Journal of Human Resources articles from January 1999

Journal of Human Resources archives from January 1999

Health plan choice: price elasticities in a managed competition setting.(includes appendix)
January 1, 1999... I. Introduction Using a unique panel dataset of the health plan choices and personal characteristics of employees at a single firm, this paper provides estimates of price elasticities for health insurance plans in a managed competition...

The effect of health insurance on married female labor supply.
January 1, 1999... I. Introduction Health insurance in the United States largely is employment based: nearly 90 percent of Americans with private insurance are covered through their employer or the employer-provided plan of a family member. The national...

Child support, welfare dependency, and women's labor supply.(includes appendices)
January 1, 1999... I. Introduction Policy efforts to alleviate the high rate of poverty among single-parent families have taken place along two lines: (i) defining and enforcing private child support obligations(1) and (ii) providing income support through...

Does it pay to attend an elite private college? Cross-cohort evidence on the effects of college type on earnings.
January 1, 1999... I. Introduction Previous research has shown that the labor market return to college overall has fluctuated. For example, between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s the proportionate difference in mean wages between male college graduates and...

Why does mother's schooling raise child health in developing countries? Evidence from Morocco.(includes appendix)
January 1, 1999... I. Introduction Child health is a key indicator of the quality of life in developing countries. Mother's years of education is often positively associated with improved child health and nutritional status (see Behrman, 1990). There are a...

Effects of schooling on fertility, labor supply, and investments in children, with evidence from Brazil.
January 1, 1999... I. Introduction Empirical evidence from a wide variety of high-income and low-income countries has established a strong negative association between women's schooling and fertility, and a strong positive association between women's...

A method for proxying a respondent's religious background: an application to school choice decisions.
January 1, 1999... I. Introduction In spite of the importance of religion in the social, demographic, and economic life of the population, very few microdata data sets for the United States ask the respondent's religion. The U.S. Bureau of the Census has...

Do Catholic schools make a difference? Evidence from Australia.
January 1, 1999... I. Introduction Recent empirical investigations of students in the United States education system have revealed that attendance at Catholic schools has a positive and substantial impact effect on academic achievement. Sander (1996), for...

A note on the antipoverty effectiveness of child support among mother-only families.
January 1, 1999... I. Introduction The economic insecurity of children in mother-only families is well known and has led to significant reforms in the child support system in the last twenty years. The policies enacted were aimed at increasing the number of...