Charles Hokayem

Biographic Data

ID3093038
NAMECharles Hokayem
GIVEN NAMESCharles
FAMILY NAMEHokayem
SIGNATUREHOKAYEM C
AFFILIATIONSUnited States Census Bureau
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS21
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Interpreting Cohort Profiles of Life Cycle Earnings Volatility

    Open AccessRichard Blundell, Christopher R Bollinger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Labor Economics2025

    We present new estimates of earnings volatility over time and the life cycle for men and women by race and human capital, using Social Security earnings linked to the Current Population Survey. From the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, there is a strong negative trend in earnings volatility driven by a decline in transitory variance. From the mid-1990s, there is relative stability in trends of male earnings volatility due to an increase in the varian…

  • Trends in Earnings Volatility Using Linked Administrative and Survey Data

    James P Ziliak, James Ziliak et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…2023

    We document trends in earnings volatility separately by gender using unique linked survey data from the CPS ASEC and Social Security earnings records for the tax years spanning 1995–2015. The exact data link permits us to focus on differences in measured volatility from earnings nonresponse, survey attrition, and measurement between survey and administrative earnings data reports, while holding constant the sampling frame. Our results for both me…

  • Reconciling Trends in U.S. Male Earnings Volatility

    Robert Moffitt, John M Abowd et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…2023

    There is a large literature on earnings and income volatility in labor economics, household finance, and macroeconomics. One strand of that literature has studied whether individual earnings volatility has risen or fallen in the United States over the last several decades. There are strong disagreements in the empirical literature on this important question, with some studies showing upward trends, some showing downward trends, and some showing n…

  • The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Well-Being

    Open AccessBradley Hardy, Charles HokayemARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2023References: 33

    Evidence from the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) in 2021 suggests it helped to reduce family poverty, lessen food hardship, and increase families’ financial expenditures on children across race and ethnicity. We review recent evidence on the impacts of the CTC on differences in well-being across race and ethnicity, including differences in access to the tax credit, how families used the tax credit, and the food insecurity and m…

  • Crashing without a Parachute

    Open AccessBradley Hardy, Charles Hokayem et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2021Cited by: 1References: 20

    The burden of the COVID-19 pandemic has not been shouldered equally by American families. Black and Hispanic communities have been hit the hardest, with the pandemic often exacerbating existing disparities. Using nationally representative data, we assess the economic and public health effects of the pandemic among different socioeconomic groups and whether typical sources of protection from economic insecurity are uniformly protective across the …

  • Trouble in the Tails? What We Know about Earnings Nonresponse 30 Years after Lillard, Smith, and Welch

    Christopher R Bollinger, Barry T Hirsch et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Economy2018Cited by: 20References: 1

    Earnings nonresponse in household surveys is widespread, yet there is limited knowledge of how nonresponse biases earnings measures. We examine the consequences of nonresponse on earnings gaps and inequality using Current Population Survey individual records linked to administrative earnings data. The common assumption that earnings are missing at random is rejected. Nonresponse across the earnings distribution is U-shaped, highest in the left an…

  • Childhood influences on youth obesity

    Open AccessTimothy J Classen, Timothy Classen et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2005