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Source: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Resulting in 8 citations.
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Artz, Benjamin Blanchflower, David G. Bryson, Alex |
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Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 203 (November 2022): 173-188. Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268122003249 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Economic Changes/Recession; Job Satisfaction; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Underemployment; Unions We revisit the well-known negative association between unionization and workers' job satisfaction in the United States, first identified over forty years ago. We find the association has disappeared since the Great Recession. The job satisfaction of both younger and older union workers in the National Longitudinal Surveys of 1979 and 1997 no longer differs compared to that of their non-union counterparts. When controlling for person fixed effects with panel data unionization is associated with greater job satisfaction throughout, suggesting that when one accounts for worker sorting into unionization, becoming unionized has always been associated with improvements in job satisfaction. We find a diminution in unions' ability to lower quit rates which is consistent with declining union effectiveness as a 'voice' mechanism for unionized workers. We also find unions are able to minimize covered workers' exposure to underemployment, a phenomenon that has increasingly negatively impacted non-union workers since the Great Recession. |
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Artz, Benjamin, David G. Blanchflower and Alex Bryson. "Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 203 (November 2022): 173-188.
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Chalfin, Aaron Deza, Monica |
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The Intergenerational Effects of Education on Delinquency Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 159 (March 2019): 553-571. Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268117302123 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Educational Attainment; Geocoded Data; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Parental Influences; State-Level Data/Policy Children of less educated parents are more likely to engage in delinquent behavior. One explanation for this is that better educated parents are inherently more likely to raise children in ways that are less conducive to criminal participation. Alternatively, additional parental education may change parents' behavior in ways that reduces their children's propensity to commit crime. Using data from the NLSY79 and variation induced by changes in compulsory schooling laws in the United States, we find that an increase in parental education reduces delinquent behavior among the children of those exposed to compulsory schooling laws. This research is the first to uncover evidence of an intergenerational effect of education on crime in the United States. We conclude that previous analyses of compulsory schooling laws − and investments in education more generally − appreciably underestimate the full benefits of investments in education. |
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Chalfin, Aaron and Monica Deza. "The Intergenerational Effects of Education on Delinquency." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 159 (March 2019): 553-571.
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Dossi, Gaia Figlio, David N. Giuliano, Paola Sapienza, Paola |
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Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 183 (March 2021): 175-188. Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268120304716 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Children, Academic Development; Gender Attitudes/Roles; Gender Differences; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers and Daughters; Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math) We study the effect of preferences for boys on the performance in mathematics of girls, using evidence from two different data sources. In our first set of results, we identify families with a preference for boys by using fertility stopping rules in a large population of households whose children attend public schools in Florida. Girls growing up in a boy-biased family score on average 3 percentage points lower on math tests when compared to girls raised in other types of families. In our second set of results, we find similar effects when we study the correlations between girls' performance in mathematics and maternal gender role attitudes, using evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We conclude that socialization at home can explain a non-trivial part of the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance and document that maternal gender attitudes correlate with those of their children, supporting the hypothesis that preferences transmitted through the family impact children behavior. |
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Dossi, Gaia, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano and Paola Sapienza. "Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 183 (March 2021): 175-188.
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Kim, Sun Hyung |
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The Importance of Social Skills in Recovery from Graduating in a Recession Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 205 (January 2023): 387-411. Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268122004188 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): College Graduates; Economic Changes/Recession; Labor Market Outcomes; Noncognitive Skills I study how the impacts of initial unemployment conditions on labor market returns vary for US college graduates with different levels of cognitive and social skills. Using the NLSY79 whose respondents graduated from college between 1979 and 1989, I find that the cost of recessions is substantial and unequal. The different roles of skills in workers' careers explain a large degree of heterogeneity in the costs of labor market shocks at graduation. When a worker with higher social skills graduates in a recession, she widens her advantage mostly through higher academic attainment and mobility toward highly rated and high-skilled occupations. |
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Kim, Sun Hyung. "The Importance of Social Skills in Recovery from Graduating in a Recession." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 205 (January 2023): 387-411.
