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Source: Department of Economics, Georgia State University
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Pan, Siyu |
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Essays on Housing and Locational Choices Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, 2020 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Georgia State University Keyword(s): Asthma; Environment, Pollution/Urban Density; Geocoded Data; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Migration; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Chapter 1 provides an important implication for epidemiology, as it implies a naive estimation of the adverse effect of air pollution on health will be biased, as people sort based on air quality differences. This paper provides direct evidence that air-pollution-related health shocks change how a household evaluates clean air and, as a result, incentivize relocation towards better air quality. I employ a spatial equilibrium model, in which a household chooses a county to live in based on the county-level characteristics including air pollution. Using NLSY79 data, I create a panel tracking respondents' respiratory health shocks and county-level location for over three decades. The estimates from a multinomial mixed logit model support the hypothesis that households move toward cleaner air after a female adult is diagnosed with asthma or becomes pregnant. I find that households react more strongly to a new asthma diagnosis for an adult than to a child's diagnosis. |
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Pan, Siyu. Essays on Housing and Locational Choices. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, 2020. |
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Zhou, Xilin |
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Essays on Women's Employment and Children's Well-Being Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, August 2015 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Georgia State University Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Care Arrangements; Child Health; Geocoded Data; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Obesity; Work History Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In chapter I, I investigate the causal effects of maternal employment on childhood obesity. Empirical analysis of the effects of maternal employment on childhood obesity is complicated by the endogeneity of mother's labor supply. A mother’s decision to work likely reflects underlying factors – such as ability and motivation – that could directly influence child health outcomes. To address this concern, this study implements an instrumental variables (IV) strategy which utilizes exogenous variation in maternal employment coming from the youngest sibling's school eligibility. With data on children ages 7-17 from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child Supplement, I explore the effects of maternal employment on children's BMI z-score and probabilities of being overweight and obese. OLS estimates indicate a moderate association, consistent with the prior literature. However, the IV estimates show that an increase in mothers' labor supply leads to large weight gains among children, suggesting that not addressing the endogeneity of maternal employment leads to underestimated causal effects. |
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Zhou, Xilin. Essays on Women's Employment and Children's Well-Being. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, August 2015. |