J Bound,
DA Jaeger… - Journal of the American statistical …, 1995 - JSTOR
We draw attention to two problems associated with the use of instrumental variables (IV), the
importance of which for empirical work has not been fully appreciated. First, the use of
instruments that explain little of the variation in the endogenous explanatory variables can ...
E Berman, J Bound… - 1994 - nber.org
This paper investigates the shift in demand towards skilled labor in US manufacturing.
Between 1979 and 1989. employment of production workers in manufacturing dropped by
2.2 mil1ion or 15 percent while employment of non-production workers rose by 3 percent. ...
J Bound… - 1989 - nber.org
Between 1979 and 1987 there were three significant changes in the wage structure in the
United States. the pecuniary returns to schooling increased by about a third; the wages of
older relative to younger workers with relatively low education increased to some extent; ...
E Bekman, J Bound… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 1998 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Demand for less-skilled workers plummeted in developed countries in the 1980s. In
open economies, pervasive skill-biased technological change (SBTC) can explain this
decline. SBTC tends to increase the domestic supply of unskill-intensive goods by ...
J Bound - 1989 - nber.org
Labor supply estimates are sensitive to the measures of health used. When self reported
measures are used health seems to playa larger role and economic factors a smaller one
than when more objective measures are used" While most authors have interpreted these ...
J Bound, C Brown… - Handbook of econometrics, 2001 - Elsevier
Abstract Economists have devoted increasing attention to the magnitude and consequences
of measurement error in their data. Most discussions of measurement error are based on the
“classical≓ assumption that errors in measuring a particular variable are uncorrelated with ...
J Bound, C Cummins, Z Griliches, BH Hall… - 1982 - nber.org
This paper describes the construction of a large panel data set covering about 2600 firms in
the US manufacturing sector for up to twenty years which contains annual data on financial
variables, employment, research and development expenditures, and aggregate patent ...
J Bound… - 1989 - nber.org
This paper examines the properties and prevalence of measurement error in longitudinal
earnings data. The analysis compares Current Population Survey data to administrative
Social Security payroll tax records for a sample of heads of households over two years. In ...
J Bound… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1992 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper shows a widening in black-white earnings and employment gaps among
young men from the mid-1970s through the 1980s. Earnings gaps increased most among
college graduates and in the Midwest, while gaps in employment-population rates grew ...
AT Geronimus, J Bound, TA Waidmann… - New England journal …, 1996 - Mass Medical Soc
When they were compared with the nationwide age-standardized annual death rate for
whites, the death rates for both sexes in each of the poverty areas were excessive, especially
among blacks (standardized mortality ratios for men and women in Harlem, 4.11 and ...
J Bound… - Handbook of labor economics, 1999 - Elsevier
Abstract This chapter reviews the behavioral and redistributive effects of transfer programs
targeted at working-age people with disabilities. While we primarily focus on the United
States, we also include programs in the Federal Republic of Germany, The Netherlands, ...
J Bound - 1989 - nber.org
Applicants for Social Security Disability Benefits who fail to pass the medical screening form
a natural'control'group for beneficiaries. Data drawn from the 1972 and 1978 surveys of the
disabled done for the Social Security Administration show that fewer than 50% of rejected ...
J Bound, M Schoenbaum, TR Stinebrickner… - 1998 - nber.org
This paper addresses the interplay between health and labor market behavior in the later
part of the working life. We use the longitudinal Health and Retirement Survey to analyze the
dynamic relationship between health and alternative labor force transitions, including ...
AT Geronimus… - American Journal of Epidemiology, 1998 - Oxford Univ Press
Abstract Increasingly, investigators append census-based socioeconomic characteristics of
residential areas to individual records to address the problem of inadequate socioeconomic
information on health data sets. Little empirical attention has been given to the validity of ...
J Bound, C Brown, GJ Duncan… - Journal of Labor Economics, 1994 - JSTOR
This article investigates error properties of survey reports of labor market variables. We use
the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Validation Study, a two-wave panel survey of
workers employed by a large firm that shared its detailed payroll records. Individuals' ...
