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Does motherhood affect productivity, relative performance, and earnings?
Kalist, David E. - In: Journal of labor research 29 (2008) 3, pp. 219-235
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003742433
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Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education
Acemoglu, Daron - 2000
We exploit the changes in the distribution of family income to estimate the effect of parental resources on college education. Our strategy exploits the fact that families at the bottom of the income distribution were much poorer in the 1990s than they were in the 1970s, while the opposite is...
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An Economic Analysis of the Diet, Growth, and Health of Young Children in the United States
Chernichovsky, Dov - 1979
. Could American mothers, who provide very high protein diets for their children in households at all levels of socioeconomic … provision of adequate diets for young children in the United States. An examination of the Health and Nutrition Examination … Survey reveals the following: 1. Average nutrient intakes of young children are well above recommended dietary standards …
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Sample-Selection Bias and Height Trends in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Zimran, Ariell - 2018
After adjusting for sample-selection bias, I find a net decline in average stature of 0.64 inches in the birth cohorts of 1832--1860 in the US. This result supports the veracity of the Antebellum Puzzle--a deterioration of health during early modern economic growth in the US. However, this...
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English proficiency, gender and the occupations of childhood immigrants in the US
Adserà, Alícia; Bhowmick, Aditi - In: Journal of labor research 43 (2022) 3/4, pp. 321-344
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Reconsidering union wage effects : surveying new evidence on an old topic
Hirsch, Barry T. - In: Journal of labor research 25 (2004) 2, pp. 233-266
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Private vs. social returns to higher education : some new cross-sectional evidence
Vedder, Richard K. - In: Journal of labor research 25 (2004) 4, pp. 677-686
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Market expectations, job search, and gender differences in starting pay
Orazem, Peter F.; Werbel, James D.; McElroy, James C. - In: Journal of labor research 24 (2003) 2, pp. 307-321
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471064
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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages : The Role of Spillover Effects
Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, Thomas; Lloyd, Neil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines the role of spillover effects of minimum wages and threat effects of unionization in changes in wage inequality in the United States between 1979 and 2017. A distribution regression framework is introduced to estimate both types of spillover effects. Threat effects double the...
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