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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"PSID"”.
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Three Essays on Fiscal Policy and Redistribution
… welfare functions of the USA and Brazil using PSID and PNAD for 1990 on direct taxes. Specifically, a non-parametric method is used to compute the density of the skills distribution and the social welfare functions. Under assumptions on the households' preferences the estimations suggest that …
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Three Essays on the Evolution of the Determinants of Educational Attainment and its Consequences
… Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data for the years of 1968-2013, we show how inequality of educational opportunity and its determinants have evolved over the years. The chapter utilizes the machine-learning process and logistic regression model to identify inequality of …
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Addressing endogeneity in the relationship between health and employment through a simultaneous equations model
… usando datos de Estados Unidos tomados del PSID (Pane Study of Income Dynamics). Este estudio usa dos variables dependientes (Estado de salud auto-reportado y Empleo), las cuales son estimadas usando un modelo probit bivariado para abordar el problema de endegeneidad presente en dicha …
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The determinants of mortgage delinquency
… data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we examine borrowers in the years 2005, 2007 and 2009 and, controlling for a number of default-related variables, take a closer look at the characteristics of those delinquent on their mortgage by 2009. We find startling racial and ethnic …
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Civic engagement among emerging adults : evidence from the panel survey of income dynamics.
… means. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Transition to Adulthood Supplement, I seek to evaluate the impact family composition, familial financial support, perceived time pressure, and class-of-origins has on civic engagement. Utilizing quantitative methods I found evidence to support …
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Three essays in public economics
… paper, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), which has measures of both risk preferences and religiosity along with measures of many risky behaviors, I investigate the implications of the correlations among risk preferences, religiosity and gender for the observed relationship of each …
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Empirical analyses of dynamic categorical data
… married couples' retirement decision using the PSID data. I employ the proportional hazard model to examine the factors that influence the retirement decision of husband and wife, and focus on examining the correlation of husband and wife's retirement status. This essay finds that an individual …
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Three Papers on the Black-White Mobility Gap in the United States
… (NLSY) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to analyze the magnitude and nature of black-white gaps in intergenerational earnings and income mobility in the United States. This chapter finds that relying on different datasets or measures will lead to different conclusions about the …
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Trajectories of Individual Behavior in the US Housing Market
… the 2005 -2019 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Since 2009, PSID has added survey questions about foreclosure; Whether a foreclosure process has begun, the year and month of the start, the result of the process, and whether a foreclosed home is a primary residence. The findings of this …
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Socioeconomic Status and Youth Participation in Extracurricular Arts Activities
… using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Child Development Supplement (CDS-II). I evaluate Lareau's class analysis and expand upon it by disaggregating the key dimensions of socioeconomic status and identifying which are the most salient for increased participation in …
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Essays on Human Capital and Inequality
… is not related to skills. Using data from the PSID, we find that the returns to unobserved skills went down since the mid-1980s despite the steady increase in the residual inequality. Using a simple demand and supply framework, we show that both demand and supply factors contributed to the …
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Poverty, Child Maltreatment and Adverse Childhood Experiences – Just Comorbidities?
… analysis of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to help address this gap. First, the prospective relationship between poverty over time and a proxy measure for maltreatment was explored. Next retrospective recall of maltreatment and others ACES in adulthood were explored to see how they …
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THREE ESSAYS ON CHILD HEALTH AND SKILL FORMATION
… the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the PSID, I find reduced behavioral problems and enhanced positive development for children that engage in structured activity. Participation in lessons also significantly increases positive behavior and mathematics test scores. In the second essay, …
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Essays on Public Good Contribution
… and time by people aged 60 or above in the 2003 PSID data for the United States and analyze the influences of some economic and demographic factors on these activities. Income, wealth, the subjective rating of health status, and years in school are found to have statistically significant impacts. …
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Essays in Gender and Labor Economics
… expenditure survey (2014-2021) and the PSID dataset (1999-2021), the study finds that as the wife’s earnings increase relative to the husband's, childcare spending rises by $1,380. This suggests that higher-earning mothers prioritize investing more in childcare. The second chapter …
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Essays on Taxation, Marriage, and Labor Supply
… using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data show that men who are continuously married to the same wife have a lower average Frisch elasticity than others.
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Three Essays on Family Economics and Early Childhood Development
… of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID-CDS) has been constructed. We thereby relax the assumption that there is no difference between parental time spent on children and leisure. Our results show that parental time inputs, especially the active time interacting with children's daily …
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Unobserved heterogeneity in economic models: testing and estimation
… application to models of income dynamics. Using PSID data we estimate a simple dynamic model of earnings that incorporates bivariate heterogeneity in intercept and variance of the innovation process. Profile likelihood is employed to estimate an AR(1) parameter controlling the persistence of the …
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Three Essays in Housing Economics
… data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Freddie Mac House Price Index (FMHPI) to investigate the effects of house price changes on the marital stability of individual families in the United States. Recognizing that families with divorce risk could be "locked" in their …
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In assenza di politiche familiari: l'influenza della famiglia sul lavoro di uomini e donne in un confronto fra Italia e Stati Uniti
… state svolte sul Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Le principali tecniche di analisi adottate comprendono la panel data analysis e l'event history analysis. L'appartenenza dell' Italia e degli Stati Uniti rispettivamente al regime di welfare conservatore nella sua variante «mediterranea» e al …
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