Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we show that returns to wage growth of work experience for mothers are lower than those women with no child even when controlling for accumulated work experience and tenure. This is not fully explained by self-selection into...

This paper discusses the relationship between education and crime from an economic perspective, developing a human capital-based model that sheds light on key ways in which early childhood programs and policies that encourage schooling may affect both juvenile and adult crime. The paper first...

We consider a general framework to study the evolution of wage and earnings residuals that incorporates features highlighted by two influential but distinct literatures in economics: (i) unobserved skills with changing non-linear pricing functions and (ii) idiosyncratic shocks that follow a rich...