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View article: Trend Toward Older Maternal Age Contributed To Growing Racial Inequity In Very-Low-Birthweight Infants In The US
Trend Toward Older Maternal Age Contributed To Growing Racial Inequity In Very-Low-Birthweight Infants In The US Open
In 2016 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that for the first time, US women in their thirties were bearing more children than those in their twenties. Analyzing US vital statistics data from the period 1989-2019, we s…
View article: Job Demands and Social Security Disability Insurance Applications
Job Demands and Social Security Disability Insurance Applications Open
We use data from the Health and Retirement Study to identify the effect of job demands on applications for Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income benefits and to assess whether these job demands have been cha…
View article: Using Administrative Data to Validate HRS Survey Responses on Application for DI and SSI Disability Benefits
Using Administrative Data to Validate HRS Survey Responses on Application for DI and SSI Disability Benefits Open
In this paper, we use administrative data from the Social Security Administration to validate survey responses for the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) regarding the application for disability benefits from Social Security Disability Insu…
View article: College Choice, Private Options, and The Incidence of Public Investment in Higher Education
College Choice, Private Options, and The Incidence of Public Investment in Higher Education Open
Previous measures of the incidence of public investment in higher education focus on the transfer to public college students.This implies that the net benefits to students who do not attend public colleges is negative.However, they miss po…
View article: The Political Realignment of Health: How Partisan Power Shaped Infant Health in the United States, 1915–2017
The Political Realignment of Health: How Partisan Power Shaped Infant Health in the United States, 1915–2017 Open
The US two-party system was transformed in the 1960s when the Democratic Party abandoned its Jim Crow protectionism to incorporate the policy agenda fostered by the civil rights movement, and the Republican Party redirected its platform to…
View article: Coming up short: Comparing venous blood, dried blood spots & saliva samples for measuring telomere length in health equity research
Coming up short: Comparing venous blood, dried blood spots & saliva samples for measuring telomere length in health equity research Open
Background Telomere length (TL) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from fresh venous blood is increasingly used to estimate molecular impacts of accumulated social adversity on population health. Sometimes, TL extracted from sali…
View article: The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System
The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System Open
In the four decades since 1980, US colleges and universities have seen the number of students from abroad quadruple. This rise in enrollment and degree attainment affects the global supply of highly educated workers, the flow of talent to …
View article: The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System
The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System Open
In the four decades since 1980, US colleges and universities have seen the number of students from abroad quadruple.This rise in enrollment and degree attainment affects the global supply of highly educated workers, the flow of talent to t…
View article: A Passage to America: University Funding and International Students
A Passage to America: University Funding and International Students Open
The number of international undergraduate students at US public research universities increased dramatically over the past two decades, alongside concurrent reductions in state support for universities. We show that these trends are closel…
View article: Recent Trends in Disability and the Implications for Use of Disability Insurance
Recent Trends in Disability and the Implications for Use of Disability Insurance Open
The health of the working-aged population is a key driver of enrollment in and spending by the two most important federal disability programs, Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Recent studies…
View article: MRDRC WP2019-406
MRDRC WP2019-406 Open
The health of the working-aged population is a key driver of enrollment in and spending by the two most important federal disability programs, Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Recent studies…
View article: Weathering, Drugs, and Whack-a-Mole: Fundamental and Proximate Causes of Widening Educational Inequity in U.S. Life Expectancy by Sex and Race, 1990–2015
Weathering, Drugs, and Whack-a-Mole: Fundamental and Proximate Causes of Widening Educational Inequity in U.S. Life Expectancy by Sex and Race, 1990–2015 Open
Discussion of growing inequity in U.S. life expectancy increasingly focuses on the popularized narrative that it is driven by a surge of “deaths of despair.” Does this narrative fit the empirical evidence? Using census and Vital Statistics…
View article: The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men
The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men Open
Over the last half century, US wage growth stagnated, wage inequality rose, and the labor-force participation rate of prime-age men steadily declined. In this article, we examine these worrying labor market trends, focusing on outcomes for…
View article: The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men
The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men Open
Over the last half century, U.S. wage growth stagnated, wage inequality rose, and the labor-force participation rate of prime-age men steadily declined.In this article, we examine these labor market trends, focusing on outcomes for males w…
View article: Replication data for: The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men
Replication data for: The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men Open
Over the last half century, US wage growth stagnated, wage inequality rose, and the labor-force participation rate of prime-age men steadily declined. In this article, we examine these worrying labor market trends, focusing on outcomes for…
View article: Local Economic Hardship and Its Role in Life Expectancy Trends
Local Economic Hardship and Its Role in Life Expectancy Trends Open
Recent research has found, in some groups of Americans, dramatic increases in deaths due to drug overdose and suicide and an overall stagnation of trends toward increased longevity. This study examines the link between mortality of older w…
View article: Making Sense of Common Dirichlet Deviations
Making Sense of Common Dirichlet Deviations Open
This paper reviews the regularly recurring deviations between buyer behaviour patterns and predictions from the NBD-Dirichlet model. Previous studies have tended to look at one or two Dirichlet Deviations in isolation; the aim here is to l…
View article: Understanding the Economic Impact of the H-1B Program on the U.S.
Understanding the Economic Impact of the H-1B Program on the U.S. Open
Over the 1990s, the share of foreigners entering the US high-skill workforce grew rapidly.This migration potentially had a significant effect on US workers, consumers and firms.To study these effects, we construct a general equilibrium mod…
View article: A Passage to America: University Funding and International Students
A Passage to America: University Funding and International Students Open
The pool of students in the global economy prepared for higher education and able to pay tuition at U.S. colleges and universities has expanded markedly in the last two decades, with a particularly notable increase among potential undergra…