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- Policies supporting families with young children provide an important context for human development. The two primary public policies available to caregivers around and after childbirth are parental leave and early care and education (ECE). A substantial body of research evaluates the effects of parental leave and ECE policies on various...
- Keyword:
- Access to early education, Early childhood education, Child penalty, Parental mental health, Head Start, and Parental leave
- Subject:
- Early childhood education and Labor economics
- Creator:
- Viragh, Timea Henriett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16710 and etdadmin_upload_1011787
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- This dissertation is a collection of three studies on topics in economic history and labor economics, in the United States. In the first chapter, I investigate the relationship between temporary paternal absence and long-term labor market outcomes. Specifically, I exploit the natural experiment of fathers’ WWII conscription, combined with longitudinal...
- Subject:
- Economic history and Labor economics
- Creator:
- Strada, Kelly Gail
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16616 and etdadmin_upload_987427
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- Chapter 1. Undergraduate Gender Diversity and Direction of Scientific Research (with Ashley Wong) Can diversity lead to greater research focus on populations underrepresented in science? Diverse researchers can bring new questions and perspectives, but exposure to diversity may also inspire scientists, regardless of demographic identity, to pursue new topics. This...
- Subject:
- Labor economics
- Creator:
- Truffa, Francesca
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16020 and etdadmin_upload_899067
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- Description:
- Chapter 1. Undergraduate Gender Diversity and Direction of Scientific Research (with Francesca Truffa) Can diversity lead to greater research focus on populations underrepresented in science? Diverse researchers can bring new questions and perspectives, but exposure to diversity may also inspire scientists, regardless of demographic identity, to pursue new topics. This...
- Subject:
- Labor economics
- Creator:
- Wong, Ashley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_899059 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16019
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three studies related to parental employment, maternity leave policy, and early care and education. In study 1, my coauthor and I evaluate the impact of parenthood on men and women’s job performance and career advancement using detailed data from the U.S. Marines. For parents who remain...
- Subject:
- Education, Public policy, and Labor economics
- Creator:
- Healy, Olivia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844713 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15746
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- Description:
- In this dissertation, I explore topics related to migration studies, with a focus on Chinese migration, as China has a long history of both domestic and international migration, with China having the third largest diaspora in the world. In the first chapter, I discuss how a lack of stable domestic...
- Subject:
- Labor economics
- Creator:
- Long, Joe Jiuyi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_815406 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15528
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a wide-range study of the relationships between the three central elements of the production function: technology, capital and its financing, and labor. Chapter 1 analyzes the relationship between labor and recent wave of automation and digitization technologies, showing that while they typically substitute for workers, in several...
- Keyword:
- flexibility, labor supply, household debt, capital structure, automation and digitization, and labor scarcity
- Subject:
- Economics, Finance, and Labor economics
- Creator:
- Zator, Michal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_737737 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15059