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Bracha, Anat; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2012 - This version: July 10, 2012

relative wages on labor supply. They test the hypothesis that, ceteris paribus, making a given wage high (low) relative to …

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Does the Delivery of Primary Health Care Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from the Rollout of Community Health Centers

Kose, Esra; O'Keefe, Siobhan M.; Rosales-Rueda, Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Introduced as part of the War on Poverty, Community Health Centers (CHCs) deliver primary care to underserved populations by locating sliding-scale clinics in economically disadvantaged areas. We investigate how this policy affected infant health using the rollout of CHCs and a flexible event...

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Mothers as Insurance : Family Spillovers in WIC

Bitler, Marianne; Currie, Janet M.; Hoynes, Hilary W.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a widely used program. Previous research shows that WIC improves birth outcomes, but evidence about impacts on children and families is limited. We use a regression discontinuity leveraging an age five when...

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Health Care Centralization : The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the US

Fischer, Stefanie; Royer, Heather; White, Corey D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more centralized. We study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 rural counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference-in-differences design. We find that closures lead to...

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The responsiveness of married women's labor force participation to income and wages : recent changes and possible explanations

Bradbury, Katharine L. (contributor); Katz, Jane (contributor) - 2008

to husbands’ wages and other family income. Now that the rapid rise in married women’s participation has slowed and even … through 2006, we find that the decline in responsiveness to husbands’ wages has come to an endat least for the time beingand … even find evidence of rising responsiveness to husbands’ wages. This increase in the cross-wage elasticity of participation …

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Measuring trends in leisure : the allocation of time over five decades

Aguiar, Mark (contributor); Hurst, Erik (contributor) - 2006 - This version: January 2006

inequality of wages and expenditures, making welfare calculation based solely on the latter series incomplete. …

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Measuring household spending and payment habits : the role of "typical" and "specific" time frames in survey questions

Angrisani, Marco; Kapteyn, Arie; Schuh, Scott - 2012 - This version: June 2012

We designed and fielded an experimental module in the American Life Panel (ALP) where we ask individuals to report the number of their purchases and the amount paid by debit cards, cash, credit cards, and personal checks. The design of the experiment features several stages of randomization....

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Days of Work Over a Half Century : The Rise of the Four-day Week

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine patterns of work in the U.S. from 1973-2018 with the novel focus on days per week, using intermittent CPS samples and one ATUS sample. Among full-time workers the incidence of four-day work tripled during this period, with over 8 million more full-time workers on four-day weeks. The...

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Children and the US Social Safety Net : Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children

Aizer, Anna; Hoynes, Hilary W.; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Economic research on the safety net has evolved significantly over time, moving away from a near exclusive focus on the negative incentive effects of means-tested assistance on employment, earnings, marriage and fertility to include examination of the potential positive benefits of such programs...

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Wealth concentration in the United States using an expanded measure of net worth

Jacobs, Lindsay; Llanes, Elizabeth; Moore, Kevin; … - 2021 - This version: April 2021

Defined benefit (DB) pensions and Social Security are two important resources for financing retirement in the United States. However, these illiquid, non-market forms of wealth are typically excluded from measures of net worth. To the extent that these broadly held resources substitute for...

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