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Overview

Philip K. Robins is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences, medicine, and health professions.

Their academic work includes publications in the following main fields of study:

  • Social Sciences
  • Medicine
  • Health Professions

Within these fields, Robins has contributed to several subfields, which include:

  • Education
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • General Health Professions

The primary topics addressed in their research cover:

  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Homelessness and Social Issues

Among their recent papers is the work titled Early initiation of marijuana use, education, and earnings of young adults, published in 2020 in the Journal of Children and Poverty.

Robins frequently collaborates with other scholars, including:

  • Isabelle C. Beulaygue
  • Michael T. French

Their publications have appeared in the following venues:

  • Journal of Children and Poverty

Best Publications

  • Child-care costs and family labor supply.

    David M. Blau;Philip K. Robins

  • Job Search Outcomes for the Employed and Unemployed

    David M. Blau;Philip K. Robins

  • Evaluating Government Training Programs for the Economically Disadvantaged

    Daniel Friedlander;David H. Greenberg;Philip K. Robins

  • Fertility, Employment, and Child-Care Costs

    David M. Blau;Philip K. Robins

  • A Structural Model of Labor Supply and Child Care Demand.

    Charles Michalopoulos;Philip K. Robins;Irwin Garfinkel

  • A Meta-Analysis of Government-Sponsored Training Programs

    David H. Greenberg;Charles Michalopoulos;Philip K. Robins

  • A Comparison of the Labor Supply Findings from the Four Negative Income Tax Experiments

    Philip K. Robins

  • Evaluating program evaluations: new evidence on commonly used nonexperimental methods.

    Friedlander D;Robins Pk

  • Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families

    Rebecca M Blank;David Card;Philip K Robins

  • Making work pay: Final report on the self sufficiency project for long-term welfare recipients

    Charles Michalopoulos;D. Tattrie;C. Miller;P.K. Robins

  • What You Do in High School Matters: High School GPA, Educational Attainment, and Labor Market Earnings as a Young Adult

    Michael T French;Jenny F Homer;Ioana Popovici;Philip K Robins

  • Child care demand and labor supply of young mothers over time.

    David M. Blau;Philip K. Robins

  • Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Self-Sufficiency Project

    David Card;Philip K. Robins

  • The estimation of labor supply models using experimental data

    Michael C. Keeley;Philip K. Robins;Robert G. Spiegelman;Richard W. West

  • Child Support, Welfare Dependency, and Poverty

    Philip K Robins

  • Employment and child-care choices in Canada and the United States

    Charles Michalopoulos;Philip K. Robins

  • The Self-Sufficiency Project at 36 Months: Effects of a Financial Work Incentive on Employment and Income.

    Charles Michalopoulos;David Card;Lisa A. Gennetian;Kristen Harknett

  • Child Support and Child Well-Being

    Philip K. Robins

  • When financial work incentives pay for themselves: evidence from a randomized social experiment for welfare recipients

    Charles Michalopoulos;Philip K. Robins;David Card

  • AN ECONOMETRIC MODEL OF THE DEMAND FOR CHILD CARE

    Philip K. Robins;Robert G. Spiegelman

Frequent Co-Authors

David Card
David Card University of California, Berkeley
David M. Blau
David M. Blau The Ohio State University
Michael T. French
Michael T. French University of Miami
Irwin Garfinkel
Irwin Garfinkel Columbia University
Rebecca M. Blank
Rebecca M. Blank University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lisa A. Gennetian
Lisa A. Gennetian Duke University
Sandra L. Hofferth
Sandra L. Hofferth University of Maryland, College Park
Kathleen Kiernan
Kathleen Kiernan University of York
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Northwestern University
Phyllis Moen
Phyllis Moen University of Minnesota

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