Journal of Human Resources articles from March 1992

Journal of Human Resources archives from March 1992

Marriage, motherhood, and wages.
March 22, 1992... We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on...

Labor supply, hours constraints, and job mobility.
March 22, 1992... If hours can be freely varied within jobs, the effect on hours of changes in preferences for those who do change jobs should be similar to the effect on hours for those who do not change jobs. Conversely, if employers restrict hours choices,...

Benefits of compensatory preschool education.
March 22, 1992... Although there is widespread agreement that compensatory preschool education can produce short-term gains in test scores, its ability to produce meaningful long-term improvements in educational and economic success has been questioned. This...

Quantitative literacy and the likelihood of employment among yound adults in the United States.
March 22, 1992... This paper examines the effects of quantitative literacy on the likelihood of employment among young adults in the United States. The data set used is the 1985 Young Adult Literacy Assessment Survey. This survey of persons 21 to 25 years old...

New evidence on whether unemployment and out of the labor force are distinct states. (includes appendices)
March 22, 1992... This paper focuses on the question of whether people who are out of the labor force (OLF) should be included in unemployment measures. If people who are OLF can obtain jobs as often as the people who are unemployed, then there is no real...