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The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers
Blau, David; Tekin, Erdal - 2001
This paper provides an early analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not apply to the very different post-reform environment. We use data from the 1997 National Survey of...
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How do parents raise the educational attainment of future generations?
Plug, Erik J. S. - 2002
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Employment, wages, and alcohol consumption in Russia : evidence from panel data
Tekin, Erdal - 2002
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A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away
Ours, Jan C. van - 2002
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The impact of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England
MacDonald, Ziggy; Shields, Michael - 2000
In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 and 1996. We find that due to the endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may...
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Child expenditure : the role of working mothers, lone parents, sibling composition and household provision
Farrell, Lisa; Shields, Michael - 2001
expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most … commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury items for children. Children of lone parents have lower budget shares for … suggesting that children mimic their parent's expenditure patterns. …
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The effect of parents' employment on childen's educational attainment
Ermisch, John - 2000
own consumption and children's wellbeing, estimation is complicated by endowment heterogeneity and by the fact that … parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in …
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Parental separation and children's educational attainment : a siblings approach
Björklund, Anders - 2002
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Applications to the US disability system : a semiparametric approach for men and women
Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998
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Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
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