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The Long Term Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families

Aizer, Anna; Eli, Shari; Ferrie, Joseph P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We estimate the long-run impact of cash transfers to poor families on children's longevity, educational attainment, nutritional status, and income in adulthood. To do so, we collected individual-level administrative records of applicants to the Mothers' Pension program--the first...

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The Effect of Education on Medical Technology Adoption: Are the More Educated More Likely to Use New Drugs

Lichtenberg, Frank; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

There is a large body of work that documents a strong, positive correlation between education and measures of health, but little is known about the mechanisms by which education might affect health. One possibility is that more educated individuals are more likely to adopt new medical...

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Education and Health: Insights from International Comparisons

Cutler, David M.; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

In this review we synthesize what is known about the relationship between education and health. A large number of studies from both rich and poor countries show that education is associated with better health. While previous work has thought of the effect of education separately for rich and...

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HIV and Fertility Revisited

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Young (2005) argues that HIV related population declines reinforced by the fertility response to the epidemic will lead to higher capital-labor ratios and to higher per capita incomes in the affected countries of Africa. Using household level data on fertility from South Africa and relying on...

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HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys

Juhn, Chinhui; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that...

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Access to Care, Provider Choice and Racial Disparities

Aizer, Anna; Stabile, Mark; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

This paper explores whether choice of provider explains any of the observed infant health gradients, and if so, why poor women choose different providers than their richer neighbors. We exploit an exogenous change in policy that occurred in California in the early 1990s that suddenly increased...

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The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States

Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health. This paper examines whether education has a causal impact on health. I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of educational attainment on mortality rates. I use...

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Mortality Change, the Uncertainty Effect, and Retirement

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

We examine the role of changing mortality in explaining the rise of retirement over the course of the 20th century. We construct a model in which individuals make labor/leisure choices over their lifetimes subject to uncertainty about their date of death. In an environment in which mortality is...

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Health Inequality, Education and Medical Innovation

Glied, Sherry; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Recent studies suggest that health inequalities across socio-economic groups in the US are large and have been growing. We hypothesize that, as in other, non-health contexts, this pattern occurs because more educated people are better able than to take advantage of technological advances in...

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When Does Education Matter? The Protective Effect of Education for Cohorts Graduating in Bad Times

Cutler, David M.; Huang, Wei; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

losses as a result of poor labor market conditions upon labor market entry. We confirm that a higher unemployment rate at …. Further, education plays a protective role for these outcomes, especially when unemployment rates are high: the losses … associated with poor labor market outcomes are substantially lower for more educated individuals. Variation in unemployment rates …

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