Robert I Lerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 247181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert I Lerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert I |
| FAMILY NAME | Lerman |
| SIGNATURE | LERMAN R I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Family Structure and Economic Success Across the Life Course
This paper examines the role that family structure plays in long-run economic outcomes across the life course. Using nearly 30 years of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we find that youths who grow up with both biological parents earn more income, work more hours each week and are more likely to be married themselves as adults, compared to children raised in single-parent families. Many of these differences continue to be…
Can We Upgrade Low-Skill, Low-Wage Occupations? The Case of Apprenticeships in the Long-Term Care Occupations
The best prospect for improving job quality and compensation in low-wage jobs is by increasing worker productivity. This study investigates the prospects of registered apprenticeship training for raising productivity in the long-term care (LTC) industry, a high-demand, low-wage field that principally employs female caretakers. Case studies of five LTC registered apprenticeship programs and analysis of administrative data suggest that apprenticesh…
How do marital status, work effort, and wage rates interact
How marital status interacts with men’s earnings is an important analytic and policy issue, especially in the context of debates in the United States over programs that encourage healthy marriage. This paper generates new findings about the earnings-marriage relationship by estimating the linkages among flows into and out of marriage, work effort, and wage rates. The estimates are based on National Longitudinal Survey of Youth panel data, coverin…
Father Involvement with Their Nonmarital Children: Patterns, Determinants, and Effects on Their Earnings
The expanding consensus about the advantages of two-parent families, together with the rising number of children growing up without the presence of both parents, has stimulated policy-makers to look for ways of increasing fathers' involvement. This paper examines two sets of questions relevant to these policy initiatives. The first concerns the patterns of involvement between fathers and children born outside of marriage. The paper defines father…
Reducing the child support welfare disincentive problem
The Impact of the Changing US Family Structure on Child Poverty and Income Inequality
This paper analyzes links between rising income inequality, child poverty, and one-parent families in the United States from 1971 to 1989. One test reallocated weights so that 1989 proportions of children by mother's marital status resembled the 1971 distribution. A second method used (1) simulated marriages among unmarried men and unmarried mothers in 1989 to reproduce 1971 marital patterns and (2) earnings responses induced by the simulated mar…
Nurturing Young Black Males
Policy Watch: Child Support Policies
With more parents living apart, the societal problem of parents who fail to share with each other or with their children becomes more acute. Although governments have mainly relied on public transfers to address the resulting economic hardships among children, the emphasis has been shifting toward mandatory sharing through the rigorous enforcement of child support laws. This paper first describes the economic context for child support; the expand…
Rethinking Employment Policy
This book takes a hard look at what we know and don't know about the labor market problems that face us as we move into the 1990s. Contributing authors include Isabel V. Sawhill, George E. Johnson, Robert Eisner, Marc Bendick, Jr., Burt S. Barnow, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Leroy D. Clark, Ray Marshall, Daniel Burton, and Forrest Chisman
Working But Poor: America's Contradiction. Sar A. Levitan , Isaac Shapiro
Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Doesn't
Deskilling and declassing: Wither the middle stratum
Youth Employment
Common Decency: Domestic Policies after Reagan, by Alvin L. Schorr and James P. Comer
Alvin Schorr, widely known as a policymaker, administrator, teacher, and writer, here identifies five objectives of social policy intended to achieve that goal and then proposes new policies to meet these objectives. They are, in any case, the policies of a decent people
Imputed Income from Owner-Occupied Housing and Income Inequality
Imputed income from owner-occupied housing is generally not included in analyses of the distribution of income. Yet the value of homeownership is undoubtedly an important element distinguishing the economic status of one family from another. In this paper, using a new method to decompose income inequality by income source, we analyze the impact of potential income derived from the net worth of housing on a representative national sample of US hom…
Who are the Young Absent Fathers
Unemployment among Low-Income and Black Youth: A Review of Causes, Programs, and Policies
Income Inequality Effects by Income Source: A New Approach and Applications to the United States
Robert I. Lerman, Shlomo Yitzhaki, Income Inequality Effects by Income Source: A New Approach and Applications to the United States, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Feb., 1985), pp. 151-156
A note on the calculation and interpretation of the Gini index
Tomorrow's Workers
The President as Policymaker: Jimmy Carter and Welfare Reform, by Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Dave deF. Whitman
Jobs and income for the poor
Area Employment Conditions and Labor-Force Participation: A Microstudy
Father Involvement with Their Nonmarital Children: Patterns, Determinants, and Effects on Their Earnings
The expanding consensus about the advantages of two-parent families, together with the rising number of children growing up without the presence of both parents, has stimulated policy-makers to look for ways of increasing fathers' involvement. This paper examines two sets of questions relevant to these policy initiatives. The first concerns the patterns of involvement between fathers and children born outside of marriage. The paper defines father…
The Impact of the Changing US Family Structure on Child Poverty and Income Inequality
This paper analyzes links between rising income inequality, child poverty, and one-parent families in the United States from 1971 to 1989. One test reallocated weights so that 1989 proportions of children by mother's marital status resembled the 1971 distribution. A second method used (1) simulated marriages among unmarried men and unmarried mothers in 1989 to reproduce 1971 marital patterns and (2) earnings responses induced by the simulated mar…
How do marital status, work effort, and wage rates interact
How marital status interacts with men’s earnings is an important analytic and policy issue, especially in the context of debates in the United States over programs that encourage healthy marriage. This paper generates new findings about the earnings-marriage relationship by estimating the linkages among flows into and out of marriage, work effort, and wage rates. The estimates are based on National Longitudinal Survey of Youth panel data, coverin…
Family Structure and Economic Success Across the Life Course
