existing literature, we construct predicted employment growth indices that allow us to separately identify demand … children's health. We do find, however, that focusing on gender-inclusive economic variables obscures the extent to which the … health. These patterns, which are consistent with previous findings on the effects of individual parental employment and job …

-stakes college entrance exam in China. To overcome selection bias, we use a regression discontinuity design that compares applicants …

employ estimation approaches including individual fixed effects and individual-specific trends, and find average returns to …

favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …

changes from wage-and-salary to self-employment and changes from working to non-working status. In each two-year transition … approximately four percent of wage-and-salary workers switched to self-employment. They were primarily men who were previously self …-employed or who were in wage-and-salary occupations with characteristics similar to self-employment, e.g., managers and salesmen …

benefits affects the employment decisions of older veterans. We make use of variation in program eligibility resulting from a … decreased labor force participation and induced a substantially larger switch from wage employment to self-employment. This …

improved the position of white females. There has been a growth in incorporated self-employment rates of white women in …

evidence on trends in self-employment for the US by race, ethnicity and gender. Evidence is also presented for construction … which has self-employment rates roughly double the national rates and where there are strikingly high racial and gender …n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is …

experience earnings gains of about 10 percent relative to high school graduates with no college degree, conditional on employment … Survey of Youth (NLSY97). Using an individual fixed effects estimation strategy that allows us to control for time …

to quantify the impact of for-profit college attendance on the employment and earnings of over one million students …-profit institutions are 1.5 percentage points less likely to be employed and, conditional on employment, have 11 percent lower earnings … ten fields of study. We find that earnings and employment outcomes are particularly poor for students attending for …