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1.	Biddle, Gary C.
1.	Intraoccupational Wage Differentials by Class of Workers: A Comparison of Wages in the Public and Private Sectors Presented: Chicago, IL, Midwest Economics Association Meeting, April 1974 Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: Midwest Economics Association Keyword(s): Blue-Collar Jobs; Inflation; Private Sector; Public Sector; Wage Differentials; White Collar Jobs Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The data for this study are based on the surveys of Older Men (45-59) undertaken in 1966 and 1971 respectively. The author examines wage differentials between government and nongovernment within seven occupational groups. The results indicate that government wages are significantly greater than those in the private sector (1965-1970). The observed shift in public wage may be attributed to: political pay hikes, inflation, union pressures, lobbying efforts, and demand increases to attract adequate employees.
	Bibliography Citation Biddle, Gary C. "Intraoccupational Wage Differentials by Class of Workers: A Comparison of Wages in the Public and Private Sectors." Presented: Chicago, IL, Midwest Economics Association Meeting, April 1974.

2.	Borraz, Fernando Miguel
2.	Ability, Schooling and Wages: Going Beyond the National Longitudinal Surveys Presented: Chicago, IL, Midwest Economic Association Meeting, 2004 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Midwest Economics Association Keyword(s): Census of Population; Educational Returns; Schooling; Wage Differentials; Wage Gap; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper estimates returns to education in the US using information from two datasets, the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS and NLSY79) and the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). The high correlation between schooling and ability did not allow the separate identification of each effect. The PUMS dataset contains information on wages and education but not on ability and can therefore be exploited to improve the precision of the NLS and NLSY79 estimates. The results suggest a positive but not increasing over time wage gap only for the most able during the 80's, and between 1980 and 2000.
	Bibliography Citation Borraz, Fernando Miguel. "Ability, Schooling and Wages: Going Beyond the National Longitudinal Surveys." Presented: Chicago, IL, Midwest Economic Association Meeting, 2004.

3.	Liu, Qing
3.	Does School Quality Matter and for Whom? Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis Presented: Cleveland, OH, Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, March 2001 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Midwest Economics Association Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Geocoded Data; Male Sample; Methods/Methodology; School Characteristics/Rating/Safety; School Quality; Schooling; Teachers/Faculty; Wage Determination; Wage Levels Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper employs the quantile regression approach to estimate the wage effects of school quality. Using data from the Geocoded version of the NLSY79, the author has found consistent results with various samples and specifications that teacher degree and salary exert significantly larger effects at higher quantiles of the wage distribution, while the teacher-student ratio seems to favor individuals at lower quantiles. The author addresses the necessity to examine the effects of school quality on the whole wage distribution, rather than on the means, alone. Furthermore, the author argues that a correct question to ask is for whom school quality matters.
	Bibliography Citation Liu, Qing. "Does School Quality Matter and for Whom? Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis." Presented: Cleveland, OH, Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, March 2001.

4.	Mukherjee, Sumanta Fink, Guenther
4.	The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from the NLSY-Child Presented: Chicago, IL, Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, March 14-16, 2008 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Midwest Economics Association Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Mental Health; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Depression (see also CESD); Maternal Employment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. An extensive literature has analyzed the effect of a mother's employment on the cognitive outcomes of her children. However, the role of maternal employment in a childs noncognitive development has received comparatively scant attention. In this paper, data on a panel of children aged four through fifteen are analyzed to explore the effect of maternal employment on a child's mental health outcomes. Using ordinary least squares and fixed effects estimates, we find that mothers who spend more time at home have children with fewer emotional problems: they score lower on the behavioral problems index; they are also less likely to be frequently unhappy or depressed. In addition, children with mothers spending more time at home are less likely to hurt someone, steal something, or skip school. We test and confirm the robustness of our results by using involuntary job losses as alternative identification strategy.
	Bibliography Citation Mukherjee, Sumanta and Guenther Fink. "The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from the NLSY-Child." Presented: Chicago, IL, Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, March 14-16, 2008.

5.	Zakir, Hussain Zietz, Joachim
5.	Does Walking or Riding a Bike to School Reduce Obesity? Evidence from the NLSY 1979 using Propensity Score Matching Presented: St. Louis MO, Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, March 18-20, 2011 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Midwest Economics Association Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Commuting/Type, Time, Method; Exercise; Obesity; Physical Activity (see also Exercise); Propensity Scores; Transportation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This presentation assesses whether walking or riding a bike to school reduces obesity. High school and college students who walk or ride a bike to school are compared to those students who could have walked or ridden a bike to school but did not. The analysis employs Propensity Score Matching (PSM). This methodology enables comparison between two otherwise very similar groups which vary only on the basis of one characteristic, in this case, walking or biking to school. The likelihood of an individual’s decision to walk or bike to school, the propensity score, is determined on the basis of several observable characteristics which are available in the data. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) 1979 cohort, a nationally representative survey, I find statistically significant evidence that students who walk or ride a bike to school have lower levels of BMI and obesity and are less overweight than those in the control group. When college students are included in the sample, the effect continues to remain consistent and statistically significant.
	Bibliography Citation Zakir, Hussain and Joachim Zietz. "Does Walking or Riding a Bike to School Reduce Obesity? Evidence from the NLSY 1979 using Propensity Score Matching." Presented: St. Louis MO, Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, March 18-20, 2011.

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