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The causal effects of fertility are a central focus in the social sciences, but the analysis is challenged by the endogeneity of fertility choices. Earlier work has proposed several "natural experiments" from twin births or gender composition of earlier births to assess whether having more...
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We investigate how the employment-based health insurance system in the U.S. affects individuals' life-cycle health … turnovers lead to dynamic inefficiencies in health investment, and particularly, it suggests that employment-based health … the U.S. as a result of the employment-based health insurance system. We also evaluate and cast doubt on alternative …
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We model the employment and medical care decisions of older men who face health risk. The budget constraint … insurance is tied to continued employment with his current employer faces the risk of large medical expenditures in the event of … retiree health insurance or who has access to other health insurance not tied to his employment decision (e.g., from his wife …
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present a theoretical overview of the effects of health insurance on mobility and wage/employment determination. I critically …
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support these regions or sectors is to pay employment subsidies. We present evidence showing that capital subsidies are … empirically much more important than employment subsidies. We then discuss possible explanations for the dominance of investment …-firm bargaining also gives rise to underinvestment. In this framework, it turns out that an investment subsidy dominates an employment …
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Over the past 30 years, research on married women's labor force participation has concluded virtually without exception that the principal source of labor force participation rate growth for married women has been the concurrent growth of women's real wages. The experience of the 1970's...
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Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...
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short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …
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