Deborah Levison
Biographic Data
| ID | 317465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Levison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Levison |
| SIGNATURE | LEVISON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3718-3432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Understanding Adolescents’ Perspectives on Street Harassment in Kathmandu, Nepal, Using Video Vignettes
After viewing a cartoon video vignette, girls and boys ages 12–17 in peri-urban Kathmandu, Nepal, were asked how a girl character felt and reacted to street harassment. Using survey questions, interviews, and focus groups, researchers address four themes: awareness of harassment, a desire to confront harassers, the need to rely upon adult intervention, and desire for social change. Findings indicate that even young girls are affected by the patri…
Children’s work in environmental chores
The standard approach for collecting sociodemographic data about children in developing countries is to elicit information from adults. While using proxy respondents is appropriate for very young children or for questions likely beyond children’s knowledge, it is less clear that it is better for older children and topics within their experience. Several arguments can be made that children could provide better or equally valid information on their…
Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents
Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work
Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work , authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in children's lives and development. This groundbreaking book considers international policies governing children's work and the complexity of assessing the various effects of their work. The authors question current child labor policies and interventions, which, even thoug…
Implications of Environmental Chores for Schooling
Impact of Domestic Violence on Children’s Education in Colombia
We explore the methodological challenges of estimating the effects of intimate partner violence (IPV) against the mother on the educational outcomes of her children. We tackle the problem of potential endogeneity and non-random selection of children into situations where they are exposed to IPV using non-parametric matching methods and parametric instrumental variable methods. Using Colombia's 2005 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), we find tha…
Is Policy Well-Targeted to Remedy Financial Strain among Caregivers of Severely Injured U.S. Service Members
U.S. military service members have sustained severe injuries since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This paper aims to determine the factors associated with financial strain of their caregivers and establish whether recent federal legislation targets caregivers experiencing financial strain. In our national survey, 62.3% of caregivers depleted assets and/or accumulated debt, and 41% of working caregivers left the labor force. If a s…
The Effect of Domestic Work on Girls' Schooling
In Egypt, girls' work primarily takes the form of domestic tasks, which are not considered in many studies of child labor. This paper investigates the effect of girls' work on their school attendance. It uses a modified bivariate probit approach to estimate the effect of work on schooling while allowing for the simultaneous determination of the two outcomes. It presents evidence that the substantial burden of girls' domestic work leads to lower r…
Counting Child Domestic Servants in Latin America
Trends in the use of child domestic servants in six Latin American countries are detailed using IPUMS-International census samples for 1960 to 2000. Child domestics are among the most vulnerable of child workers and the most invisible. They may be treated well and allowed to attend school, or they may be secluded in their employers' homes, ill-treated, overworked, and unable to leave or report their difficulties to kin. Estimates and imputations …
Children’s Work and Mothers’ Work––What is the Connection
Child labor and mothers' work in Brazil
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore associations between children's and mothers” work. Design/methodology/approach Brazilian household survey data are used to examine characteristics of children's and mothers' work in tandem. Findings Children are more likely to be in the labor force if their mothers are working, especially girls, younger children and rural children. There are strong connections between mothers' and children's employm…
Effects of economic shocks on children's employment and schooling in Brazil
Tackling the Endogeneity of Fertility in the Study of Women's Employment in Developing Countries
Opinions differ about whether family structure, especially fertility, should be considered endogenous in models of behavior in developing countries. Faced with a dearth of good instruments, mainstream researchers often urge working in reduced form and, therefore, losing variables of policy interest or limiting the type of questions they ask to those where good instruments are available. Rather than treating endogeneity as a yes or no characterist…
Ipums-International
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International (IPUMS-International) is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. IPUMS-International aims to convert census data from five continents into a uniformly coded and fully documented data series. Nearly all countries included in the data series contribute data from multiple census years. The project uses the same principles and methods tha…
Youth Education and Work in Mexico
Children as Economic Agents
