John Karl Scholz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1471575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Karl Scholz |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Karl |
| FAMILY NAME | Scholz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOLZ J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 281 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Facial Attractiveness and Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from a Cohort Study
We use unique longitudinal data to document an economically and statistically significant positive correlation between the facial attractiveness of male high school graduates and their subsequent labor market earnings. There are only weak links between facial attractiveness and direct measures of cognitive skills and no link between facial attractiveness and mortality. Even after including a lengthy set of characteristics, including IQ, high scho…
Are Americans Saving “Optimally” for Retirement
We solve each household's optimal saving decisions using a life cycle model that incorporates uncertain lifetimes, uninsurable earnings and medical expenses, progressive taxation, government transfers, and pension and social security benefits. With optimal decision rules, we compare, household by household, wealth predictions from the life cycle model using a nationally representative sample. We find, making use of household-specific earnings his…
Building Consensual Institutions: Networks and the National Estuary Program
Currently, many approaches to solving policy problems seek to create community‐based, less coercive solutions that are creating the conditions for the birth of new regional governmental institutions. We argue that networks form the core of these emergent structures and that federal programs can play a positive role in developing local networks. Our empirical work compares networks in estuaries included in National Estuary Program with networks in…
The Evolution of Income Support Policy in Recent Decades
Understanding Poverty
In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the U.S. remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. This book brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the 21st century
In-Work Benefits in the United States: The Earned Income Tax Credit
Journal Article In-Work Benefits in the United States: The Earned Income Tax Credit Get access John Karl Scholz John Karl Scholz Univerity of Wisconsin – Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 434, 1 January 1996, Pages 156–169, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234939 Published: 01 January 1996
The Illusory Effects of Saving Incentives on Saving
The authors evaluate research on how tax-based saving incentives (IRAs and 401(k)s) affect saving. Previous research overstates the impact of the incentives on saving by failing to account for several issues: households with saving incentives have stronger tastes for saving than others; saving incentives have interacted with debt, nonfinancial assets, financial markets, and pensions; and saving incentives represent pretax balances, whereas taxabl…
Intergenerational Transfers and the Accumulation of Wealth
This paper uses household data to provide direct estimates of intergenerational transfers as a source of wealth. The authors distinguish between intended transfers (for example, gifts to other households) and possibly unintended transfers (bequests) and estimate that intended transfers account for at least 20 percent of net worth. Thus, a significant portion of the U.S. wealth cannot be explained by the life-cycle model, even when the model is au…
Building Consensual Institutions: Networks and the National Estuary Program
Currently, many approaches to solving policy problems seek to create community‐based, less coercive solutions that are creating the conditions for the birth of new regional governmental institutions. We argue that networks form the core of these emergent structures and that federal programs can play a positive role in developing local networks. Our empirical work compares networks in estuaries included in National Estuary Program with networks in…
Intergenerational Transfers and the Accumulation of Wealth
This paper uses household data to provide direct estimates of intergenerational transfers as a source of wealth. The authors distinguish between intended transfers (for example, gifts to other households) and possibly unintended transfers (bequests) and estimate that intended transfers account for at least 20 percent of net worth. Thus, a significant portion of the U.S. wealth cannot be explained by the life-cycle model, even when the model is au…
Are Americans Saving “Optimally” for Retirement
We solve each household's optimal saving decisions using a life cycle model that incorporates uncertain lifetimes, uninsurable earnings and medical expenses, progressive taxation, government transfers, and pension and social security benefits. With optimal decision rules, we compare, household by household, wealth predictions from the life cycle model using a nationally representative sample. We find, making use of household-specific earnings his…
In-Work Benefits in the United States: The Earned Income Tax Credit
Journal Article In-Work Benefits in the United States: The Earned Income Tax Credit Get access John Karl Scholz John Karl Scholz Univerity of Wisconsin – Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 434, 1 January 1996, Pages 156–169, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234939 Published: 01 January 1996
The Illusory Effects of Saving Incentives on Saving
The authors evaluate research on how tax-based saving incentives (IRAs and 401(k)s) affect saving. Previous research overstates the impact of the incentives on saving by failing to account for several issues: households with saving incentives have stronger tastes for saving than others; saving incentives have interacted with debt, nonfinancial assets, financial markets, and pensions; and saving incentives represent pretax balances, whereas taxabl…
Intergenerational Transfers and the Accumulation of Wealth
This paper uses household data to provide direct estimates of intergenerational transfers as a source of wealth. The authors distinguish between intended transfers (for example, gifts to other households) and possibly unintended transfers (bequests) and estimate that intended transfers account for at least 20 percent of net worth. Thus, a significant portion of the U.S. wealth cannot be explained by the life-cycle model, even when the model is au…
In-Work Benefits in the United States: The Earned Income Tax Credit
Journal Article In-Work Benefits in the United States: The Earned Income Tax Credit Get access John Karl Scholz John Karl Scholz Univerity of Wisconsin – Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 434, 1 January 1996, Pages 156–169, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234939 Published: 01 January 1996
The Illusory Effects of Saving Incentives on Saving
The authors evaluate research on how tax-based saving incentives (IRAs and 401(k)s) affect saving. Previous research overstates the impact of the incentives on saving by failing to account for several issues: households with saving incentives have stronger tastes for saving than others; saving incentives have interacted with debt, nonfinancial assets, financial markets, and pensions; and saving incentives represent pretax balances, whereas taxabl…
The Evolution of Income Support Policy in Recent Decades
Understanding Poverty
In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the U.S. remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. This book brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the 21st century
Building Consensual Institutions: Networks and the National Estuary Program
Currently, many approaches to solving policy problems seek to create community‐based, less coercive solutions that are creating the conditions for the birth of new regional governmental institutions. We argue that networks form the core of these emergent structures and that federal programs can play a positive role in developing local networks. Our empirical work compares networks in estuaries included in National Estuary Program with networks in…
Are Americans Saving “Optimally” for Retirement
We solve each household's optimal saving decisions using a life cycle model that incorporates uncertain lifetimes, uninsurable earnings and medical expenses, progressive taxation, government transfers, and pension and social security benefits. With optimal decision rules, we compare, household by household, wealth predictions from the life cycle model using a nationally representative sample. We find, making use of household-specific earnings his…
Facial Attractiveness and Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from a Cohort Study
We use unique longitudinal data to document an economically and statistically significant positive correlation between the facial attractiveness of male high school graduates and their subsequent labor market earnings. There are only weak links between facial attractiveness and direct measures of cognitive skills and no link between facial attractiveness and mortality. Even after including a lengthy set of characteristics, including IQ, high scho…
Economics (7 works) · Finance (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (3 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Earnings (2 works) · Finance (2 works)