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Determinants of business success: an examination of Asian-owned businesses in the United States
Robb, Alicia M.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 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/10010267795
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Race, ethnicity and the dynamics of health insurance coverage
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 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/10010268712
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The economic status of Asian Americans before and after the Civil Rights Act
Duleep, Harriet; Sanders, Seth G. - 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/10010287712
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Is it money or brains? The determinants of intra-family decision power
Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - 2012
We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. Focusing on a sample of couples, we evaluate the effect of each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283986
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O brother, where art thou? The effects of having a sibling on geographic mobility and labor market outcomes
Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2005
In most industrialized countries, more people than ever are having to cope with the burden of caring for elderly parents. This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities and family structure interact children's mobility characteristics. A key insight we obtain is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267418
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Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States: a simultaneous probit approach
Parker, Simon C. - 2005
This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267672
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Time allocation between work and family over the life-cycle: a comparative gender analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States
Anxo, Dominique - 2007
This article analyses the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender division of labour. It identifies and analyses cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using most recent data available from the Time Use National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268115
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The fertility effect of catastrophe: US hurricane births
Evans, Richard W.; Hu, Yingyao; Zhao, Zhong - 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/10010268238
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The American family and family economics
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - 2007
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268298
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Spousal influences on parents' non-market time choices
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - 2007
This paper considers the effect of spouse's characteristics on three aggregated non-paid time uses, active leisure time; child caregiving time; and home production time, using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). The time diary of each married individual with children under the age of 13 (mothers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268359