David M Blau
Biographic Data
| ID | 1149290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M Blau |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M |
| FAMILY NAME | Blau |
| SIGNATURE | BLAU D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2843-0577 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 253 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Case for Targeted Preschool and Childcare Subsidies
Response to Jill Yavorsky and Leah Ruppanner
The Effects of Universal Preschool on Child and Adult Outcomes
Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers
It is often asserted that the labor market is characterized by rigidities that make it difficult for older workers to carry out their desired trajectory from work to retirement. One potentially important source of rigidity is the restrictions on hours of work imposed by firms, but such rigidities are difficult to measure directly. The authors explore two variables that may serve as proxies for flexibility in hours at the employer level: the share…
Framing Social Security Reform
Framing Social Security Reform
The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers in the USA
Discussion of the Gramain, Lacan, Weber, Wittwer Paper
(1) It is very complicated to analyze. The complications include: (a) There are many potential players involved: the elderly dependent person herself, the spouse, children, children-in-law, grandchildren, other relatives, and sometimes non-relatives. (b) There are several potential modes of care: in the home of the elderly dependent person, in a relative's home, in an institution; by an unpaid caregiver or a paid caregiver; by one provider or mul…
Do child care regulations affect the child care and labor markets
The effect of child care regulations on outcomes in the child care market and the labor market for mothers of young children is examined. The analysis uses a time series of cross sections and examines the robustness of previous cross‐section findings to controls for state‐level heterogeneity. Child care regulations as a group have statistically significant effects on most outcomes, with or without state fixed effects. However, regulations do not …
Retiree Health Insurance and the Labor Force Behavior of Older Men in the 1990s
We estimate the impact of employer-provided retiree health insurance (EPRHI) on the labor force transitions of men aged 51 to 62.Data from the Health and Retirement Survey provide detailed and accurate measures of retiree health insurance. Availability of EPRHI increases the rate of exit from employment by two percentage points per year if the individual shares the cost of the insurance with the firm, and by six percentage points if the firm pays…
The Production of Quality in Child-Care Centers
Data from the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study (Helburn, 1995) are used to examine the effects of group size, staff-child ratio, and teacher qualifications on the quality of child care provided in day care centers. The Cost, Quality, and Outcomes data are from a representative 4-state sample of day care centers with a design that makes it possible to control for unobserved differences across centers that could cause biased estimates of the effec…
The Effect of Income on Child Development
This study presents estimates of the effect of parental income on children's cognitive, social, and emotional development. The effect of current income is small, especially when income is treated as endogenous. The effect of “permanent” income is substantially larger, but relatively small when compared to the magnitude of recent policy-induced changes in income. Family background characteristics play a more important role than income in determini…
A dynamic analysis of turnover in employment and child care
The causes of turnover in child-care arrangements and maternal employment are analyzed using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, supplemented with state-level information on child-care markets. The results indicate that turnover in child care is quite high and that child and family characteristics help explain turnover. Important factors include the mother’s wage, the cost of child care, age of the child, and previous child…
The Demand for Quality in Child Care
We estimate a model of demand for quality‐related attributes of child care: group size, staff/child ratio, and provider training. The model is estimated jointly with equations for mode, expenditure on and hours of care, and the mother's labor supply. The results show that a lower price of child care in a particular mode leads to substitution toward that mode and an increase in the use of paid child care. A decrease in the price of care causes an …
The Economics of Child Care
An Empirical Analysis of Employed and Unemployed Job Search Behavior
This paper analyzes the job search activities of employed and unemployed job seekers using self-reported data from a 1980 survey. One novel finding from reduced form equations is that many searchers, both employed and unemployed, rejected at least one offer before accepting a job. The reduced form results are used to estimate reservation wages based on a fairly standard model of job search. Most of the job searchers accepted a job offer with a wa…
The Economics of Child Care
Turnover in Child Care Arrangements
This paper analyzes changes in child-care arrangements of a sample of children from the Youth Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys over the first three years of life. The analysis indicates that turnover in child-care arrangements is surprisingly low among this sample and is more common among families of higher socioeconomic status. Child-care turnover is positively correlated with mothers' employment turnover, but is not correlated with c…
