Trends in the Employment of Married Mothers of Preschool-Aged Children in Taiwan
Examines trends in labor force participation among married mothers of preschool-aged children in Taiwan.
Publications
The publications below were produced through research projects in the RAND Center for the Study of Aging.
2011
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Chipping Away at the Glass Ceiling: Gender Spillovers in Corporate Leadership
Examines the role of women helping women in corporate America.
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The Impact of Cutting Education Expenditures: The Case of Mexico in the 1980s
Studies the impact of expenditures on the returns to schooling within a context of dramatic reductions in public spending.
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The Effect of Education on Time Preferences
Finds that individuals who were successful in the admission lottery to public college in Mexico were, on average, more patient.
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The Exporter Productivity Premium along the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from Unconditional Quantile Regression with Firm Fixed Effects
Examines the productivity distribution of both exporting and non-exporting firms in German manufacturing industries while recognizing that it is potentially important to condition on firm fixed effects for estimation of this exporter premium.
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Anchoring Vignettes and Response Consistency
Concludes the need for a systematic experimental approach to the design of anchoring vignettes before using them in practice to achieve response consistency.
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Education, Training and Innovation in Transition Economies: Is there a Link?
Attempts to establish the effect of on-the-job-training and university education on the firm's innovation decision in transition economies of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
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Family Labor Participation and Child Care Decisions: The Role of Grannies
Analyzes how and to what extent child care is provided by grandmothers and how this task is combined with paid work in ten European countries.
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Employment Status, Quality of Matching, and Retirement in Korea: Evidence from Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging
Explores how and why the probability of retirement differs between self-employed and wage-and-salary workers.
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Toward Standardization of Benefit-Cost Analyses of Early Childhood Interventions
Attempts to delineate a set of standards for conducting benefit-cost analyses of early childhood programs.
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A Contribution to Health Capital Theory
Presents a theory of the demand for health, health investment and longevity, building on the human capital framework for health and addressing limitations of existing models.
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What is the Cost of Married Women's Paid Work?
Uses the 2003-2004 Consumer Expenditure Survey to assess costs incurred by dual-income, married-couple households.
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Heterogeneity in Income Tax Incidence: Are the Wages of Dangerous Jobs More Responsive to Tax Changes than the Wages of Safe Jobs?
Compares the wage response of dangerous jobs to the wage response of safe jobs.
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Income Taxes, Compensating Differentials, and Occupational Choice: How Taxes Distort the Wage-Amenity Decision
Introduces a two-step methodology which uses compensating differentials to characterize the tax elasticity of occupational choice.
2010
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Data Sets on Pensions and Health: Data Collection and Sharing for Policy Design
Discusses data sets, including their key parameters of pension and health status, research designs, samples, and response rates and the opportunities they offer for cross-national studies and their implications for policy evaluation and development.
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Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects in the Presence of Covariates
Discusses identification of unconditional quantile treatment effects when it is necessary or simply desirable to condition on covariates.
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Maternal Input Choices and Child Cognitive Development: Testing for Reverse Causality
Assesses whether the results of child achievement tests affect maternal employment and the child-care choices of mothers with prekindergarten children.
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Disability of Older Koreans: Evidence on Prevalence and the Role of Education from Five Data Sets
Investigates how educational attainment may affect the prevalence of disability among older Koreans.
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Effects of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession on American Households
Presents evidence from high-frequency data collections dedicated to tracking the effects of the financial crisis and great recession on American households.
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Technical Detail and Appendices for a Study of Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research
Demonstrates a new approach that employs neighborhood measures such as social environment, built environment, commuting and migration, and demographics and household composition to classify neighborhoods into archetypes.
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The Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey Questionnaire
Questionnaire for the Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey, a study of individuals and households that resided in the City of New Orleans, Louisiana, in August 2005, just before Hurricane Katrina struck (on 29 August 2005).
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The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: Household Questionnaires
Attempts to reinterview in person all primary respondents from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey which was fielded between April 2000 and January 2002.
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House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder
Investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle.
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Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States
Examines geographic mobility and housing downsizing at older ages in Britain and America.
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Financial Decision Making and Cognition in a Family Context
Studies the association of cognitive traits and in particular numeracy of both spouses on financial outcomes of the family.