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Author: Zavodny, Madeline
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Ginther, Donna K. Zavodny, Madeline |
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Is The Male Marriage Premium Due To Selection? The Effect of Shotgun Weddings on the Return to Marriage Journal of Population Economics 14,2 (June 2001): 313-328. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/2ch2fakefhdhm6nd/ Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Earnings; Earnings, Husbands; Husbands, Income; Marital Status; Marriage; Wage Determination; Wages; Wages, Men Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In standard cross-sectional wage regressions, married men appear to earn 10 to 20% more than comparable never married men. One proposed explanation for this male marriage premium is that men may be selected into marriage on the basis of characteristics valued by employers as well as by spouses or because they earn high wages. This paper examines the selection hypothesis by focusing on shotgun weddings, which may make marital status uncorrelated with earnings ability. We compare the estimated marriage premium between white men whose first marriages are soon followed by a birth and other married white men in the United States. The return to marriage differs little for married men with a premarital conception and other married men, and the results suggest that at most 10% of the estimated marriage premium is due to selection. |
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Ginther, Donna K. and Madeline Zavodny. "Is The Male Marriage Premium Due To Selection? The Effect of Shotgun Weddings on the Return to Marriage." Journal of Population Economics 14,2 (June 2001): 313-328.
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Do Men's Characteristics Affect Whether a Nonmarital Pregnancy Results in Marriage? Journal of Marriage and Family 61,3 (August 1999): 764-773. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/353576 Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men Publisher: National Council on Family Relations Keyword(s): Abortion; Childbearing; Contraception; Fertility; Marriage; Parents, Single; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Racial Differences A decline in the likelihood that a nonmarital pregnancy will result in marriage has contributed to the dramatic rise in the US nonmarital birth ratio since the 1960s. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth are used to examine the effect of men's characteristics on whether they marry in the event of a nonmarital pregnancy & whether changes in average characteristics of men & in their effect have contributed to the declining probability of legitimation. Results indicate that the characteristics associated with the probability of marriage differ for whites & blacks. Changes over time in men's behavior & average characteristics appear to have lowered the probability of legitimation among white men, but only changes in behavior appear to have contributed to the decline in legitimation among black men. 2 Tables, 28 References. Adapted from the source document. |
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Zavodny, Madeline. "Do Men's Characteristics Affect Whether a Nonmarital Pregnancy Results in Marriage?" Journal of Marriage and Family 61,3 (August 1999): 764-773.
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Zavodny, Madeline |
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Does Watching Television Rot your Mind? Estimates of the Effect on Test Scores Working Paper, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2004 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); High School and Beyond (HSB); Human Capital; National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS); Siblings; Socioeconomic Factors; Television Viewing; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study examines whether the number of hours of television watched by young adults is associated with human capital accumulation, as measured by test scores, and whether any such relationship is casual. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the High School and Beyond survey and the National Education Longitudinal Study all indicate a negative cross-sectional relationship between hours of television viewing and test scores, even after controlling for a variety of socioeconomic characteristics. However, comparisons of test scores between siblings at a point in time and within individuals over time suggest that television viewing does not negatively affect human capital accumulation. |
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Zavodny, Madeline. "Does Watching Television Rot your Mind? Estimates of the Effect on Test Scores." Working Paper, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2004. |
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Does Watching Television Rot Your Mind? Estimates of the Effect on Test Scores Economics of Education Review 25,5 (October 2006): 565-573. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775705000907 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Endogeneity; High School and Beyond (HSB); Modeling, Fixed Effects; National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS); Socioeconomic Factors; Television Viewing; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT; Tests and Testing This study examines whether the number of hours of television watched by young adults is associated with performance on standardized exams and whether any such relationship is causal. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1980's), the High School and Beyond survey and the National Education Longitudinal Study all indicate a negative cross-sectional relationship between hours of television viewing and test scores, even after controlling for a variety of socioeconomic characteristics. However, endogeneity bias may underlie this negative relationship. Models that include individual or family fixed effects to partially control for endogeneity suggest that television viewing does not negatively affect performance on standardized exams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR; Copyright 2006 Elsevier] |
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Zavodny, Madeline. "Does Watching Television Rot Your Mind? Estimates of the Effect on Test Scores." Economics of Education Review 25,5 (October 2006): 565-573.
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Technology and Job Separation Among Young Adults, 1980-98 Economic Inquiry 41,2 (April 2003):264-278. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1093/ei/cbg006/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Western Economic Association International Keyword(s): Displaced Workers; Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; Human Capital; Job Tenure; Labor Turnover; Layoffs; Occupational Choice; Quits; Skills; Training, On-the-Job This analysis uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth during the period 1980-98 to examine the relationship between the likelihood that a worker remains at the same job for two years and several measures of technology usage at the industry level. The relationship between job separation and technology usage is generally negative. Quits (not involuntary job loss) generally account for the negative relationship between job separation and technology. Some results suggest that less educated workers are more likely than college graduates to lose jobs in technology intensive industries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Zavodny, Madeline. "Technology and Job Separation Among Young Adults, 1980-98." Economic Inquiry 41,2 (April 2003):264-278.
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