Journal of Human Resources articles from September 1999

Journal of Human Resources archives from September 1999

The Response of Worker Effort to Piece Rates.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... Evidence from the British Columbia Tree-Planting Industry ABSTRACT We measure the elasticity of worker effort with respect to changes in the piece rate using panel data collected from the payroll records of a British Columbia...

Education and Ethnicity in Canada.
September 22, 1999... An Intergenerational Perspective ABSTRACT Ethnic and intergenerational aspects of human capital investment are explored. Levels of and (cross-sectional) returns to, education across ethnic groups in Canada are estimated and large...

Private Schools and Public School Achievement.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT The effects of private schools on public elementary and secondary school achievement in Illinois are estimated. The percentage of students in private schools in a school district is treated as an endogenous variable in the...

General and Specific Training.
September 22, 1999... Evidence and Implications ABSTRACT Using data from the Employer Opportunity Pilot Project (EOPP) survey and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we explicitly document the specificity and generality of employer-provided...

Latent Work Disability and Reporting Bias.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT A measure of "true" disability is constructed as a continuous index of unobserved work limitation using information from the Health and Retirement Study. Estimates from a simultaneous model of work participation, disability, and...

Health Insurance Availability at the Workplace.
September 22, 1999... How Important are Worker Preferences? ABSTRACT Analysts have frequently interpreted the uneven distribution of health insurance across firms of varying size as evidence of insurance market failure in the small group market. We explore...

The Effect of Child Care Characteristics on Child Development.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT The effect of group size, staff-child ratio, training, and other characteristics of child care on child development is estimated using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. In contrast to most previous research, the...

Comment on James J. Heckman, "Instrumental Variables: A Study of Implicit Behavioral Assumptions Used in Making Program Evaluations".(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... Guido W. Imbens [*] ABSTRACT In a recent paper in this journal, Heckman discussed the use of instrumental variables methods in evaluation research and our local average treatment effects (LATE) interpretation of instrumental variables...

Instrumental Variables.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... Response to Angrist and Imbens I. Introduction My 1997 JHR paper neither endorsed nor condemned the use of instrumental variables (IV) to estimate the parameters of economic models. Its main goal was to remind readers of some basic...