Date of Award

1-1-2013

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Economics

Content Description

1 online resource (iv, 161 pages)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Pinka Chatterji

Committee Members

Gerald Marschke, Baris Yoruk

Keywords

childhood obesity, cumulative advantage, department quality, family wellbeing, maternal employment, publication productivity, Scholarly publishing, Working mothers, Children of working mothers, Obesity in children, Families

Subject Categories

Economics

Abstract

There are three essays in this dissertation. The first two explore the effect of maternal employment on family well being. The third essay explores the effect of academic department quality on publication productivity.

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