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Author: Kugler, Adriana D.
Resulting in 5 citations.
1. Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude
Kugler, Adriana D.
Inter-Generational Transmission of Health Status in the U.S Among Natives and Immigrants
Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Houston, 2007
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: University of Houston
Keyword(s): Asthma; Bias Decomposition; Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Depression (see also CESD); Height; Immigrants; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Mothers, Health; Obesity; Siblings; Weight

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The research on education points to significant inter-generational transmission which likely contributes to the inter-generational transmission of earnings and income. This paper addresses the question of whether another form of human capital, health, also provides similar insight in understanding mobility of earnings. Using the NLSY79, we first present new evidence on intergenerational transmission of health outcomes including weight, height, the body mass index, depression and asthma for both natives and immigrants. We show that both native and immigrant children inherit a prominent fraction of their health status from their parents. Next, we also find that mother's education decreases child's weight and the body mass index for natives, while single motherhood increases weight and BMI of children for both natives and immigrants. Taken together, these findings suggest that along with inter-generational correlation in education, persistence in health also contributes to the inter-generational transmission of economics.
Bibliography Citation
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude and Adriana D. Kugler. "Inter-Generational Transmission of Health Status in the U.S Among Natives and Immigrants." Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Houston, 2007.
2. Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude
Kugler, Adriana D.
Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S.: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as they Assimilate?
NBER Working Paper No. 21987, National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2016.
Also: http://www.nber.org/papers/w21987
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Keyword(s): Asthma; Body Mass Index (BMI); Depression (see also CESD); Height; Immigrants; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers, Education; Weight

It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating substantial persistence in socio-economic status across generations. In this paper, we examine whether another form of human capital, health, is also largely transmitted from generation to generation, contributing to limited socio-economic mobility. Using data from the NLSY, we first present new evidence on intergenerational transmission of health outcomes in the U.S., including weight, height, the body mass index (BMI), asthma and depression for both natives and immigrants. We show that both native and immigrant children inherit a prominent fraction of their health status from their parents, and that, on average, immigrants experience higher persistence than natives in weight and BMI. We also find that mothers' education decreases children's weight and BMI for natives, while single motherhood increases weight and BMI for both native and immigrant children. Finally, we find that the longer immigrants remain in the U.S., the less intergenerational persistence there is and the more immigrants look like native children. Unfortunately, the more generations immigrant families remain in the U.S., the more children of immigrants resemble natives' higher weights, higher BMI and increased propensity to suffer from asthma.
Bibliography Citation
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude and Adriana D. Kugler. "Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S.: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as they Assimilate?" NBER Working Paper No. 21987, National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2016.
3. Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude
Kugler, Adriana D.
Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Remain in the U.S. for More Generations?
Economics and Human Biology 23 (December 2016): 136-148.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X16301137
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Asthma; Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Depression (see also CESD); Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Immigrants; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers, Health; Parental Influences

It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating substantial persistence in socioeconomic status across generations. In this paper, we examine whether another form of human capital, health, is also largely transmitted from generation to generation. Using data from the NLSY, we first present new evidence on intergenerational transmission of health outcomes in the U.S., including weight, height, the body mass index (BMI), asthma and depression for both natives and immigrants. We show that between 50% and 70% of the mothers' health status persists in both native and immigrant children, and that, on average, immigrants experience higher persistence than natives in BMI. We also find that the longer immigrants remain in the U.S., the less intergenerational persistence there is and the more immigrants look like native children. Unfortunately, the more generations immigrant families remain in the U.S., the more children of immigrants resemble natives' higher BMI.
Bibliography Citation
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude and Adriana D. Kugler. "Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Remain in the U.S. for More Generations?" Economics and Human Biology 23 (December 2016): 136-148.
4. Kugler, Adriana D.
Employee Referrals and Efficiency Wages
Labour Economics 10,5 (October 2003): 531-557.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537103000472
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Modeling, Mixed Effects; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Wage Differentials; Wage Models

Many workers believe personal contacts are crucial for obtaining jobs in high-wage sectors. On the other hand, firms in high-wage sectors report using employee referrals to screen and monitor new employees. This paper develops a matching model that can explain the link between inter-industry wage differentials and employee referrals. Referrals lower monitoring costs because high-effort referees can exert peer pressure on co-workers, allowing firms to pay lower efficiency wages. On the other hand, informal search provides fewer contacts than formal methods. In equilibrium, referrals match high-paying jobs to well-connected workers, while formal methods match less-attractive jobs to less-connected workers. Industry-level data show a positive correlation between industry wage premiums and employee referrals. Moreover, evidence using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) shows similar OLS and fixed-effects estimates of the 'returns' to employee referrals, but insignificant effects after controlling for sector of employment. This evidence is more consistent with an efficiency wage explanation than either an ability or matching explanation of referrals. [Copyright 2003 Elsevier]
Bibliography Citation
Kugler, Adriana D. "Employee Referrals and Efficiency Wages." Labour Economics 10,5 (October 2003): 531-557.
5. Kugler, Adriana D.
Saint-Paul, Gilles
How Do Firing Costs Affect Worker Flows in a World with Adverse Selection?
Journal of Labor Economics 22,3 (July 2004): 553-585.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/383107
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keyword(s): Layoffs; Modeling; Re-employment; Unemployment; Unions

This article provides theoretical and empirical analyses of a firing costs model with adverse selection. Our theory suggests that, as firing costs increase, firms increasingly prefer hiring employed workers, who are less likely to be lemons. Estimates of re-employment probabilities from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth support this prediction. Unjust-dismissal provisions in U.S. states reduce the re-employment probabilities of unemployed workers relative to employed workers. Consistent with a lemons story, the relative effects of unjust-dismissal provisions on the unemployed are generally smaller for union workers and those who lost their previous jobs due to the end of a contract. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Bibliography Citation
Kugler, Adriana D. and Gilles Saint-Paul. "How Do Firing Costs Affect Worker Flows in a World with Adverse Selection?" Journal of Labor Economics 22,3 (July 2004): 553-585.