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Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns in Britain
Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2021
Recent studies by economists exploring the nexus between culture and fertility have focused on cultural transmission … family-specific "cultural transmission" can affect fertility rates. In this context, we define "culture" as referring to …-family size is positively associated with her own completed fertility in the destination family and that her country of birth also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317336
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The Health Status of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
Booth, Alison L.; Carroll, Nick - 2005
We use unique survey data to examine the determinants of self-assessed health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. We explore the degree to which differences in health are due to differences in socio-economic factors, and examine the sensitivity of our results to the inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271833
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The Health Status of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
Booth, Alison L.; Carroll, Nick - 2021
We use unique survey data to examine the determinants of self-assessed health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. We explore the degree to which differences in health are due to differences in socio-economic factors, and examine the sensitivity of our results to the inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318637
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Increasing returns to education and the skills under-investment trap
Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn G. - 2005
We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We investigate the degree to which there is under-investment in human capital, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272018
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A Microfoundation for Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation and the Under-Participation Trap
Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
This paper considers educational investment, wages and hours of market work in an imperfectly competitive labour market with heterogeneous workers and home production. It investigates the degree to which there might be both underemployment in the labour market and underinvestment in education. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971321
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Increasing returns to education and the skills under-investment trap
Booth, Alison L. (contributor);  … - 2005
We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We investigate the degree to which there is under-investment in human capital, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003011508
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Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap
Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn G. - 2021
We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We investigate the degree to which there is under-investment in human capital, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318399
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Choosing to Compete: How Different Are Girls and Boys?
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We find robust differences between the competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822032
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Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap across the wages distribution. We use quantile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822228
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Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns in Britain
Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Recent studies by economists exploring the nexus between culture and fertility have focused on cultural transmission … family-specific ‘cultural transmission’ can affect fertility rates. In this context, we define ‘culture’ as referring to …-family size is positively associated with her own completed fertility in the destination family and that her country of birth also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822256