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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"NLSY97"”.
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Three Essays on Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
… The comparison between the NLSY79 and the NLSY97 cohorts reveals that employer learning and statistical discrimination has became stronger over the past decades. Using the NLSY97 data, we identify three employer- specific characteristics that influencing employer learning and statistical …
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The relationship between participation in different types of training programs and gainful employment of formerly incarcerated individuals
… the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), post-employment training programs are positively related to gainful employment for formerly incarcerated individuals.
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A Longitudinal Examination of the Influences of Family Processes and Demographic Variables on Adolescent Weight
… that using multilevel modeling with the NLSY97 was important due to nesting within families.</p>
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A Comparison of Discrete and Continuous Survival Analysis
… the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), this study compared analyses results from the two models having different sizes of time metrics. In the second study, by having various specifications with combination of two other factors of censoring proportions and sample sizes, this …
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LOSS AVERSION AND THE INTERGENERATIONAL CORRELATION OF INCOME
… this U-shaped education decision rule using the NLSY97 data set. The dissertation also tries to answer the question of why black and white workers display significant differences in their labor market outcomes. Black workers tend to have less education and earn lower income than their white …
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Essays on the macroeconomic implications of financial frictions
… college entry, borrowing, and job search using NLSY97 data to evaluate the proposed mechanism under the fixed repayment plan and the income-based repayment plan (IBR). My simulation suggests that the distortion of debt on job search decisions is large under the fixed repayment plan. IBR …
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UNDERSTANDING THE SOURCES OF GENDER DISPARITIES IN STEM
… Results show that highschool-aged women in the NLSY97 cohort reached parity with men, on average, in mathematics skills and exceeded men in verbal and noncognitive skills, but they lag behind in mechanical and, to a lesser extent, science skills. To identify the skill sets, coursetaking, and …
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Three Essays in Labor Economics
… Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY79 and NLSY97) indicate a marked increase in job mobility among young participants across different cohorts. Analysis of these datasets demonstrates that the influence of age on the likelihood of changing jobs has become more negative for the second …
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Three Essays in Labor Economics
… the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), I estimate log real starting wage regressions for the whole sample and for each of the 22 major occupational groups. The main variable of interest is a binary indicator that takes value 1 if the currently employed worker used the method …
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GEOGRAPHIC DATA MINING AND GEOVISUALIZATION FOR UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH DATA
… from 2001 to 2008, and synthetic data sets. The NLSY97 Cohort database range varied from 6,923 to 8,565 individuals during the period. At the beginning of the cohort study the age of individuals participating in this study was between 12 and 17 years, and in 2008, they were between 24 and 28 …