Child care demand and labor supply of young mothers over time
This paper uses panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to analyze jointly fertility, employment, and child care decisions of young women over time. As these young women age (from 21 to 25 years on average) they become increasingly likely to have young children, to be employed, and to use nonrelative forms of child care. A multivariate analysis reveals that rising wage rates and changes in household structure are importan…
Job Search Outcomes for the Employed and Unemployed
This paper examines how four components of the job search process influence the job-finding rate. A reduced-form model of job search is estimated that takes account of the fact that users of a particular method of job search are not a random subset of all searchers. The empirical analysis focuses on differences in search behavior between the employed and unemployed. A key finding of the analysis is that the offer rate per contact is greater for e…
Fertility, Employment, and Child-Care Costs
A sample of labor-market and birth histories is used to estimate the effects of child-care costs on employment and fertility decisions. A reduced-form empirical analysis is performed, which is based on hazard functions for transitions among various fertility–employment states. Higher child-care costs result in a lower birth rate for nonemployed women but not for employed women. Higher child-care costs also lead to an increase in the rate of leavi…
Child-Care Costs and Family Labor Supply
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of child care costs on family labor supply and the demand for market child care. The model is a framework for cross-section estimation of the effects of child care costs on labor supply and child care use. It applies to households having young children requiring continuous care and in which both the mother and 1 other potential child care provider are present. The 3 potential…
Schooling and Earnings Distributions with Endogenous Labour Force Participation, Marital Status and Family Size
David M. Blau, Jere R. Behrman, Barbara L. Wolfe, Schooling and Earnings Distributions with Endogenous Labour Force Participation, Marital Status and Family Size, Economica, New Series, Vol. 55, No. 219 (Aug., 1988), pp. 297-316
A Time-Series Analysis of Self-Employment in the United States
In the early 1970s the proportion of the nonagricultural labor force self-employed in the United States ceased its downward trend and has been rising ever since. This study provides an analysis of the causes of this change. A general-equilibrium model of self- employment and wage employment is analyzed, and aggregate U.S. time- series data are used to test predictions derived from the model. The empirical analysis indicates that changes in techno…
Self-employment, earnings, and mobility in Peninsular Malaysia
The Demand for Quality in Child Care
We estimate a model of demand for quality‐related attributes of child care: group size, staff/child ratio, and provider training. The model is estimated jointly with equations for mode, expenditure on and hours of care, and the mother's labor supply. The results show that a lower price of child care in a particular mode leads to substitution toward that mode and an increase in the use of paid child care. A decrease in the price of care causes an …
Fertility, Employment, and Child-Care Costs
A sample of labor-market and birth histories is used to estimate the effects of child-care costs on employment and fertility decisions. A reduced-form empirical analysis is performed, which is based on hazard functions for transitions among various fertility–employment states. Higher child-care costs result in a lower birth rate for nonemployed women but not for employed women. Higher child-care costs also lead to an increase in the rate of leavi…
A Time-Series Analysis of Self-Employment in the United States
In the early 1970s the proportion of the nonagricultural labor force self-employed in the United States ceased its downward trend and has been rising ever since. This study provides an analysis of the causes of this change. A general-equilibrium model of self- employment and wage employment is analyzed, and aggregate U.S. time- series data are used to test predictions derived from the model. The empirical analysis indicates that changes in techno…
The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers in the USA
Job Search Outcomes for the Employed and Unemployed
This paper examines how four components of the job search process influence the job-finding rate. A reduced-form model of job search is estimated that takes account of the fact that users of a particular method of job search are not a random subset of all searchers. The empirical analysis focuses on differences in search behavior between the employed and unemployed. A key finding of the analysis is that the offer rate per contact is greater for e…
Child care demand and labor supply of young mothers over time
This paper uses panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to analyze jointly fertility, employment, and child care decisions of young women over time. As these young women age (from 21 to 25 years on average) they become increasingly likely to have young children, to be employed, and to use nonrelative forms of child care. A multivariate analysis reveals that rising wage rates and changes in household structure are importan…
Do child care regulations affect the child care and labor markets
