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Mechanisms for the Association Between Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Development
Cawley, John; Liu, Feng - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
children, helping with homework, and in educational activities in general. We find no evidence that these decreases in time are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720027
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Educational Attainment in Blended Families
Case, Anne; Lin, I-Fen; McLanahan, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
Income Dynamics (PSID). We find that children raised by step, adoptive or foster mothers obtain significantly less education …In this paper we compare the educational attainment of birth and non-birth children of women in the Panel Study of … on average than do the birth children of the same women. Controlling for the women's fixed effects, the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829282
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Charter School Quality and Parental Decision Making With School Choice
Hanushek, Eric; Rivkin, Steven G.; Kain, John F.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Charter schools have become a very popular instrument for reforming public schools, because they expand choices, facilitate local innovation, and provide incentives for the regular public schools while remaining under public control. Despite their conceptual appeal, evaluating their performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004690
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Are Engel Curve Estimates of CPI Bias Biased?
Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
A recent literature has advanced the use of Engel curves to estimate overall CPI bias. In this paper, I show that the methodology is sensitive to the modeling of household demography. Existing estimates of CPI bias do not account for the changing effect of household size on budget shares, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248837
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Technological Progress and Economic Transformation
Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Growth theory can go a long way toward accounting for phenomena linked with U.S. economic development. Some examples are: (i) the secular decline in fertility between 1800 and 1980, (ii) the decline in agricultural employment and the rise in skill since 1800, (iii) the demise of child labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084673
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The American Family and Family Economics
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and … children. We conclude by discussing the effectiveness of policies to target benefits to certain family members (e.g., children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084759
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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085292
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Exercise, Physical Activity, and Exertion over the Business Cycle
Colman, Gregory; Dave, Dhaval M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
As economic recessions reduce employment and wages, associated shifts in time and income constraints would be expected to also impact individuals' health behaviors. Prior work has focused exclusively on recreational exercise, which typically represents only about 4% of total daily physical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294558
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The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States
Bloom, David; canning, david; Moore, Michael John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We explore the proposition that expected longevity affects retirement decisions and accumulated wealth using micro data drawn from the Health and Retirement Study for the United States. We use data on a person's subjective probability of survival to age 75 as a proxy for their prospective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005717967
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Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?
Arunachalam, Raj; Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of theoretical papers that have attempted to explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829188