Project MUSE®: Journal of Human Resources - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of Human Resources.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 43 (2008) through current issueLatest Articles: Journal of Human ResourcesTWOProject MUSE®Journal of Human Resources1548-80040022-166XLatest articles in Journal of Human Resources. Feed provided by Project MUSE®The Impact of High School Financial Education on Financial Knowledge and Saving Choices: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Spain
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985084
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In order to equip the general population with the necessary tools for making wise financial decisions, many educational systems have incorporated financial education (FE) as part of their curriculum in secondary education. For example, since 1957, various US states have been adopting mandates to include FE in the curriculum of high school students.1 The experimental evidence regarding the effects of those programs suggests positive average impacts on the financial knowledge of students (see, for example, Kaiser and Menkhoff 2020; Kaiser et al. 2022). Those metaanalyses point at lower and more heterogeneous impacts of financial education on outcomes like reductions on borrowing, adoption of budgeting, or increases
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/556/image/coversmallThe Impact of High School Financial Education on Financial Knowledge and Saving Choices: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Spain2026-03-16text/htmlen-USThe Impact of High School Financial Education on Financial Knowledge and Saving Choices: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Spain2026-03-162026TWOProject MUSE®1432862026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-16Clearing up Transfer Admissions Standards: The Impact on Access and Outcomes
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985085
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More college students start at a public community college than any other type of college in the US, but they may have the lowest chance of earning a degree (National Center for Education Statistics 2019; Ginder et al. 2018). Community colleges can be an appealing starting point for postsecondary education, given their proximity to students, flexible course schedules, and lower tuition. Yet only about 30 percent of community college students earn an associate degree and 13 percent earn a bachelor's degree on time, even though 80 percent of entering community college students intend to earn a bachelor's degree (Shapiro et al. 2017; National Center for Education Statistics 2019). Nearly half of bachelor's degree
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/556/image/coversmallClearing up Transfer Admissions Standards: The Impact on Access and Outcomes2026-03-16text/htmlen-USClearing up Transfer Admissions Standards: The Impact on Access and Outcomes2026-03-162026TWOProject MUSE®1928252026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-16Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985086
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Tracking is the process of separating students by ability in order to customize the level of content they experience. Archbald and Keleher (2008) estimate that more than 80 percent of high schools in the US offer courses that feature multiple tracks representing different paces and rigor. Several papers examine the achievement effect of the track choices of marginal students (for example, Bui, Craig, and Imberman 2014; Card and Giuliano 2016). A number of others consider the impact of introducing tracking or removing it entirely (for example, Figlio and Page 2002; Duflo, Dupas, and Kremer 2011). Yet among schools that offer both honors and regular versions of courses, there is wide variation both across schools and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/556/image/coversmallWho Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?2026-03-16text/htmlen-USWho Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?2026-03-162026TWOProject MUSE®2389272026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-16Beyond Nature and Nurture: The Impact of China's Compulsory Schooling Law on Selection Against High-Risk Fetuses
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985087
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The correlation between maternal education and child health is well known in economics and public health (Desai and Alva 1998; Boyle et al. 2006). Traditional wisdom attributes this linkage to nature—the genetically encoded advantages that cause a higher level of maternal education and healthier children—or nurture—a higher level of maternal education enables better prenatal and child care.Nurture is traditionally viewed in the literature as the primary mechanism to explain the causal effects of maternal education. However, the mixed findings in the literature about the impacts of maternal education on child health suggest that nurture may not manifest the whole picture.1 Although there is an established literature
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/556/image/coversmallBeyond Nature and Nurture: The Impact of China's Compulsory Schooling Law on Selection Against High-Risk Fetuses2026-03-16text/htmlen-USBeyond Nature and Nurture: The Impact of China's Compulsory Schooling Law on Selection Against High-Risk Fetuses2026-03-162026TWOProject MUSE®1724312026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-16War-Driven Permanent Emigration, Sex Ratios, and Female Labor Force Participation
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985088
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The second half of the 20th century saw a steady rise in female labor force participation (FLFP) throughout the world. A consensus has emerged in the past decades over a set of factors that have contributed to this advancement—rising investment in female human capital (Goldin 1995, 2006), household technological progress (Greenwood, Seshadri, and Yorukoglu 2005), improved access to family planning and childcare infrastructures (Goldin and Katz 2002; Bailey 2006; Attanasio, Low, and Sánchez-Marcos 2008), and changes to social norms (Fernández, Fogli, and Olivetti 2004; Fernández 2013) have all been recognized as important FLFP driving factors.1 As such, one might have predicted that Portugal would have remained at
