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During the 1990s many states extended Medicaid eligibility to low-income parents who were not receiving welfare. We … increased the coverage of children, presumably by raising the benefit to the family of applying for coverage. We find …
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scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005. Using these data, we show that reductions … of lead from even historically low levels have significant positive effects on children's reading test scores in third ….1 percentage points (on a baseline of 12 percent). Moreover, as we show, poor and minority children are more likely to be exposed …
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We study how maternal stress affects offspring outcomes. We find that in-utero exposure to elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol negatively affects offspring cognition, health and educational attainment. These findings are based on comparisons between siblings which limits variation to...
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Recent work shows that peers affect student achievement, but the mechanisms are not well understood. I show that peer behavior is an important mechanism, perhaps more so than ability, by exploiting exogenous timing in diagnosis/treatment of ADD among peers that improves peer behavior while...
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We study how advances in scientific knowledge affect the evolution of disparities in health. Our focus is the 1964 Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health - the first widely publicized report of the negative effects of smoking on health. Using an historical dataset that includes the smoking...
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Three quarters of American children have been exposed to neighborhood violence in their lifetimes. Most of the existing … outcomes. However, this literature fails to account for the fact that children exposed to neighborhood violence are highly … disadvantaged in other ways: they are more likely to be black, poor and have poorly educated parents. As such, it is not clear …
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Over 130,000 juveniles are detained in the US each year with 70,000 in detention on any given day, yet little is known whether such a penalty deters future crime or interrupts social and human capital formation in a way that increases the likelihood of later criminal behavior. This paper uses...
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the potential positive benefits of such programs to children. Initially, this research on benefits to children focused on … long-run benefits to children are considered, many safety net programs are cost-effective. However, the current government … the US is still higher than most OECD countries and how research on children and the safety net can better inform policy …
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effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative …
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children at birth. This work sheds new light on the health production process as well as observed income gradients in health … and children via reductions in violence …
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