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Catholic Schools and Bad Behavior : A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

Mocan, H. Naci - 2002

Although there is a sizeable literature on the effect of private school attendance on academic student outcomes, the number of studies that investigate the impact of school sector on non-academic outcomes is limited. Using a rich data set, we analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on...

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Cheaper By the Dozen : Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

Dynarski, Susan - 2009

The effect of vouchers on sorting between private and public schools depends upon the price elasticity of demand for private schooling. Estimating this elasticity is empirically challenging because prices and quantities are jointly determined in the market for private schooling. We exploit a...

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Does Welfare Prevent Crime? The Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed From SSI

Deshpande, Manasi; Mueller-Smith, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

removal, youth are twice as likely to be charged with an illicit income-generating offense than they are to maintain steady …

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The Demand For Protection and the Persistently High Rates of Gun Violence Among Young Black Males

Evans, William N.; Kotowski, Maciej H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a theoretical model to explain both the high level and persistence in gun violence for black males ages 15-24 consistent with the empirical literature. A person may carry a gun for instrumental (i.e., criminal) reasons or for its perceived protective benefit. Discerning underlying...

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Pretrial Juvenile Detention

Baron, E. Jason; Jacob, Brian Aaron; Ryan, Joseph P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

the consequences of this practice for youth, we link the universe of individual public school records in Michigan to …

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An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schools

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2002

Several previous studies have relied on religious affiliation and the proximity to Catholic schools as exogenous sources of variation for identifying the effect of Catholic schooling on a wide variety of outcomes. Using three separate approaches, we examine the validity of these instrumental...

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Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables : Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2000

We develop estimation methods that use the amount of selection on the observables in a model as a guide to the amount …

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Religious Identity and Economic Behavior

Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2010

We randomly vary religious identity salience in laboratory subjects to test how identity salience contributes to six hypothesized links from prior literature between religious identity and economic behavior. We find that religious identity salience makes Protestants increase contributions to...

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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below...

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"Might Not Be a Tomorrow" : A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime

Brezina, Timothy - 2008

factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …

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