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Source: Atlantic Economic Journal
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Dalton, Amy H. Marcis, John G. |
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The Determinants of Job Satisfaction for Young Males and Females Atlantic Economic Journal 14,3 (September 1986): 85. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/m22555067704762n/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Job Satisfaction; Modeling, Logit; Unemployment, Youth; Working Conditions Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The growing role of females in the labor force makes the study of the quality of the workplace important for policy considerations. Logit regression analysis is used to test for the possible existence of gender differences in job satisfaction among young adults. Data are drawn from the 1980 NLSY, a sample consisting of 967 females and 1,230 males. The results indicate gender differences in the determinants of job satisfaction. For males, job satisfaction is more closely associated with general background characteristics, such as education level, marital status, and racial/ethnic differences. Job satisfaction for females is more closely linked with the workplace; for example, the wage rate, experience in the labor market, and job tenure. Five of the seven workplace variables produced conflicting signs on the coefficients for males and females. |
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Dalton, Amy H. and John G. Marcis. "The Determinants of Job Satisfaction for Young Males and Females." Atlantic Economic Journal 14,3 (September 1986): 85.
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DeBeaumont, Ronald Girtz, Robert |
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The Mediation Effect of Self-Esteem on Weight and Earnings Atlantic Economic Journal published online (18 January 2020): DOI: 10.1007/s11293-019-09648-z. Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11293-019-09648-z Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Earnings; Gender Differences; Obesity; Self-Esteem; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Prior research has consistently documented a weight-related earnings penalty for females. However, there is debate concerning the existence of a similar wage penalty for men, with many studies having found no statistically significant effect. Prior research has also found a wage penalty associated with lower self-esteem. Drawing data from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we refine the empirical relationship among self-esteem, wages, and weight. Implementing mediation models, our results suggest men face an obesity wage penalty, but the penalty is characterized through a persistent decrease in self-esteem when relatively young which leads to lower wages as adults. In contrast, the obesity wage penalty for females is not mediated through lower self-esteem and is likely the result of factors related to contemporaneous body weight. |
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DeBeaumont, Ronald and Robert Girtz. "The Mediation Effect of Self-Esteem on Weight and Earnings." Atlantic Economic Journal published online (18 January 2020): DOI: 10.1007/s11293-019-09648-z.
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Ewing, Bradley T. |
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A Note on School Size and Wages Atlantic Economic Journal 23,3 (September 1995): 236. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/a12875xp2j25ph07/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Education Indicators; Human Capital; School Quality; Schooling; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Much has been written on whether it is school quality or quantity that really matters in determining wages. The traditional human capital wage equation controls for the quantity of education (i.e., years of schooling) and generally ignores quality of education. The idea that quality might matter is not new. Hanushek JEL, 1986 reports that standard measures of school quality have no effect on wages of men in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY, including faculty-to-student ratio, teacher salaries, expenditures, and so forth). However, some have successfully argued that school quality is at least as important as quantity by incorporating scores on the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) in the wage model as a proxy for quality Maxwell, ILR, 1994; O'Neill, JEP, 1990!. This note considers one factor overlooked: what is the effect of high school size on wages controlling for quantity and quality? The hypothesis is that students at large schools must deal with a more diverse set of circumstances and that for a given quality and quantity level, they will fare better in the labor market than students from smaller schools. Having been exposed to more people and potentially more diverse cultures and situations, these students are better equipped to deal with the myriad of work-related situations, such as working in teams and in a culturally diverse environment that they will inevitably encounter. |
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Ewing, Bradley T. "A Note on School Size and Wages." Atlantic Economic Journal 23,3 (September 1995): 236.
