Search Results - "Waldfogel, J"

Do Mergers Increase Product Variety? Evidence from Radio Broadcasting by Berry, Steven T., Waldfogel, Joel

“…Mergers can reduce costs and alter incentives about how to position products, so that theory alone cannot predict whether mergers will increase product…”
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Britain's War on Poverty by Waldfogel, Jane

“…In 1999, one in four British children lived in poverty—the third highest child poverty rate among industrialized countries. Five years later, the child poverty…”
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Pharmacotherapy for diabetic peripheral neuropathy pain and quality of life: A systematic review

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Dunning Delinquent Dads: The Effects of Child Support Enforcement Policy on Child Support Receipt by Never Married Women by Freeman, Richard B., Waldfogel, Jane

“…Using data from administrative records, the Survey of Income and Program Participation, and the Current Population Survey, we find that the proportion of never…”
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The median voter and the median consumer: Local private goods and population composition by Waldfogel, Joel

“…When a product's product provision entails fixed costs, it will be made available only if a sufficient number of people want it. Some products are produced and…”
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Understanding the "Family Gap" in Pay for Women with Children by Waldfogel, Jane

“…As the gender gap in pay between women and men has been narrowing, the 'family gap' in pay between mothers and nonmothers has been widening. One reason may be…”
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Preference Externalities: An Empirical Study of Who Benefits Whom in Differentiated-Product Markets by Waldfogel, Joel

“…Theory predicts that in markets with increasing returns, the number of differentiated products, and the tendency to consume, will grow in market size. I…”
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The Effect of Children on Women's Wages by Waldfogel, Jane

“…I use data from the 1968-1988 National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women to investigate the lower wages of mothers. In pooled cross-sectional models,…”
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Music file sharing and sales displacement in the iTunes era by Waldfogel, Joel

“…A growing empirical literature examines the relationship between music file sharing and legal purchases of music, but existing studies examine the period…”
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Early Childhood Care and Education: Effects on Ethnic and Racial Gaps in School Readiness by Magnuson, Katherine A., Waldfogel, Jane

“…The authors examine black, white, and Hispanic children's differing experiences in early childhood care and education and explore links between these…”
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Racial Disparities in Childhood Asthma in the United States: Evidence From the National Health Interview Survey, 1997 to 2003 by McDaniel, Marla, Paxson, Christina, Waldfogel, Jane

“…To examine differences in asthma prevalence and emergency department (ED) visits for asthma between non-Hispanic black and white children, and factors that…”
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Movie piracy and sales displacement in two samples of Chinese consumers by Bai, Jie, Waldfogel, Joel

“…► We document the volumes of paid and unpaid consumption for movies in China. ► We find that three quarters of movie consumption is unpaid. ► Using two surveys…”
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Maternity leave, early maternal employment and child health and development in the US by Berger, Lawrence M., Hill, Jennifer, Waldfogel, Jane

“…This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to explore links between mothers' returns to work within 12 weeks of giving birth and…”
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Does Consumer Irrationality Trump Consumer Sovereignty? by Waldfogel, Joel

“…Scholars working on the border of economics and psychology have documented many contexts in which individual decision-making is unreliable and might be…”
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Child Care, Women's Employment, and Child Outcomes by Waldfogel, Jane

“…This paper reviews the evidence on the impact of child care and maternal employment in the pre-school years on child outcomes. This topic has long been of…”
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The impact of the family and medical leave act by Waldfogel, Jane

“…This article uses data from employer surveys and the March Current Population Survey to investigate the impact of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) on…”
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The Family Gap for Young Women in the United States and Britain: Can Maternity Leave Make a Difference? by Waldfogel, Jane

“…In the United States and Britain, there is a “family gap” between the wages of mothers and other women. Differential returns to marital and parental status…”
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The "New York Times" and the Market for Local Newspapers by George, Lisa M., Waldfogel, Joel

“…Recent technological advances have dramatically lowered the cost of transmitting information over large distances. In the late 1990s, the New York Times…”
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Who Affects Whom in Daily Newspaper Markets? by George, Lisa, Waldfogel, Joel

“…When consumers share similar preferences, additional consumers will bring forth products that confer positive “preference externalities” on others. However, if…”
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Inequality in preschool education and school readiness by Magnuson, Katherine A, Meyers, Marcia K, Ruhm, Christopher J

“…Attendance in U.S. preschools has risen substantially in recent decades, but gaps in enrolment between children from advantaged and disadvantaged families…”
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