Journal of Human Resources

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Volume 44, issue 4, 2009

Conditional Cash Transfers and School Dropout Rates

Lorraine Dearden, Carl Emmerson and Costas Meghir

Gender Differences in Beliefs on the Returns to Effort: Evidence from the World Values Survey

Raymond Fisman and Maura O’Neill

Why Should We Care About Child Labor?: The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor

Kathleen Beegle, Rajeev Dehejia and Roberta Gatti

Testing the External Effect of Household Behavior: The Case of the Demand for Children

Hongbin Li and Junsen Zhang

Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia’s Wildfires

Seema Jayachandran

When is the Local Average Treatment Close to the Average?: Evidence from Fertility and Labor Supply

Avraham Ebenstein

Flexibility of Household Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh

The Effect of Disability Insurance on Health Investment: Evidence from the Veterans Benefits Administration’s Disability Compensation Program

Perry Singleton

The Effects of Local Workplace Smoking Laws on Smoking Restrictions and Exposure to Smoke at Work

Christopher S. Carpenter

Estimating the Return to Endogenous Schooling Decisions via Conditional Second Moments

Roger Klein and Francis Vella

Educational Homogamy: How Much is Opportunities?

Helena Nielsen and Michael Svarer

Volume 44, issue 3, 2009

Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics

Richard Blundell and Monica Costa Dias

Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children’s Achievement: Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers

Todd Elder and Darren Lubotsky

Do School Lunches Contribute to Childhood Obesity?

Diane Schanzenbach

Obesity, Attractiveness, and Differential Treatment in Hiring: A Field Experiment

Dan-Olof Rooth

Addressing the Needs of Underprepared Students in Higher Education: Does College Remediation Work?

Eric Bettinger and Bridget Long

The Impact of Maternal Imprisonment on Children’s Educational Achievement: Results from Children in Chicago Public Schools

Rosa Minhyo Cho

Peer Effects in Welfare Dependence: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Olof Åslund and Peter Fredriksson

Volume 44, issue 2, 2009

Does Job Loss Shorten Life?

Marcus Eliason and Donald Storrie

Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects

Jason Fletcher and Barbara Wolfe

Why Wait?: The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wages of Men and Women

David S. Loughran and Julie Zissimopoulos

Structural Estimation of Family Labor Supply with Taxes: Estimating a Continuous Hours Model Using a Direct Utility Specification

Bradley Heim

The Effects of Progressive Taxation on Labor Supply when Hours and Wages Are Jointly Determined

Daniel Aaronson and Eric French

Partially Identifying Treatment Effects with an Application to Covering the Uninsured

Brent Kreider and Steven Hill

Information, Avoidance Behavior, and Health: The Effect of Ozone on Asthma Hospitalizations

Matthew Neidell

A Professor Like Me: The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement

Florian Hoffmann and Philip Oreopoulos

Estimation of an Occupational Choice Model when Occupations are Misclassified

Paul Sullivan

Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi

Tom Bundervoet, Philip Verwimp and Richard Akresh

Volume 44, issue 1, 2009

Detecting Problems in Survey Data Using Benford’s Law

George Judge and Laura Schechter

Dowry and Intrahousehold Bargaining: Evidence from China

Phil Brown

Health Insurance, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes: A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics

Zhou Yang, Donna Gilleskie and Edward Norton

The Impact of Increased Tax Subsidies on the Insurance Coverage of Self-Employed Families: Evidence from the 1996–2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Thomas Selden

Maternal Labor Supply and the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools

Elizabeth Cascio

Is there a Causal Effect of High School Math on Labor Market Outcomes?

Juanna Joensen and Helena Nielsen

Taking a Chance on College: Is the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship Program a Winner?

Amanda Pallais

Class Size Reduction and Student Achievement: The Potential Tradeoff between Teacher Quality and Class Size

Christopher Jepsen and Steven Rivkin

How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida

Ariel Belasen and Solomon Polachek

Volume 43, issue 4, 2008

The Noncognitive Determinants of Labor Market and Behavioral Outcomes: Introduction to the Symposium

Bas ter Weel

Formulating, Identifying and Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation

Flavio Cunha and James Heckman

Classroom Behavior

Carmit Segal

Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes

Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel and Bruce Weinberg

Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?

