Brian P Mccall
Biographic Data
| ID | 335571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian P Mccall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccall |
| SIGNATURE | MCCALL B P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2816-8521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How does family background influence students’ choice of subjects for the National College Entrance Examination
The National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) is a high-stakes test in China that determines which higher education institution an individual can attend. Since 2014, China has launched a comprehensive reform pilot of the NCEE in Zhejiang and Shanghai, allowing students more flexibility in their subjects’ choice. This study examines the influence of family background on students’ choice of subjects in this new NCEE. Using survey data from acade…
Exploring Race and Income Heterogeneity in the Effects of State Merit Aid Loss Among Four-Year College Entrants
Despite the robust literature on the effects of financial aid, the effects of financial aid loss remain largely understudied. We employ a regression discontinuity design, leveraging a minimum GPA scholarship renewal threshold, to examine the effect of losing state merit aid eligibility on college student stop-out, transfer, and bachelor’s degree completion. We estimate the effects of GPA-based eligibility loss for low- and higher-income students,…
One hundred years of the gender gap in examination results at the University of Oxford
This paper uses a newly discovered data set on examination results by gender from 1913 to 1986 to show that the gender gap in examinations at the University of Oxford has existed for over a century. We show that after declining for almost 70 years the gender gap in Firsts increased significantly after the introduction of coresidence – the admission of women to formerly men’s colleges in 1974. The gap in Thirds between men and women increased betw…
A very English revolution: The impacts of co-residence at the University of Oxford
This paper examines the impacts of co-residence (admitting women to men’s colleges and men to women’s colleges) at the University of Oxford beginning in the 1970s. Co-residence increased the representation of women undergraduates at Oxford to near parity with men; the representation of women in academic positions rose but not as substantially as that of women undergraduates and postgraduates and today women comprise still only a third of academic…
Employment and Job Search Implications of the Extended Weeks and Working While on Claim Pilot Initiatives
We apply a difference-in-differences estimation approach to analyze the effect of two Employment Insurance (EI) program initiatives that took place between 2004 and 2009 in a subset of Canadian Employment Insurance regions. The pilot programs increased the generosity of the EI program in terms of benefit duration and the allowable earnings criterion. Both pilot programs ran in about 50 percent of the EI regions until November 2008, providing a qu…
Navigating the Financial Aid Process: Borrowing Outcomes among First-Generation and Non-First-Generation Students
A growing number and proportion of students rely on student loans to assist with the costs of postsecondary education. Yet little is known about how first-generation students use federal loans to finance their education. In this article, we examine each of the decisions that culminate in student indebtedness: the decision to apply for aid, whether to borrow, and how much to borrow. We find significant differences by generational status at each st…
Effects of autism spectrum disorder on parental employment in the United States: Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey
Using results of the US National Health Interview Survey (US-NHIS) for the years 1998–2013 we investigated the impact of having a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) on parents’ work behavior. After controlling for numerous background characteristics, we found that having a child with ASD lowered the number of hours of market work per week and the number of months of market work in the previous year for mothers. For fathers, having a child …
Completing Algebra II in High School: Does it Increase College Access and Success
Noting the benefits of mathematics in students' future educational attainment and labor market success, there is considerable interest in high school requirements in terms of course-taking in mathematics at the national, state, and school district level. Previous research indicates that taking advanced math courses in high school leads to positive college outcomes. However, these studies often fail to account for the self-selection of students in…
World education finance policies and higher education access: A statistical analysis of World Development Indicators for 86 countries
Tackling the Endogeneity of Fertility in the Study of Women's Employment in Developing Countries: Alternative Estimation Strategies Using Data From Urban Brazil
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…
An Integrated Model of Application, Admission, Enrollment, and Financial Aid
