Journal of Human Resources articles from June 1997

Journal of Human Resources archives from June 1997

Do husbands and wives pool their resources? Evidence from the United Kingdom Child Benefit.
June 22, 1997... I. Introduction Traditional models of family behavior assume that family members act as if they are maximizing a single utility function. The common preference ordering may be the outcome of consensus among the family members (Samuelson 1956)...

Why don't schools and teachers seem to matter? Assessing the impact of unobservables on educational productivity.
June 22, 1997... I. Introduction Dating back to the 1966 Coleman report (Coleman et al. 1966), hundreds of studies by economists and others have investigated the relationship between educational productivity and schooling expenditures. Most have modeled...

Labor and women's nutrition: the impact of work effort and fertility on nutritional status in Ghana.
June 22, 1997... I. Introduction Economists have devoted considerable effort to studying the effects of nutrition and health on work and productivity (Bliss and Stern 1978; Strauss 1986; Deolalikar 1988; Haddad and Bouis 1991; Schultz and Tansel 1997). Less...

Identifying and misidentifying single mothers in the panel study of income dynamics.
June 22, 1997... I. Introduction The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID; see Hill 1992) has been used extensively over the last 20 or so years to study single-motherhood (for example, Richards, White, and Tsui 1987; McLanahan 1988), and associated problems...