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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Survey Of Income And Program Participation"”.
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Essays on entrepreneurship and education
… to education are different between entrepreneurs and regular employees. If the signaling model of education is correct, entrepreneurs should receive lower returns from education (relative to employees) because they have no need to signal their productivity to an employer. However, this result …
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Mental Disorders And Inequality In The United States: Intersection Of Race, Gender, And Disability On Employment And Income
… disorders experience inequality when looking at income, wages, and poverty in the United States. Still, there has been a dearth of literature exploring how individuals with mental disorders fare economically when exploring multiple inequalities. In this study disability, race, and gender are …
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Inequality Under Frictional Labour Markets
This thesis studies the emergence of, and the interaction between, inequality in earnings and inequality in wealth, when labour markets are frictional. Chapter 1 investigates the implications of search frictions and human-capital accumulation for the equilibrium distribution of wages when firms …
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Asset Limits, Savings Behavior, and Welfare: Evidence from the SIPP and a Life-Cycle Model
… how asset limits in means-tested welfare programs shape household saving behavior. I exploit cross-state variation in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) asset limits by linking these limits to individual-level data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and …
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FAMILY AND UNPAID CARE IN THE CONTEXT OF POPULATION AGING
With ongoing changes in mortality and fertility, numerous social challenges have accompanied population aging. This dissertation draws on data from the United States and the United Kingdom to examine the social dimensions of family and care in the context of population aging. In the first chapter, …
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Three essays on the disposition of employer-sponsored retirement plan balances
This thesis investigates why, in spite of the high tax and opportunity costs, a substantial fraction of workers withdraw money from their employer-sponsored retirement accounts upon leaving a job. I employ three national surveys--the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), the Survey …
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Essays on Health and Medical Care
<p>This dissertation consists of two essays that explain health outcomes and medical care in the United States. Health care has been a major concern of economists and policy makers. Policy intervention is one of the key factors that affect health outcomes, especially among low-income families. …
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Wage Dispersion Between College Majors
… has been integral to the growth in productivity and innovation in various industries. The education system, which was built to be largely public and egalitarian, allowed individuals of every background to reach their productive potential. Human capital development theorists believe that education …
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Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
In the first chapter, I measure the impact of student loan debt on young, college-educated workers' decisions regarding labor supply and enrollment in graduate school. I exploit variation in student loan debt driven by the formulas that determine Federal Student Aid in order to identify these …
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Three essays on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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The Incentive Effects of Health Insurance on Labor Market Outcomes and SSDI/SSI Utilization
… <p>While there has been a tremendous amount of literature on how Unemployment Insurance (UI) affects unemployed workers' job search behavior, there has been no previous study on how the health insurance premium subsidy affects this behavior. To fill the gap in previous studies, this paper …
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Health Insurance, Pensions and Wages
… in labor markets. This dissertation consists of three chapters that study the importance of compensating wage differential theory to wage outcomes associated with employer-provided health insurance (EHI) in the United States, participation decisions regarding employer-associated pension plans …
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Essays in unemployment insurance
This thesis consists of three essays that examine household responses to state unemployment insurance (UI) generosity across spells of unemployment, with a particular emphasis on the role of liquidity constraints. Enacted in 1986, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) provides …