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We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million … children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background …, prior child cognition and health, and child investments. We use income and local prices to control for the endogeneity of …
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reduced crime rates of the targeted generation and their children by comparable amounts. We attribute these outcomes to …
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variances and cell means for all topcoded income values in the public-use version of these data. We then provide a procedure … imputing its topcoded income values. As an example of its value we show how our new procedure improves on existing imputation …
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Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) survey an important new literature using income tax-based data to measure the share … of income held by top income groups. But changes in tax legislation that expand the tax base to include income sources (e … the share of income they hold. We provide a cautionary tale from Australia of how comprehensive tax reform legislation in …
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Recent research on United States levels and trends in income inequality vary substantially in how they measure income …. Piketty and Saez (2003) examine market income of tax units based on IRS tax return data, DeNavas-Walt, Proctor, and Smith … (2012) and most CPS-based research uses pre-tax, post-transfer cash income of households, while the CBO (2012) uses both …
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Motivated by the large differences in labor market outcomes across college majors, we survey the literature on the demand for and return to high school and post-secondary education by field of study. We combine elements from several papers to provide a dynamic model of education and occupation...
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