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Effects of Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes : Reconciling a Messy Literature

Corman, Hope - 2018

Research on the effects of prenatal care on birth outcomes has produced a patchwork of findings that are not easily summarized. Studies have used varying definitions of prenatal care, leading to estimates that are difficult to compare. The identification of causal effects is particularly...

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Teacher Performance Pay, Coaching, and Long-Run Student Outcomes

Cohodes, Sarah; Eren, Ozkan; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper examines the effects of a comprehensive performance pay program for teachers implemented in high-need schools on students' longer-run educational, criminal justice, and economic self-sufficiency outcomes. Using linked administrative data from a Southern state, we leverage the...

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The Economic and Social Outcomes of Refugees in the United States : Evidence from the ACS

Evans, William N. - 2017

Using data from the 2010-2014 American Community Survey, we use a procedure suggested by Capps et al. (2015) to identify refugees from the larger group of immigrants to examine the outcomes of refugees relocated to the U.S. Among young adults, we show that refugees that enter the U.S. before age...

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Push and Pull : Disability Insurance, Regional Labor Markets, and Benefit Generosity in Canada and the United States

Milligan, Kevin - 2017

Disability insurance take-up has expanded substantially in the past twenty years in the United States while shrinking in Canada. We empirically assess these trends by measuring the strength of the 'push' from weak labor markets versus the 'pull' of more generous benefits. Using an instrumental...

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Small differences that matter : labor markets and income maintenance in Canada and the United States

Card, David E. (contributor); Card, David E. (ed.); … - 1993

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Federal Pandemic Relief and Academic Recovery

Dewey, Dan C.; Fahle, Erin M.; Kane, Thomas J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We measure the effect of district use of federal pandemic relief during the 2022-23 school year for a sample of more than 5000 districts in 29 states. We rely on several plausibly exogenous sources of variation in federal grants: differences in state Title I funding formulas, estimation error in...

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Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences, and Overindebtedness

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2009

We analyze a national sample of Americans with respect to their debt literacy, financial experiences, and their judgments about the extent of their indebtedness. Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial...

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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

Donohue, John J, III. - 2006

Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...

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Education, Work, and Crime : A Human Capital Approach

Lochner, Lance - 2004

This paper develops a model of crime in which human capital increases the opportunity cost of crime from foregone work … street (unskilled) crimes. White collar crimes decline less (or increase) with age and education. Predictions for age-crime … and education-crime relationships receive broad empirical support in self-report data from the National Longitudinal …

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The Effect of Education and School Quality on Female Crime

Cano-Urbina, Javier - 2017

This paper estimates the effects of educational attainment and school quality on crime among American women. Using … probability of incarceration using Census data from 1960-1980. Using data from the 1960-90 Uniform Crime Reports, we also estimate … that increases in average schooling levels reduce arrest rates for violent and property crime but not white collar crime …

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