A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the DE

Yixuan Li's Thesis of Three Chapters Item Type text; Electronic Dissertation Authors Li, Yixuan Citation Li, Yixuan. (2020). Yixuan Li's Thesis of Three Chapters (Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA). Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction, presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 28/09/2021 09:05:49 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/656754 YIXUAN LI’S THESIS OF THREE CHAPTERS by Yixuan Li __________________________ Copyright © Yixuan Li 2020 A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 2020 Acknowledgements I would like to express my sincere gratitude to University of Arizona for letting me fulfill my dream of being a student here. I would also like to thank the Economics Department for giving me opportunity to write an honors thesis. To my committee, Price V. Fishback, Hidehiko Ichimura, Juan Panato, Evan J. Taylor, I am extremely grateful for your assistance and suggestions throughout my project. To the staff at the Economics Department, thank you—especially to Jessamyn Schaller, Gary Solon, Mo Xiao, Ashley Langer, and Tiemen Woutersen for giving me words of encouragement and helpful suggestions on my research. I want to thank my co- author of chapter 2--Yang Jiao and Mengdi Liu for their cooperation on our project. Most of all, I am fully indebted to Price Fishback, my advisor, for his understanding, wisdom, patience, enthusiasm and encouragement and for pushing me farther than I thought I could go. 3 Table of Contents Abstract--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 Chapter 1—Does Ban-the-Box Policies Influence Female Employment?---------------9 Introduction---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 Background on Ban-the-box------------------------------------------------------------------------15 Data-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------18 Specification--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------21 Main Results--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------25 Effects of Ban-the-box on Other Groups---------------------------------------------------------26 Robustness Check------------------------------------------------------------------------------------27 Conclusions---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------29 Chapter 2--Widening the Gap? Temperature and Time Allocation between Men and Women-------------------------------------------------------------------------------30 Introduction---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------31 Data and Methodology-------------------------------------------------------------------------------33 Empirical Findings-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------40 Tests of Mechanisms---------------------------------------------------------------------------------41 Hot duration, Same-day Response and Inter-day Response-------------------------------47 Variation in Adaption by Gender-------------------------------------------------------------------48 Robustness Checks----------------------------------------------------------------------------------51 Conclusions--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------53 Chapter 3--Housing Price and Gender Preference in China--------------------------------55 Introduction---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------56 Literature------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------58 Background---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------69 Data-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------73 Specification--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------75 Main Results--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------77 Discussion----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------79 Conclusions--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------80 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While the previous literature finds that minority males are hurt by Ban-the-box policies, no one has focused on females. I fill this gap by using individual level employment status data to examine the influence of Ban- the-box policies on females by initial employment status. I find that relative to non-Hispanic white females, Hispanic females who started outside the labor force experience a lower probability of being employed or entering the labor force after pubic bans. The second chapter examines whether changes in temperature affects gender differentials in time allocation and the potential mechanisms through which this response might operate. Based on data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), we find that, relative to men, women decrease their labor supply by approximately one hour during days with temperatures of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, despite having fewer working hours than men over the entire distribution of temperature. However, the differences in the time allocated to housework and leisure between men and women vary little with temperature. Our further investigation suggests

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