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Effects of Work-Related Absences on Families: Evidence from the Gulf War

Angrist, Joshua; John H. Johnson, IV - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

, divorce rates, and disability rates among soldiers' children. Data from the 1992 Survey of Officers and Enlisted Personnel … temporary disabilities among the children of deployed personnel. This may be because for most military families, deployment was …

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New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children

Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor Chaim; Schlosser, Analia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

A longstanding question in the economics of the family is the relationship between sibship size and subsequent human capital formation and economic welfare. If there is a %u201Cquantity-quality trade-off,%u201D then policies that discourage large families should lead to increased human capital,...

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Long-Term Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia

Angrist, Joshua; Bettinger, Eric P.; Kremer, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

Colombia's PACES program provided over 125,000 poor children with vouchers that covered half the cost of private …

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The Effect of Teen Childbearing and Single Parenthood on Childhood Disabilities and Progress in School

Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor Chaim - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest … that there is little association between maternal age at birth and children's disabilities. But the children of teen …

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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of the 1970 State Abortion Reforms

Angrist, Joshua; evans, william n. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

This study uses the 1970 state abortion reforms to estimate the effect of teen and out-of-wedlock childbearing on the schooling and labor market outcomes of mothers observed in 1980 and 1990 Census microdata. Reduced-form estimates suggest that state abortion reforms had a negative impact on...

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