The effect of child care regulations on outcomes in the child care market and the labor market for mothers of young children is examined. The analysis uses a time series of cross sections and examines the robustness of previous cross‐section findings to controls for state‐level heterogeneity. Child care regulations as a group have statistically significant effects on most outcomes, with or without state fixed effects. However, regulations do not …
A dynamic analysis of turnover in employment and child care
The causes of turnover in child-care arrangements and maternal employment are analyzed using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, supplemented with state-level information on child-care markets. The results indicate that turnover in child care is quite high and that child and family characteristics help explain turnover. Important factors include the mother’s wage, the cost of child care, age of the child, and previous child…
An Empirical Analysis of Employed and Unemployed Job Search Behavior
This paper analyzes the job search activities of employed and unemployed job seekers using self-reported data from a 1980 survey. One novel finding from reduced form equations is that many searchers, both employed and unemployed, rejected at least one offer before accepting a job. The reduced form results are used to estimate reservation wages based on a fairly standard model of job search. Most of the job searchers accepted a job offer with a wa…
Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers
It is often asserted that the labor market is characterized by rigidities that make it difficult for older workers to carry out their desired trajectory from work to retirement. One potentially important source of rigidity is the restrictions on hours of work imposed by firms, but such rigidities are difficult to measure directly. The authors explore two variables that may serve as proxies for flexibility in hours at the employer level: the share…
Self-employment, earnings, and mobility in Peninsular Malaysia
Discussion of the Gramain, Lacan, Weber, Wittwer Paper
(1) It is very complicated to analyze. The complications include: (a) There are many potential players involved: the elderly dependent person herself, the spouse, children, children-in-law, grandchildren, other relatives, and sometimes non-relatives. (b) There are several potential modes of care: in the home of the elderly dependent person, in a relative's home, in an institution; by an unpaid caregiver or a paid caregiver; by one provider or mul…
The effects of economic development on life cycle wage rates and labor supply behavior in Malaysia
Human Capital and Earnings Distribution in a Developing Country
Income distribution and development
Contributions to the Psychobiology of Aging
The impact of demographic changes on income distribution in a developing country
Family Earnings and Wage Inequality Early in the Life Cycle
A bstract-This article proposes an explanation for the fact that while wages of married women contribute to equalizing the distnrbution of family wages the equalizing effect declines during the early stages of the married life cycle. The explanation is based on the interaction between on-the-job accumulation of human capital and labor supply behavior. Empirical results from the NLS panel data suggest that the explanation is plausible and also sho…
Income distribution and development
The effects of economic development on life cycle wage rates and labor supply behavior in Malaysia
Human Capital and Earnings Distribution in a Developing Country
Self-employment, earnings, and mobility in Peninsular Malaysia
A Time-Series Analysis of Self-Employment in the United States
In the early 1970s the proportion of the nonagricultural labor force self-employed in the United States ceased its downward trend and has been rising ever since. This study provides an analysis of the causes of this change. A general-equilibrium model of self- employment and wage employment is analyzed, and aggregate U.S. time- series data are used to test predictions derived from the model. The empirical analysis indicates that changes in techno…
Child-Care Costs and Family Labor Supply
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of child care costs on family labor supply and the demand for market child care. The model is a framework for cross-section estimation of the effects of child care costs on labor supply and child care use. It applies to households having young children requiring continuous care and in which both the mother and 1 other potential child care provider are present. The 3 potential…
Schooling and Earnings Distributions with Endogenous Labour Force Participation, Marital Status and Family Size
David M. Blau, Jere R. Behrman, Barbara L. Wolfe, Schooling and Earnings Distributions with Endogenous Labour Force Participation, Marital Status and Family Size, Economica, New Series, Vol. 55, No. 219 (Aug., 1988), pp. 297-316
Fertility, Employment, and Child-Care Costs
A sample of labor-market and birth histories is used to estimate the effects of child-care costs on employment and fertility decisions. A reduced-form empirical analysis is performed, which is based on hazard functions for transitions among various fertility–employment states. Higher child-care costs result in a lower birth rate for nonemployed women but not for employed women. Higher child-care costs also lead to an increase in the rate of leavi…
Job Search Outcomes for the Employed and Unemployed
