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Recent research suggests that parental job loss has negative effects on children's outcomes, including their academic … loss on children's health. We combine health data from 16 waves of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, which allows us to … loss is detrimental to the physical and mental health of children in low-socioeconomic status (SES) families, increasing …
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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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This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....
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-separation fertility, and reduce labor supply among high-income fathers. Our findings suggest that government efforts to increase child … investments through mandates on parents can be complicated by their behavioral responses to them …
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As the share of U.S. adult children living with their parents increases, it is important to understand how children who … Retirement Study (HRS) to examine the effects of boomerang children on their parents' labor market expectations and choices, as … children are associated with a small increase in their parents' subjective probability of working after age 65. However, there …
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We examine a model in which per capita income, inequality, intergenerational mobility, and returns to education are all … education with transfers received from their parents, and are subject to liquidity constraints. In the model, multiple steady …, inequality, and per capita income. Equilibria with higher levels of output also have lower inequality, higher mobility, and more …
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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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average relative mobility in this sample is approximately 0.17 and expected health rank for children of parents at the 25th …
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third, or intensive margin,' combines the increasing self-segregation (on the basis of aptitude) of students among colleges …
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We develop a model of optimal schooling investments and estimate it using new data on approximately 700 identical twins. We estimate an average return to schooling of 9 percent for identical twins, but estimated returns appear to be slightly higher for less able individuals. Simple cross-section...
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