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Neighborhoods Matter : Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects

Chyn, Eric; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social scientists during the past half-century. Recent empirical studies using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs...

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An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-based Interventions on Children

Chyn, Eric; Daruich, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

To study the effects of neighborhood and place-based interventions, this paper incorporates neighborhood effects into a general equilibrium (GE) heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model with endogenous location choice and child skill development. Importantly, housing costs as well as...

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The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes

Bald, Anthony - 2019

This paper measures impacts of removing children from families investigated for abuse or neglect. We use removal … tendencies of child protection investigators as an instrument. We focus on young children investigated before age 6 and find that …

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The Returns to Early-life Interventions for Very Low Birth Weight Children

Chyn, Eric - 2019

We use comprehensive administrative data from Rhode Island to measure the impact of early-life interventions for low birth weight newborns on later-life outcomes. We use a regression discontinuity design based on the 1,500-gram threshold for Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) status. We show that...

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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to … estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 … children during the 1940s offer relatively poor opportunities for Black youth today. Opportunities for Black children were …

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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth

Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

remaining 84 percent. Place effects are more influential for children of non-college-educated mothers, and are most strongly …

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