We jointly model the application, admission, financial aid determination, and enrollment decision process. We find that expectations of admission affect application probabilities, financial aid expectations affect enrollment and application behavior, and deviations from aid expectations are strongly related to enrollment. We also conduct simulations on important policy variables
Have Health Conditions Associated With Latex Increased Since the Issuance of Universal Precautions
Objectives. This study explored whether the prevalence of latex-related health conditions has increased among individuals employed in medical occupations relative to those employed in nonmedical occupations since the issuance of universal precautions in 1987. Methods. Data derived from the 1983 to 1994 versions of the National Health Interview Survey were used to obtain odds ratios comparing prevalence rates of latex-related symptoms over time. R…
Workers' compensation claims related to natural rubber latex gloves among Oregon healthcare employees from 1987–1998
In comparison with other workers' compensation claims filed by healthcare workers during this period, 0.25% of the total was potentially related to NRL gloves. The rare incidence of respiratory and ocular claims is inconsistent with the hypothesis that asthmatic or conjunctival reactions to NRL gloves are common
A Temporal Investigation of Factors Related to Timely Degree Completion
Graduation, especially timely graduation, is an increasingly important policy issue, and for good reason. College graduates earn twice as much as high-school graduates and six times as much as high-school dropouts (Murphy & Welch, 1993); and their wealth is two and one-half times that of a high-school graduate and five times that of a high-school dropout (Diaz-Jiminez, Quadrini, & Rios-Rull, 1997). In addition to these financial rewards, the spou…
The Grocery Stores Wage Distribution: A Semi-Parametric Analysis of the Role of Retailing and Labor Market Institutions
Using Current Population Survey data supplemented with data from other sources, the authors analyze changes in the wage distribution in the U.S. grocery stores industry between 1984 and 1994. They find that in this industry, unlike in many others, wage inequality did not increase. Instead, real wages declined across the entire distribution, as the net effect of changes in markets, institutions, and technology was to erode the earnings of low-wage…
The Effect of Unions on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data for 1979-91, the authors analyze the effect of union representation on the likelihood that individuals eligible for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits actually received those benefits. They find that unions had no statistically significant effect on the probability of benefit receipt among white-collar workers, but among eligible blue-collar workers, those who were laid off from union jobs were r…
"Is Workers' Compensation Covering Uninsured Medical Costs? Evidence from the "Monday Effect
A growing fraction of U.S. workers face a dual system of medical insurance, with generous coverage through the Workers' Compensation system for work-related injuries, but limited or non-existent coverage for off-the-job illnesses or injuries. Uninsured and under- insured workers have an economic incentive to report off-the-job injuries as work accidents. Many analysts have interpreted the high rate of Monday injuries -- especially for hard-to-det…
Is Workers' Compensation Covering Uninsured Medical Costs? Evidence from the “Monday Effect
Steady increases in the cost of medical care, coupled with a rise in the fraction of workers who lack medical insurance, create incentives for workers who are injured off-the-job to file Workers' Compensation claims. Many analysts have interpreted the high rate of Monday injuries—especially hard-to-monitor injuries like back strains—as evidence of such claims. The analysis in this paper, however, which uses data on “first reports” of injuries fil…
The Impact of Unemployment Insurance Benefit Levels on Recipiency
This article studies the effect of unemployment insurance benefit levels on recipiency. Increasing benefit levels (as measured by the fraction of weekly earnings of the lost job that they replace) is found to significantly increase the probability of unemployment insurance recipiency among the eligible. There is some evidence, however, that the effect is smaller at high replacement rates. Cost increases resulting from take-up responses are found …
Occupational Matching: A Test of Sorts
This paper develops a theory of job matching in which matching information has both job-specific and occupation-specific components. If occupational matching is significant, then the theory predicts that, for those who have switched jobs but remained in the same occupation, increased tenure in the previous job lowers the likelihood of separation from the current job. These predictions are tested using job tenure data from the National Longitudina…
Interest Arbitration and the Incentive to Bargain: A Principal-Agent Approach
This article develops an asymmetric information model of final-offer arbitration. If the union negotiator has superior information about the bargaining environment, then the union rank and file may find it in their best interest to require their negotiator to go to arbitration some of the time. In a simple two-state model, it is shown that if arbitration is rational for the union rank and file, it will occur only in the state where the bargaining…
