Media reports predicted that the stock market decline in October 2008 would cause changes in retirement intentions, due to declines in retirement assets. We use panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the relationship between stock market performance and retirement intentions during 1998-2008, a period that includes the…

Empirical evidence from a 4-year study of the performance of a sample of rehoused factory workers in Mexico is presented. (Author)

Investigates the practice, engaged in by certain manufacturers, of investing in training workers in skills employed in the production process of the customers' firm, e.g., a business machines manufacturer's practice of training its customers' employees to operate certain machines. An explanation of this practice along with some empirical tests…

Concludes that sending Canadians to the United States for graduate studies entails a high risk of nonreturn. (BH)

Increasing the probability of paying child support, in addition to increasing resources available for investment in children, also may alter the incentives faced by men to have children out of wedlock. We find that strengthening child support enforcement leads men to have fewer out-of-wedlock births and among those who do become fathers, to do so…

Compares costs and benefits to derive a rate of return of 18 percent on investment in the 2-year college. (BH)

Shows that the generally high returns to high school graduation are not universal. For some specific occupations, completing high school is not economically justifiable. (BH)

Describes a model of the labor market which includes an implicit market for learning opportunities through work experience. (BH)

Women's years of educational enrollment and health, measured by longevity, have increased more than men's. Sample selection bias caused by analyses of only wage earners does not lower women's private returns to schooling. Social returns to education favor greater public investment in women, especially in Asia and Africa. (Author/SK)

The purpose of the paper is to develop a theoretical analysis of the demand for full-time education in which nonmonetary as well as monetary benefits enter explicitly. (Author)

Data from Taiwanese cohorts show that parental investment in children is affected by credit constraints; early-born children do poorly, especially females; in poorer families and older cohorts, older sisters increase younger siblings' education; and in younger cohorts and richer families, effects of family size and gender composition are weaker.…