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John Bound
Researcher at University of Michigan
Publications - 215
Citations - 32094
John Bound is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Disability insurance. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 214 publications receiving 30498 citations. Previous affiliations of John Bound include Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences & National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak
TL;DR: In this article, the use of instruments that explain little of the variation in the endogenous explanatory variables can lead to large inconsistencies in the IV estimates even if only a weak relationship exists between the instruments and the error in the structural equation.
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Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within U. S. Manufacturing: Evidence from the Annual Survey of Manufactures
TL;DR: This paper investigated the shift in demand away from unskilled and toward skilled labor in U.S. manufacturing over the 1980s and concluded that increased use of nonproduction workers is strongly correlated with investment in computers and in R&D.
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“Weathering” and Age Patterns of Allostatic Load Scores Among Blacks and Whites in the United States
TL;DR: Evidence that racial inequalities in health exist across a range of biological systems among adults and are not explained by racial differences in poverty is found.
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Changes in the Structure of Wages During the 1980'S: an Evaluation of Alternative Explanations
TL;DR: This article investigated several alternative explanations of these wage structure phenomena, including shifts in the structure of product demand, skilled-labor saving technological change, and changes in the incidence and level of rents received by lower skilled workers.
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Changes in the structure of wages in the 1980's: an evaluation of alternative explanations.
John Bound,George E. Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: This paper assess the power of several alternative explanations of the observed relative wage changes in the context of a theoretical framework that nests all of these explanations and conclude that their major cause was a shift in the skill structure of labor demand brought about by biased technological change.