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Lei, Ziteng Lundberg, Shelly |
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Vulnerable Boys: Short-term and Long-term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 178 (October 2020): 424-448. Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268120302420 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Family Environment; Fathers, Absence; Gender Differences; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth); Skills The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data we find, as do previous studies, that boys are more likely to experience increased problems in school relative to girls, including suspensions and reduced educational aspirations, when they are in poor quality schools, less-educated neighborhoods, and father-absent households. Following these cohorts into young adulthood, however, we find no evidence that adolescent disadvantage has stronger negative impacts on long-run economic outcomes such as college graduation, employment, or income for men, relative to women. We do find that father absence is more strongly associated with men’s marriage and childbearing and weak support for greater male vulnerability to disadvantage in rates of high school graduation. An investigation of adult outcomes for another recent cohort from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to valid inferences about the effects of disadvantage on adult skills. |
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Lei, Ziteng and Shelly Lundberg. "Vulnerable Boys: Short-term and Long-term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 178 (October 2020): 424-448.
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Silveus, Neil Stoddard, Christiana |
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Identifying the Causal Effect of Income on Religiosity Using the Earned Income Tax Credit Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 178 (October 2020): 903-924. Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268120302924 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Geocoded Data; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Religious Influences; State-Level Data/Policy How do economic conditions--income and the generosity of social insurance--affect religious behavior? This paper provides novel evidence for the United States using variation in Earned Income Tax Credit benefits across states, over time, and by number of children. In the raw data, income and religiosity have a trivial relationship. In contrast, the instrumental variables strategy shows that increases in income from the EITC are found to sizably reduce religious attendance among low-income individuals. Among individuals who attend, the results indicate that an additional $1000 in annual income is associated with a decrease of roughly 1 service per year (as compared to an average of 16 services per year). The effect arises mainly along the intensive margin, decreasing devout behavior and increasing more marginal attendance, but having little impact on whether an individual participates at all or on beliefs. There are also minimal effects on the occurrence and amount of contributions to religious organizations. The results extend our understanding of the determinants of religiosity, the relationship between governmental income support and religious behavior, and the social effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit. |
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Silveus, Neil and Christiana Stoddard. "Identifying the Causal Effect of Income on Religiosity Using the Earned Income Tax Credit." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 178 (October 2020): 903-924.
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Williams, Geoffrey |
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Property Crime: Investigating Career Patterns and Earnings Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 119 (November 2015): 124-138. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016726811500205X Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Crime; Earnings; Smoking (see Cigarette Use) I investigate self-reported theft data in the NLSY 1997 Cohort for the years 1997-2011. Several striking patterns emerge. First, individuals appear to be active thieves for extremely short periods - in most cases in only one year, and fewer than 5% of thieves for more than three years out of the 15 years of data. Second, self-reported earnings from theft are generally very low and there is little evidence of "successful" criminals or consistent earnings from theft. Third, measures that proxy impatience (smoking, for example) are highly correlated with theft. Fourthly, thieves and non-thieves have similar earnings during the years of peak theft activity, but thieves have lower earnings in their late 20s (after most have long since stopped committing theft). Attrition of survey respondents, underreporting and incapacitation effects do not appear to explain this. There may be "professional thieves" too rare to show up in even large samples such as the NLSY. Theft in the United States thus appears to be substantially a phenomenon of individuals entering a temporary period of intensified risk-taking in adolescence. |
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Williams, Geoffrey. "Property Crime: Investigating Career Patterns and Earnings." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 119 (November 2015): 124-138.
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Xia, Xiaoyu |
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Forming Wage Expectations through Learning: Evidence from College Major Choices Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 132,A (December 2016): 176-196. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268116302426 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): College Major/Field of Study/Courses; Learning Hypothesis; Occupations; Siblings; Wages How do college students choose their majors, and what role does the family play in their choices? I use data from two major longitudinal surveys to develop and estimate a model in which students learn about earning opportunities associated with different majors through the wages of older siblings and parents. The probability of a student choosing a major that corresponds to the occupation of a family member is strongly correlated with the family member's wage at the time the major choice is made. This correlation remains strong after controlling for family-correlated abilities or preferences, and additional empirical evidence suggests that the observed correlation arises through a family-based wage information channel. |
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Xia, Xiaoyu. "Forming Wage Expectations through Learning: Evidence from College Major Choices." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 132,A (December 2016): 176-196.
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