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A Hero At Home, But Losing The Zeros At Work? : How Length Of Maternity Leave Effects Women's Income, Dhanisha Nandigama
A Hero At Home, But Losing The Zeros At Work? : How Length Of Maternity Leave Effects Women's Income, Dhanisha Nandigama
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
An increasing number of mothers are involved in the workforce and often take maternity leave. Women taking maternity leave experience various career implications. Importantly, leave length can impact the nature of these career outcomes. In this study, I explore the relationship between length of maternity leave and one key career outcome: income. Drawing from social role theories, I investigated whether longer parental leave is related to less positive career outcomes, such as income across women over time and if there is a curvilinear relationship between length of maternity leave and women’s income, such that the relationship between length of leave …
Inequality In Access To Dental And Vision Care : Examining The Role Of Income And Insurance, Wahida Ferdousi
Inequality In Access To Dental And Vision Care : Examining The Role Of Income And Insurance, Wahida Ferdousi
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation explores inequality in access to dental and vision care. It includes three chapters.
Essays On Investigating And Modeling Household Wealth Distribution Determinants, Yunan Lu
Essays On Investigating And Modeling Household Wealth Distribution Determinants, Yunan Lu
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
I investigate and model wealth distribution determinants both empirically and theoretically. In "An Investigation of the Process for U.S. Household Wealth", I use panel-structured Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data to investigate the stochastic process for U.S. household wealth, based on a model that includes a common age-dependent component, a permanent heterogeneous component, and a dynamic component. Using the estimated wealth process, I decompose the dispersion in household wealth at each age generated between the different stochastic mechanisms. The estimated household wealth process can then be used to validate theoretical models of wealth inequality. The experiment conducted in this …
Health Disparities Among The U.S. Elderly, Heesoo Joo
Health Disparities Among The U.S. Elderly, Heesoo Joo
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation examines health disparities related to race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status among the U.S. elderly taking into account empirical challenges including: (1) self-selection and unobserved factors; (2) subjective and objective measures of disease; and (3) attrition bias.