AT Geronimus, M Hicken, D Keene… - Journal …, 2006 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We considered whether US Blacks experience early health deterioration, as
measured across biological indicators of repeated exposure and adaptation to stressors.
Methods. Using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data, we examined ...
J Bound… - 1998 - nber.org
Several recent studies use the schooling and wage variation between monozygotic twins to
estimate the return to schooling. In this paper, we summarize the results from this literature,
and we examine the implications of endogenous determination of which twin goes to ...
R Barsky, J Bound, KK Charles… - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2002 - ASA
Many applications involve a decomposition of the mean intergroup difference in a given
variable into the portion attributable to differences in the distribution of one or more
explanatory variables and that due to differences in the conditional expectation function. ...
J Bound… - Journal of labor Economics, 2000 - ideas.repec.org
In this paper we explore the effects of labor demand shifts and population adjustments
across metropolitan areas on the employment and earnings of various demographic groups
during the 1980s. We find that population shifts across areas at least partially offset the ...
AT Geronimus, J Bound… - Journal of the American Statistical …, 1996 - JSTOR
Investigators of social differentials in health outcomes commonly augment incomplete
microdata by appending socioeconomic characteristics of residential areas (such as median
income in a zip code) to proxy for individual characteristics. But little empirical attention ...
T Waidmann, J Bound… - 1995 - nber.org
Data from the National Health Interview Survey and elsewhere showed a trend toward
worsening self-reported health among American men and women in middle age and older
during the 1970s. This evidence-combined with the significant declines in age-specific ...
In this paper we draw attention to two problems associated with the use of instrumental
variables (IV) whose importance for empirical work has not been fully appreciated. First,
using potential instruments that explain little of the variation in the: endogenous ...
J Bound… - 1991 - nber.org
In this paper we estimate the effects of industrial shifts in the 1970s and 1980s on the wages
and employment of black and white males. We use micro Census data for 52 MSAs, and
estimate effects separately by age and education group. The results show that industrial ...
J Bound… - Journal of Labor Economics, 2002 - JSTOR
The flood of veterans enrolling in college at the end of World War II contributed to
widespread rhetoric that the GI Bill brought about the “democratization” of American higher
education. Whether military service, combined with educational benefits, led World War II ...
J Bound, M Schoenbaum… - 1995 - nber.org
The labor force participation rates of older, working-aged black men and men with lower
levels of education have historically been significantly lower than those of white men and
men with more education, respectively. This paper uses data from the alpha release of the ...
J Bound… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1992 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We use trends in self-reported disability to gauge the impact of the growth of
disability transfer programs on the labor force attachment of older working-aged men. Our
tabulations suggest that between 1949 and 1987, about half of the 4.9 percentage point ...
AT Geronimus, J Bound, TA Waidmann, CG Colen… - Demography, 2001 - Springer
Abstract We calculated population-level estimates of mortality, functional health, and active
life expectancy for black and white adults living in a diverse set of 23 local areas in 1990,
and nationwide. At age 16, life expectancy and active life expectancy vary across the local ...
J Bound… - Journal of Human Resources, 2002 - JSTOR
During the 1990s, while overall employment rates for working-aged men and women either
remained roughly constant (men) or rose (women), employment rates for people with
disabilities fell. During the same period the fraction of the working-aged population ...
J Bound, J Groen,
G Kezdi… - 2001 - nber.org
The main question addressed in this analysis is how the production of undergraduate and
graduate education at the state level affects the local stock of university-educated workers.
The potential mobility of highly skilled workers implies that the number of college students ...
J Bound, CC Brown, G Duncan… - 1989 - nber.org
This paper reports evidence on the error properties of survey reports of labor market
variables such as earnings and work hours. Our primary data source is the PSID Validation
Study, a two-wave panel survey of a sample of workers employed by a large firm which ...
AT Geronimus, J Bound… - Journal of Epidemiology …, 1999 - jech.highwire.org
Abstract STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe variation in levels and causes of excess mortality
and temporal mortality change among young and middle aged adults in a regionally diverse
set of poor local populations in the USA. DESIGN: Using standard demographic ...
