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Author: Pierret, Charles R.
Resulting in 18 citations.
1. Altonji, Joseph G.
Pierret, Charles R.
Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
NLS Discussion Paper No. 97-36, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington DC, November 1997.
Also: http://stats.bls.gov/ore/abstract/nl/nl970020.htm
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Discrimination, Employer; Education; Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; Fathers, Influence; Labor Market Demographics; Racial Differences; Siblings; Wage Equations; Wage Growth; Work Experience

We provide a test for statistical discrimination or "rational" stereotyping in environments in which agents learn over time. Our application is to the labor market. If profit maximizing firms have limited information about the general productivity of new workers, they may choose to use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to "statistically discriminate" among workers. As firms acquire more information about a worker, pay will become more dependent on actual productivity and less dependent on easily observable characteristics or credentials that predict productivity. Consider a wage equation that contains both the interaction between experience and a hard to observe variable that is positively related to productivity and the interaction between experience and a variable that firms can easily observe, such as years of education. We show that the wage coefficient on the unobservable productivity variable should rise with time in the labor market and the wage coefficient on education should fall. We investigate this proposition using panel data on education, the AFQT test, father's education, and wages for young men and their siblings from NLSY. We also examine the empirical implications of statistical discrimination on the basis of race. Our results support the hypothesis of statistical discrimination, although they are inconsistent with the hypothesis that firms fully utilize the information in race. Our analysis has wide implications for the analysis of the determinants of wage growth and productivity and the analysis of statistical discrimination in the labor market and elsewhere.
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Altonji, Joseph G. and Charles R. Pierret. "Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination." NLS Discussion Paper No. 97-36, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington DC, November 1997.
2. Altonji, Joseph G.
Pierret, Charles R.
Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
Quarterly Journal of Economics 116,1 (February 2001): 313-350.
Also: http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/116/1/313.abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: MIT Press
Keyword(s): Discrimination, Employer; Education; Racial Differences; Wages

We show that if firms statistically discriminate among young workers on the basis of easily observable characteristics such as education, then as firms learn about productivity, the coefficients on the easily observed variables should fall, and the coefficients on hard-to-observe correlates of productivity should rise. We find support for this proposition using NLSY79 data on education, the AFQT test, father's education, and wages for young men and their siblings. We find little evidence for statistical discrimination in wages on the basis of race. Our analysis has a wide range of applications in the labor market and elsewhere. See also: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=3D348EF6-21E0-4F3D-BC20-894E50FBE564&ttype=6&tid=567
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Altonji, Joseph G. and Charles R. Pierret. "Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination." Quarterly Journal of Economics 116,1 (February 2001): 313-350.
3. Altonji, Joseph G.
Pierret, Charles R.
Employer Learning and the Signaling Value of Education
NLS Discussion Paper No. 97-35, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington DC, November 1997.
Also: http://stats.bls.gov/ore/abstract/nl/nl970030.htm
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Discrimination, Job; Education; Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; Wage Equations

If profit maximizing firms have limited information about the general productivity of new workers, they may choose to use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to "statistically discriminate" among workers. The pure credential value of education will depend on how quickly firms learn. To obtain information on employer learning, we work with a wage equation that contains both the interaction between experience and a hard to observe variable that is positively related to productivity and the interaction between experience and a variable that firms can easily observe, such as years of education. The time path of the coefficient on the unobservable productivity variable provides information about the rate at which employers learn about worker productivity. Using data from the NLSY we obtain preliminary estimates of the rate at which employers learn about worker quality and use these, along with some strong auxiliary assumptions, to explore the empirical relevance of the educational screening hypothesis. We show that even if employers learn relatively slowly about the productivity of new workers, the portion of the return to education that could reflect signaling of ability is limited.
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Altonji, Joseph G. and Charles R. Pierret. "Employer Learning and the Signaling Value of Education." NLS Discussion Paper No. 97-35, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington DC, November 1997.
4. Aughinbaugh, Alison Aileen
Gittleman, Maury
Pierret, Charles R.
Why Is the Rate of College Dropout So High?
Presented: Atlanta GA, American Economic Association Annual Meeting, January 2019
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: American Economic Association
Keyword(s): College Education; Dropouts