An Integrated Model of Application, Admission, Enrollment, and Financial Aid
We jointly model the application, admission, financial aid determination, and enrollment decision process. We find that expectations of admission affect application probabilities, financial aid expectations affect enrollment and application behavior, and deviations from aid expectations are strongly related to enrollment. We also conduct simulations on important policy variables
The Effect of Unions on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data for 1979-91, the authors analyze the effect of union representation on the likelihood that individuals eligible for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits actually received those benefits. They find that unions had no statistically significant effect on the probability of benefit receipt among white-collar workers, but among eligible blue-collar workers, those who were laid off from union jobs were r…
A Temporal Investigation of Factors Related to Timely Degree Completion
Graduation, especially timely graduation, is an increasingly important policy issue, and for good reason. College graduates earn twice as much as high-school graduates and six times as much as high-school dropouts (Murphy & Welch, 1993); and their wealth is two and one-half times that of a high-school graduate and five times that of a high-school dropout (Diaz-Jiminez, Quadrini, & Rios-Rull, 1997). In addition to these financial rewards, the spou…
World education finance policies and higher education access: A statistical analysis of World Development Indicators for 86 countries
Navigating the Financial Aid Process: Borrowing Outcomes among First-Generation and Non-First-Generation Students
A growing number and proportion of students rely on student loans to assist with the costs of postsecondary education. Yet little is known about how first-generation students use federal loans to finance their education. In this article, we examine each of the decisions that culminate in student indebtedness: the decision to apply for aid, whether to borrow, and how much to borrow. We find significant differences by generational status at each st…
Occupational Matching: A Test of Sorts
This paper develops a theory of job matching in which matching information has both job-specific and occupation-specific components. If occupational matching is significant, then the theory predicts that, for those who have switched jobs but remained in the same occupation, increased tenure in the previous job lowers the likelihood of separation from the current job. These predictions are tested using job tenure data from the National Longitudina…
Tackling the Endogeneity of Fertility in the Study of Women's Employment in Developing Countries: Alternative Estimation Strategies Using Data From Urban Brazil
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…
Interest Arbitration and the Incentive to Bargain: A Principal-Agent Approach
This article develops an asymmetric information model of final-offer arbitration. If the union negotiator has superior information about the bargaining environment, then the union rank and file may find it in their best interest to require their negotiator to go to arbitration some of the time. In a simple two-state model, it is shown that if arbitration is rational for the union rank and file, it will occur only in the state where the bargaining…
Completing Algebra II in High School: Does it Increase College Access and Success
Noting the benefits of mathematics in students' future educational attainment and labor market success, there is considerable interest in high school requirements in terms of course-taking in mathematics at the national, state, and school district level. Previous research indicates that taking advanced math courses in high school leads to positive college outcomes. However, these studies often fail to account for the self-selection of students in…
Employment and Job Search Implications of the Extended Weeks and Working While on Claim Pilot Initiatives
We apply a difference-in-differences estimation approach to analyze the effect of two Employment Insurance (EI) program initiatives that took place between 2004 and 2009 in a subset of Canadian Employment Insurance regions. The pilot programs increased the generosity of the EI program in terms of benefit duration and the allowable earnings criterion. Both pilot programs ran in about 50 percent of the EI regions until November 2008, providing a qu…
The Grocery Stores Wage Distribution: A Semi-Parametric Analysis of the Role of Retailing and Labor Market Institutions
Using Current Population Survey data supplemented with data from other sources, the authors analyze changes in the wage distribution in the U.S. grocery stores industry between 1984 and 1994. They find that in this industry, unlike in many others, wage inequality did not increase. Instead, real wages declined across the entire distribution, as the net effect of changes in markets, institutions, and technology was to erode the earnings of low-wage…
Occupational Matching: A Test of Sorts
