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50
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13455
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1365
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827

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Hilary Williamson Hoynes is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Health Professions, with notable contributions in General Health Professions, Gender Studies, Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Public Policy and Administration Research

Recent publications from Hilary Williamson Hoynes include:

  • "Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence From the Food Stamps Program" (2023) published in The Review of Economic Studies
  • "Introduction: Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation" (2023) published in RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
  • "Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children" (2022) published in The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • "Suffering, the Safety Net, and Disparities During COVID-19" (2023) published in RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
  • "Introduction: Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation" (2023) published in RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • The Review of Economic Studies

Hilary Williamson Hoynes collaborates regularly with coauthors, including:

  • Marianne Bitler
  • Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
  • Krista Ruffini
  • Lisa Schulkind
  • Barton Willage

Awards received by this researcher include:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1997)

Best Publications

  • Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net

    Hilary W Hoynes;Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach;Douglas Almond

  • Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes

    Douglas Almond;Hilary W Hoynes;Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

  • Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health

    Hilary W Hoynes;Douglas L Miller;David Simon

  • Who Suffers during Recessions

    Hilary W Hoynes;Douglas L Miller;Jessamyn Schaller

  • What mean impacts miss: distributional effects of welfare reform experiments

    Marianne P. Bitler;Jonah B. Gelbach;Hilary W. Hoynes

  • Taxes and the labor market participation of married couples: the earned income tax credit

    Nada Eissa;Hilary Williamson Hoynes

  • Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program

    Hilary W. Hoynes;Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

  • Behavioral Responses to Taxes: Lessons from the EITC and Labor Supply

    Nada Eissa;Hilary W Hoynes

  • Welfare Transfers in Two-Parent Families: Labor Supply and Welfare Participation Under AFDC-UP

    Hilary Williamson Hoynes

  • Experimental Evidence on Distributional Effects of Head Start

    Marianne Bitler;Hilary Hoynes;Thurston Domina

  • Can targeted transfers improve birth outcomes?: Evidence from the introduction of the WIC program

    Hilary Hoynes;Marianne Page;Ann Huff Stevens

  • Local Labor Markets and Welfare Spells: Do Demand Conditions Matter?

    Hilary Williamson Hoynes

  • Differential mortality and wealth accumulation

    Orazio P. Attanasio;Hilary Williamson Hoynes

  • Effective Policy for Reducing Poverty and Inequality? The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Distribution of Income

    Hilary W. Hoynes;Ankur J. Patel

  • Universal Basic Income in the United States and Advanced Countries

    Hilary Hoynes;Jesse Rothstein;Jesse Rothstein

  • Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations

    Hilary W. Hoynes;Marianne E. Page;Ann Huff Stevens

  • The impact of welfare reform on marriage and divorce

    Marianne Bitler;Jonah B. Gelbach;Hilary Williamson Hoynes;Hilary Williamson Hoynes;Madeline Zavodny

  • Work incentives and the Food Stamp Program

    Hilary Williamson Hoynes;Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

  • The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Less Skilled Workers Over the Business Cycle

    Hilary Williamson Hoynes

  • Behavioral Responses to Taxes: Lessons from the EITC and Labor Supply

    Hilary W. Hoynes;Nada Elissa

  • Long-Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net (WP-12-17)

    Hilary Hoynes;Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach;Douglas Almond

  • Consumption Reponses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program

    Hilary W. Hoynes;Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas Almond
Douglas Almond Columbia University
Jesse Rothstein
Jesse Rothstein University of California, Berkeley
Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Erzo F. P. Luttmer Dartmouth College
Alan B. Krueger
Alan B. Krueger Princeton University
Robert A. Moffitt
Robert A. Moffitt Johns Hopkins University
James R. Hines
James R. Hines University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Daniel McFadden
Daniel McFadden University of California, Berkeley
Orazio Attanasio
Orazio Attanasio Yale University
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell University College London
Michael D. Hurd
Michael D. Hurd RAND Corporation

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