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During most of the twentieth century, the U.S. led the world in the percentage of its population with a college education; today, that lead has vanished. Sparked in part by the growth in the college wage premium, the proportion of high school graduates going on to post‐secondary school has been on the rise in recent decades. However, this increase in college attendance has not resulted in a proportionate rise in the number of those with four year‐degrees, because the United States has the highest dropout rate in the developed world. With a college education said to be increasingly necessary to compete in the labor market, it is important to understand why so many individuals do not achieve success in postsecondary institutions. We address this issue by examining the college attendance and completion experience of two cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), that from 1979 and that from 1997. The percentage of high school completers who attend college rose by almost 30 percentage points between the NLSY79 and NLSY97 samples. The bulk of the growth is through starting college at a two‐year institution. This is the case throughout the test score and family income distributions. In contrast, the percentage of college attendees who earn a bachelor's degree six years after high school completion is unchanged between the two cohorts (at about 37 percent), with an increase for women and a decrease for men.
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Aughinbaugh, Alison Aileen, Maury Gittleman and Charles R. Pierret. "Why Is the Rate of College Dropout So High?" Presented: Atlanta GA, American Economic Association Annual Meeting, January 2019.
5. Aughinbaugh, Alison Aileen
Pierret, Charles R.
Rothstein, Donna S.
The Impact of Family Structure Transitions on Youth Achievement: Evidence from the Children of the NLSY79
Demography 42,3 (August 2005): 447-468.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/p827q00p7x183118/
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Marital Disruption; Marital Stability; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading)

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We investigated the sensitivity of measures of cognitive ability and socioemotional development to changes in parents' marital status using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979. We used several scores for each assessment, taken at different times relative to parents' marital transitions, which allowed us to trace the effects starting up to five years before a parent's change in marital status and continuing for up to six years afterward. It also allowed us to correct for the unobserved heterogeneity of the transition and nontransition samples by controlling for the child's fixed effect in estimating the time path of his or her response to the transition. We found that children from families with both biological parents scored significantly better on the BPI and the PIAT-math and PIAT-reading assessments than did children from nonintact families. However, much of the difference disappeared when we controlled for background variables. Furthermore, when we controlled for child fixed effects, we did not find significant longitudinal variation in these scores over long periods that encompass the marital transition. This finding suggests that most of the variation is due to cross-sectional differences and is not a result of marital transitions per se.
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Aughinbaugh, Alison Aileen, Charles R. Pierret and Donna S. Rothstein. "The Impact of Family Structure Transitions on Youth Achievement: Evidence from the Children of the NLSY79 ." Demography 42,3 (August 2005): 447-468.
6. Aughinbaugh, Alison Aileen
Pierret, Charles R.
Rothstein, Donna S.
The National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth: Research Highlights
Monthly Labor Review (September 2015): .
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/monthlylaborrev.2015.09.006
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult, NLSY97
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Bureau of Labor Statistics; Data Sets Documentation; Research Methodology

To help mark the Monthly Labor Review's centennial, the editors invited several producers and users of BLS data to take a look back at the last 100 years. This article highlights research based on data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. The studies presented demonstrate the breadth and uniqueness of the surveys, covering topics from employment and education to health and criminal behavior.
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Aughinbaugh, Alison Aileen, Charles R. Pierret and Donna S. Rothstein. "The National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth: Research Highlights." Monthly Labor Review (September 2015): .
7. Black, Dan A.
Michael, Robert T.
Pierret, Charles R.
Knowing Younger Workers Better: Information from the NLSY97.
Monthly Labor Review 131,9 (September 1. 2008): 42-51.
Also: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/09/art3abs.htm
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Employment, Youth; NLS Description; Schooling; Wages, Youth

Papers from the 10th anniversary conference of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort, addressed schooling, employment, adolescent behaviors, and many other aspects of youths lives [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Black, Dan A., Robert T. Michael and Charles R. Pierret. "Knowing Younger Workers Better: Information from the NLSY97." Monthly Labor Review 131,9 (September 1. 2008): 42-51.
8. Dey, Judith G.
Pierret, Charles R.
Independence for Young Millennials: Moving Out and Boomeranging Back
Monthly Labor Review (December 2014): .
Also: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/article/pdf/independence-for-young-millennials-moving-out-and-boomeranging-back.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Household Structure; Residence, Return to Parental Home/Delayed Homeleaving