J Bound… - Economic Policy Review, 1995 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: During the last 15 years-especially in the 1980s-wage inequality rose in the United
States. It appears that this can be explained by a secular shift in production functions
favoring workers with intellectual rather than manual skills, together with slower growth in ...
MC Daly… - 1995 - nber.org
The responses of workers and their employers to the onset of work-limiting health
impairments were investigated using data from the new Health and Retirement Survey. The
results indicate that many workers who suffer from health limitations are directly ...
J Bound, Z Griliches… - International Economic Review, 1986 - JSTOR
Most of the earlier work on earnings functions and returns to schooling estimation has been
done with male data. Much of the more recent work on the analysis of male-female wage
differentials has focused on labor-force participation questions and the correct ...
J Bound, M Schoenbaum… - The …, 1996 - gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We used the first wave of the Health and Retirement Survey to study the effect of
health on the labor force activity of black and white men and women in their 50s. The
evidence we present confirms the notion that health is an extremely important determinant ...
J Bound… - 2006 - nber.org
Analyses of college attainment typically focus on factors affecting enrollment demand,
including the financial attractiveness of a college education and the availability of financial
aid, while implicitly assuming that resources available per student on the supply side of ...
J Bound, GJ Duncan, DS Laren… - Journal of …, 1991 - geronj.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Data from a national sample of widows of all ages were used to examine links
between poverty and widowhood. We found that widowhood drops living standards by 18
percent, on average, and pushes 10 percent of women whose incomes were above the ...
S Loeb… - 1995 - nber.org
The study presented here uses data from the NORC General Social Surveys to explore the
effects of measurable school characteristics on student achievement. What separates this
study from many others is the use of aggregate data on older cohorts, usually associated ...
J Bound - The American Economic Review, 1991 - JSTOR
To study behavioral responses to social insurance programs, researchers have often used
replacement rates as explanatory variables in regression analysis. Yet since the
replacement ratio is endogenous, doing so is problematic. Researchers analyzing ...
J Bound… - 1996 - nber.org
In an important and provocative paper,Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect
Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and Krueger use quarter of birth as an instrument for
educational attainment in wage equations. To support a causal interpretation of their ...
AT Geronimus, LJ Neidert… - American Journal of …, 1993 - ajph.aphapublications.org
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of the study was to describe age patterns of smoking among
Black and White women of reproductive age, with cohort membership controlled for.
METHOD. Data from the 1987 National Health Interview Survey Cancer Supplement, ...
J Bound… - 2000 - emeraldinsight.com
Abstract: Economists have been reluctant to interpret as purely causal the relationship
between educational attainment and earnings. In an influential paper in which they use
quarter of birth as an instrument for educational attainment in wage equations, Angrist and ...
J Bound… - Latinas and African American women at …, 1999 - books.google.com
A reasonably large literature examines the erosion of the relative wages of African American
men and the increasing relative wages of white women during the 1980s, but the position of
African American women in the labor market has received less attention. The historical ...
AT Geronimus… - Demography, 1990 - Springer
Abstract Maternal-age-specific neonatal mortality risk differs by race, with the mid-20s risk
low for whites but not blacks. This may be partially due to worsening health for black relative
to white women. We analyzed deaths to young women in the aggregate and classified by ...
S Turner… - The Journal of Economic History, 2003 - Cambridge Univ Press
The effects of the GI Bill on collegiate attainment may have differed for black and white
Americans owing to differential returns to education and differences in opportunities at
colleges and universities, with men in the South facing explicitly segregated colleges. The ...
AT Geronimus, J Bound… - Social science & medicine, 1999 - Elsevier
We estimate the impact of fertility-timing on the chances that children in poor urban African
American communities will have surviving and able-bodied parents until maturity. To do so,
we use census and vital statistics data to compute age-and sex-specific rates of mortality ...
