Similar Search Results

Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597

The Long and Short of It: Maternity Leave Coverage and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes

Hashimoto, Masanori; Percy, Rick; Schoellner, Teresa; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We investigate the effects of maternity leave coverage on women’s post-birth wages, job tenure, and labor market attachment. We pay particular attention to unobservable characteristics that are correlated with maternity leave coverage and that affect labor market outcomes. We use a control...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763466

Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women’s Educational Attainment and Wages

Lehrer, Evelyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Using a human capital model, this paper develops hypotheses about how religious affiliation and participation during childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the labor market as measured by wages. The hypotheses are tested using data from the 1995 National...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822148

Leadership Skills and Wages

Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers’ "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822390

Are the More Educated Receiving More Training? Evidence from Thailand

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822498

Firm-Level Social Returns to Education

Martins, Pedro S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822526

The Winner Takes It All: Internal Migration, Education and Wages in Ethiopia

Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Laderchi, Caterina Cruggeri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

survey, this paper examines internal migration in Ethiopia, focusing on the linkages among internal migration, education and … other factors (including education), and also obtain higher returns to their education. In other words, the more educated … reap higher returns from their education as a main effect, as well as higher returns to their education from migration than …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212564

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a conventional Mincer-type specification and averages 37.1% using …-ability students select into higher education. Additional tests show that the results are unlikely to be driven by sample selection …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212567

Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195812

Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, together with their wage and education, and estimate who inter-racially marries whom …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395430