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The effects of paid family leave in California on labor market outcomes

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

effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to …

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Heterogeneity in schooling rates of return

Henderson, Daniel J.; Polachek, Solomon W.; Wang, Le - 2011

This paper relaxes the assumption of homogeneous rates of return to schooling by employing nonparametric kernel regression. This approach allows us to examine the differences in rates of return to education both across and within groups. Similar to previous studies we find that on average blacks...

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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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Are we wasting our children's time by giving them more homework?

Eren, Ozkan; Henderson, Daniel J. - 2011

Following an identification strategy that allows us to largely eliminate unobserved student and teacher traits, we examine the effect of homework on math, science, English and history test scores for eighth grade students in the United States. Noting that failure to control for these effects...

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Do former college athletes earn more at work? : A nonparametric assessment

Henderson, Daniel J. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper investigates how students' collegiate athletic participation affects their subsequent labor market success. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic...

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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 … even moderate amounts of employment. The negative cognitive effects occur partly because maternal labor supply reduces the … significant. -- maternal employment ; adolescent development ; child obesity ; socioeconomic status …

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Healthy living in hard times

Ruhm, Christopher J. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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When, where and how to perform efficiency estimation

Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal - 2011

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar and Wilson (2008). We assess the finite sample...

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