Alan Krueger and David Schkade

The Gender Wage Gap among Young Adults in the United States: The Importance of Money versus People

Nicole Fortin

Racial Labor Market Gaps: The Role of Abilities and Schooling Choices

Sergio Urzua

The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

Lex Borghans, Angela Lee Duckworth, James Heckman and Bas ter Weel

Volume 43, issue 3, 2008

The Effect of a First Child on Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Women Seeking Fertility Services pp. 487-510

Julian Cristia

The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya pp. 511-552

Harsha Thirumurthy, Joshua Graff Zivin and Markus Goldstein

Lead Water Pipes and Infant Mortality at the Turn of the Twentieth Century pp. 553-575

Werner Troesken

Building the Stock of College-Educated Labor pp. 576-610

Susan Dynarski

The Effect of Marital Breakup on the Income Distribution of Women with Children pp. 611-629

Elizabeth O. Ananat and Guy Michaels

Gender Wage Disparities among the Highly Educated pp. 630-659

Dan Black, Amelia Haviland, Seth G. Sanders and Lowell Taylor

The Minimum Wage, Restaurant Prices, and Labor Market Structure pp. 688-720

Daniel Aaronson, Eric French and James MacDonald

A Note on "The Longitudinal Structure of Earnings Losses among Work-Limited Disabled Workers" pp. 721-728

Wallace K C Mok, Bruce Meyer, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Alexandra C. Achen

Intergenerational Transmission of Language Capital and Economic Outcomes pp. 4660-687

Teresa Casey and Christian Dustmann

Volume 43, issue 2, 2008

What Holds Back the Second Generation?: The Intergenerational Transmission of Language Human Capital Among Immigrants pp. 267-298

Hoyt Bleakley and Aimee Chin

Return Migration, Investment in Children, and Intergenerational Mobility: Comparing Sons of Foreign- and Native-Born Fathers pp. 299-324

Christian Dustmann

Out of the Wallet and into the Purse: Using Micro Data to Test Income Pooling pp. 325-351

Jennifer Ward-Batts

Food Stamps and Food Insecurity: What Can Be Learned in the Presence of Nonclassical Measurement Error? pp. 352-382

Craig Gundersen and Brent Kreider

Borrowing During Unemployment: Unsecured Debt as a Safety Net pp. 383-412

James Sullivan

Does Unemployment Increase Crime?: Evidence from U.S. Data 1974–2000 pp. 413-436

Ming-Jen Lin

Parental Effort, School Resources, and Student Achievement pp. 437-453

Andrew J. Houtenville and Karen Smith Conway

Parental Problem-drinking and Adult Children’s Labor Market Outcomes pp. 454-486

Ana Balsa

Volume 43, issue 1, 2008

The Benefits of Delayed Primary School Enrollment: Discontinuity Estimates Using Exact Birth Dates

Patrick McEwan and Joseph Shapiro

Age, Women, and Hiring: An Experimental Study

Joanna Lahey

The Effect of the Social Security Earnings Test on Male Labor Supply: New Evidence from Survey and Administrative Data

Steven Haider and David S. Loughran

Short-, Medium-, and Long-Term Consequences of Poor Infant Health: An Analysis Using Siblings and Twins

Philip Oreopoulos, Mark Stabile, Randy Walld and Leslie L. Roos

Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the United States, 1940 to 2000

Daniel Aaronson and Bhashkar Mazumder

Peer Effects in Academic Cheating

Scott Carrell, Frederick V. Malmstrom and James West

Watching the Clocks: The Role of Food Stamp Recertification and TANF Time Limits in Caseload Dynamics

David Ribar, Marilyn Edelhoch and Qiduan Liu

Parent-Child Quality Time: Does Birth Order Matter?

Joseph Price