the generation and disposal of trash imposes costs on society and the environment: should we be doing more?
Katz, Jane (2002-01-01)
In 1987, the Mobro 4000 garbage barge from Long Island focused public attention on trash. Have we disposed of the problem?
Regional Review , Volume 12 , Issue Q 1 , Pages 22-30

Journal Article
Occupational divide
Katz, Jane (1996-04)
Regional Review , Issue Spr , Pages 13-18

Journal Article
Making the numbers
Katz, Jane (2000-01)
Regional Review , Issue Q1 , Pages 27-31

U. S. family income mobility and inequality, 1994 to 2004
Katz, Jane; Gupta, Charu Nidhi; Fleming, Jessamyn; Bradbury, Katharine L. (2008)
This interactive graphic illustrates the mobility of U.S. families across income classes during the decade. The main finding is that family income mobility is limited: After sorting families observed in both 1994 and 2004 from poorest to richest across five income classes in each year, the data show that 40 percent of U.S. families were in the same income class in 2004 as in 1994 and only 22 percent moved up or down by more than one class. Those who start in the poorest or richest classes are the least likely to move: Over half of these families are in the same class in 2004 as in 1994. ...
Interactive Maps and Charts

Journal Article
Issues in economics
Katz, Jane (2003-04-02)
Economists have begun to take seriously the information they gain by actually asking people how they feel about inflation, unemployment, and other policy issues.
Regional Review , Issue Q 2 , Pages 2-5

Journal Article
When the Economy Goes South
Katz, Jane (1999-07)
Regional Review , Volume 9 , Issue Q3 , Pages 24-31

Working Paper
The responsiveness of married women’s labor force participation to income and wages: recent changes and possible explanations
Katz, Jane; Bradbury, Katharine L. (2008)
One contributor to the twentieth century rise in married women's labor force participation was declining responsiveness to husbands? wages and other family income. Now that the rapid rise in married women?s participation has slowed and even begun to reverse, this paper asks whether married women?s cross-wage elasticities have continued to fall. Using the outgoing rotation group of the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) and estimating coefficients separately for each year from 1994 through 2006, we find that the decline in responsiveness to husbands? wages has come to an end?at least for ...
Working Papers , Paper 08-7

Journal Article
Running in cycles: too much office space?
Katz, Jane (2004-04)
As the market for downtown office space recovers from yet another boom and bust, are there reasons to think that future cycles may be less volatile than in the past?
Regional Review , Issue Q 2 / Q 3 , Pages 22-30

Journal Article
High bid
Katz, Jane (1995-04)
Regional Review , Issue Spr , Pages 18-24

Journal Article
Franchise nation
Katz, Jane (1996-01)
Regional Review , Issue Win , Pages 6-11