Faculty & Research Published Research Research Economics Health Policy Social Equity Social Psychology (-) Education Facet Area of Focus - Research Benjamin Castleman Daniel W. Player Daphna Bassok Sarah Turner Isaac Mbiti Leora Friedberg Bala Mulloth Benjamin Converse Charles Holt James H. Wyckoff John Pepper (-) Christopher J. Ruhm Facet People - Research Facet UVA Partner - Research Published Research Economics Education Cognitive Performance and Labour Market Outcomes Authors: Christopher J. Ruhm, Dajun Lin, Randall Lutter We use the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and other sources to examine how cognitive performance near the end of secondary schooling relates to labour market outcomes through age fifty. Our preferred estimates control for individual and family backgrounds, non-cognitive attributes, and survey years. Learn more Published Research Education Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education Authors: Christopher J. Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only limited evidence that expansions of parental leave durations improved long-run educational or labor market outcomes of the children whose parents were affected by them, perhaps because benefits are hard to measure or confined to sub-groups, or because leave entitlements were sufficiently long, even before recent extensions, to yield most potential benefits. Learn more
Published Research Economics Education Cognitive Performance and Labour Market Outcomes Authors: Christopher J. Ruhm, Dajun Lin, Randall Lutter We use the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and other sources to examine how cognitive performance near the end of secondary schooling relates to labour market outcomes through age fifty. Our preferred estimates control for individual and family backgrounds, non-cognitive attributes, and survey years. Learn more
Published Research Education Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education Authors: Christopher J. Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only limited evidence that expansions of parental leave durations improved long-run educational or labor market outcomes of the children whose parents were affected by them, perhaps because benefits are hard to measure or confined to sub-groups, or because leave entitlements were sufficiently long, even before recent extensions, to yield most potential benefits. Learn more