Mark Dynarski

Biographic Data

ID6010534
NAMEMark Dynarski
GIVEN NAMESMark
FAMILY NAMEDynarski
SIGNATUREDYNARSKI M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Davis
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS26
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX2

  • Random assignment in programme evaluation and intervention research: Questions and answers

    Open AccessMark Dynarski, Patricia Del GrossoARTICLEJournal of Children s Services2008Cited by: 1

    This brief article seeks to answer, with examples, some of the more common questions that policy‐makers and practitioners in children's services often ask about randomised controlled trials (RCTs). It is essentially a primer, and those wishing to read further on these issues might find it helpful to start with the books discussed in the review article by Hobbs and colleagues in this special edition (p40)

  • Are Experiments the Only Option? A Look at Dropout Prevention Programs

    Roberto Agodini, Mark DynarskiARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2004

    By comparing experimental and propensity-score impact estimates of dropout prevention programs, we examine whether propensity-score methods produce unbiased estimates of program impacts. We find no consistent evidence that such methods replicate experimental impacts in our setting. This finding holds even when the data available for matching are extensive. Our findings suggest that evaluators who plan to use nonexperimental methods, such as prope…

  • Trade-Offs in Designing a Social Program Experiment

    Open AccessMark DynarskiARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review1997Cited by: 2References: 2

  • The Behavior of Unemployment Durations over the Cycle

    Mark Dynarski, Steven M SheffrinARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1990

    This paper examines the relationship between unemployment durations and cyclical movements in unemployment using an "employment calendar" constructed from recent questions in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We find that unemployment durations increase with the unemployment rate with the strongest effects for individuals with the longest elapsed durations. Copyright 1990 by MIT Press

  • Local characteristics and public production: The case of education

    Open AccessMark Dynarski, Robert M Schwab et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics1989Cited by: 1References: 12

  • Household formation and suburbanization, 1970–1980

    Open AccessMark DynarskiARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics1986Cited by: 2References: 3

  • Residential Attachment and Housing Demand

    Open AccessMark DynarskiARTICLEUrban Studies1986Cited by: 6References: 13

    In this paper a model of housing demand behavior is proposed, in which both monetary and non-monetary adjustment costs (termed 'attachment') are allowed to affect demand levels. An empirical implication of the model is that the individual variance around the housing demand curve is likely to increase directly with total adjustment costs. A cross-section housing demand curve is estimated, with the variance specified as a linear function of variabl…

  • Housing Purchases and Transitory Income: A Study with Panel Data

    Mark Dynarski, Steven M SheffrinARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1985

    In this paper we explore the role of transitory income in the housing purchase decision. Because of moral hazard considerations banks typically require downpayments to be financed internally, hence transitory income is potentially important in overcoming the downpayment constraint. Using a novel approach to the measurement of permanent and transitory income, we estimate a two-stage model in which households decide whether to purchase housing in t…

  • Housing demand and disequilibrium

    Open AccessMark DynarskiARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics1985Cited by: 14References: 19