Melinda Pitts

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• Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta / Economic Research Department
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• Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Research profile

author of:

• At What Level of Labor-Market Intermittency Are Women Penalized?
  American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2003)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aecrev:v:93:y:2003:i:2:p:233-237)
• The Role of Labor Market Intermittency in Explaining Gender Wage Differentials
  American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2007)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aecrev:v:97:y:2007:i:2:p:417-421)
• Unknown item RePEc:fip:a00001:89435 (paper)
• Unknown item RePEc:fip:a00001:94157 (paper)
• Where Are They Now? Workers with Young Children during COVID-19
  Policy Hub, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2021)
  by M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-article, fip:a00068:96621)
• Pink and Poverty Taxes on Marriage
  Policy Hub, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2022)
  by Elias Ilin & Laurence J. Kotlikoff & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-article, fip:a00068:96690)
• Industry-Level Sources for Solid US Employment Growth: Running on Empty or More Room to Run?
  Policy Hub, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2024)
  by Patrick C. Higgins & M. Melinda Pitts & David Wiczer
  (ReDIF-article, fip:a00068:99049)
• Where There's Smoke...: The Wage Impact of Smoking
  Policy Hub, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2020)
  by Steph Clampitt & Michael Darden & Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-article, fip:a00068:99110)
• The quality of preventive and diagnostic medical care: why do southern states underperform?
  Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2005)
  by Brian S. Armour & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-article, fip:fedaer:y:2005:i:q1:p:59-67:n:v.90no.1)
• It's who you are and what you do: explaining the IT industry wage premium
  Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2005)
  by Jason M. DeBacker & Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts & John C. Robertson
  (ReDIF-article, fip:fedaer:y:2005:i:q3:p:37-45:n:v.90no.3)
• Smoking: taxing health and Social Security
  Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2007)
  by Brian S. Armour & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-article, fip:fedaer:y:2007:i:q3:p:27-41:n:v.92no.3)
• Southeastern economy still feeling recession's effects
  EconSouth, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2002)
  by David Avery & Michael J. Chriszt & Whitney Mancuso & M. Melinda Pitts & John C. Robertson & Navnita Sarma & Gustavo A. Uceda
  (ReDIF-article, fip:fedaes:y:2002:i:q4:p:8-23:n:v.4no.4)
• Ill winds can’t blow U.S. economy off course
  EconSouth, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2005)
  by M. Melinda Pitts & John C. Robertson & Ellis W. Tallman
  (ReDIF-article, fip:fedaes:y:2005:i:q4:n:v.7no.4:x:1)
• When things still don't add up
  EconSouth, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2008)
  by M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-article, fip:fedaes:y:2008:n:v.10no.1:x:5)
• Incorporating insurance rate estimates and differential mortality into net marginal Social Security tax rate calculations
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2002)
  by Brian S. Armour & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2002-29)
• Why choose women's work if it pays less? A structural model of occupational choice
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2002)
  by M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2002-30)
• Female labor force intermittency and current earnings: a switching regression model with unknown sample selection
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2003)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2003-33)
• The ups and downs of jobs in Georgia: what can we learn about employment dynamics from state administrative data?
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2003)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts & John C. Robertson
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2003-38)
• The influence of year-end bonuses on colorectal cancer screening
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2003)
  by Linda Alley & Brian S. Armour & Jeff Etchason & Carol Friedman & M. Melinda Pitts & Jennifer Wike
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2003-41)
• Wage gains among job changers across the business cycle: insight from state administrative data
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2004)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts & John C. Robertson
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2004-19)
• Earnings on the information technology roller coaster: insight from matched employer-employee data
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2005)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts & John C. Robertson
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2005-11)
• Freshman learning communities, college performance, and retention
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2005)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & Robert E. Moore & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2005-22)
• The push-pull effects of the information technology boom and bust: insight from matched employer-employee data
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2006)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts & John C. Robertson
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2006-01)
• Smoking: taxing health and Social Security
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2006)
  by Brian S. Armour & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2006-12)
• The role of labor market intermittency in explaining gender wage differentials
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2007)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2007-01)
• Evidence of demand factors in the determination of the labor market intermittency penalty
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2007)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2007-16)
• Does disability explain state-level differences in the quality of Medicare beneficiary hospital inpatient care?
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2007)
  by Brian S. Armour & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2007-18)
• Cigarette smoking and food insecurity among low-income families in the United States, 2001
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2007)
  by Brian S. Armour & Chung-won Lee & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2007-19)
• Working with children? the probability of mothers exiting the workforce at time of birth
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2008)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts & Mary Beth Walker
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2008-08)
• Assessing the impact of education and marriage on labor market exit decisions of women
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2010)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts & Mary Beth Walker
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2010-02)
• A decomposition of the black-white differential in birth outcomes
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2011)
  by Brian S. Armour & M. Melinda Pitts & Mary Beth Walker
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2011-01)
• To work or not to work: the economics of a mother's dilemma
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2011)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts & Mary Beth Walker
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2011-02)
• A closer look at nonparticipants during and after the Great Recession
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2012)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts & Fernando Rios-Avila
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2012-10)
• Even one is too much: the economic consequences of being a smoker
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2013)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2013-03)
• Do Minimum Wages Really Increase Youth Drinking and Drunk Driving?
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2014)
  by Laura Argys & M. Melinda Pitts & Joseph J. Sabia
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2014-20)
• The gap between the conditional wage distributions of incumbents and the newly hired employees: decomposition and uniform ordering
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2014)
  by Esfandiar Maasoumi & M. Melinda Pitts & Ke Wu
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2014-22)
• Impact of first-birth career interruption on earnings: evidence from administrative data
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2014)
  by Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts & Mary Beth Walker
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2014-23)
• Killer Debt: The Impact of Debt on Mortality
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2016)
  by Laura Argys & Andrew Friedson & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2016-14)
• Losing Public Health Insurance: TennCare Disenrollment and Personal Financial Distress
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2017)
  by Laura Argys & Andrew Friedson & M. Melinda Pitts & D. Sebastian Tello-Trillo
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2017-06)
• State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2018)
  by David Frisvold & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:2018-04)
• The Dynamics of the Smoking Wage Penalty
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2020)
  by Michael Darden & Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:88477)
• Is Our Fiscal System Discouraging Marriage? A New Look at the Marriage Tax
  FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2022)
  by Elias Ilin & Laurence J. Kotlikoff & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedawp:94787)
• State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018)
  by David E. Frisvold & Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:24662)
• The Dynamics of the Smoking Wage Penalty
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020)
  by Michael E. Darden & Julie L. Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:27567)
• Is Our Fiscal System Discouraging Marriage? A New Look at the Marriage Tax
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022)
  by Elias Ilin & Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:30159)
• Earnings on the information technology roller coaster: insight from matched employer-employee data
  MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany (2006)
  by Hotchkiss, Julie L. & Pitts, M. Melinda & Robertson, John
  (ReDIF-paper, pra:mprapa:9830)
• Female labour force intermittency and current earnings: switching regression model with unknown sample selection
  Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals (2005)
  by Julie Hotchkiss & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-article, taf:applec:v:37:y:2005:i:5:p:545-560)
• Freshman Learning Communities, College Performance, and Retention
  Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals (2006)
  by Julie Hotchkiss & Robert Moore & M. Melinda Pitts
  (ReDIF-article, taf:edecon:v:14:y:2006:i:2:p:197-210)