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This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds after controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor supply has deleterious effects on cognitive development,...
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This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal … relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares … results provide strong evidence that maternal substance use is associated with children's behavior problems. Models that …
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abuse on children born to mothers in the initial cohort of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a national … home and parental mental health can have notable impacts on skill development in children that may affect the stock of … household survey of high school students aged 14-22 in 1979. We follow 1587 children aged 1-5 in 1987, observing them throughout …
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We examine the extent to which infant health production functions are sensitive to model specification and measurement error. We focus on the importance of typically unobserved but theoretically important variables (TUVs), other non-standard covariates (NSCs), input reporting, and...
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specialty substance use disorder (SUD) treatment use among children ages 12 to 18. We examine both private and public expansions … State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Private expansions are generated by state laws that compel private …, lead to increases in admissions to treatment and increased insurance coverage among children in treatment. After public …
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and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic … attainment, but there is a strong social gradient in maternal drinking, with mothers in higher socio-economic groups more likely …
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We studied the effect of marijuana liberalization policies on perinatal health with a multiperiod difference-in-differences estimator that exploited variation in effective dates of medical marijuana laws (MML) and recreational marijuana laws (RML). We found that the proportion of maternal...
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Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which an initial gender gap in ideal fertility prevents effective communication between spouses about the costs of childbearing incurred by women. This mechanism is likely to further widen the spousal...
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slowly. Children of teenagers may experience difficult childhoods and hence be more likely to commit crimes subsequently. I …
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We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth outcomes: use of prenatal care, smoking behavior,...
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