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Gius, Mark Paul |
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Determinants of the Violent Criminal Behavior of Teenagers Atlantic Economic Journal 34,4 (2006): 511-512. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/e53035727313r230/ Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Crime; Family Influences; Modeling, Probit; Parental Influences; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Teenagers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Recent research conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse and Columbia University has shown that children who frequently have dinner with their families are much less likely to smoke, drink, or use illicit drugs (Connecticut Post, 2005). An interesting extension of this research would be to determine if family influences have any effect on the propensity of teenagers to commit crimes. Assuming an individual is a non-adult teenager (ages 12-17), earns no income, and the criminal act is non-monetary in nature, one may model criminal behavior as a utility-maximizing problem. A teenager would attempt to maximize his or her utility by allocating his or her time between criminal and non-criminal activities. The constraint would be total time in a given day. It is assumed that parental and peer influences will affect a teenager's propensity to commit a criminal act. If all influences are positive in nature, then all time is spent pursuing non-criminal activities, since criminal activities are viewed as bads and not goods. If, however, the influences are negative in nature, then the individual would engage in criminal activities, since both criminal activities and leisure would be viewed as goods. |
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Gius, Mark Paul. "Determinants of the Violent Criminal Behavior of Teenagers." Atlantic Economic Journal 34,4 (2006): 511-512.
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Gius, Mark Paul |
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Health Insurance and Young Adults: An Analysis Using the NLSY Atlantic Economic Journal 38,3 (September 2010): 381-382. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/4q4g367lq80282r8/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Insurance, Health; Regions Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The article focuses on the use of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) in analyzing the health insurances of young adults in the U.S. The use of the NLSY intends to determine the factors that affect the health insurance coverage of young adults. The logistic regression has been used in formulating the equation of the NLSY. One group which is typically discussed in regards to its lack of health insurance is the young adult segment of the population. For the age group 18-26, 32% lack health insurance (Holahan and Kenney, Timely Analysis of Immediate Health Policy Issue, 2008). For the entire non-elderly population, the uninsured rate is closer to 18%. In addition, although this age group constitutes only 18% of the adult population, it makes up over 28% of the uninsured (Holahan and Kenney, Timely Analysis of Immediate Health Policy Issue, 2008). Because of this, the young adult segment of the population is the ideal group to use in an analysis of the determinants of health insurance coverage. Several studies have been conducted on health insurance coverage (Markowitz, Gold, and Rice, Medical Care, 1991; Newacheck, et al., Pediatrics, 1999; Callahan and Cooper, Pediatrics, 2005; Gruber, Journal of Economic Literature, 2008; Levine, McKnight, and Heep, NBER Working Paper, 2009; and Gius, International Journal of Applied Economics, 2010). Most of these studies used descriptive statistics and correlation analyses to ascertain the extent of the uninsured. Few looked at the determinants of health insurance coverage, and even fewer examined the insurance coverage rates of young adults. The purpose of the present study is to determine the factors that affect the health insurance coverage of young adults. This study will use as its data set the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a data set that has not been used in prior studies on health insurance coverage. |
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Gius, Mark Paul. "Health Insurance and Young Adults: An Analysis Using the NLSY." Atlantic Economic Journal 38,3 (September 2010): 381-382.
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Grinberg, Alice |
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The Effect of Birth Order on Occupational Choice Atlantic Economic Journal 43,4 (December 2015): 463-476. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11293-015-9474-2 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Birth Order; Family Size; Occupational Choice Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Research suggests that birth order has a profound influence on personality development, but there has been little research investigating the effect of birth order on a person's occupational choice. A number of psychologists, including Frank Sulloway and Reid Claxton, argue that first-borns are more likely to become managers because their order in the family trains them in managerial and leadership skills. In contrast, several economists, such as Gary Becker, argue that first-borns are often economically successful because they receive more resources from their parents than other children. This occurs both because they tend to have fewer siblings and because they receive their parents' unshared attention before their younger siblings are born. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) of 1979, we investigate which of these models best accords with the data. We find that first-borns are indeed more likely to select managerial positions than later-borns, but that this effect is due to first-borns having, on average, fewer siblings than others, not to being first-born per se. Further, we find the effect of family size is strongest among lower-income families, lending support to Becker's hypothesis. |
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Grinberg, Alice. "The Effect of Birth Order on Occupational Choice." Atlantic Economic Journal 43,4 (December 2015): 463-476.