This paper examines the role that family structure plays in long-run economic outcomes across the life course. Using nearly 30 years of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we find that youths who grow up with both biological parents earn more income, work more hours each week and are more likely to be married themselves as adults, compared to children raised in single-parent families. Many of these differences continue to be…
Who are the Young Absent Fathers
Can We Upgrade Low-Skill, Low-Wage Occupations? The Case of Apprenticeships in the Long-Term Care Occupations
The best prospect for improving job quality and compensation in low-wage jobs is by increasing worker productivity. This study investigates the prospects of registered apprenticeship training for raising productivity in the long-term care (LTC) industry, a high-demand, low-wage field that principally employs female caretakers. Case studies of five LTC registered apprenticeship programs and analysis of administrative data suggest that apprenticesh…
Imputed Income from Owner-Occupied Housing and Income Inequality
Imputed income from owner-occupied housing is generally not included in analyses of the distribution of income. Yet the value of homeownership is undoubtedly an important element distinguishing the economic status of one family from another. In this paper, using a new method to decompose income inequality by income source, we analyze the impact of potential income derived from the net worth of housing on a representative national sample of US hom…
Unemployment among Low-Income and Black Youth: A Review of Causes, Programs, and Policies
The President as Policymaker: Jimmy Carter and Welfare Reform, by Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Dave deF. Whitman
Nurturing Young Black Males
Deskilling and declassing: Wither the middle stratum
Area Employment Conditions and Labor-Force Participation: A Microstudy
Jobs and income for the poor
The President as Policymaker: Jimmy Carter and Welfare Reform, by Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Dave deF. Whitman
A note on the calculation and interpretation of the Gini index
Tomorrow's Workers
Income Inequality Effects by Income Source: A New Approach and Applications to the United States
Robert I. Lerman, Shlomo Yitzhaki, Income Inequality Effects by Income Source: A New Approach and Applications to the United States, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Feb., 1985), pp. 151-156
Imputed Income from Owner-Occupied Housing and Income Inequality
Imputed income from owner-occupied housing is generally not included in analyses of the distribution of income. Yet the value of homeownership is undoubtedly an important element distinguishing the economic status of one family from another. In this paper, using a new method to decompose income inequality by income source, we analyze the impact of potential income derived from the net worth of housing on a representative national sample of US hom…
Who are the Young Absent Fathers
Unemployment among Low-Income and Black Youth: A Review of Causes, Programs, and Policies
Youth Employment
Common Decency: Domestic Policies after Reagan, by Alvin L. Schorr and James P. Comer
Alvin Schorr, widely known as a policymaker, administrator, teacher, and writer, here identifies five objectives of social policy intended to achieve that goal and then proposes new policies to meet these objectives. They are, in any case, the policies of a decent people
Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Doesn't
Deskilling and declassing: Wither the middle stratum
Working But Poor: America's Contradiction. Sar A. Levitan , Isaac Shapiro
Rethinking Employment Policy
This book takes a hard look at what we know and don't know about the labor market problems that face us as we move into the 1990s. Contributing authors include Isabel V. Sawhill, George E. Johnson, Robert Eisner, Marc Bendick, Jr., Burt S. Barnow, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Leroy D. Clark, Ray Marshall, Daniel Burton, and Forrest Chisman
Policy Watch: Child Support Policies
With more parents living apart, the societal problem of parents who fail to share with each other or with their children becomes more acute. Although governments have mainly relied on public transfers to address the resulting economic hardships among children, the emphasis has been shifting toward mandatory sharing through the rigorous enforcement of child support laws. This paper first describes the economic context for child support; the expand…
Nurturing Young Black Males
Reducing the child support welfare disincentive problem
The Impact of the Changing US Family Structure on Child Poverty and Income Inequality
This paper analyzes links between rising income inequality, child poverty, and one-parent families in the United States from 1971 to 1989. One test reallocated weights so that 1989 proportions of children by mother's marital status resembled the 1971 distribution. A second method used (1) simulated marriages among unmarried men and unmarried mothers in 1989 to reproduce 1971 marital patterns and (2) earnings responses induced by the simulated mar…
Father Involvement with Their Nonmarital Children: Patterns, Determinants, and Effects on Their Earnings
The expanding consensus about the advantages of two-parent families, together with the rising number of children growing up without the presence of both parents, has stimulated policy-makers to look for ways of increasing fathers' involvement. This paper examines two sets of questions relevant to these policy initiatives. The first concerns the patterns of involvement between fathers and children born outside of marriage. The paper defines father…
How do marital status, work effort, and wage rates interact
How marital status interacts with men’s earnings is an important analytic and policy issue, especially in the context of debates in the United States over programs that encourage healthy marriage. This paper generates new findings about the earnings-marriage relationship by estimating the linkages among flows into and out of marriage, work effort, and wage rates. The estimates are based on National Longitudinal Survey of Youth panel data, coverin…
Can We Upgrade Low-Skill, Low-Wage Occupations? The Case of Apprenticeships in the Long-Term Care Occupations
The best prospect for improving job quality and compensation in low-wage jobs is by increasing worker productivity. This study investigates the prospects of registered apprenticeship training for raising productivity in the long-term care (LTC) industry, a high-demand, low-wage field that principally employs female caretakers. Case studies of five LTC registered apprenticeship programs and analysis of administrative data suggest that apprenticesh…
Family Structure and Economic Success Across the Life Course
This paper examines the role that family structure plays in long-run economic outcomes across the life course. Using nearly 30 years of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we find that youths who grow up with both biological parents earn more income, work more hours each week and are more likely to be married themselves as adults, compared to children raised in single-parent families. Many of these differences continue to be…
Sociology (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Demography (4 works)