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Source: Empirical Economics
Resulting in 5 citations.
1. Aliprantis, Dionissi
Human Capital in the Inner City
Empirical Economics 53,3 (November 2017): 1125-1169.
Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-016-1160-y
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Behavior, Violent; Childhood Adversity/Trauma; Human Capital; Labor Market Outcomes; Neighborhood Effects; Racial Differences; Urbanization/Urban Living

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Twenty-six percent of black males in the USA report seeing someone shot at before turning 12. This paper investigates how black young males alter their behavior when living in violent neighborhoods, using the nationally representative National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to quantitatively characterize the "code of the street" from the sociology literature. Black and white young males are equally likely to engage in violent behavior, conditional on reported exposure to violence. Education and labor market outcomes are worse when reporting exposure, unconditionally and controlling for observables. Mediators documented in the ethnography are quantitatively important in the estimated structural model.
Bibliography Citation
Aliprantis, Dionissi. "Human Capital in the Inner City." Empirical Economics 53,3 (November 2017): 1125-1169.
2. Andini, Corrado
How Well Does a Dynamic Mincer Equation Fit NLSY Data? Evidence Based on a Simple Wage-Bargaining Model
Empirical Economics 44,3 (June 2013): 1519-1543.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-012-0581-5
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Modeling; Statistical Analysis; Unemployment Compensation; Wages

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This article argues that a dynamic Mincer equation can be seen as the solution of a simple wage-bargaining model between a worker and an employer where the unemployment-benefit level, affecting the outside option of the worker, depends on past wages. Further, it shows that this model provides a good fit of the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data. The evidence is robust to a number of sensitivity checks.
Bibliography Citation
Andini, Corrado. "How Well Does a Dynamic Mincer Equation Fit NLSY Data? Evidence Based on a Simple Wage-Bargaining Model." Empirical Economics 44,3 (June 2013): 1519-1543.
3. Nielsson, Ulf
Steingrimsdottir, Herdis
The Signalling Value of Education across Genders
Empirical Economics 54,4 (June 2018): 1827-1854.
Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-017-1264-z
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Cognitive Ability; Discrimination, Sex; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Wage Gap

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This study examines gender discrimination and the possibility that education is more important for signalling ability among women than men. As social networks tend to run along gender lines and managers in the labour market are predominantly male, it may be more difficult for women to signal their ability without college credentials. The Lang and Manove (Am Econ Rev 101(4):1467-1496, 2011) model of racial discrimination and educational sorting is applied to examine the gender gap in schooling attainment. The model is empirically estimated for whites, blacks and Hispanics separately, with the results among whites consistent with education being more valuable to women due to signalling. For 90% of the whites in the sample women choose a higher level of education, given their ability, than men. Women on average obtain 0.5–0.7 extra years of schooling compared to men with the same ability score.
Bibliography Citation
Nielsson, Ulf and Herdis Steingrimsdottir. "The Signalling Value of Education across Genders." Empirical Economics 54,4 (June 2018): 1827-1854.
4. Sicilian, Paul
Grossberg, Adam J.
Does Supervisor Gender Affect Wages?
Empirical Economics 46,2 (March 2014): 479-499.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-013-0695-4?no-access=true
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Gender; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Supervisor Characteristics; Wage Effects; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty

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This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 (NLSY79) and the Current Population Survey to estimate the wage effects of having a female supervisor. Existing studies, using OLS to estimate the supervisor gender effect, find wage penalties for both men and women associated with working for a female supervisor. We extend this research in two important ways. First, we control for gender segregation at job level as opposed to the broader occupation level. This is important because of the concern that supervisor gender is simply a proxy for the gender-type of the job. Second, we apply fixed effects estimation to control for selection effects of supervisor gender. When using OLS we find estimates of the supervisor gender effect similar to those in the existing literature. However, when using fixed effects we find no evidence of a supervisor gender effect for women and only a small, marginally significant effect for men. We conclude that existing OLS estimates overstate the importance of the impact of supervisor gender on wages.
Bibliography Citation
Sicilian, Paul and Adam J. Grossberg. "Does Supervisor Gender Affect Wages?" Empirical Economics 46,2 (March 2014): 479-499.
5. Troske, Kenneth R.
Voicu, Alexandru
The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women
Empirical Economics 45,1 (August 2013): 483-521.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00181-012-0620-2
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Births, Repeat / Spacing; First Birth; Labor Force Participation; Labor Supply; Marital Status; Maternal Employment

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We analyze the effect of the timing and spacing of births on the labor supply of married women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of the labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity of the effects of children on labor supply and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential labor market decisions. Delaying the first birth leads to higher pre-natal levels of labor market involvement and reduces the negative effect of the first child on labor supply. The effect of the second child increases with the spacing of the two births as women, returning to work after the first birth, finance child care time increasingly through reductions in market time. Individual heterogeneity is considerable; women with lower propensity for children have the first birth later in life and space subsequent births more closely together, work more before the birth of the first child, but face larger effects of children on their labor supply.
Bibliography Citation
Troske, Kenneth R. and Alexandru Voicu. "The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women." Empirical Economics 45,1 (August 2013): 483-521.