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Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long …
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proceed by using the large variation across birth cohorts in income security entitlements in Canada that arise from reforms to …-being while controlling for other factors that affect well-being over time and by age. We examine measures of income, consumption …, poverty, and happiness. For income, we find large increases in income corresponding to retirement benefit increases …
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economic indicators: higher levels of education and income, lower levels of welfare receipt and disability, higher levels of …
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Government backed income contingent student loans are an increasingly being used to fund higher education. An income … difference-in-difference methodology, our findings strongly reject the hypothesis that the UK's income-contingent repayment plan …
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terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child … with a significant shift in the types of hospitals at which children are treated, with fewer children treated in public …
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regulations are actually bad for children. I assess the long run implications for children of growing up in a unilateral divorce … increase the incidence of divorce. I also find that adults who were exposed to unilateral divorce regulations as children are …
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We estimate the impact of changes in abortion access in the early 1970s on the average living standards of cohorts born in those years. In particular, we address the selection inherent in the abortion decision: is the marginal child who is not born when abortion access increases more or less...
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sizeable among children born to mothers whose closest hospital had a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, suggest- ing that insurance …
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to low income women and children, has expanded dramatically over the past decade. This expansion provides a `natural …
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