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Three essays in labor and family economics.

dc.contributor.authorChoi, HwaJung
dc.contributor.advisorBound, John
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-30T16:23:50Z
dc.date.available2016-08-30T16:23:50Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.urihttp://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3304946
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/127007
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation investigates behavioral responses to adverse economic events. Informal networks such as family play an important role in mitigating economic hardship, especially when public safety networks are limited. First chapter explores long-term consequences of parental illness in the labor market. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Study, empirical results indicate that having an unhealthy father substantially reduces a daughter's future working probability in the labor market. Incorporating family economic linkage and time allocation theory, the economic model suggests that the budget-strained family reallocates roles or resources based on relative value between market-intensive and time-intensive commodity. Responding to an adverse economic situation caused by the poor health of a family member, women are more likely to allocate time to non-market labor than do men when relative return on market labor is significantly lower for women. Second chapter examines how remittances sent by migrants respond to income shocks experienced by Philippine households. Because household income and remittances are determined jointly, we exploit rainfall shocks as instrumental variables for income changes. In households with migrants abroad, we find that an exogenous decline in household income leads to increase in remittances, consistent with an insurance motivation for remittances. In such households, we cannot reject the null hypothesis of full insurance: on average, essentially all exogenous declines in income are replaced by remittance inflows from abroad. Third chapter investigates an individual's own/sibling's health implications in the labor market. Empirical results from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics suggest that an individual's health status as a young adult is a significant predictor of his or her future working status. Sibling health also plays an important role in determining women's labor force participation: a woman with an unhealthy sibling in her young adulthood is likelier to work in the market in her adulthood.
dc.format.extent137 p.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoEN
dc.subjectEssays
dc.subjectFamily Economic Linkage
dc.subjectFamily Economics
dc.subjectHealth
dc.subjectLabor Supply
dc.subjectMigrants
dc.subjectParental Illness
dc.subjectThree
dc.titleThree essays in labor and family economics.
dc.typeThesis
dc.description.thesisdegreenamePhDen_US
dc.description.thesisdegreedisciplineIndividual and family studies
dc.description.thesisdegreedisciplineLabor economics
dc.description.thesisdegreedisciplineSocial Sciences
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantorUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/127007/2/3304946.pdf
dc.owningcollnameDissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's)


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