AT Geronimus, HF Andersen… - Public Health Reports, 1991 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Hypertension and its sequelae complicate pregnancy and can result in poor
perinatal outcomes. Overall, US blacks are more likely to be hypertensive than whites, but
the degree to which this is true among women of childbearing age (including teenagers) is ...
CG Colen, AT Geronimus… - American journal of …, 2006 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We estimate the extent to which upward socioeconomic mobility limits the
probability that Black and White women who spent their childhoods in or near poverty will
give birth to a low-birthweight baby. Methods. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey ...
J Bound… - 2000 - nber.org
During the 1990s, while overall employment rates for working-aged men and women either
remained roughly constant (men) or rose (women), employment rates for the disabled fell.
During the same period the fraction of the working-aged population receiving Social ...
[CITATION] Wages in the United States during the 1980s and beyond
J Bound… - Workers and their wages (American Enterprise Institute …, 1991
J Bound, M Lovenheim… - Ann Arbor, Mich.: Population …, 2007 - psc.isr.umich.edu
ABSTRACT Persistent increases in the wage premium for college graduates in recent
decades have not been matched by gains in collegiate attainment. Indeed, the proportion of
students entering college who receive degrees has slowed while time to completion of the ...
J Bound… - 1996 - nber.org
In this paper we explore the effects of labor demand shifts and population adjustments
across metropolitan areas on the employment and earnings of various demographic groups
during the 1980s. Results show that, although earnings and employment deteriorated for ...
J Bound, T Stinebrickner… - Journal of Econometrics, 2010 - Elsevier
We specify a dynamic programming model that addresses the interplay among health,
financial resources, and the labor market behavior of men late in their working lives. We
model health as a latent variable, for which self-reported disability status is an indicator, ...
J Bound, SA Kossoudji… - 1998 - research.upjohn.org
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J Bound… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We estimate the magnitude of any direct effect of retirement on health. Since
retirement is endogenous to heath, it is not possible to estimate this effect by comparing the
health of individuals before and after they retire. As an alternative we use institutional ...
[CITATION] Black Economic Progress: Erosion of the Post-1965 gains in the 1980s?
J Bound, R Freeman - … in the US …, 1989 - Wesleyan Univ. Press Middletown
DA Jaeger, S Loeb, SE Turner… - 1998 - nber.org
This paper presents suggested matches for the geographical coding (geocoding) of
metropolitan areas in the 1970, 1980, and 1990 Censuses. The Census Bureau used
different definitions and taxonomies to describe the geography of metropolitan areas in ...
S Boggess… - Social Science Quarterly, 1997 - cat.inist.fr
Résumé/Abstract This research attempts to reconcile the apparent differences in trends
during the last fifteen years between the primary indicators of criminal activity in the United
States. They carefully analyzed data from the Uniform Crime Reports, the National Crime ...
J Bound, M Lovenheim… - 2009 - nber.org
Partly as a consequence of the substantial increase in the college wage premium since
1980, a much higher fraction of high school graduates enter college today than they did a
quarter century ago. However, the rise in the fraction of high school graduates attending ...
J Bound, SE Turner - 1999 - nber.org
The end of World War II brought a flood of returning veterans to America's colleges and
universities. Yet, despite widespread rhetoric about the democratization'of higher education
that came with this large pool of students, there is little evidence about the question of ...
AT Geronimus, J Bound, D Keene… - Ethnicity & disease, 2007 - ishib.org
Objectives: To describe age patterns of hypertension prevalence in young through middle-
aged adults and to test the hypothesis that hypertension prevalence rises more rapidly with
age among Blacks than Whites in the United States.
[CITATION] Modeling the effect of health on retirement behavior
J Bound, M Schoenbaum, T Stinebrickner… - National Bureau of …, 1998
Abstract: Using panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to
Social Security Administration disability determination records we trace the pattern of
household income and the sources of that income from 38 months prior to 39 months ...
S Boggess… - 1993 - nber.org
There is a widely held belief that the level of serious criminal activity increased during the
1980s. particularly among the urban underclass, This increase has been mentioned as both
a cause and consequence of the increasingly poor labor market prospects of less skilled ...