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this article examines the process of household formation for young adults born between 1980 and 1984. The analysis finds that, by age 27, about 90 percent of these individuals had left their parental households at least once and more than 50 percent of them had moved back at some point after moving out. The article also reveals that the likelihood of moving out and boomeranging back is correlated with certain individual and family characteristics, including gender, race, educational attainment, and household income.
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Dey, Judith G. and Charles R. Pierret. "Independence for Young Millennials: Moving Out and Boomeranging Back." Monthly Labor Review (December 2014): .
9. Gittleman, Maury
Aughinbaugh, Alison Aileen
Pierret, Charles R.
Why Is the Rate of College Dropout so High and Why Is It Rising for Men?
Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): College Dropouts; College Graduates; Gender Differences

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Using the NLSY79 and NLSY97, we examine changes in college completion rates and their causes. We find that college completion rates fell from one cohort to the next, with the rate for men dropping sharply, while that for women increased. Thus, any explanation for these trends must be able to account for gender differences. We will model the probability of completing college as a function of three different categories of variables: 1) student attributes; 2) characteristics of the postsecondary institutions; and 3) measures of any “mismatch” between the ability of the student and the quality of the institution. We will decompose differences over time in college completion rates into portions attributable to changes in the observed characteristics between cohorts and to changes in the coefficients. The portion attributable to changes in the observed characteristics will be further examined to assess the relative importance of student characteristics, institutional resources and mismatch.
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Gittleman, Maury, Alison Aileen Aughinbaugh and Charles R. Pierret. "Why Is the Rate of College Dropout so High and Why Is It Rising for Men?" Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014.
10. Pergamit, Michael R.
Pierret, Charles R.
Rothstein, Donna S.
Veum, Jonathan R.
Data Watch: The National Longitudinal Surveys
Journal of Economic Perspectives 15,2 (Spring 2001): 239-253.
Also: http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.15.2.239
Cohort(s): NLS General, NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: American Economic Association
Keyword(s): Employment; Longitudinal Data Sets; Longitudinal Surveys; NLS Description

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The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) are perhaps the oldest and longest running panel surveys of individuals in the United States. These surveys were originally started at the U.S. Department of Labor in the mid-1960s to examine employment issues faced by different segments of the U.S. population. The four "original cohorts" were Young Men, Young Women, Mature Women (women who had finished their childbearing and were returning to the labor force), and Older Men (men approaching retirement). Since that time, the NLS program has expanded to include two new cohorts of youth. Table 1 provides an overview of the NLS cohorts over time. The NLS surveys have been widely used for over a quarter of a century and across a large number of academic disciplines including economics, sociology, psychology, education, medicine, and public policy. Hundreds of Ph.D. dissertations and thousands of journal articles rely on NLS data. The success of the NLS program is in part attributable to three aspects of the surveys: high retention rates, careful design features, and the broad range of subject areas studied. Over the past decade, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 has been the most widely used and most important of the NLS data sets. Thus, rather than attempting to describe each of the longitudinal surveys in detail, this paper will convey the approach and scope of the NLS program by focusing primarily on NLSY79. The new youth cohort begun in 1997, the NLSY97, will be discussed further below.
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Pergamit, Michael R., Charles R. Pierret, Donna S. Rothstein and Jonathan R. Veum. "Data Watch: The National Longitudinal Surveys." Journal of Economic Perspectives 15,2 (Spring 2001): 239-253.
11. Pierret, Charles R.
'Sandwich Generation': Women Caring for Parents and Children
Monthly Labor Review 129,9 (September 2006): 3-9.
Also: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/09/art1full.pdf
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Caregivers, Adult Children; Women

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women are used to estimate the number and characteristics of women 45 to 56 years old who care for both their children and their parents; these women transfer a significant amount of money to their children and time to their parents.
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Pierret, Charles R. "'Sandwich Generation': Women Caring for Parents and Children." Monthly Labor Review 129,9 (September 2006): 3-9.
12. Pierret, Charles R.
Event History Data and Survey Recall: An Analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Recall Experiment
Journal of Human Resources 36,3 (Summer 2001): 439-466.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3069626
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Data Quality/Consistency; Employment, History; Event History; Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)

