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This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original … participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and … lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are especially …
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Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...
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internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …
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emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …
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the age ranges that best predict important human capital outcomes of children. The predictive power of parental resources … traditional snapshot proxies for lifetime incomes based on income flows at certain age windows in predicting child outcomes … used. We also find that the financial resources of parents compensate in part for nonmonetary inputs to child human capital …
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-defined marginal policy changes with IV estimates of the return to schooling. Some marginal policy changes inducing students into …
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The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baseline-pretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...
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forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of …
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