A generational perspective recognizes that children have preferences which may differ systematically from those of adults, and, furthermore, that a chil-dren’s standpoint should be recognized by scholars and activists and incor-porated into policy targeted at children and their families. Economics has not considered children as agents because of their lack of power relative to adults. The implications of recognizing children’s agency are explored…
Women's Employment and Child Care in Brazil
Age, Experience, and Schooling
This article analyzes age and experience profiles of earnings inequality for U.S. and Brazilian males. Decomposition of the inequality profiles using a standard human capital earnings equation clarifies the determinants of cross-sectional inequality profiles and demonstrates a number of important differences in the shape of the two countries' profiles and in their underlying components. Most dramatic are Brazil's higher returns to schooling and h…
Declining inequality in schooling in Brazil and its effects on inequality in earnings
Effects of economic shocks on children's employment and schooling in Brazil
Children as Economic Agents
A generational perspective recognizes that children have preferences which may differ systematically from those of adults, and, furthermore, that a chil-dren’s standpoint should be recognized by scholars and activists and incor-porated into policy targeted at children and their families. Economics has not considered children as agents because of their lack of power relative to adults. The implications of recognizing children’s agency are explored…
The Effect of Domestic Work on Girls' Schooling
In Egypt, girls' work primarily takes the form of domestic tasks, which are not considered in many studies of child labor. This paper investigates the effect of girls' work on their school attendance. It uses a modified bivariate probit approach to estimate the effect of work on schooling while allowing for the simultaneous determination of the two outcomes. It presents evidence that the substantial burden of girls' domestic work leads to lower r…
Youth Education and Work in Mexico
Declining inequality in schooling in Brazil and its effects on inequality in earnings
Age, Experience, and Schooling
This article analyzes age and experience profiles of earnings inequality for U.S. and Brazilian males. Decomposition of the inequality profiles using a standard human capital earnings equation clarifies the determinants of cross-sectional inequality profiles and demonstrates a number of important differences in the shape of the two countries' profiles and in their underlying components. Most dramatic are Brazil's higher returns to schooling and h…
Women's Employment and Child Care in Brazil
Counting Child Domestic Servants in Latin America
Trends in the use of child domestic servants in six Latin American countries are detailed using IPUMS-International census samples for 1960 to 2000. Child domestics are among the most vulnerable of child workers and the most invisible. They may be treated well and allowed to attend school, or they may be secluded in their employers' homes, ill-treated, overworked, and unable to leave or report their difficulties to kin. Estimates and imputations …
Ipums-International
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International (IPUMS-International) is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. IPUMS-International aims to convert census data from five continents into a uniformly coded and fully documented data series. Nearly all countries included in the data series contribute data from multiple census years. The project uses the same principles and methods tha…
Implications of Environmental Chores for Schooling
Impact of Domestic Violence on Children’s Education in Colombia
We explore the methodological challenges of estimating the effects of intimate partner violence (IPV) against the mother on the educational outcomes of her children. We tackle the problem of potential endogeneity and non-random selection of children into situations where they are exposed to IPV using non-parametric matching methods and parametric instrumental variable methods. Using Colombia's 2005 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), we find tha…
Children’s Work and Mothers’ Work––What is the Connection
Tackling the Endogeneity of Fertility in the Study of Women's Employment in Developing Countries
Opinions differ about whether family structure, especially fertility, should be considered endogenous in models of behavior in developing countries. Faced with a dearth of good instruments, mainstream researchers often urge working in reduced form and, therefore, losing variables of policy interest or limiting the type of questions they ask to those where good instruments are available. Rather than treating endogeneity as a yes or no characterist…
Child labor and mothers' work in Brazil
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore associations between children's and mothers” work. Design/methodology/approach Brazilian household survey data are used to examine characteristics of children's and mothers' work in tandem. Findings Children are more likely to be in the labor force if their mothers are working, especially girls, younger children and rural children. There are strong connections between mothers' and children's employm…
Declining inequality in schooling in Brazil and its effects on inequality in earnings
Age, Experience, and Schooling
This article analyzes age and experience profiles of earnings inequality for U.S. and Brazilian males. Decomposition of the inequality profiles using a standard human capital earnings equation clarifies the determinants of cross-sectional inequality profiles and demonstrates a number of important differences in the shape of the two countries' profiles and in their underlying components. Most dramatic are Brazil's higher returns to schooling and h…
Women's Employment and Child Care in Brazil
Children as Economic Agents
