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Andrea H Beller

M.A., Columbia University, 1969
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1974

ACE 471: Consumer Economics Policy
ACE 476: Family Economics
ACE 572: Economics of the Family

Child support payments; multiple-partner fertility; effects of living in a single-parent family on children's socio-economic outcomes; gender and racial differentials in the labor market.

A. H. Beller and J. W. Graham, “The Economics of Child Support”, in S. Grossbard-Shechtman, ed., Marriage and the Economy: Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies, Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003: 153-176.

J. W. Graham and A. H. Beller, “Nonresident Fathers and their Children: Child Support and Visitation From an Economic Perspective”, in C. S. Tamis-LeMonda and N. Cabrera, Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002: 431-453.

Y. Chang, A. H. Beller, and E. Powers, “Who Gets Sanctioned Under Welfare Reform? Evidence from Child Support Enforcement in Illinois”, Family Relations & Human Development/Family Economics & Resource Management Biennial 4 (2001): 53-61.

D. E. Kiss and A. H. Beller, “Hazel Kyrk: Putting the Economics into Home Economics”, Kappa Omicron Nu Forum 11 (2, 2000): 25-42.

A. H. Beller and J. W. Graham, “Child Support in Black and White: Racial Differentials in the Award and Receipt of Child Support During the 1980s”, Social Science Quarterly 77 (September 1996): 528-542.

A. H. Beller and J. W. Graham, Small Change: The Economics of Child Support, Yale University Press, 1993.

F. D. Blau and A. H. Beller, “Black-White Earnings Over the 1970s and 1980s: Gender Differences in Trends”, Review of Economics and Statistics 74 (May 1992): 276-286.