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1.	Berger, Lawrence Marc Hill, Jennifer L. Waldfogel, Jane
1.	Maternity Leave, Early Maternal Employment and Child Health and Development in the US Economic Journal 115,501 (February 2005): F29-F47. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0013-0133.2005.00971.x/abstract Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Royal Economic Society (RES) Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Breastfeeding; Child Development; Child Health; Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Maternal Employment; Re-employment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to explore links between mothers' returns to work within 12 weeks of giving birth and health and developmental outcomes for their children. OLS models and propensity score matching methods are utilised to account for selection bias. Considerable associations between early returns to work and children's outcomes are found suggesting causal relationships between early returns to work and reductions in breastfeeding and immunisations, as well as increases in externalising behaviour problems. These results are generally stronger for mothers who return to work full-time within 12 weeks of giving birth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
	Bibliography Citation Berger, Lawrence Marc, Jennifer L. Hill and Jane Waldfogel. "Maternity Leave, Early Maternal Employment and Child Health and Development in the US." Economic Journal 115,501 (February 2005): F29-F47.

2.	Bratsberg, Bernt Roed, Knut Raaum, Oddbjorn Naylor, Robin Jantti, Markus Eriksson, Tor Osterbacka, Eva
2.	Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Consequences for Cross-Country Comparisons Economic Journal 117,519 (March 2007), C72-C92. Also: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02036.x Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Royal Economic Society (RES) Keyword(s): Britain, British; Cross-national Analysis; Denmark, Danish; Educational Attainment; Family Background and Culture; Fathers and Sons; Finland, Finnish; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility; NCDS - National Child Development Study (British); Norway, Norwegian; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We show that the patterns of intergenerational earnings mobility in Denmark, Finland and Norway, unlike those for the US and the UK, are highly nonlinear. The Nordic relationship between log earnings of sons and fathers is flat in the lower segments of the fathers earnings distribution – sons growing up in the poorest households have the same adult earnings prospects as sons in moderately poor households – and is increasingly positive in middle and upper segments. This convex pattern contrasts sharply with our findings for the US and the UK, where the relationship is much closer to being linear. As a result, cross-country comparisons of intergenerational earnings elasticities may be misleading with respect to transmission mechanisms in the central parts of the earnings distribution and uninformative in the tails of the distribution.
	Bibliography Citation Bratsberg, Bernt, Knut Roed, Oddbjorn Raaum, Robin Naylor, Markus Jantti, Tor Eriksson and Eva Osterbacka. "Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Consequences for Cross-Country Comparisons ." Economic Journal 117,519 (March 2007), C72-C92.

3.	Carneiro, Pedro M. Ginja, Rita
3.	Partial Insurance and Investments in Children Economic Journal 126,596 (October 2016): F66-F95. Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecoj.12421 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Royal Economic Society (RES) Keyword(s): Family Income; Family Resources; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Human Capital; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Insurance; Parental Investments Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income and an index of investments in children, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We find that there is partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks but the magnitude of the estimated responses is small. We cannot reject the hypothesis of full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is that insurance possibilities are limited but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments over time results in small reactions of these investments to income shocks, especially at later ages.
	Bibliography Citation Carneiro, Pedro M. and Rita Ginja. "Partial Insurance and Investments in Children." Economic Journal 126,596 (October 2016): F66-F95.

4.	Carneiro, Pedro M. Heckman, James J.
4.	The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling The Economic Journal 112, 482 (October 2002): 705-734 Also: http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/BibEc/data/Articles/ecjeconjlv:112:y:2002:i:482:p:705-734.html Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Royal Economic Society (RES) Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Cognitive Ability; College Enrollment; Credit/Credit Constraint; Debt/Borrowing; Educational Returns; Family Income; Income; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Schooling; Schooling, Post-secondary Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the family income--college enrollment relationship and the evidence on credit constraints in post-secondary schooling. We distinguish short-run liquidity constraints from the long-term factors that promote cognitive and noncognitive ability. Long-run factors crystallized in ability are the major determinants of the family income--schooling relationship, although there is some evidence that up to 4% of the total U.S. population is credit constrained in a short-run sense. Evidence that IV estimates of the returns to schooling exceed OLS estimates is sometimes claimed to support the existence of substantial credit constraints. This argument is critically examined. This article draws on both the NLSY79 and the Children of the NLSY79, utilizing PIAT Math scores from the latter dataset.
	Bibliography Citation Carneiro, Pedro M. and James J. Heckman. "The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling." The Economic Journal 112, 482 (October 2002): 705-734.

