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The Effect of Medicaid Expansions in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s on the Labor Supply of Pregnant Women
Dave, Dhaval M.; Kaestner, Robert; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
A substantial body of research has found that expansions in Medicaid eligibility increased enrollment in Medicaid, reduced the rate of uninsured, and reduced the rate of private health insurance coverage (i.e., crowd out). Notably, there has been little research that has examined the mechanism...
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Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills
Adda, Jerome; Meghir, Costas; Dustmann, Christian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618278
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Academic Performance and College Dropout: Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Estimate a Learning Model
Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We estimate a dynamic learning model of the college dropout decision, taking advantage of unique expectations data to greatly reduce our reliance on assumptions that would otherwise be necessary for identification. We find that forty-five percent of the dropout that occurs in the first two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969261
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This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Research increasingly shows that differences in endowments at birth need not be genetic but instead are influenced by environmental factors while the fetus is in the womb. In addition, these differences may persist well beyond childhood. In this paper, we study one such environmental factor -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969383
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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline
Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie E.; Hershbein, Brad J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Dramatic fertility swings over the last 100 years have been the subject of large literatures in demography and economics. Recent research has claimed that the post-1960 fertility decline is exceptional enough to constitute a "Second Demographic Transition." The empirical case for a Second...
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Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic co-authorship within the US
Freeman, Richard B.; Huang, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This study examines the ethnic identity of authors in over 2.5 million scientific papers written by US-based authors from 1985 to 2008, a period in which the frequency of English and European names among authors fell relative to the frequency of names from China and other developing countries....
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Matching Capital and Labor
Berk, Jonathan B.; Binsbergen, Jules H. van; Liu, Binying - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We establish an important role for the firm by studying capital reallocation decisions of mutual fund firms. At least 30% of the value mutual fund managers add can be attributed to the firm's role in efficiently allocating capital amongst its mutual fund managers. We find no evidence of a...
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Does Transparency Lead to Pay Compression?
Mas, Alexandre - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper asks whether disclosing wages to the public changes wage setting at the top of the public sector income … mandate manager wages were already in the public domain. This decline was largely accomplished through nominal pay cuts. The … these sets of cities. Wages were cut irrespective of whether or not they were out of line with (measured) fundamentals …
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The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?
Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre; Niu, Xiaotong - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper documents that rotation group bias -- the tendency for labor force statistics to vary systematically by month in sample in labor force surveys -- in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has worsened considerably over time. The estimated unemployment rate for earlier rotation groups has...
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College as Country Club: Do Colleges Cater to Students' Preferences for Consumption?
McCall, Brian Mccall; Jacob, Brian; Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper investigates whether demand-side market pressure explains colleges' decisions to provide consumption amenities to their students. We estimate a discrete choice model of college demand using micro data from the high school classes of 1992 and 2004, matched to extensive information on...
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