This paper develops a theory of job matching in which matching information has both job-specific and occupation-specific components. If occupational matching is significant, then the theory predicts that, for those who have switched jobs but remained in the same occupation, increased tenure in the previous job lowers the likelihood of separation from the current job. These predictions are tested using job tenure data from the National Longitudina…
Interest Arbitration and the Incentive to Bargain: A Principal-Agent Approach
This article develops an asymmetric information model of final-offer arbitration. If the union negotiator has superior information about the bargaining environment, then the union rank and file may find it in their best interest to require their negotiator to go to arbitration some of the time. In a simple two-state model, it is shown that if arbitration is rational for the union rank and file, it will occur only in the state where the bargaining…
The Impact of Unemployment Insurance Benefit Levels on Recipiency
This article studies the effect of unemployment insurance benefit levels on recipiency. Increasing benefit levels (as measured by the fraction of weekly earnings of the lost job that they replace) is found to significantly increase the probability of unemployment insurance recipiency among the eligible. There is some evidence, however, that the effect is smaller at high replacement rates. Cost increases resulting from take-up responses are found …
"Is Workers' Compensation Covering Uninsured Medical Costs? Evidence from the "Monday Effect
A growing fraction of U.S. workers face a dual system of medical insurance, with generous coverage through the Workers' Compensation system for work-related injuries, but limited or non-existent coverage for off-the-job illnesses or injuries. Uninsured and under- insured workers have an economic incentive to report off-the-job injuries as work accidents. Many analysts have interpreted the high rate of Monday injuries -- especially for hard-to-det…
Is Workers' Compensation Covering Uninsured Medical Costs? Evidence from the “Monday Effect
Steady increases in the cost of medical care, coupled with a rise in the fraction of workers who lack medical insurance, create incentives for workers who are injured off-the-job to file Workers' Compensation claims. Many analysts have interpreted the high rate of Monday injuries—especially hard-to-monitor injuries like back strains—as evidence of such claims. The analysis in this paper, however, which uses data on “first reports” of injuries fil…
The Effect of Unions on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data for 1979-91, the authors analyze the effect of union representation on the likelihood that individuals eligible for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits actually received those benefits. They find that unions had no statistically significant effect on the probability of benefit receipt among white-collar workers, but among eligible blue-collar workers, those who were laid off from union jobs were r…
The Grocery Stores Wage Distribution: A Semi-Parametric Analysis of the Role of Retailing and Labor Market Institutions
Using Current Population Survey data supplemented with data from other sources, the authors analyze changes in the wage distribution in the U.S. grocery stores industry between 1984 and 1994. They find that in this industry, unlike in many others, wage inequality did not increase. Instead, real wages declined across the entire distribution, as the net effect of changes in markets, institutions, and technology was to erode the earnings of low-wage…
Workers' compensation claims related to natural rubber latex gloves among Oregon healthcare employees from 1987–1998
In comparison with other workers' compensation claims filed by healthcare workers during this period, 0.25% of the total was potentially related to NRL gloves. The rare incidence of respiratory and ocular claims is inconsistent with the hypothesis that asthmatic or conjunctival reactions to NRL gloves are common
A Temporal Investigation of Factors Related to Timely Degree Completion
Graduation, especially timely graduation, is an increasingly important policy issue, and for good reason. College graduates earn twice as much as high-school graduates and six times as much as high-school dropouts (Murphy & Welch, 1993); and their wealth is two and one-half times that of a high-school graduate and five times that of a high-school dropout (Diaz-Jiminez, Quadrini, & Rios-Rull, 1997). In addition to these financial rewards, the spou…
Have Health Conditions Associated With Latex Increased Since the Issuance of Universal Precautions
Objectives. This study explored whether the prevalence of latex-related health conditions has increased among individuals employed in medical occupations relative to those employed in nonmedical occupations since the issuance of universal precautions in 1987. Methods. Data derived from the 1983 to 1994 versions of the National Health Interview Survey were used to obtain odds ratios comparing prevalence rates of latex-related symptoms over time. R…
Tackling the Endogeneity of Fertility in the Study of Women's Employment in Developing Countries: Alternative Estimation Strategies Using Data From Urban Brazil
