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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...
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The Link between Health and Working Longer : Disparities in Work Capacity
Berger, Benjamin; Lopez Garcia, Italo; Maestas, Nicole; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Good health is important for employment at older ages. However, little is known about how health-related functional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210064
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"Invisible Killer" : Seasonal Allergies and Accidents
Akesaka, Mika; Shigeoka, Hitoshi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Although at least 400 million people suffer from seasonal allergies worldwide, the adverse effects of pollen on "non-health" outcomes, such as cognition and productivity, are relatively understudied. Using ambulance archives from Japan, we demonstrate that high pollen days are associated with...
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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421186
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Time Use, College Attainment, and The Working-from-Home Revolution
Cowan, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
I demonstrate that the profound change in working from home (WFH) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is concentrated among individuals with college degrees. Relative to 2015-19, the number of minutes worked from home on fall 2021 weekdays increased by over 90 minutes for college graduates; for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322826
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Cognitive Decline and Dynamic Selection
Darden, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Understanding cognitive health, its decline, and the investments that shape its age profile in later life are important in an aging society, and yet, estimating the cognitive health production function is complicated by non-random mortality and sample attrition. I study this dynamic selection...
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Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the U.S
Ferrara, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...
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The Summer Drop in Female Employment
Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women …--and corresponding lapses in implicit childcare--provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment … allocation and gender differences within job types in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Women's summer work …
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Effects of Childhood Cognitive and Behavioral Disabilities on Adult Economic Outcomes
Corman, Hope; Noonan, Kelly; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, employment, wages, and access to transportation and credit in adulthood, using household fixed effects models to control for …
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Do Double Majors Face Less Risk? : An Analysis of Human Capital Diversification
Hanks, Andrew S.; Jiang, Shengjun; Qian, Xuechao; Wang, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor market shocks. Double majors experience substantial protection against earnings shocks, of 56%. This finding holds across different model specifications and data sets....
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