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Source: Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universit

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1.	Choi, Seungbee
1.	Trajectories of Individual Behavior in the US Housing Market Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Tech, 2022 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Keyword(s): Income; Residence, Return to Parental Home/Delayed Homeleaving Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Three essays in this dissertation explore the behavior of individuals in response to the housing crisis and its consequences, and the impact of the pandemic on the short-term rental markets. The first essay examines the economic outcomes of young people who have returned to their parents' home, using data from 2003-2017 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort (NLSY 97). The economic outcomes of boomerang movers did not improve compared to the period of independent living, and the income gap with young people who remained independent widened. The residential movement of young people who make boomerang moves has an impact on their income, but this effect is short-lived. Going back to a parental house changes the region and urban form significantly, and movement of urban form from the central city to the suburban and from the suburban to out of the MSA has a negative impact on income. Findings from the study suggest implications. First, more affordable housing should be provided to reduce boomerang moves. Second, ways to increase job opportunities should be explored to reduce the short-term negative impact of boomerang move. Finally, education and vocational training opportunities must be increased to close the income gap among young people.
	Bibliography Citation Choi, Seungbee. Trajectories of Individual Behavior in the US Housing Market. Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Tech, 2022.

2.	Ge, Suqin
2.	Women's College Decisions: How Much Does Marriage Matter? Working Paper, Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, March 2008. Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Keyword(s): College Enrollment; Labor Supply; Marriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper investigates the sequential college attendance decisions of young women and quantifies the impact of marriage expectations on their decisions to attend and graduate from college. A dynamic choice model of college attendance, labor supply, and marriage is formulated and structurally estimated using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). The model is used to simulate the effects of no marriage benefits and finds that the predicted college attendance rate would drop from 61% to 56%. Using the estimated model, the college attendance behavior for a younger cohort (data taken from the NLSY97) is predicted and used to validate the behavioral model.
	Bibliography Citation Ge, Suqin. "Women's College Decisions: How Much Does Marriage Matter?" Working Paper, Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, March 2008.

3.	Ge, Suqin Yang, Fang
3.	Accounting for the Gender Gap in College Attainment Working Paper, Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, February 2009 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Keyword(s): College Education; Earnings; Educational Attainment; Gender; Gender Differences; Parental Influences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. One striking phenomenon in the U.S. labor market is the reversal of the gender gap in college attainment. Females have outnumbered males in college attainment since 1987. We develop a discrete choice model of college entry decisions to study the effects of changes in relative earnings, changes in parental education, and changes in the marriage market on time series observations of college attainment by gender. We find that the increase in the relative earnings between college and high school individuals and the increasing parental education have important effects on the increase in college attainment for both genders but cannot explain the reversal of the gender gap. Declining marriage rates decrease returns to college for females less than those for males, and thus is crucial in explaining the reversal of the gender gap in college attainment.
	Bibliography Citation Ge, Suqin and Fang Yang. "Accounting for the Gender Gap in College Attainment." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, February 2009.

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