Marigee Bacolod
Biographic Data
| ID | 6045378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marigee Bacolod |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marigee |
| FAMILY NAME | Bacolod |
| SIGNATURE | BACOLOD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3912-6482 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Learners in cities
Propensity of US Military Personnel to Seek Mental Health Care When Community Psychiatric Capacity Changes
This cohort study of the US military population suggests that active duty military personnel rely largely on military treatment facilities for their mental health care and that there are meaningful responses to military treatment facility psychiatrist capacity changes even in communities with high civilian psychiatric capacity. Realigning military treatment facility psychiatrists across communities with shortages and high-capacity military treatm…
Mothers in the Military
This study exploits changes in paid maternity leave offered by one of the United States’ largest employers, the Department of Defense, to estimate the effect of such policies on mothers' leave-taking. Since 2015, the U.S. Marine Corps has shifted its maternity leave policy from 6 to 18 to 12 weeks. Leave expansions increased leave duration, whereas contractions decreased leave taken by active-duty service members. However, the policy changes crow…
In search of better opportunities
Economic Assimilation and Skill Acquisition
We study the economic assimilation of childhood immigrants to the United States. The linguistic distance between English and the predominant language in one’s country of birth interacted with age at arrival is shown to be closely connected to occupational sorting in adulthood. By applying big-data techniques to occupations’ detailed skill requirements, we provide evidence that childhood immigrants from English-distant countries who arrived after …
Beyond Incentives
We use a regression discontinuity design to analyze an understudied aspect of school accountability systems—how schools use financial rewards. For two years, California's accountability system financially rewarded schools based on a deterministic function of test scores. Qualifying schools received per-pupil awards amounting to about 1% of statewide per-pupil spending. Corroborating anecdotal evidence that awards were paid out as teacher bonuses,…
Urban interactions
Journal Article Urban interactions: soft skills versus specialization Get access Marigee Bacolod, Marigee Bacolod **Department of Economics, University of California – Irvine, 3151 Social Science Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697-5100 USA. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bernardo S. Blum, Bernardo S. Blum ****Rotman School of Management, 105 St. George St., University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E6, Canada. e…
Skills in the city
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…
Skills in the city
Urban interactions
Journal Article Urban interactions: soft skills versus specialization Get access Marigee Bacolod, Marigee Bacolod **Department of Economics, University of California – Irvine, 3151 Social Science Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697-5100 USA. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bernardo S. Blum, Bernardo S. Blum ****Rotman School of Management, 105 St. George St., University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E6, Canada. e…
Economic Assimilation and Skill Acquisition
We study the economic assimilation of childhood immigrants to the United States. The linguistic distance between English and the predominant language in one’s country of birth interacted with age at arrival is shown to be closely connected to occupational sorting in adulthood. By applying big-data techniques to occupations’ detailed skill requirements, we provide evidence that childhood immigrants from English-distant countries who arrived after …
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 …
Urban interactions
Journal Article Urban interactions: soft skills versus specialization Get access Marigee Bacolod, Marigee Bacolod **Department of Economics, University of California – Irvine, 3151 Social Science Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697-5100 USA. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bernardo S. Blum, Bernardo S. Blum ****Rotman School of Management, 105 St. George St., University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E6, Canada. e…
Skills in the city
Beyond Incentives
We use a regression discontinuity design to analyze an understudied aspect of school accountability systems—how schools use financial rewards. For two years, California's accountability system financially rewarded schools based on a deterministic function of test scores. Qualifying schools received per-pupil awards amounting to about 1% of statewide per-pupil spending. Corroborating anecdotal evidence that awards were paid out as teacher bonuses,…
Economic Assimilation and Skill Acquisition
We study the economic assimilation of childhood immigrants to the United States. The linguistic distance between English and the predominant language in one’s country of birth interacted with age at arrival is shown to be closely connected to occupational sorting in adulthood. By applying big-data techniques to occupations’ detailed skill requirements, we provide evidence that childhood immigrants from English-distant countries who arrived after …
In search of better opportunities
Mothers in the Military
This study exploits changes in paid maternity leave offered by one of the United States’ largest employers, the Department of Defense, to estimate the effect of such policies on mothers' leave-taking. Since 2015, the U.S. Marine Corps has shifted its maternity leave policy from 6 to 18 to 12 weeks. Leave expansions increased leave duration, whereas contractions decreased leave taken by active-duty service members. However, the policy changes crow…
Learners in cities
Propensity of US Military Personnel to Seek Mental Health Care When Community Psychiatric Capacity Changes
This cohort study of the US military population suggests that active duty military personnel rely largely on military treatment facilities for their mental health care and that there are meaningful responses to military treatment facility psychiatrist capacity changes even in communities with high civilian psychiatric capacity. Realigning military treatment facility psychiatrists across communities with shortages and high-capacity military treatm…
Economics (9 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Economies of agglomeration (3 works)