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Source: Department of Economics, University of Washington
Resulting in 3 citations.
1. Lundberg, Shelly
Men and Islands: Dealing with the Family in Empirical Labor Economics
Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Washington, March 2005.
Also: http://www.econ.washington.edu/user/Lundberg/Men_LE.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Washington
Keyword(s): Fatherhood; Marriage

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Forthcoming in Labour Economics

I would like to suggest that family arrangements in the developed world have become, over the past few decades, so complex, so varied, and so transitory that the key work-family problem facing labor economists is the simultaneity of individual decisions in these two domains. The presence of a partner, wife, or child in a man's household influence his work effort and his earnings, but are also influenced by his past labor market decisions, current constraints, and his expectations about future opportunities. With widespread increases in divorce, cohabitation, and nonmarital childbearing, men are far more likely to be marginal decision-makers with respect to family status domains such as marriage and custodial parenthood, and these decisions are closely connected to a man's strategies as an individual worker and investor. Demographic changes have practical implications both for the returns to marriage and costs of children literature, and for labor economists who use family status measures as controls for unobserved productivity. No single econometric technique or set of techniques can "solve" the family-work simultaneity problem, but a recognition that the world has changed in a way that makes a clear separation between family economics and labor economics impossible can improve our modeling of, and understanding of, work and income.
Bibliography Citation
Lundberg, Shelly. "Men and Islands: Dealing with the Family in Empirical Labor Economics." Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Washington, March 2005.
2. Lundberg, Shelly
Plotnick, Robert D.
Teenage Childbearing and Adult Wages
Discussion Papers in Economics No. 90-24, Seattle WA: Department of Economics, University of Washington, August 1990.
Also: http://ideas.repec.org/p/fth/washer/90-24.html
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Washington
Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Childbearing; Childbearing, Adolescent; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Maternal Employment; Religion; Wages, Adult

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The paper estimates the effect of early childbearing on a young woman s future wages using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. By following both married and unmarried teenage mothers we isolate the effect of premarital childbearing from that of early childbearing. Our methodology differs from that of earlier work, in that we estimate the long term impact on wages or early and premarital births. instead of a one year snapshot of this impact. and correct for selection biases due to labor market participation decisions, and to fertility and marriage choices. We find that a premarital birth leads to a long term reduction in wages for white women, but has no negative effects on black women's wages. A marital birth reduces wages substantially for whites and blacks. The results are consistent with the suggestion that rates of black premarital childbearing are high because the labor market opportunities facing adolescent blacks are so poor that they sacrifice nothing by becoming unwed mothers.
Bibliography Citation
Lundberg, Shelly and Robert D. Plotnick. "Teenage Childbearing and Adult Wages." Discussion Papers in Economics No. 90-24, Seattle WA: Department of Economics, University of Washington, August 1990.
3. 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.