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Marriage Patterns in the United States
Bloom, David E.; Bennett, Neil G. - 2021
This paper analyzes cohort marriage patterns in the United States in order to determine whether declining rates of … first marriage are due to changes in the timing of marriage, the incidence of marriage, or both. Parametric models, which … are well-suited to the analysis of censored or truncated data, are fit separately to information on age at first marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245537
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Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2018
Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a linear index — known as a polygenic score — are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910284
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Genetic Interactions with Prenatal Social Environment : Effects on Academic and Behavioral Outcomes
Conley, Dalton - 2010
Caspi et al. (2002, 2003), Guo et al. (2008a), and Pescosolido et al. (2008) all claim to have demonstrated allele-by-environment interactions, but in all cases environmental influences are potentially endogenous to the unmeasured genetic characteristics of the subjects and their families. Thus,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143167
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Why is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States so High and Why Does it Matter?
Kearney, Melissa S. - 2012
This paper examines two aspects of teen childbearing in the United States. First, it reviews and synthesizes the evidence on the reasons why teen birth rates are so uniquely high in the United States and especially in some states. Second, it considers why and how it matters. We argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108240
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Long-Run Trends in the U.S. Ses-Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841413
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When are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States
Cutler, David M. - 2007
Recent literature on the relationship between ethnic or racial segregation and outcomes has failed to produce a consensus view of the role of ghettos; some studies suggest that residence in an enclave is beneficial, some reach the opposite conclusion, and still others imply that any relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776962
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Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States : Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data
Abowd, John M. - 2019
Using earnings data from the U.S. Census Bureau, this paper analyzes the role of the employer in explaining the rise in earnings inequality in the United States. We first establish a consistent frame of analysis appropriate for administrative data used to study earnings inequality. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902136
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Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Self-Protecting Behavior During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2020
Disease spread is in part a function of individual behavior. We examine the factors predicting individual behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States using novel data collected by Belot et al. (2020). Among other factors, we show that people with lower income, less flexible work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831273
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Disparities in Vulnerability to Severe Complications from Covid-19 in the United States
Wiemers, Emily - 2020
This paper provides the first nationally representative estimates of vulnerability to severe com-plications from COVID-19 overall and across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine the prevalence of specific health condi-tions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831847
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Families as Roommates : Changes in U.S. Household Size from 1850 to 2000
Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2009
others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra-family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155024