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…
An Integrated Model of Application, Admission, Enrollment, and Financial Aid
We jointly model the application, admission, financial aid determination, and enrollment decision process. We find that expectations of admission affect application probabilities, financial aid expectations affect enrollment and application behavior, and deviations from aid expectations are strongly related to enrollment. We also conduct simulations on important policy variables
World education finance policies and higher education access: A statistical analysis of World Development Indicators for 86 countries
Completing Algebra II in High School: Does it Increase College Access and Success
Noting the benefits of mathematics in students' future educational attainment and labor market success, there is considerable interest in high school requirements in terms of course-taking in mathematics at the national, state, and school district level. Previous research indicates that taking advanced math courses in high school leads to positive college outcomes. However, these studies often fail to account for the self-selection of students in…
Effects of autism spectrum disorder on parental employment in the United States: Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey
Using results of the US National Health Interview Survey (US-NHIS) for the years 1998–2013 we investigated the impact of having a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) on parents’ work behavior. After controlling for numerous background characteristics, we found that having a child with ASD lowered the number of hours of market work per week and the number of months of market work in the previous year for mothers. For fathers, having a child …
Navigating the Financial Aid Process: Borrowing Outcomes among First-Generation and Non-First-Generation Students
A growing number and proportion of students rely on student loans to assist with the costs of postsecondary education. Yet little is known about how first-generation students use federal loans to finance their education. In this article, we examine each of the decisions that culminate in student indebtedness: the decision to apply for aid, whether to borrow, and how much to borrow. We find significant differences by generational status at each st…
Employment and Job Search Implications of the Extended Weeks and Working While on Claim Pilot Initiatives
We apply a difference-in-differences estimation approach to analyze the effect of two Employment Insurance (EI) program initiatives that took place between 2004 and 2009 in a subset of Canadian Employment Insurance regions. The pilot programs increased the generosity of the EI program in terms of benefit duration and the allowable earnings criterion. Both pilot programs ran in about 50 percent of the EI regions until November 2008, providing a qu…
A very English revolution: The impacts of co-residence at the University of Oxford
This paper examines the impacts of co-residence (admitting women to men’s colleges and men to women’s colleges) at the University of Oxford beginning in the 1970s. Co-residence increased the representation of women undergraduates at Oxford to near parity with men; the representation of women in academic positions rose but not as substantially as that of women undergraduates and postgraduates and today women comprise still only a third of academic…
One hundred years of the gender gap in examination results at the University of Oxford
This paper uses a newly discovered data set on examination results by gender from 1913 to 1986 to show that the gender gap in examinations at the University of Oxford has existed for over a century. We show that after declining for almost 70 years the gender gap in Firsts increased significantly after the introduction of coresidence – the admission of women to formerly men’s colleges in 1974. The gap in Thirds between men and women increased betw…
How does family background influence students’ choice of subjects for the National College Entrance Examination
The National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) is a high-stakes test in China that determines which higher education institution an individual can attend. Since 2014, China has launched a comprehensive reform pilot of the NCEE in Zhejiang and Shanghai, allowing students more flexibility in their subjects’ choice. This study examines the influence of family background on students’ choice of subjects in this new NCEE. Using survey data from acade…
Exploring Race and Income Heterogeneity in the Effects of State Merit Aid Loss Among Four-Year College Entrants
Despite the robust literature on the effects of financial aid, the effects of financial aid loss remain largely understudied. We employ a regression discontinuity design, leveraging a minimum GPA scholarship renewal threshold, to examine the effect of losing state merit aid eligibility on college student stop-out, transfer, and bachelor’s degree completion. We estimate the effects of GPA-based eligibility loss for low- and higher-income students,…
Economics (15 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Business (8 works) · Actuarial science (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Finance (6 works)