A generational perspective recognizes that children have preferences which may differ systematically from those of adults, and, furthermore, that a chil-dren’s standpoint should be recognized by scholars and activists and incor-porated into policy targeted at children and their families. Economics has not considered children as agents because of their lack of power relative to adults. The implications of recognizing children’s agency are explored…
Youth Education and Work in Mexico
Ipums-International
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International (IPUMS-International) is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. IPUMS-International aims to convert census data from five continents into a uniformly coded and fully documented data series. Nearly all countries included in the data series contribute data from multiple census years. The project uses the same principles and methods tha…
Tackling the Endogeneity of Fertility in the Study of Women's Employment in Developing Countries
Opinions differ about whether family structure, especially fertility, should be considered endogenous in models of behavior in developing countries. Faced with a dearth of good instruments, mainstream researchers often urge working in reduced form and, therefore, losing variables of policy interest or limiting the type of questions they ask to those where good instruments are available. Rather than treating endogeneity as a yes or no characterist…
Effects of economic shocks on children's employment and schooling in Brazil
Children’s Work and Mothers’ Work––What is the Connection
Child labor and mothers' work in Brazil
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore associations between children's and mothers” work. Design/methodology/approach Brazilian household survey data are used to examine characteristics of children's and mothers' work in tandem. Findings Children are more likely to be in the labor force if their mothers are working, especially girls, younger children and rural children. There are strong connections between mothers' and children's employm…
The Effect of Domestic Work on Girls' Schooling
In Egypt, girls' work primarily takes the form of domestic tasks, which are not considered in many studies of child labor. This paper investigates the effect of girls' work on their school attendance. It uses a modified bivariate probit approach to estimate the effect of work on schooling while allowing for the simultaneous determination of the two outcomes. It presents evidence that the substantial burden of girls' domestic work leads to lower r…
Counting Child Domestic Servants in Latin America
Trends in the use of child domestic servants in six Latin American countries are detailed using IPUMS-International census samples for 1960 to 2000. Child domestics are among the most vulnerable of child workers and the most invisible. They may be treated well and allowed to attend school, or they may be secluded in their employers' homes, ill-treated, overworked, and unable to leave or report their difficulties to kin. Estimates and imputations …
Is Policy Well-Targeted to Remedy Financial Strain among Caregivers of Severely Injured U.S. Service Members
U.S. military service members have sustained severe injuries since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This paper aims to determine the factors associated with financial strain of their caregivers and establish whether recent federal legislation targets caregivers experiencing financial strain. In our national survey, 62.3% of caregivers depleted assets and/or accumulated debt, and 41% of working caregivers left the labor force. If a s…
Impact of Domestic Violence on Children’s Education in Colombia
We explore the methodological challenges of estimating the effects of intimate partner violence (IPV) against the mother on the educational outcomes of her children. We tackle the problem of potential endogeneity and non-random selection of children into situations where they are exposed to IPV using non-parametric matching methods and parametric instrumental variable methods. Using Colombia's 2005 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), we find tha…
Implications of Environmental Chores for Schooling
Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work
Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work , authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in children's lives and development. This groundbreaking book considers international policies governing children's work and the complexity of assessing the various effects of their work. The authors question current child labor policies and interventions, which, even thoug…
Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents
Children’s work in environmental chores
The standard approach for collecting sociodemographic data about children in developing countries is to elicit information from adults. While using proxy respondents is appropriate for very young children or for questions likely beyond children’s knowledge, it is less clear that it is better for older children and topics within their experience. Several arguments can be made that children could provide better or equally valid information on their…
Understanding Adolescents’ Perspectives on Street Harassment in Kathmandu, Nepal, Using Video Vignettes
After viewing a cartoon video vignette, girls and boys ages 12–17 in peri-urban Kathmandu, Nepal, were asked how a girl character felt and reacted to street harassment. Using survey questions, interviews, and focus groups, researchers address four themes: awareness of harassment, a desire to confront harassers, the need to rely upon adult intervention, and desire for social change. Findings indicate that even young girls are affected by the patri…
Economics (13 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (13 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (7 works) · Labour economics (7 works) · Medicine (7 works)