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Public policies and women's employment after childbearing

Han, Wen-jui; Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2009

This paper examines how the public policy environment in the United States affects work by new mothers following childbirth. We examine four types of policies that vary across states and affect the budget constraint in different ways. The policy environment has important effects, particularly...

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Occupational status and health transitions

Morefield, G. Brant; Ribar, David C.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011

We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability...

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The economics of risky health behaviors

Cawley, John H.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011

outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on … policies and strategies with the potential to modify risky health behaviors, such as taxes or subsidies, cash incentives … ; medical costs ; employment ; wages ; crime ; hyperbolic discounting …

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Time for children : trends in the employment patterns of parents, 1967-2009

Fox, Liana; Han, Wen-jui; Ruhm, Christopher J.; … - 2011

Utilizing data from the 1967-2009 years of the March Current Population Surveys, we examine two important resources for children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show what underlies these trends. We find that increases...

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Cognitive performance and labor market outcomes

Lin, Dajun; Lutter, Randall W.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2016

We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control...

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The changing benefits of early work experience

Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2014

We examine whether the benefits of high school work experience have changed over the last 20 years by comparing effects for the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Our main specifications suggest that the future wage benefits of working 20 hours per week in the...

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The cost of caring for young children

Rosenbaum, Dan T. (contributor); … - 2005

This study examines the "cost burden" of child care, defined as day care expenses divided by after-tax income. Data are from the wave 10 core and child care topical modules to the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation. We estimate that the average child under six years of age lives in...

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Maternal employment and adolescent development

Ruhm, Christopher J. (contributor) - 2005

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers benefit youths who are relatively "disadvantaged" and even...

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Parental employment and child cognitive development

Ruhm, Christopher J. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 39 (2004) 1, pp. 155-192

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Compensation in the nonprofit sector

Ruhm, Christopher J.; Borkoski, Carey - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 38 (2003) 4, pp. 992-1021

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