Prior to its switch from an annual interviewing format to a biennial one, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) conducted an experiment to see how less frequent interviews would affect data quality. This paper analyzes this experiment with respect to data collected using event history techniques, namely AFDC and food stamp recipiency and employment history. Respondents faced with the longer recall period failed to report short spells of recipiency, employment, and nonemployment. The pattern of the coefficients in econometric models of the type often used to study event history did not change greatly, though tests reject the equality of the coefficients between the recall sample and the control group in half of the models estimated.
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Pierret, Charles R. "Event History Data and Survey Recall: An Analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Recall Experiment." Journal of Human Resources 36,3 (Summer 2001): 439-466.
13. Pierret, Charles R.
The Effects of Family Structure on Youth Outcomes in the NLSY97
In: Social Awakening: Adolescent Behavior as Adulthood Approaches. R.T. Michael, ed. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001: pp. 25-48
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Alcohol Use; Behavioral Problems; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Delinquency/Gang Activity; Drug Use; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Family Structure; Family Studies; Illegal Activities; Incarceration/Jail; Mothers, Education; Sexual Behavior

Chapter: Examined whether particular children in a particular family situation would fare better if the parents were to stay together or split up. The sample for this analysis was drawn from the 1st round of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97). Outcome measures included GPA in the 8th grade and indicator variables for certain negative behaviors: whether the youth smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol, or smoked marijuana on at least 2 days in the last month, had been arrested 2 or more times, and had sex with 3 or more partners ever. Information about the family structure was obtained from the parent interview. It was found that children living in nonintact families earn lower grades in school and exhibit a greater propensity to engage in problem behaviors in their teen years. Even after controlling for income and mother's education, NLSY97 youths living in nonintact families were up to 120% more likely to use marijuana regularly and 250% more likely to have been arrested 2 or more times. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved)
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Pierret, Charles R. "The Effects of Family Structure on Youth Outcomes in the NLSY97" In: Social Awakening: Adolescent Behavior as Adulthood Approaches. R.T. Michael, ed. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001: pp. 25-48
14. Pierret, Charles R.
The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: 1979 Cohort at 25
Monthly Labor Review 128,2 (February 2005): 3-7.
Also: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/02/art1exc.htm
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Bureau of Labor Statistics; Longitudinal Surveys; NLS Description

The 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth has been a font of information for researchers of all stripes; the Monthly Labor Review brings together the results of research on topics ranging from employment, to attrition in the survey, to data on education, to the children of survey respondents.

This issue of the Monthly Labor Review celebrates the 25th anniversary of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort (NLSY79). The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) program, of which the NLSY79 is the flagship survey, is a bit of an anomaly among the Bureau of Labor Statistics many data collection efforts. None of the Bureau's key economic indicators relies on NLS data. Only a couple of the more than one hundred press releases the Bureau publishes each year involve data collected by the NLS program. It is doubtful that financial markets ever will react strongly to the release of NLS data. And unlike the current employment statistics, the inflation statistics, or the unemployment rate, measures from the NLSY79 are not likely to be discussed in everyday conversation or even in the business news.

Yet, the NLSY79 has been extremely influential. Over the last 25 years, it has provided the data for thousands of Ph.D. dissertations, working papers, journal articles, and books that have shaped theory and knowledge in disciplines such as economics, sociology, education, psychology, and health sciences. The survey's primary constituency includes hundreds of researchers within universities, think tanks, and government agencies both in the United States and abroad. Because of its quality, breadth, and thoroughness, the NLSY79 has become probably the most analyzed longitudinal data set in the social sciences. Almost every issue of leading labor economics and demography journals contain at least one article that uses NLSY79 data.

