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Author: Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff
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1. Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff
Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students
BLS Working Papers No. 374, Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington DC, July 2004
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Academic Development; Achievement; College Education; Family Income; Part-Time Work; Schooling, Post-secondary; Transfers, Parental

College students may participate in market work to finance their college educations. Using data from the NLSY97, three hypotheses are tested. First, smaller parental transfers lead to more hours worked while in school. Second, an increase in the net price of schooling leads to an increase in hours worked. Finally, an increase in hours worked leads to a decrease in a student' GPA. The results indicate that the number of hours a student works per week is unaffected by the schooling-related financial variables and that the number of hours worked per week does not affect a student' GPA. (Abstract by the author.)

Revised several times: See for final http://www.bls.gov/ore/pdf/ec060130.pdf

Bibliography Citation
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia. "Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students." BLS Working Papers No. 374, Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington DC, July 2004.
2. Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff
Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students
BLS Working Papers No.410, Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington DC, August 2006.
Also: http://www.bls.gov/ore/pdf/ec060130.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Academic Development; Achievement; College Education; Family Income; Part-Time Work; Schooling, Post-secondary; Transfers, Parental

Using nationally representative data from the NLSY97 and a simultaneous equations model, this paper analyzes the financial motivations for and the effects of employment on U.S. college students' academic performance. The data confirm the predictions of the theoretical model that lower parental transfers and greater costs of attending college increase the number of hours students work while in school, although students are not very responsive to these financial motivations. They also show that increased hours of work lead to lower grade point averages (GPAs), at least for students attending four-year colleges.
Bibliography Citation
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia. "Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students." BLS Working Papers No.410, Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington DC, August 2006.
3. Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff
Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students
Journal of Population Economics 23,2 (March 2010): 469-496.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-008-0221-8
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): College Cost; College Education; Educational Outcomes; Employment, In-School; Modeling; Transfers, Parental

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Using nationally representative data from the NLSY97 and a simultaneous equations model, this paper analyzes the financial motivations for and the effects of employment on U.S. college students’ academic performance. The data confirm the predictions of the theoretical model that lower parental transfers and greater costs of attending college increase the number of hours students work while in school, although students are not very responsive to these financial motivations. They also provide some evidence that greater hours of work lead to lower grade point averages (GPAs).
Bibliography Citation
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia. "Parental Transfers, Student Achievement, and the Labor Supply of College Students." Journal of Population Economics 23,2 (March 2010): 469-496.
4. Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff
Evidence on Youth Employment, Earnings, and Parental Transfers in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997
Journal of Human Resources 36,4 (Fall 2001): 795-822.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3069642
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keyword(s): Allowance, Pocket Money; Behavior; Earnings; Employment, Youth; Parenting Skills/Styles; Teenagers; Transfers, Financial; Transfers, Parental

The employment behavior of youths under age 16 has been neglected in the literature. This paper uses data from the new National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) to examine the employment and earning behavior of youths aged 12-16 as well as the cash transfers received from their parents. Nearly half the youths (47 percent) earned income in 1996. As youths age, the amount of money they control increases as earnings grow faster than allowances. Results also suggest that a negative relationship exists both between youth employment and parental allowances and between earnings and parental allowances for youths aged 14-16.
Bibliography Citation
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff. "Evidence on Youth Employment, Earnings, and Parental Transfers in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997." Journal of Human Resources 36,4 (Fall 2001): 795-822.
5. Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff
Youth Employment and Parental Transfers
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, 2001. DAI, 62, no. 05A (2001): 1909
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Allowance, Pocket Money; Employment, In-School; Employment, Youth; Family Characteristics; Family Studies; Gender Differences; Labor Force Participation; Minimum Wage; Modeling; Racial Differences; Transfers, Financial; Transfers, Parental; Wage Rates

We know very little about the employment experiences of the United States' youngest workers. Previous studies of youth employment focused upon youths aged 16 and older while neglecting a sizable cohort of younger workers who also attend school full-time. I use data from the new National Longitudinal Survey of Youths 1997 (NLSY97) to examine the employment and earning behavior of youths aged 12-16, as well as the cash transfers received from their parents.

I provide a descriptive overview of the employment and earning behavior of the NLSY97 youths and test for the effects of both family and individual characteristics and federal and state laws upon their behavior. Nearly half of all youths (47 percent) earned income in 1996. Results indicate that minimum wages reduce the probability of labor force participation for female youths aged 14-16, while subminimum wage certificate programs (allowing students to work at wages below the minimum wage) help mitigate the disemployment effects of minimum wages.

I describe and assess the quality of the parental transfer data from the NLSY97 and test for the determinants of parental allowances. The median annual allowance received by youths aged 12-16 in 1996 was $260, the equivalent of $5 per week. Surprisingly, black youths are more likely to receive allowances, and to receive higher allowances, than non-black, non-Hispanic youths. Reduced-form estimations also indicate that allowances depend upon parents' wherewithal, given the effects of parents' income and the number of siblings upon allowances.

Finally, I present an altruism model of youths' earnings and parental transfers where the parent does not directly control the child's earnings. Using a tobit two-stage procedure, I find that youths earn less the greater their allowances, and that parents decrease allowance amounts in response to youths' decisions to earn more. It is also important to allow earnings and allowances to be jointly determined in order to assess the effects of family and individual characteristics upon earnings and allowances. For example, allowances conditional upon earnings do not depend directly upon being black. Therefore, black parents apparently compensate their children for having a lower probability of labor force participation.

Bibliography Citation
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff. Youth Employment and Parental Transfers. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, 2001. DAI, 62, no. 05A (2001): 1909.
6. Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff
Ward-Batts, Jennifer
The Effect of Child Gender on Parents' Labor Supply: An Examination of Natives, Immigrants, and their Children
Presented: New York, NY, Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, May 2008.
Also: http://client.norc.org/jole/SOLEweb/806P.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Opinion Research Center - NORC
Keyword(s): Census of Population; Children; Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Gender; Immigrants; Labor Supply; Marital Stability; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Parents, Behavior

Research has shown that child gender affects household behavior in both developing and developed countries. Child gender affects many aspects of parents' behavior, including labor supply, marital stability, and time spent with children. Research using PSID and NLS data has found conflicting results on the direction, but in both cases, that child gender affects parents' labor supply. We explore whether parents' apparent bias may be attributable to culture, which changes slowly but may have developed in response to economic incentives, such as a higher return on investment in sons, or old age support provided by a son. We use data from the CPS, PSID, and NLS to examine U.S. parents with a young child to determine whether having a son rather than a daughter has a significant effect on parents' labor supply and whether the culture of immigrants or racial/ethnic subgroups results in different effects of child gender across groups.
Bibliography Citation
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff and Jennifer Ward-Batts. "The Effect of Child Gender on Parents' Labor Supply: An Examination of Natives, Immigrants, and their Children." Presented: New York, NY, Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, May 2008.