Journal of Human Resources articles from June 1996

Journal of Human Resources archives from June 1996

The effects of school district spending priorities on length of stay in teaching. (includes appendices)
June 22, 1996... I. Introduction This study investigates how differences in public school districts' spending priorities affect the length of time beginning teachers stay in the district. Previous work examining teacher attrition (Murnane and Olsen 1989;...

The economics of persistence: graduation rates of athletes as labor market choice. (includes appendices)
June 22, 1996... I. Introduction More than ever before, public debate over college athletics has concerned itself with academic issues. For many years, most of this concern was relegated to faculty lunchrooms and the occasional sports column. In recent years,...

Catholic grade schools and academic achievement.
June 22, 1996... I. Introduction There is substantial controversy regarding private school effects on academic achievement. A number of studies, mostly by researchers in education and sociology, claim to show that Catholic schools and other private schools...

Gender differences in the changing labor market: the role of legislation and inequality in changing the wage gap for qualified workers in the United Kingdom. (includes appendix)
June 22, 1996... I. Introduction There have been several important changes in the relative labor market conditions faced by women in the United Kingdom over the last 30 years. The most notable of these changes has been the shift in relative pay in favor of...

Productivity differences and the marriage wage premium for white males.
June 22, 1996... I. Introduction Virtually all cross-sectional wage studies find that currently married men typically earn a higher wage rate than their nonmarried male counterparts in the labor market, holding constant differences in education, experience,...

Estimating the effect of counseling and monitoring the unemployed using a job search model.
June 22, 1996... I. Introduction Since the economic recession at the beginning of the 1980s, many Western countries have faced a high level of long-term unemployment. If this is due to a depreciation of human capital over the term of unemployment, one policy...

Private vaccination and public health: an empirical examination for U.S. measles.
June 22, 1996... I. Introduction A major goal of public health agencies in both industrialized and less-developed countries is to reduce the persistent occurrence of vaccine-preventable diseases. These infectious diseases induce enormous morbidity and...

Psychiatric hospital ownership and performance: do nonprofit organizations offer advantages in markets characterized by asymmetric information?
June 22, 1996... I. Introduction Health care services in general, and mental health services specifically, are complex commodities that abound with information asymmetries. It has long been recognized that asymmetric information on product quality can reduce...

Does publicly provided home care substitute for family care? Experimental evidence with endogenous living arrangements. (includes appendices)
June 22, 1996... I. Introduction Whereas the recent health care reform debates have focused on acute care costs and insurance reform, another health care financing crisis is looming. With the elderly population expected to double by the year 2030, the number...

Parental altruism and child lead exposure: inferences from the demand for chelation therapy.
June 22, 1996... I. Introduction Children with high body burdens of lead exhibit long-term cognitive and adaptive behavior deficits (Perlstein and Attala 1966). Short-term manifestations of these burdens include hyperactivity, poor attention spans, and...

Teenage employment and the spatial isolation of minority and poverty households.(Comment)
June 22, 1996... I. Introduction Many have argued that the concentration of poor and minority households in central portions of metropolitan areas exacerbates a host of urban problems - ranging from the low quality of public services, such as education, to the...

Price and quality in child care choice: a revision.(Correction)(Correction Notice)
June 22, 1996... I. Introduction In Hofferth and Wissoker (1992) we estimated the effects of prices and child/staff ratios on the mode of child care chosen (center, sitter, relative, or father) using multinomial logit models (MNL). We had data on prices and...