Journal of Human Resources articles from June 1995

Journal of Human Resources archives from June 1995

A comment on "Why Did Child Support Award Levels Decline from 1978 to 1985?" by Philip K. Robins. (response to Philip K. Robins, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 27, p. 362, 1992)
June 22, 1995... I. Introduction In a recent issue of this Journal, Philip Robins Robins 1992 and in an earlier working paper, Robins 1989) addresses the following important policy question. why, despite increasing public attention and new government...

The effects of high school curriculum on education and labor market outcomes.
June 22, 1995... ABSTRACT There is much public discussion but almost no evidence on the effects of high school curriculum on postsecondary education and on success in the labor market. I use the large variation in curriculum across U.S. high schools to...

Health, income, and risk aversion: assessing some welfare costs of alcoholism and poor health.
June 22, 1995... ABSTRACT The economic costs of adverse health outcomes have typically been evaluated in a context of risk neutrality, an approach that ignores the potential welfare importance of individuals' risk preferences. This paper presents a...

Favorable self-selection and the internal migration of young white males in the United States. (includes appendix)
June 22, 1995... This study offers an alternative empirical technique to test whether the favorable self-selection hypothesis applies to internal migrants in the United States. Our empirical specification attempts to determine if prospective migrants possess...

The effects of interrupted schooling on wages.
June 22, 1995... Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth reveal that 35 percent of white men who leave school between 1979 and 1988 return to school by 1989. This paper examines the wage effects of these nontraditional enrollment patterns. I...

Gender segregation in small firms.
June 22, 1995... I. Introduction While explanations of why women earn less than men remain controversial, one popular view is that discrimination segregates women into a few low-paying occupations. This explanation has some appeal since men and women...

Evaluating pooled evidence from the reemployment bonus experiments.
June 22, 1995... I. Introduction The federal-state Unemployment Insurance (UI) system provides partial earnings replacement to established labor force members who are involuntarily unemployed and actively seeking work. Since UI beneficiaries receive...

Estimating family long-term care decisions in the presence of endogenous child characteristics. (includes appendices)
June 22, 1995... ABSTRACT This paper estimates the effects of various parent and child characteristics on the choice of care arrangement of the parent taking into account the potential endogeneity of some of the child characteristics. This potential...

Do doctoral students' financial support patterns affect their times-to-degree and completion probabilities?
June 22, 1995... I. Introduction Projections of forthcoming shortages of PhDs, and thus new faculty for the academic sector, abound (Bowen and Sosa 1989; National Science Foundation 1989; National Research Council 1990; Richard Atkinson 1990). Indeed,...

Evidence of preseparation earnings losses in the displaced worker survey. (includes appendix)
June 22, 1995... ABSTRACT This paper attempts to quantify preseparation earnings losses of workers displaced in mass layoffs using the Displaced Worker Survey, the largest and most representative sample of displaced workers. Using the 1986 Displaced...