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State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment
Frisvold, David E.; Pitts, Melinda - 2018
This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873561
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Childhood Homelessness and Adult Employment: The Role of Education, Incarceration, and Welfare Receipt
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Zhu, Anna - 2015
importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey … and men's employment, however, childhood homelessness continues to have a substantial direct effect on male employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307477
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Voting Participation
Dave, Dhaval M.; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - 2016
operate through employment, education, and income. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479298
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Ugly criminals
Mocan, H. Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2006
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275876
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Sibling Rivalry: A Six Country Comparison
Wolter, Stefan C. - 2003
In this paper we analyse with the PISA data on literacy achievement of fifteen-year-old pupils in six member countries of the OECD, whether the fact of having many siblings affects the individual educational outcome. The hypothesis that we test is whether parents? resources matter for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261949
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Sibling Rivalry: A Look at Switzerland with PISA Data
Wolter, Stefan C.; Coradi Vellacott, Maja - 2002
background. Thus, subgroups of the population seem to be confronted with binding budget constraints, although education is free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262628
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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe
Heckman, James Joseph; Jacobs, Bas - 2009
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274258
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Do Occupational Demands Explain the Educational Gradient in Health?
Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie - 2014
education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … Microcensus 2009 data with a dataset including detailed occupational demands (German Employment Survey 2006), we have a unique … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333305
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Do Occupational Demands Explain the Educational Gradient in Health?
Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … Microcensus 2009 data with a dataset including detailed occupational demands (German Employment Survey 2006), we have a unique … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010751647
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Sibling Rivalry: A Six Country Comparison
Wolter, Stefan C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this paper we analyse with the PISA data on literacy achievement of fifteen-year-old pupils in six member countries of the OECD, whether the fact of having many siblings affects the individual educational outcome. The hypothesis that we test is whether parents’ resources matter for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703705