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Author: Mai, Hui
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1. Mai, Hui
Estimating the Effects of Family Relocation on Children's Education and Youth Risky Behavior
Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Washington, October 2014
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Washington
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Alcohol Use; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Drug Use; Mobility, Residential; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Runaways; School Completion; Siblings

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Using individual-level data from the NLSY79 and the NLSY79 Children and Young Adults, we empirically investigate the role of family relocation on children's schooling and youth behavior problems. By exploiting the variation in sibling's age at the time of family relocation, we find no detectable negative effects of family relocation on various children's outcomes. In addition, while the OLS estimates vary by gender and ethnicity, this variety disappears in the sibling fixed effects estimates. Our empirical results indicate that the unobserved family characteristics that drive the decision of family relocation are responsible for children's schooling and behavior outcomes in the long run.
Bibliography Citation
Mai, Hui. "Estimating the Effects of Family Relocation on Children's Education and Youth Risky Behavior." Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Washington, October 2014.
2. Mai, Hui
Three Essays on Family Economics
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Washington, 2015
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult, NLSY97
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Alcohol Use; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Contraception; Drug Use; Family Size; Mobility, Residential; Mobility, Schools; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Mothers, Health; Runaways; School Completion; Siblings

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data, my dissertation investigates several key issues in family economics. The first chapter studies the role of family relocation on children's schooling and youth behavior problems. By exploiting the variation in sibling's age at the time of family relocation, we find no detectable negative effects of family relocation on various children's outcomes. We extend our discussion to the context of school mobility and child outcomes. In the second chapter, we use individual school change history from the NLSY 97 and control for sibling fixed effects to estimate how the variation in children's age at school change would affect a set of outcome variables. We find school change made at age 16-18 would significantly reduce children's education achievement by age 20 and increase their possibility for repeating grade in school. In the third chapter, we examine the impact of family size on maternal health outcomes by exploiting the exogenous change in family size using contraceptive failure as instrument variable. This result indicates that mothers' mental health at age 40 is negatively affected by having additional child while their physical health stays intact.
Bibliography Citation
Mai, Hui. Three Essays on Family Economics. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Washington, 2015.