J Bound, S Turner… - 2009 - nber.org
The representation of a large number of students born outside the United States among the
ranks of doctorate recipients from US universities is one of the most significant
transformations in US graduate education and the international market for highly-trained ...
J Bound, MF Lovenheim… - American economic journal. …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Rising college enrollment over the last quarter century has not been met with a
proportional increase in college completion. Comparing the high school classes of 1972 and
1992, we show declines in college completion rates have been most pronounced for men ...
J Bound, JB Cullen, A Nichols… - Journal of Public Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
In order to evaluate whether workers are over-or under-insured through the Disability
Insurance (DI) program, we develop a framework that allows us to simulate the benefits as
well as the costs associated with marginal changes in payment generosity from a ...
[CITATION] Hall, and Adam Jaffe. 1984." Who Does R&D and Who Patents?"
J Bound, C Cummins, Z Griliches… - R&D, Patents, and … - Chicago: University of Chicago
J Bound, B Hershbein… - 2009 - nber.org
Gaining entrance to a four-year college or university, particularly a selective institution, has
become increasingly competitive over the last several decades. We document this
phenomenon and show how it has varied across different parts of the student ability ...
AT Geronimus, LJ Neidert… - American Journal of …, 1990 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Using data from the HHANES, we found the rates of elevated blood pressure readings on
clinical examination to be extremely low for a sample of Mexican American and Puerto
Rican women. The prevalence rates were one-fourth to one-fifth the rates found for a ...
SE Turner, J Bound - 2002 - nber.org
The effects of the GI Bill on collegiate attainment may have differed for black and white
Americans owing to differential returns to education and differences in opportunities at
colleges and universities, with men in the South facing explicitly segregated colleges. The ...
J Bound, MF Lovenheim… - 2010 - nber.org
Time to completion of the baccalaureate degree has increased markedly in the United
States over the last three decades, even as the wage premium for college graduates has
continued to rise. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School ...
B Eli, J Bound… - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1994 - 万方数据资源系统
... Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within USManufacturing:Evidence from the Annual
Survey of Manufactures. 通过DOI定位原文. DOI:, 10.2307/2118467. 作者 :, Berman Eli;John
Bound;Zvi Griliches. 期刊 :, Quarterly Journal of Economics. 年,卷(期) :, 1994, 104. 分类号 : ...
J Bound… - Admap, 1997 - marketingscience.info
When private label (PL) brands were small, inferior in quality, and sold on low price alone,
as was often so, they were said to appeal to a certain type of consumer, and to be outside
the range of competing manufacturers' brands. Has this been true–if it ever was–since PLs ...
J Bound, T Waidmann, M Schoenbaum… - Milbank …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Differences in health status across different race and ethnic groups in the United States,
particularly between black and white Americans, have been the subject of considerable
medical and social science research. For instance, numerous studies using a variety of ...
[CITATION] David Jaeger och Regina Baker (1995).” Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the …
J Bound - Journal of the American Statistical Association
J Bound, T Stinebrickner… - Working Papers, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
In this paper, we specify a dynamic programming model that addresses the interplay among
health, financial resources, and the labor market behavior of men in the later part of their
working lives. The model is estimated using data from the Health and Retirement Study. ...
N Mathiowetz, C Brown… - Studies of welfare …, 2002 - books.google.com
The measurement of the characteristics and behavioral experience among members of the
low-income and welfare populations offers particular challenges with respect to reducing
various sources of response error. For many of the substantive areas of interest, the ...
[CITATION] Measuring the Effects of Health on Retirement Behavior
J Bound, M Schoenbaum, TR Stinebrickner… - International Health and …, 1997
Abstract: Using panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to
Social Security Administration disability determination records we trace the pattern of
household income and the sources of that income from 38 months prior to 39 months ...
[CITATION] Freeman. 1989."