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Mitra, Aparna |
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Structural Characteristics of Firms and Industries and Black and White Wage Inequality in the U.S. Economy: 1998 Atlantic Economic Journal 27,2 (June 1999): 179-192. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/2q4063763n41tuu9/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Cognitive Ability; Education; Racial Differences; Wage Differentials; Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The effects of firm and job characteristics on the wages of blacks and whites are analyzed using data from the 1988 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The focus is on 2,370 full-time private sector employees. Results show that, first, blacks are disproportionately employed in large establishments despite their lower cognitive achievements. Second, blacks do not enjoy significant wage premiums associated with supervisory positions. Third, although the wage gap between blacks and whites is reduced considerably, controlling for education and cognitive skills, the gap increases significantly when structural abilities are included in the wage regressions despite the large wage premiums associated with employment in large establishments. |
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Mitra, Aparna. "Structural Characteristics of Firms and Industries and Black and White Wage Inequality in the U.S. Economy: 1998." Atlantic Economic Journal 27,2 (June 1999): 179-192.
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Mukerjee, Swati |
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Childhood Bullying and Labor Market Outcomes in The United States Atlantic Economic Journal 46,3 (September 2018): 313-335. Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11293-018-9587-5 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Bullying/Victimization; Childhood Adversity/Trauma; Earnings; Gender Differences; Labor Market Outcomes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper contributes to a nascent economic literature on bullying. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data, I explored the relationship between childhood bullying and later earnings. Since males and females are usually subject to different kinds of bullying and coping strategies vary with age, I distinguished between pre-teen and teenage bullying by gender. After delineating the pathways by which being bullied could potentially lead to lower earnings, the analysis first considered the probability of being bullied either as a teenager or before the age of 12. Next, after a simple ordinary least squares analysis of a human capital earnings function, a detailed propensity score analysis with multiple matching schemes was undertaken separately for males and females, further subdivided by when bullying had occurred. Results indicated males bullied as teenagers had earnings 23% lower than their non-bullied counterparts. Females did not suffer this penalty, nor did children who were bullied only below the age of 12. However, being bullied in childhood increased significantly the probability of being bullied later. In terms of human capital formation and possible impact on later productivity, teen bullying may be affecting men the most. Current findings may also be useful in encouraging a targeted focus on those who may be in greater danger of being bullied. Children who have changed schools several times, males with a learning disability, or a vision, speech or hearing problem, and females with some kind of deformity would be targeted significantly more. |
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Mukerjee, Swati. "Childhood Bullying and Labor Market Outcomes in The United States." Atlantic Economic Journal 46,3 (September 2018): 313-335.
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Nutting, Andrew W. |
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Height and Adult Alcohol Consumption Atlantic Economic Journal 48 (2020): 115-129. Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11293-020-09660-8 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Height Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Previous research has found that shorter men have significantly worse life outcomes than taller men. Using the 1979 version of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper uses maximum likelihood estimations to test whether these worse outcomes translate into shorter men drinking more heavily. Results show that, at ages 29-47, taller men are more likely to drink alcohol, but among drinkers, shorter men drink more often and are more likely to binge drink. Among women, there is no significant relationship between height and alcohol consumption. There are different relationships between height and male alcohol consumption according to education level. Among non-college-graduate men, those who were taller in adolescence are more likely to drink alcohol, but among drinkers, shorter men drink more often and are more likely to binge drink. Among college-graduate men, taller men are more likely to drink alcohol and, among drinkers, binge drink more often. Controlling for earnings, education, cognitive ability, and marital status (factors that previous research has found to be correlated with male height) explains some of the relationship between height and alcohol consumption among male non-college-graduates, but not much, and actually intensifies relationships between height and binge drinking among male college graduates. Controlling for late-adolescent drinking behavior does not explain relationships between height and heavier adult drinking, indicating that the relationship between male height and drinking behavior develops in adulthood. |
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Nutting, Andrew W. "Height and Adult Alcohol Consumption." Atlantic Economic Journal 48 (2020): 115-129.