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Pierret, Charles R. "The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: 1979 Cohort at 25." Monthly Labor Review 128,2 (February 2005): 3-7.
15. Pierret, Charles R.
The National Longitudinal Surveys Program
Presented: Budapest, Hungary, 10th Sienna Group Meeting, November 2003
Cohort(s): Mature Women, NLS General, NLSY79, NLSY97, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Author
Keyword(s): Disadvantaged, Economically; Hispanics; Home Environment; Longitudinal Surveys; NLS Description; Sample Selection

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The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), are a set of surveys designed to gather information at multiple points in time on the lives and experiences of six groups of men and women. Each of the six cohorts has been selected to represent all people living in the United States at the initial interview date and born during a given period. This selection allows weighted conclusions to be drawn about the sample group that can be generalized to represent the experiences of the larger population of U.S. residents born during the same period. Sample design procedures ensure that the labor market experiences of blacks, Hispanics, youths, women, and the economically disadvantaged can be examined. The NLS also include surveys of the children born to women who participate in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). Detailed information is gathered biennially on the child's home environment and cognitive, socio-emotional, and physiological development; as they get older, these young adults report on their education, workforce participation, and fertility. This unique set of national surveys offers researchers the opportunity to study large panels of men, women, and children over significant segments of their lives.
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Pierret, Charles R. "The National Longitudinal Surveys Program." Presented: Budapest, Hungary, 10th Sienna Group Meeting, November 2003.
16. Pierret, Charles R.
Datta, Atreyee Rupa
50 Years of American Indebtedness and Policies That Have Shaped It
Presented: Miami FL, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 12-14, 2015
Cohort(s): Mature Women, NLSY79, NLSY97, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
Keyword(s): Credit/Credit Constraint; Debt/Borrowing; Financial Assistance; Legislation; Life Course; State-Level Data/Policy

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Using all six surveys in the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) program, this paper documents patterns of household debt since the late 1960s across several generations born throughout the 20th century. The paper indicates the extent to which demographic disparities in debt (for example, across age, educational attainment and race/ethnicity) have varied over time or across the life course. In tandem, the paper identifies key policy or market changes that have affected household indebtedness over the same 50 year period. Relevant areas include federal income tax treatment of mortgage debt, regulation of housing finance more generally, the rise of unsecured credit through credit cards, available methods of college finance, divorce laws, and federal and state tax incentives for retirement savings.
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Pierret, Charles R. and Atreyee Rupa Datta. "50 Years of American Indebtedness and Policies That Have Shaped It." Presented: Miami FL, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 12-14, 2015.
17. Pierret, Charles R.
Gladden, Tricia Lynn
Employment Before Age 16: Does It Make a Difference?
Presented: Washington, DC, Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference Center, NLSY97 Tenth Anniversary Conference, May 29-30, 2008.
Also: http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Research/conferences/NLSYConf/pdf/pierret.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Employment; Employment, In-School; Employment, Youth; Teenagers

In this paper, we will investigate the early employment experiences of young people and their correlation with medium term outcomes in the areas of education, employment, and social behavior. Ultimately, our goal is to determine which of the two perspectives has the greatest support. In this preliminary draft, we attempt to discover the relationships between early employment and these outcomes, while remaining agnostic about the causal relationships. We start with a review of the literature on early employment and its impacts. In Section II we talk briefly about the NLSY97 and the way in which early employment experiences are collected. We also look at what determines early employment and how employment progresses over time. Section III provides estimates of models of the relationship between early employment and medium-term outcomes. Section IV concludes.
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Pierret, Charles R. and Tricia Lynn Gladden. "Employment Before Age 16: Does It Make a Difference?." Presented: Washington, DC, Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference Center, NLSY97 Tenth Anniversary Conference, May 29-30, 2008.
18. Rothstein, Donna S.
Pierret, Charles R.
Aughinbaugh, Alison Aileen
The Impact of Family Structure Transitions on Youth Achievement: Evidence from the Children of the NLSY79
Presented: Atlanta, GA, Society of Government Economists, ASSA Program, January 2002
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Society of Government Economists (SGE)
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Cognitive Ability; Family Structure; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading)

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See also citation number 4151.
Bibliography Citation
Rothstein, Donna S., Charles R. Pierret and Alison Aileen Aughinbaugh. "The Impact of Family Structure Transitions on Youth Achievement: Evidence from the Children of the NLSY79." Presented: Atlanta, GA, Society of Government Economists, ASSA Program, January 2002.