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Revisiting the relationship between WIC participation and breastfeeding among low-income children in the U.S. after the 2009 WIC food package revision

Zhang, Qi; Chen, Chun; Xue, Hong; Park, Kayoung; Wang, Youfa - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 101 (2021), pp. 1-15

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Medicalizing to demedicalize: Lactation consultants and the (de)medicalization of breastfeeding

Torres, Jennifer M.C. - In: Social Science & Medicine 100 (2014) C, pp. 159-166

This paper uses the domain of breastfeeding in the U.S. and the work of International Board Certified Lactation … definition, medical control, pathology, and medical technology. Lactation consultants work to demedicalize breastfeeding by … challenging the construction of breastfeeding pathology and limiting intervention. At the same time, they hold a position of …

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Tainted milk : breastmilk, feminisms, and the politics of environmental degradation

Boswell-Penc, Maia - 2006

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Re-constructing childhood health histories

Smith, James P. - 2009

This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the HRS and the PSID. Even though information on early life health events is critical, there is legitimate skepticism about the ability of older respondents to remember specific...

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Trends in quality-adjusted skill premia in the United States, 1960-2000

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae - 2010

This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...

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Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars: Social Learning in Juvenile Corrections

Bayer, Patrick; Pintoff, Randi; Pozen, David E. - 2003

This paper analyzes the influence that juvenile offenders serving time in the same correctional facility have on each other's subsequent criminal behavior. The analysis is based on data on over 8,000 individuals serving time in 169 juvenile correctional facilities during a two-year period in...

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A guide and advice for economists on the US junior academic job market (2011-2012 edition)

Cawley, John - 2011

This guide, updated for the 2011-12 job market season, describes the U. S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and provides links to internet resources. Topics...

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Decomposing the sources of earnings inequality: Assessing the role of reallocation

Andersson, Fredrik; Davis, Elizabeth E.; Freedman, … - 2011

This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using...

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Is there still an added-worker effect?

Juhn, Chinhui; Potter, Simon - 2007

Using matched March Current Population Surveys, we examine labor market transitions of husbands and wives. We find that the “added-worker effect”—the greater propensity of nonparticipating wives to enter the labor force when their husbands exit employment— is still important among a...

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Rottenberg and the economics of sport after 50 years : an evaluation

Sloane, Peter J. (contributor) - 2006

Simon Rottenberg's seminal 1956 article in the Journal of Political Economy, 1956, is generally accepted as the starting point for the development of the economics of sport. While he recognised that certain features of professional sports leagues were unusual he saw little reason to treat this...

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