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https://hdl.handle.net/10419/64319
2024-03-29T02:10:16ZEffects of child care vouchers on price, quantity, and provider turnover in private care markets
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283987
Title: Effects of child care vouchers on price, quantity, and provider turnover in private care markets
Authors: Lee, Won Fy; Sojourner, Aaron; Davis, Elizabeth E.; Borowsky, Jonathan
Abstract: Harnessing changes in funding for a voucher program that subsidizes consumers' use of child care services at private providers, this study quantifies effects on local markets' service capacity and prices. We also estimate how increased funding effects provider entry rate, exit rate, and highly rated provider market share. The evidence shows that an additional $100 in private voucher funding per local young child would 1) raise the number of private-provider slots by 0.026 per local young child, 2) raise average prices by $0.56 per week, mainly driven by a price increase among incumbent providers, and 3) induce new provider entry to the market by 0.4 percentage points. The estimates imply a highly elastic supply elasticity of 10.7. Thus an increase in public funding and subsequent increase in demand is expected to result in expansion of available slots accompanied by a limited increase in price.2024-01-01T00:00:00ZDACA, mobility investments, and economic outcomes of immigrants and natives
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283988
Title: DACA, mobility investments, and economic outcomes of immigrants and natives
Authors: Kiser, Jimena Villanueva; Wilson, Riley
Abstract: Exploiting variation created by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), we document the effects of immigrant legalization on immigrant mobility investments and economic outcomes. We provide new evidence that DACA increased both geographic and job mobility of young immigrants, often leading them to high-paying labor markets and licensed occupations. We then examine whether these gains to immigrants spill over and affect labor market outcomes of U.S.-born workers. Exploiting immigrant enclaves and source-country flows of DACA-eligible immigrants to isolate plausibly exogenous variation in the concentration of DACA recipients, we show that in labor markets where more of the working-age population can access legal protection through DACA, U.S.-born workers see little-to-no change in employment rates and actually observe increases in wage earnings after DACA's implementation. These gains are concentrated among older and more educated workers, suggesting immigrant workers complement U.S.-born workers and immigrant legalization generates broader local labor market benefits.2024-01-01T00:00:00ZLabor market effects of paid sick leave: The case of Seattle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283989
Title: Labor market effects of paid sick leave: The case of Seattle
Authors: Wething, Hilary; Slopen, Meredith
Abstract: We investigate the impact of Seattle's Paid Sick and Safety Time (PSST) policy on workers' quarterly hours worked and separation hazard. Using Unemployment Insurance records from before and after the implementation of PSST, we examine individual-level employment behavior at the extensive and intensive margins and compare Seattle workers to workers in Washington state using a difference-indifferences strategy. Importantly, we consider how impacts vary by employment characteristics, including worker wage rate and tenure, and by firm characteristics, including industry and firm size. We find that PSST increased workers' quarterly hours by 4.42 hours per quarter, or around 18 hours per year. While there was no overall impact on workers' separation hazard rates, we observed a 10 percent decrease in separations for workers in firms with more than 50 employees following PSST implementation. Our findings indicate that paid sick leave policies may support workers in increasing their hours and, to a lesser extent, may reduce turnover.2024-01-01T00:00:00ZGrads on the go: Measuring college-specific labor markets for graduates
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283986
Title: Grads on the go: Measuring college-specific labor markets for graduates
Authors: Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad; Martin, Shawn M.; Simon, Andrew
Abstract: This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67 percent in-state. The geographic dispersion of alumni is more than twice as great for highly selective 4-year institutions as for 2-year institutions. However, more than one-quarter of 2-year institutions disperse alumni more diversely than the average public 4-year institution. In one application of these data, we find that the average strength of the labor market to which a college sends its graduates predicts college-specific intergenerational economic mobility. In a second application, we quantify the extent of "brain drain" across areas and illustrate the importance of considering migration patterns of college graduates when estimating the social return on public investment in higher education.2024-01-01T00:00:00Z