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Author: Schultz, T. Paul
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Blackburn, McKinley L. Schultz, T. Paul |
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The Effects of The Welfare System on Marital Dissolution Journal of Population Economics 16,3 (August 2003): 477-501. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/wmny7w3n2femph8y/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Divorce; Marital Dissolution; Marriage; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The economic theory of marriage predicts that the partners' expectations of greater financial resources outside of marriage should increase the probability of marital dissolution. One potential implication is that marriages should be less stable in states with higher AFDC benefits. I study this implication empirically using data on separations and divorces among marriages involving women in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. I find no supporting evidence that higher welfare benefits lead to increased rates of marital dissolution among married women with children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Blackburn, McKinley L. and T. Paul Schultz. "The Effects of The Welfare System on Marital Dissolution." Journal of Population Economics 16,3 (August 2003): 477-501.
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Schultz, T. Paul |
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Wage Gains Associated with Height as a Form of Health Human Capital Center Discussion Paper No. 841. Economic Growth Center, Yale University, February 2002. Also: www.econ.yale.edu/growth_pdf/cdp841.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Economic Growth Center, Yale University Keyword(s): Cross-national Analysis; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Height; Human Capital; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and conditions. Alternative instrumental variables (IV) are explored which proxy price and income constraints which are expected to influence the latter reproducible human capital investments in height. I report OLS and IV estimates of the partial effect of height on log hourly wages in recent national surveys from three countries: Ghana, Brazil and the United States. I conclude that the human capital productivity effect of height estimated by parent education IVs in the US and Ghana are many times larger than the OLS estimates, and in Ghana and Brazil the regional price IVs estimates also imply a substantially larger human capital wage effects of height compared with the OLS estimates. The OLS estimates of height effects on wages are dominated by the genetic variation in height, and appear to understate substantially the human capital returns to health and nutrition inputs which increase adult height. |
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Bibliography Citation
Schultz, T. Paul. "Wage Gains Associated with Height as a Form of Health Human Capital." Center Discussion Paper No. 841. Economic Growth Center, Yale University, February 2002. |