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investment boom of 1995-2000 drew many younger and less-educated workers into employment. Employment rates for these workers …
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We develop a dynamic microsimulation model to project the labor force and economic dependency ratios in the United States from 2022 to 2060, taking population projections and the large inequalities between population groups of different race/ethnicity and gender into account. We contrast policy...
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To better understand the tight post-pandemic labor market in the US, we decompose the decline in aggregate hours worked into the extensive (fewer people working) and the intensive margin changes (workers working fewer hours). Although the pre-existing trend of lower labor force participation...
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Prevailing research argues that childhood misbehavior in the classroom is bad for schooling and, presumably, bad for labor market outcomes. In contrast, we argue that some childhood misbehavior represents underlying socio-emotional skills that are valuable in the labor market. We follow work...
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …
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employment, socio-emotional skills, high school graduation, election participation, and obesity. Comparisons with individuals …
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production for boys is more adversely affected by a decrease in the mother's time input as a result of increasing employment …'s employment during her children's childhood has an asymmetric effect on the educational achievement of her own sons and daughters …
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0.25 years of schooling at age 28-30. The effects on employment and earnings were initially negative, coinciding with a …
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maternal employment during a child's first three and first 15 years on that child's grade point average in 9th grade. We … address the endogeneity of employment by including a rich set of household control variables, instrumenting for employment … maternal employment has a positive effect on children's academic performance in all specifications, particularly when women …
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, employment, wages, and access to transportation and credit in adulthood, using household fixed effects models to control for …
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