5.	Hao, Lingxin Hotz, V. Joseph Jin, Ginger Zhe
5.	Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behaviour, Parental Reputation and Strategic Transfers Economic Journal 118,528 (April 2008): 515-555. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02132.x/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Royal Economic Society (RES) Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing, Adolescent; Family Resources; Risk-Taking; School Dropouts; Siblings; Transfers, Family; Transfers, Parental Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article examines parental reputation formation in intra-familial interactions. In a repeated two stage game, children decide whether to drop out of high school or daughters decide whether to have births as teens and parents then decide whether to provide support to their children beyond age 18. Drawing on Milgrom and Roberts (1982) and Kreps and Wilson (1982), we show that, under certain conditions, parents have the incentive to penalise older children for their adolescent risk-taking behaviour in order to dissuade their younger children from such behaviour when reaching adolescence. We find evidence in favour of this parental reputation model.
	Bibliography Citation Hao, Lingxin, V. Joseph Hotz and Ginger Zhe Jin. "Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behaviour, Parental Reputation and Strategic Transfers." Economic Journal 118,528 (April 2008): 515-555.

6.	Kuhn, Peter Mansour, Hani
6.	Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective? The Economic Journal 124,581 (December 2014): 1213-1233. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecoj.12119/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Royal Economic Society (RES) Keyword(s): Computer Use/Internet Access; Job Search; Unemployment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using NLSY97 data for 2005-2008, we find that unemployed persons who look for work online are re-employed about 25 percent faster than comparable workers who do not search online. This finding contrasts with previous results for 1998-2001 and is robust to controls for cognitive test scores and detailed indicators of Internet access. Internet job search appears to be most effective in reducing unemployment durations when used to contact friends and relatives, to send out resumes or fill out applications, and also to look at ads. We detect a weak positive relationship between IJS and wage growth between jobs.
	Bibliography Citation Kuhn, Peter and Hani Mansour. "Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective?" The Economic Journal 124,581 (December 2014): 1213-1233.

7.	Paserman, Marco Daniele
7.	Job Search and Hyperbolic Discounting: Structural Estimation and Policy Evaluation Economic Journal 118,531 (August 2008): 1418-1452. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02175.x/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Royal Economic Society (RES) Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Employment; Human Capital; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Job Search; Mobility; Modeling; Unemployment; Unemployment Duration; Wage Levels; Wages; Work Histories Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article estimates the degree of hyperbolic discounting in a job search model quantitatively, using data on unemployment spells and accepted wages from the NLSY. The results point to a substantial degree of hyperbolic discounting for low and medium wage workers. The structural estimates are then used to evaluate alternative policy interventions aimed at reducing unemployment. The estimated effects of a given policy can vary by up to 40%, depending on the assumed type of time discounting. Some interventions may raise the long-run utility of hyperbolic workers, and at the same time reduce unemployment duration and lower government expenditures.
	Bibliography Citation Paserman, Marco Daniele. "Job Search and Hyperbolic Discounting: Structural Estimation and Policy Evaluation." Economic Journal 118,531 (August 2008): 1418-1452.

8.	Weinstein, Russell Lang, Kevin Cavounidis, Costas
8.	The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers The Economic Journal published online (27 September 2023). Also: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead079 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Royal Economic Society (RES) Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Black Studies; Discrimination; Discrimination, Employer; Discrimination, Job; Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Employment; Employment History; Income; Monitoring, Discriminatory; Racial Equality/Inequality; Racial Studies; Unemployment; Unemployment Duration Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. African Americans face shorter employment durations than similar Whites. We hypothesize that employers discriminate in acquiring or acting on ability-relevant information. In our model, monitoring Black, but not White, workers is self-sustaining. New Black hires were more likely fired by previous employers after monitoring. This reduces firms’ beliefs about ability, incentivizing discriminatory monitoring. We confirm our predictions that layoffs are initially higher for Black than non-Black workers, but that they converge with seniority and decline more with the Armed Forces Qualification Test for Black workers. Two additional predictions, lower lifetime incomes and longer unemployment durations for Black workers, have known empirical support.
	Bibliography Citation Weinstein, Russell, Kevin Lang and Costas Cavounidis. "The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers ." The Economic Journal published online (27 September 2023).

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