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Renna, Francesco King, Randall H. |
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The Impact of Racial Discrimination on the Early Career Outcomes of Young Men Atlantic Economic Journal 35,3 (September 2007): 269-278. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/0p171767pw146028/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Discrimination; Economics of Discrimination; Economics of Minorities; Fertility; Labor Market Outcomes; Racial Differences; Wage Differentials; Wage Gap; Wages, Young Men Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The NLSY dataset is utilized to measure the extent of employer wage discrimination between white and black males during their first 5 years of post-school employment. We look at the respondent's first job and the jobs 1 and 5 years after school completion. Oaxaca wage decompositions are employed to gauge the effect of discrimination. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find that the discrimination component of the wage gap falls over time. For the first job out of school the unexplained wage gap between blacks and whites is 35%. By year 5, the unexplained component falls to about 13%. Thus, while discrimination continues to play a role in explaining the white-black wage gap over time, its impact decreases as time in the labor market increases. |
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Renna, Francesco and Randall H. King. "The Impact of Racial Discrimination on the Early Career Outcomes of Young Men." Atlantic Economic Journal 35,3 (September 2007): 269-278.
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Roche, Kristen |
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Millennials and the Gender Wage Gap in the U.S.: A Cross-Cohort Comparison of Young Workers Born in the 1960s and the 1980s Atlantic Economic Journal 45,3 (September 2017): 333-350. Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11293-017-9546-6 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using two cohorts of young workers born in the early 1960s and early 1980s, this paper analyzes the temporal change in the U.S. gender wage gap and its determinants, which persists for both explained and unexplained reasons. Results suggest that the gender wage gap closed four (seven) percentage points at the mean (median) between cohorts. It finds cross-cohort evidence that young females' increasing returns to marriage and a changing occupational wage structure contributed to a narrowing of the gap. Nonetheless, the majority of this convergence remains unexplained due to relative improvements in unobservable institutional factors or heterogeneity for females. Compared to the previous generation, millennials likely entered a more progressive, female-friendly labor market. It is also possible that female millennials are more ambitious and competitive in their early years of work experience relative to females born in the 1960s. |
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Roche, Kristen. "Millennials and the Gender Wage Gap in the U.S.: A Cross-Cohort Comparison of Young Workers Born in the 1960s and the 1980s." Atlantic Economic Journal 45,3 (September 2017): 333-350.
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Solberg, Eric J. |
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The Supply of Labor Time of Mature Females Atlantic Economic Journal 9,3 (September 1981): 20-33. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/40568m9j22432250/ Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Employment; Life Cycle Research; Marital Dissolution Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study examines female supply to the labor force. Increasingly, women will behave more like their male counterparts over time. Most remain on that part of the supply curve which is positively sloped; however, females without a spouse tend to move toward the backward bending segment of the curve. |
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Solberg, Eric J. "The Supply of Labor Time of Mature Females." Atlantic Economic Journal 9,3 (September 1981): 20-33.
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Welsch, David M. Zimmer, David M. |
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The Effect of Health and Poverty on Early Childhood Cognitive Development Atlantic Economic Journal 38,1 (March 2010): 37-49. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/w20647hx14h16u6v/ Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: International Atlantic Economic Society Keyword(s): Birthweight; Child Health; Cognitive Development; Heterogeneity; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Although evidence of a link between socioeconomic status and child health has been researched extensively, much less attention has been devoted to studying the link between child health and cognitive development. This paper seeks to determine whether early childhood illnesses and poverty significantly impede cognitive development. The empirical model attempts to control for observed and unobserved heterogeneity through the use of panel data models. Results indicate that a child's cognitive development is not directly related to health problems acquired after birth or socioeconomic standing. Rather, cognitive development is primarily influenced by unobserved child- and family-specific factors that happen to be correlated with health and socioeconomic status. On the other hand, birth weight appears to affect cognitive performance later in childhood, even after taking unobserved heterogeneity into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Welsch, David M. and David M. Zimmer. "The Effect of Health and Poverty on Early Childhood Cognitive Development." Atlantic Economic Journal 38,1 (March 2010): 37-49.
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