Kelly Bedard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1049443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Bedard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Bedard |
| SIGNATURE | BEDARD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7407-8164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 224 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits
We use 10 years of California administrative data with a regression kink design to estimate the causal impacts of benefits in the first state‐level paid family leave program for women with earnings near the maximum benefit threshold. We find no evidence that a higher weekly benefit amount (WBA) increases leave duration or leads to adverse future labor market outcomes for this group. In contrast, we document that a rise in the WBA leads to an incr…
Equal but Inequitable
Many skilled professional occupations are characterized by an early period of intensive skill accumulation and career establishment. Examples include law firm associates, surgical residents, and untenured faculty at research-intensive universities. High female exit rates are sometimes blamed on the inability of new mothers to survive the sustained negative productivity shock associated with childbearing and early childrearing in these environment…
No cohort left behind
Unhealthy assimilation
It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United States than their American counterparts but that this health advantage erodes over time. We study the potential determinants of this “healthy immigrant effect,” with a particular focus on the tendency of immigrants to converge to unhealthy American BMI levels. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey, we find that average female and male immigrants e…
Does single parenthood increase the probability of teenage promiscuity, substance use, and crime
The Relative Earnings of Young Mexican, Black, and White Women
This analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicates that young Mexican women and young black women earned, respectively, 9.5% and 13.2% less than young white women in 1994. Differences in education appear to be the most important explanation for the Mexican-white wage gap, whereas differences in labor force attachment are the most important determinant of the black-white wage gap. The authors show that accounting for ac…
Human Capital versus Signaling Models
Under the educational sorting hypothesis, an environment in which some individuals are constrained from entering university will be characterized by increased pooling at the high school graduation level, as compared to an environment with greater university access. This results because some potential high school dropouts and university enrollees choose the high school graduate designation in order to take advantage of high-ability individuals who…
Standardized Mortality Ratios and Canadian Health-Care Funding
Kelly Bedard, John Dorland, Allan W. Gregory, Mark Rosenberg, Standardized Mortality Ratios and Canadian Health-Care Funding, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1999), pp. 47-64
Unhealthy assimilation
It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United States than their American counterparts but that this health advantage erodes over time. We study the potential determinants of this “healthy immigrant effect,” with a particular focus on the tendency of immigrants to converge to unhealthy American BMI levels. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey, we find that average female and male immigrants e…
Human Capital versus Signaling Models
Under the educational sorting hypothesis, an environment in which some individuals are constrained from entering university will be characterized by increased pooling at the high school graduation level, as compared to an environment with greater university access. This results because some potential high school dropouts and university enrollees choose the high school graduate designation in order to take advantage of high-ability individuals who…
The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits
We use 10 years of California administrative data with a regression kink design to estimate the causal impacts of benefits in the first state‐level paid family leave program for women with earnings near the maximum benefit threshold. We find no evidence that a higher weekly benefit amount (WBA) increases leave duration or leads to adverse future labor market outcomes for this group. In contrast, we document that a rise in the WBA leads to an incr…
Does single parenthood increase the probability of teenage promiscuity, substance use, and crime
The Relative Earnings of Young Mexican, Black, and White Women
This analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicates that young Mexican women and young black women earned, respectively, 9.5% and 13.2% less than young white women in 1994. Differences in education appear to be the most important explanation for the Mexican-white wage gap, whereas differences in labor force attachment are the most important determinant of the black-white wage gap. The authors show that accounting for ac…
No cohort left behind
Standardized Mortality Ratios and Canadian Health-Care Funding
Kelly Bedard, John Dorland, Allan W. Gregory, Mark Rosenberg, Standardized Mortality Ratios and Canadian Health-Care Funding, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1999), pp. 47-64
Human Capital versus Signaling Models
Under the educational sorting hypothesis, an environment in which some individuals are constrained from entering university will be characterized by increased pooling at the high school graduation level, as compared to an environment with greater university access. This results because some potential high school dropouts and university enrollees choose the high school graduate designation in order to take advantage of high-ability individuals who…
The Relative Earnings of Young Mexican, Black, and White Women
This analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicates that young Mexican women and young black women earned, respectively, 9.5% and 13.2% less than young white women in 1994. Differences in education appear to be the most important explanation for the Mexican-white wage gap, whereas differences in labor force attachment are the most important determinant of the black-white wage gap. The authors show that accounting for ac…
Does single parenthood increase the probability of teenage promiscuity, substance use, and crime
Unhealthy assimilation
It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United States than their American counterparts but that this health advantage erodes over time. We study the potential determinants of this “healthy immigrant effect,” with a particular focus on the tendency of immigrants to converge to unhealthy American BMI levels. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey, we find that average female and male immigrants e…
No cohort left behind
Equal but Inequitable
Many skilled professional occupations are characterized by an early period of intensive skill accumulation and career establishment. Examples include law firm associates, surgical residents, and untenured faculty at research-intensive universities. High female exit rates are sometimes blamed on the inability of new mothers to survive the sustained negative productivity shock associated with childbearing and early childrearing in these environment…
The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits
We use 10 years of California administrative data with a regression kink design to estimate the causal impacts of benefits in the first state‐level paid family leave program for women with earnings near the maximum benefit threshold. We find no evidence that a higher weekly benefit amount (WBA) increases leave duration or leads to adverse future labor market outcomes for this group. In contrast, we document that a rise in the WBA leads to an incr…
Economics (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (3 works)