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Treatment effect heterogeneity in theory and practice
Angrist, Joshua D. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784276
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Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice
Angrist, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
economic and marital outcomes for mothers with two or more children. The application is motivated by welfare reform, which … penalizes further childbearing by welfare mothers on the grounds that more children make continued poverty and welfare receipt … consequence of additional childbearing, but evidence on the impact of childbearing on marital stability and welfare use is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720734
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Inference with Imperfect Randomization: The Case of the Perry Preschool Program
Shaikh, Azeem M.; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652903
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Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James; Schennach, Susanne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between investments in one period and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008601688
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Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation
Fernandez, Raquel; Wong, Joyce C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969289
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Education, Birth Order, and Family Size
Bagger, Jesper; Birchenall, Javier A.; Mansour, Hani; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children's educational attainment. We develop an empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969380
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969382
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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline
Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie E.; Hershbein, Brad J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Dramatic fertility swings over the last 100 years have been the subject of large literatures in demography and economics. Recent research has claimed that the post-1960 fertility decline is exceptional enough to constitute a "Second Demographic Transition." The empirical case for a Second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969391
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Family Planning: Program Effects
Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
quantitatively modest - but practically meaningful - effects on the socio-economic welfare of individuals and families. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951137
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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
Labor economists and policy makers have long been interested in work-family interactions. Work generates income but also reduces the time families have to spend together. Many soldiers who were mobilized for Gulf War service were away from home for an extended period of time, so Gulf War...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085207