This paper is based on a talk given at the conference of the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, September 2004. There is consistent evidence that parents? education predicts children?s educational outcomes, alongside other distal family characteristics such as family income, parents? occupations and residence location. A variety of explanations have been… Continue reading Influences of parents’ education on their children’s educational attainments: the role of parent and child perceptions

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between urinary incontinence and women’s levels and hours of participation in 31 activities. METHODS: A subset of panel members from the Health and Retirement Study completed the self-administered Consumption and Activities Mail Survey questionnaire in 2001. These data were linked with Health and Retirement Study 2000 data. Analyses were limited… Continue reading Does Urinary Incontinence Affect Middle-Aged and Older Women’s Time Use and Activity Patterns?

Using data from the BLS Industry Wage Survey, the author tests the theory that firms choose their methods of pay by balancing the gains from more precise links between performance and pay against monitoring costs. The results confirm most of the predictions from the general theory. For example, large firms make significantly greater use of… Continue reading Firms’ Choice of Method of Pay

This paper uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine children’s involvement with their fathers in intact families as measured through time spent together. Our findings suggest that although mothers still shoulder the lion’s share of the parenting, fathers’ involvement relative to that of mothers appears to be on the increase. A “new father”… Continue reading Children’s Time with Fathers in Intact Families