J Bound… - Black Economic Progress: Erosion of the Post-1965 …, 1980
AT Geronimus, J Bound… - 1995 - nber.org
Investigators of social differentials in health outcomes commonly augment incomplete micro
data by appending socioeconomic characteristics of residential areas (such as median
income in a zip code) to proxy for individual characteristics. However, little empirical ...
[CITATION] Disability status and racial differences in the labour force attachment
J Bound, M Schoenbaum… - Journal of Human Resources, 1995
J Bound, HJ Holzer… - 1995 - irp.wisc.edu
Abstract Earnings and employment deteriorated the most for young, less-educated, and/or
black males in the 1980s. The most severe deterioration for blacks occurred in the North-
Central regions. The causes of such regional and demographic variation in outcomes ...
[CITATION] Cohort crowding: how resources affect collegiate attainment
J Bound… - Unpublished paper. University of Virginia March …, 2003
[CITATION] The erosion of relative earnings of young black women during the 1980s
J Bound, L Dresser - Low wage …, 1993 - New York: Russell Sage Foundation
J Bound - 1986 - nber.org
The NBER-Mathematica Survey of Inner-City Black Youth was intended to be a random
sample of youths from low-income, predominantly black areas of three cities.'Yet older
youths are poorly represented in the survey, with half as many in their twenties as in their ...
[CITATION] Freeman. 1989." Black Economic Progress: Erosion of the Post-1965 Gains in the 1980s?"
J Bound… - The Question of Discrimination, eds. Steven Shulman …
J Bound, JB Cullen, A Nichols… - 2002 - nber.org
The focus on efficiency costs in the empirical literature on Disability Insurance (DI) provides
a misleading view of the adequacy of payment levels. In order to evaluate whether workers
are over-or under-insured through the social insurance program, we develop a framework ...
[CITATION] Freeman. 1992.“What Went Wrong? The Erosion of the Relative Earnings of Young Black Men in the 1980s.”
J Bound… - Quarterly Journal of Economics
J Bound - 1990 - nber.org
In this paper we use trends in self-reported disability from the late forties through the late
eighties to gauge the impact of the growth of income maintenance for the disabled on the
labor force attachment of older working-aged men. Under the assumption that the actual ...
[CITATION] A Discussion of Dirichlet Deviations
J Scriven, J Bound - Proceedings of the Australian & New Zealand …, 2004
AT Geronimus, J Bound… - Journal Information, 2011 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. Black working-aged residents of urban high-poverty areas suffered severe
excess mortality in 1980 and 1990. Our goal in this study was to determine whether this
trend persisted in 2000. Methods. We analyzed death certificate and census data to ...
[CITATION] T. Waidmann.(1996).'Race Differences in Labor Force Attachment and Disability Status.'
J Bound, M Schoenbaum… - The Gerontologist
J Bound… - Applied Ergonomics, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract Designers, ergonomists and professionals with an interest in ageing were surveyed
(by questionnaire) for their opinions and attitudes towards existing and potential products
and services for the Third Age. They were also questioned on lifestyle expectations for ...
J Bound, M Lovenheim… - University of Michigan …, 2007 - econ.ucdavis.edu
Abstract Substantial increases in the college wage premium have not brought about uniform
increases in the likelihood of degree attainment. Comparing two cohorts from the high
school classes of 1972 and 1992, we show eight-year college completion rates declined ...
[CITATION] Customer Retention and Switching in the Car Market
L Ehrenberg, J Bound - Research Report 6, The R&D Initiative, 1999
[CITATION] Who does Research and Development and who Patents?
J Bound - R&D, Patents and Productivity, Chicago: Chicago …, 1984
J Bound, T Stinebrickner… - Ann Arbor, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In this paper, we specify a dynamic programming model that addresses the
interplay among health, financial resources, and the labor market behavior of men in the
later part of their working lives. The model is estimated using data from the Health and ...
J Bound… - Preliminary Draft, 2006 - cream-migration.org
Over the last two decades, two undisputed empirical features in the US labor market are the
overall rise in the return to collegiate attainment and the growth in the representation of
foreign born among college-educated workers in the United States. The ratio of average ...
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