Charles L Baum
Biographic Data
| ID | 4227325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles L Baum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles L |
| FAMILY NAME | Baum |
| SIGNATURE | BAUM C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middle Tennessee State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Moonlighting: An Analysis of Multiple Jobholding
This analysis examines the prevalence of multiple jobholding, or moonlighting, for a cohort of relatively young workers over the past 20 years in the U.S. using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data. The NLSY identifies every job held during each week over the period from 1999 to 2020. I compare those measures of multiple jobholding with the moonlighting experiences of an older cohort of NLSY workers in the U.S. who were born approxim…
Addendum to “The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the ‘Freshman 15’ Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle”
This study examines the effects of college on weight over much of the life cycle. I compare weights for college students with their weights before and after college and with the weights of noncollege peers using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). I also examine the longer-term effects of college measured almost three decades later. I find that college freshmen gain substantially less than the 15 pounds rumored to be typic…
The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the “Freshman 15” Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle
This study examines the effects of college on weight over much of the life cycle. I compare weights for college students with their weights before and after college and with the weights of noncollege peers using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). I also examine the longer-term effects of college measured almost three decades later. I find that college freshmen gain substantially less than the 15 pounds rumored to be typic…
The Effects of Paid Family Leave in California on Labor Market Outcomes
Using data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY‐97), we examine the effects of California's paid family leave program ( CA‐PFL ) on mothers’ and fathers’ use of leave during the period surrounding child birth, and on the timing of mothers’ return to work, the probability of eventually returning to prechildbirth jobs, and subsequent labor market outcomes. We estimate multivariate difference‐in‐differences regress…
The effects of food stamp receipt on weight gained by expectant mothers
Age, socioeconomic status and obesity growth
The Effects of Federal Housing Assistance on Exiting Welfare and Becoming Employed for Welfare Recipients
Welfare reform's success in encouraging employment may be affected by the federal housing program because many households receive welfare and housing assistance. Housing assistance could discourage employment because housing subsidies are reduced proportionally with earnings; alternatively, it could encourage employment by increasing stability and allowing more resources to be allocated toward employment-related expenses. We examine housing assis…
The effects of vehicle ownership on employment
The effects of race, ethnicity, and age on obesity
The Obese Smoker's Wage Penalty
Objective. Smoking and obesity are associated with significant wage penalties when considered separately. We assess the combined effects of those behaviors. Methods. We estimate the effects of smoking and obesity on wages using multivariate regression analysis with 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data. Results. The raw data indicate that obese smokers experience large earnings penalties. However, these penalties are not found to be int…
Special Reviewers
The wage effects of obesity: A longitudinal study
We use National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data to examine the effects of obesity on wages by gender. Sample means indicate that both men and women experience a persistent obesity wage penalty over the first two decades of their careers. We then control for a standard set of socioeconomic and familial variables but find that standard covariates do not explain why obese workers experience persistent wage penalties. This suggests that othe…
The Long-Term Effects of Early and Recent Maternal Employment on a Child's Academic Achievement
More children today are being raised in households with mothers who work for pay compared to a generation ago, when most mothers did not engage in marketplace work. This demographic change is important because it could affect children. In this article, the effects of early and recent maternal employment on a child's academic development are identified as measured by high school grades. Results suggest that whereas early maternal employment does n…
A Dynamic Analysis of the Effect of Child Care Costs on the Work Decisions of Low-Income Mothers with Infants
A dynamic analysis of the effect of child care costs on the work decisions of low-income mothers with infants
Child care costs reduce the net benefit of working and consequently influence mothers’ decisions to work. They affect the employment of low-income mothers in particular because they represent a larger portion of these mothers’ earnings. I used a hazard framework to examine a mother’s decisions about work and hours of work after childbirth. I focused on low-income mothers with infants because they are the ones who may be most affected by child car…
The Effects of Paid Family Leave in California on Labor Market Outcomes
Using data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY‐97), we examine the effects of California's paid family leave program ( CA‐PFL ) on mothers’ and fathers’ use of leave during the period surrounding child birth, and on the timing of mothers’ return to work, the probability of eventually returning to prechildbirth jobs, and subsequent labor market outcomes. We estimate multivariate difference‐in‐differences regress…
A dynamic analysis of the effect of child care costs on the work decisions of low-income mothers with infants
Child care costs reduce the net benefit of working and consequently influence mothers’ decisions to work. They affect the employment of low-income mothers in particular because they represent a larger portion of these mothers’ earnings. I used a hazard framework to examine a mother’s decisions about work and hours of work after childbirth. I focused on low-income mothers with infants because they are the ones who may be most affected by child car…
The effects of vehicle ownership on employment
The effects of race, ethnicity, and age on obesity
The Effects of Federal Housing Assistance on Exiting Welfare and Becoming Employed for Welfare Recipients
Welfare reform's success in encouraging employment may be affected by the federal housing program because many households receive welfare and housing assistance. Housing assistance could discourage employment because housing subsidies are reduced proportionally with earnings; alternatively, it could encourage employment by increasing stability and allowing more resources to be allocated toward employment-related expenses. We examine housing assis…
