Marigee P Bacolod
Biographic Data
| ID | 1632818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marigee P Bacolod |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marigee P |
| FAMILY NAME | Bacolod |
| SIGNATURE | BACOLOD M P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why Children Work, Attend School, or Stay Idle
This paper offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of child labor, schooling, and idleness (neither work nor school), with particular emphasis on the roles of child ability and household wealth in determining these decisions. We show theoretically that “idleness” may be chosen optimally by low‐income households whose child is of low ability. Using a rich data set from the Philippines, we find that while other factors—including mother’s labor …
Do Alternative Opportunities Matter? The Role of Female Labor Markets in the Decline of Teacher Quality
This paper documents the widely perceived but little investigated notion that teachers today are less qualified than they once were. Evidence of a marked decline in the quality of young women going into teaching between 1960 and 1990 is presented, using standardized test scores, undergraduate institution selectivity, and positive assortative mating characteristics as indicators of quality. In contrast, the quality of young women becoming professi…
Why Children Work, Attend School, or Stay Idle
This paper offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of child labor, schooling, and idleness (neither work nor school), with particular emphasis on the roles of child ability and household wealth in determining these decisions. We show theoretically that “idleness” may be chosen optimally by low‐income households whose child is of low ability. Using a rich data set from the Philippines, we find that while other factors—including mother’s labor …
Do Alternative Opportunities Matter? The Role of Female Labor Markets in the Decline of Teacher Quality
This paper documents the widely perceived but little investigated notion that teachers today are less qualified than they once were. Evidence of a marked decline in the quality of young women going into teaching between 1960 and 1990 is presented, using standardized test scores, undergraduate institution selectivity, and positive assortative mating characteristics as indicators of quality. In contrast, the quality of young women becoming professi…
Why Children Work, Attend School, or Stay Idle
This paper offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of child labor, schooling, and idleness (neither work nor school), with particular emphasis on the roles of child ability and household wealth in determining these decisions. We show theoretically that “idleness” may be chosen optimally by low‐income households whose child is of low ability. Using a rich data set from the Philippines, we find that while other factors—including mother’s labor …
Demographic economics (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works) · Quality (philosophy) (2 works) · Affect (linguistics) (1 work) · Assortative mating (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Child labour (1 work) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (1 work) · Contrast (vision) (1 work)