This paper examines how four components of the job search process influence the job-finding rate. A reduced-form model of job search is estimated that takes account of the fact that users of a particular method of job search are not a random subset of all searchers. The empirical analysis focuses on differences in search behavior between the employed and unemployed. A key finding of the analysis is that the offer rate per contact is greater for e…
Turnover in Child Care Arrangements
This paper analyzes changes in child-care arrangements of a sample of children from the Youth Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys over the first three years of life. The analysis indicates that turnover in child-care arrangements is surprisingly low among this sample and is more common among families of higher socioeconomic status. Child-care turnover is positively correlated with mothers' employment turnover, but is not correlated with c…
Child care demand and labor supply of young mothers over time
This paper uses panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to analyze jointly fertility, employment, and child care decisions of young women over time. As these young women age (from 21 to 25 years on average) they become increasingly likely to have young children, to be employed, and to use nonrelative forms of child care. A multivariate analysis reveals that rising wage rates and changes in household structure are importan…
The Economics of Child Care
An Empirical Analysis of Employed and Unemployed Job Search Behavior
This paper analyzes the job search activities of employed and unemployed job seekers using self-reported data from a 1980 survey. One novel finding from reduced form equations is that many searchers, both employed and unemployed, rejected at least one offer before accepting a job. The reduced form results are used to estimate reservation wages based on a fairly standard model of job search. Most of the job searchers accepted a job offer with a wa…
The Economics of Child Care
A dynamic analysis of turnover in employment and child care
The causes of turnover in child-care arrangements and maternal employment are analyzed using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, supplemented with state-level information on child-care markets. The results indicate that turnover in child care is quite high and that child and family characteristics help explain turnover. Important factors include the mother’s wage, the cost of child care, age of the child, and previous child…
The Demand for Quality in Child Care
We estimate a model of demand for quality‐related attributes of child care: group size, staff/child ratio, and provider training. The model is estimated jointly with equations for mode, expenditure on and hours of care, and the mother's labor supply. The results show that a lower price of child care in a particular mode leads to substitution toward that mode and an increase in the use of paid child care. A decrease in the price of care causes an …
The Effect of Income on Child Development
This study presents estimates of the effect of parental income on children's cognitive, social, and emotional development. The effect of current income is small, especially when income is treated as endogenous. The effect of “permanent” income is substantially larger, but relatively small when compared to the magnitude of recent policy-induced changes in income. Family background characteristics play a more important role than income in determini…
The Production of Quality in Child-Care Centers
Data from the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study (Helburn, 1995) are used to examine the effects of group size, staff-child ratio, and teacher qualifications on the quality of child care provided in day care centers. The Cost, Quality, and Outcomes data are from a representative 4-state sample of day care centers with a design that makes it possible to control for unobserved differences across centers that could cause biased estimates of the effec…
Retiree Health Insurance and the Labor Force Behavior of Older Men in the 1990s
We estimate the impact of employer-provided retiree health insurance (EPRHI) on the labor force transitions of men aged 51 to 62.Data from the Health and Retirement Survey provide detailed and accurate measures of retiree health insurance. Availability of EPRHI increases the rate of exit from employment by two percentage points per year if the individual shares the cost of the insurance with the firm, and by six percentage points if the firm pays…
Do child care regulations affect the child care and labor markets
The effect of child care regulations on outcomes in the child care market and the labor market for mothers of young children is examined. The analysis uses a time series of cross sections and examines the robustness of previous cross‐section findings to controls for state‐level heterogeneity. Child care regulations as a group have statistically significant effects on most outcomes, with or without state fixed effects. However, regulations do not …
The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers in the USA
Discussion of the Gramain, Lacan, Weber, Wittwer Paper
(1) It is very complicated to analyze. The complications include: (a) There are many potential players involved: the elderly dependent person herself, the spouse, children, children-in-law, grandchildren, other relatives, and sometimes non-relatives. (b) There are several potential modes of care: in the home of the elderly dependent person, in a relative's home, in an institution; by an unpaid caregiver or a paid caregiver; by one provider or mul…
Economics (26 works) · Demographic economics (17 works) · Labour economics (16 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Business (7 works)