The Long-Term Effects of Early and Recent Maternal Employment on a Child's Academic Achievement
More children today are being raised in households with mothers who work for pay compared to a generation ago, when most mothers did not engage in marketplace work. This demographic change is important because it could affect children. In this article, the effects of early and recent maternal employment on a child's academic development are identified as measured by high school grades. Results suggest that whereas early maternal employment does n…
The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the “Freshman 15” Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle
This study examines the effects of college on weight over much of the life cycle. I compare weights for college students with their weights before and after college and with the weights of noncollege peers using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). I also examine the longer-term effects of college measured almost three decades later. I find that college freshmen gain substantially less than the 15 pounds rumored to be typic…
The Obese Smoker's Wage Penalty
Objective. Smoking and obesity are associated with significant wage penalties when considered separately. We assess the combined effects of those behaviors. Methods. We estimate the effects of smoking and obesity on wages using multivariate regression analysis with 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data. Results. The raw data indicate that obese smokers experience large earnings penalties. However, these penalties are not found to be int…
A Dynamic Analysis of the Effect of Child Care Costs on the Work Decisions of Low-Income Mothers with Infants
A dynamic analysis of the effect of child care costs on the work decisions of low-income mothers with infants
Child care costs reduce the net benefit of working and consequently influence mothers’ decisions to work. They affect the employment of low-income mothers in particular because they represent a larger portion of these mothers’ earnings. I used a hazard framework to examine a mother’s decisions about work and hours of work after childbirth. I focused on low-income mothers with infants because they are the ones who may be most affected by child car…
The wage effects of obesity: A longitudinal study
We use National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data to examine the effects of obesity on wages by gender. Sample means indicate that both men and women experience a persistent obesity wage penalty over the first two decades of their careers. We then control for a standard set of socioeconomic and familial variables but find that standard covariates do not explain why obese workers experience persistent wage penalties. This suggests that othe…
The Long-Term Effects of Early and Recent Maternal Employment on a Child's Academic Achievement
More children today are being raised in households with mothers who work for pay compared to a generation ago, when most mothers did not engage in marketplace work. This demographic change is important because it could affect children. In this article, the effects of early and recent maternal employment on a child's academic development are identified as measured by high school grades. Results suggest that whereas early maternal employment does n…
Special Reviewers
The effects of race, ethnicity, and age on obesity
The Obese Smoker's Wage Penalty
Objective. Smoking and obesity are associated with significant wage penalties when considered separately. We assess the combined effects of those behaviors. Methods. We estimate the effects of smoking and obesity on wages using multivariate regression analysis with 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data. Results. The raw data indicate that obese smokers experience large earnings penalties. However, these penalties are not found to be int…
Age, socioeconomic status and obesity growth
The Effects of Federal Housing Assistance on Exiting Welfare and Becoming Employed for Welfare Recipients
Welfare reform's success in encouraging employment may be affected by the federal housing program because many households receive welfare and housing assistance. Housing assistance could discourage employment because housing subsidies are reduced proportionally with earnings; alternatively, it could encourage employment by increasing stability and allowing more resources to be allocated toward employment-related expenses. We examine housing assis…
The effects of vehicle ownership on employment
The effects of food stamp receipt on weight gained by expectant mothers
The Effects of Paid Family Leave in California on Labor Market Outcomes
Using data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY‐97), we examine the effects of California's paid family leave program ( CA‐PFL ) on mothers’ and fathers’ use of leave during the period surrounding child birth, and on the timing of mothers’ return to work, the probability of eventually returning to prechildbirth jobs, and subsequent labor market outcomes. We estimate multivariate difference‐in‐differences regress…
Addendum to “The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the ‘Freshman 15’ Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle”
This study examines the effects of college on weight over much of the life cycle. I compare weights for college students with their weights before and after college and with the weights of noncollege peers using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). I also examine the longer-term effects of college measured almost three decades later. I find that college freshmen gain substantially less than the 15 pounds rumored to be typic…
The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the “Freshman 15” Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle
This study examines the effects of college on weight over much of the life cycle. I compare weights for college students with their weights before and after college and with the weights of noncollege peers using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). I also examine the longer-term effects of college measured almost three decades later. I find that college freshmen gain substantially less than the 15 pounds rumored to be typic…
Moonlighting: An Analysis of Multiple Jobholding
This analysis examines the prevalence of multiple jobholding, or moonlighting, for a cohort of relatively young workers over the past 20 years in the U.S. using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data. The NLSY identifies every job held during each week over the period from 1999 to 2020. I compare those measures of multiple jobholding with the moonlighting experiences of an older cohort of NLSY workers in the U.S. who were born approxim…
Economics (12 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works)