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Race, ethnicity and the dynamics of health insurance coverage
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2008
from the matched CPS also indicate that the lower rate of health insurance coverage among Asians is almost entirely … gap for African-Americans and Asians, and 16 percent of the health insurance gap for Latinos. Lower levels of education … explain roughly 15 percent of the gap for African-Americans and Latinos (Asians' higher levels of education serve to close the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759015
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Determinants of business success : an examination of Asian-owned businesses in the United States
Robb, Alicia M. (contributor);  … - 2007
capital. Startup capital and education alone explain from 65 percent to the entire gap in business outcomes between Asians and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003433325
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The economic status of Asian Americans before and after the Civil Rights Act
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Sanders, Seth - 2012
for Asians. If these results hold up to further scrutiny, one interpretation is that the Civil Rights Act and accompanying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548642
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The complexity of immigrant generations : implications for assessing the socioeconomic integration of Hispanics and Asians
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2012
substantially lowered attrition rates for second- and third-generation Hispanics and Asians, ethnic attrition remains a significant … ; Asians …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529510
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Families in macroeconomics
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2016
Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454407
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The fertility effect of catastrophe : US hurricane births
Evans, Richard W. (contributor); Hu, Yingyao (contributor);  … - 2007
For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635269
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The impact of relative cohort size on U.S. fertility, 1913 - 2001
Jeon, Yongil (contributor); Shields, Michael P. (contributor) - 2008
This paper tests for the long-term and short-term relationships between fertility and relative cohort size for the United States using the annual time series data between 1913 and 2001. An error correction model, imbedded with the cointegration theory, is coupled with the general impulse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003731574
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Intrafamily resource allocations : a dynamic model of birth weight
Del Bono, Emilia (contributor); Ermisch, John (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper estimates a model of dynamic intrahousehold investment behavior which incorporates family fixed effects and child endowment heterogeneity. This framework is applied to large American and British survey data on birth outcomes, with focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003758952
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Marriage, divorce and interstate risk sharing
Halla, Martin (contributor); Scharler, Johann (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks. Thus, marriages do not just improve the allocation of risk at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760281
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Institutions, social norms, and bargaining power : an analysis of individual leisure time in couple households
Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor);  … - 2008
We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on individuals' bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more generous social welfare system and more egalitarian social norms in Denmark will mitigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769575