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Age, Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Growth

II, Charles L. Baum - 2007

education. Conversely, little of the SES difference appears to be propagated through family income, marital status, number of … children, or the set of health behaviors we control for. However, approximately half of the SES-weight correlation persists …

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Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes

Lin, Dajun - 2016

We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control...

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Has Mortality Risen Disproportionately for the Least Educated?

Leive, Adam - 2020

We examine whether the least educated population groups experienced the worst mortality trends during the 21st century by measuring changes in mortality across education quartiles. We document sharply differing gender patterns. Among women, mortality trends improved fairly monotonically with...

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Education Gradients in Mortality Trends by Gender and Race

Leive, Adam A.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine gender and race differences in education-mortality trends among 25-64 year olds in the United States from 2001-2018. The data indicate that the relationships are heterogeneous with larger mortality reductions for less educated non-Hispanic blacks than other races and mixed results at...

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The Cost of Caring for Young Children

Rosenbaum, Dan T. - 2005

This study examines the "cost burden" of child care, defined as day care expenses divided by after-tax income. Data are … from the wave 10 core and child care topical modules to the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation. We estimate … that the average child under six years of age lives in a family that spends 4.9 percent of after-tax income on day care …

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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2004

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds after controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor supply has deleterious effects on cognitive development,...

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