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Title: Essays on Gender Gaps and Investments in Children
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Shenhav, Na'ama |
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Essays on Gender Gaps and Investments in Children Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, 2016 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Health; Earnings, Wives; Family Income; Geocoded Data; Household Income; Obesity; Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The third chapter builds on the findings made in the first two chapters, and explores the implications of changes in male and female wage opportunities for child achievement. It contributes to a large literature that has shown that a child's academic success and physical development are strongly influenced by family income, but which has less evidence on whether the source of income also matters. The empirical strategy takes advantage of national shifts in the return to occupations over this time period as a source of exogenous convergence of wages across sexes in a marriage market. In contrast to previous findings, the results do not show that a higher female to male wage ratio significantly improves children's outcomes, although the confidence intervals allow for an important positive or negative effect. Auxiliary analyses which use observed relative household income produce a qualitatively different, negative and statistically significant effect of relative wages on children's development, which is likely a reflection of an omitted variable bias. Sources of the imprecision in the estimation are discussed. |
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Shenhav, Na'ama. Essays on Gender Gaps and Investments in Children. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, 2016. |