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The motherhood wage penalty : Which mother pay it and why?
Anderson, Deborah J.; Binder, Melissa; Krause, Kate - In: The American economic review 92 (2002) 2, pp. 354-358
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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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On the cyclicality of research and development
Barlevy, Gadi - In: The American economic review 97 (2007) 4, pp. 1131-1164
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Heterogeneity in neighborhood-level price growth in the United States, 1993-2009
Ferreira, Fernando Vendramel; Gyourko, Joseph E. - In: The American economic review 102 (2012) 3, pp. 134-140
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Consumption inequality and family labor supply
Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - In: The American economic review 106 (2016) 2, pp. 387-435
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Presidents and the US economy : an econometric exploration
Blinder, Alan S.; Watson, Mark W. - In: The American economic review 106 (2016) 4, pp. 1015-1045
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The long-run dynamics of fundamental tax reform
Jorgenson, Dale Weldeau - In: The American economic review 87 (1997) 2, pp. 126-132
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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...
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