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1.	Engelhardt, Gary V.
1.	Nominal Loss Aversion, Housing Equity Constraints, and Household Mobility: Evidence from the United States Working Paper No. 42, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, August 27, 2001. Also: http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty/engelhardt/nomloss.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University Keyword(s): Home Ownership; Household Models; Household Structure; Mobility; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper exploits the significant recent variation in U.S. house prices to empirically examine the effect on housing equity constraints and nominal loss aversion on household mobility. The analysis uses unique, detailed data from 1985-1996 on household characteristics, mobility, and wealth from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) matched with house price data from 149 metropolitan areas to estimate semi-parametric proportional hazard models of intra- and inter-metropolitan mobility. There are five principal findings. First, household intra-metropolitan own-to-own mobility responds differently to nominal housing losses than to gains. Second, nominal loss aversion is significantly less pronounced in intra-metropolitan own-to-rent and inter-metropolitan mobility, respectively. Third, there is some evidence of binding equity constraints in intra-metropolitan own-to-own mobility. Fourth, there is little evidence that low equity constrains intra-metropolitan own-to-rent and inter-metropolitan mobility, respectively. Fifth, a comparison of the estimated effects indicates that nominal loss aversion has a more dominant effect than equity constraints in restricting household mobility: roughly two-and-a-half to three times the impact of equity constraints.
	Bibliography Citation Engelhardt, Gary V. "Nominal Loss Aversion, Housing Equity Constraints, and Household Mobility: Evidence from the United States." Working Paper No. 42, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, August 27, 2001.

2.	Fairlie, Robert W.
2.	Does Business Ownership Provide a Source of Upward Mobility for Blacks and Hispanics? Presented: Syracuse, NY, Maxwell Policy Research Symposium, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, April 2001. Also: http://econ.ucsc.edu/~fairlie/papers/mingrowth10.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University Keyword(s): Earnings; Hispanics; Minority Groups; Mobility; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Racial Differences; Self-Employed Workers; Unemployment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Academicians and policymakers have argued that self-employment provides a route out of poverty and an alternative to unemployment or discrimination in the labor market. Existing research, however, provides very little evidence from longitudinal data on the relationship between business ownership and economic advancement for disadvantaged minority groups. I use data from the 1979-1998 National Longitudinal Survey (NLSY) to examine the earnings patterns of young black and Hispanic business owners and make comparisons to young black and Hispanic wage/salary workers. Using fixed-effects earnings regressions, I find some evidence suggesting that self-employed Hispanic men experience faster earnings growth than Hispanic men employed in the wage/salary sector. All of the estimated coefficients for this group are large and positive, but only a few are statistically significant. I also find large and positive relative self-employment earnings growth coefficients for black men, but none are statistically significant at conventional levels. The results for black and Hispanic women are less consistent, possibly due to small sample sizes. Finally, I find that minority business owners generally experience more unemployment than wage/salary workers, with the main exception being black male business owners.
	Bibliography Citation Fairlie, Robert W. "Does Business Ownership Provide a Source of Upward Mobility for Blacks and Hispanics?" Presented: Syracuse, NY, Maxwell Policy Research Symposium, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, April 2001.

3.	Lopoo, Leonard M.
3.	Maternal Employment and Latchkey Adolescents Working Paper, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, June 2004. Also: http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty/lopoo/selectedpapers/policy1.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University Keyword(s): Child Care; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parent Supervision/Monitoring; Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); Variables, Independent - Covariate Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Social scientists who have estimated the relationship between a mother's work hours and the probability that her children self-care are often limited by cross-sectional data with a limited number of covariates. This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and fixed effects and difference-in-differences models to ask if maternal work hours are related to the probability of adolescent self-care. Results demonstrate that previous research may have over-estimated the magnitude of the relationship. Further, findings show that only mothers who work more than 30 hours per week are more likely to allow their adolescents to self-care. This study also examines the relationship between maternal employment and adolescent self-care among a sub-sample of low-income women, a group that has been the target of pro-work social welfare programs in the United States. Results from this sub-sample also suggest that it is only after 30 hours of maternal work in a week that the probability of self-care increases appreciably. The policy implications of these results are discussed.
	Bibliography Citation Lopoo, Leonard M. "Maternal Employment and Latchkey Adolescents." Working Paper, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, June 2004.

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