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/556/image/coversmallWar-Driven Permanent Emigration, Sex Ratios, and Female Labor Force Participation2026-03-16text/htmlen-USWar-Driven Permanent Emigration, Sex Ratios, and Female Labor Force Participation2026-03-162026TWOProject MUSE®2097012026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-16Skills and Liquidity Barriers to Youth Employment: Medium-Term Evidence from a Cash Benchmarking Experiment in Rwanda
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985089
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Sub-Saharan Africa combines a rapidly growing population with low formal-sector employment, meaning that future economic growth will largely depend on enhancing productivity in the informal sector (Bandiera et al. 2022). In this context, few questions have greater long-term import than how best to help the burgeoning young population achieve a successful transition into a productive adulthood (Bongaarts 2016; Fox, Senbet, and Simbanegavi 2016). The best means to achieve this are anything but clear, however. While skills are almost certainly a constraint for a population with the lowest average schooling levels in the world, entrepreneurship and job training programs have an uneven record in contexts with little
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/556/image/coversmallSkills and Liquidity Barriers to Youth Employment: Medium-Term Evidence from a Cash Benchmarking Experiment in Rwanda2026-03-16text/htmlen-USSkills and Liquidity Barriers to Youth Employment: Medium-Term Evidence from a Cash Benchmarking Experiment in Rwanda2026-03-162026TWOProject MUSE®2126102026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-16The Lock-in Effects of Information on Part-Time Unemployment Benefits
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985090
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Part-time unemployment benefits provided to persons working nonregular jobs who are seeking a regular job play an increasingly important role in unemployment insurance systems.1 The rise in the incidence of such alternative work arrangements as temporary work, part-time work, self-employment, and the new kinds of work relationship emerging in the "online gig economy" has increased the part-time unemployment take-up in several countries. In France, almost one in two unemployment benefit recipients works while on claim during an unemployment spell. Part-time unemployment benefits are also widespread in Belgium, Finland, Austria, and Germany.2In principle, part-time unemployment benefits aim to supply incentives to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/556/image/coversmallThe Lock-in Effects of Information on Part-Time Unemployment Benefits2026-03-16text/htmlen-USThe Lock-in Effects of Information on Part-Time Unemployment Benefits2026-03-162026TWOProject MUSE®2095192026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-16Impact of Raising the Retirement Age on Firms
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985091
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Many countries have increased their retirement age in response to demographic pressures, including increases in life expectancy, low birth rates, and rising dependency ratios.1 While there is a large literature studying the effects of these reforms on individual retirement decisions (for example, Staubli and Zweimüller 2013; Vestad 2013), there is limited evidence on how firms respond. I examine the impact of a retirement policy on firm demand for labor and capital and on revenue and profits. How do increases in employment among older workers due to a retirement policy affect firm demand for younger workers and capital? What kind of firms primarily adjust labor and capital, and how does this affect their bottom
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/556/image/coversmallImpact of Raising the Retirement Age on Firms2026-03-16text/htmlen-USImpact of Raising the Retirement Age on Firms2026-03-162026TWOProject MUSE®1525042026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-16Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials Across Firms
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985092
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The traditional labor supply model assumes that workers can freely choose how many hours to work. In this model, workers receive a constant wage rate that is independent of the number of hours worked. Numerous studies, however, have questioned this assumption (for example, Abowd and Ashenfelter 1981; Altonji and Paxson 1992; Aaronson and French 2004; Rogerson 2011). In this stream of literature, hours constraints imposed by employers on employees are often seen as a fundamental factor limiting the ability of workers to work their desired hours (for example, Chetty et al. 2011), leading to compensating wage differentials (for example, Altonji and Paxson 1988; Dickens and Lundberg 1993). Due to the limited
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/556/image/coversmallHours Constraints and Wage Differentials Across Firms2026-03-16text/htmlen-USHours Constraints and Wage Differentials Across Firms2026-03-162026TWOProject MUSE®2042462026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-16Testing Attrition Bias in Field Experiments
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985093
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Randomized control trials (RCTs) are an increasingly important tool of applied economics since, when properly designed and implemented, they can produce internally valid estimates of causal impact.1 Nonresponse on outcome measures at endline, however, is an unavoidable threat to the internal validity of many carefully implemented trials. Long-distance migration can make it prohibitively expensive to follow members of an evaluation sample. Conflict, intimidation, or natural disasters sometimes make it unsafe to collect complete response data. In high-income countries, survey response rates are often low and may be declining.2 The recent increased focus on the long-term impacts of interventions has also made
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/556/image/coversmallTesting Attrition Bias in Field Experiments2026-03-16text/htmlen-USTesting Attrition Bias in Field Experiments2026-03-162026TWOProject MUSE®2840692026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-16