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Human Capital Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Lottery
Jacob, Brian; Kapustin, Max; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Whether government transfer programs increase the human capital of low-income children is a question of first-order policy importance. Such policies might help poor children if their parents are credit constrained, and so under-invest in their human capital. But it is also possible that whatever...
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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
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A question of quality: do children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive lower quality early years education and care in England?
Gambaro, Ludovica; Stewart, Kitty; Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper examines how the quality of formal early childhood education and care is associated with children …’s background. By using different indicators of quality, the research also explored how the relationship varies depending on the way … quality is measured. The analysis combines information from three administrative datasets – the Early Years Census, the …
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The Fiscal Stress Arising from State and Local Retiree Health Obligations
Lutz, Byron; Sheiner, Louise - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
A major factor weighing down the long-term finances of state and local governments is the obligation to fund retiree benefits. While state and local government pension obligations have been analyzed in great detail, much less attention has been paid to the costs of the other major retiree...
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A Patchwork Safety Net: A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Allen, Samuel; Fox, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Social welfare programs in the United States are designed to serve as safety nets for people in hard times, in contrast with the universal approach found in many other developed western nations. In a survey of Cliometric studies of social welfare programs in the U.S., we examine the variation in...
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Can Variation in Subgroups' Average Treatment Effects Explain Treatment Effect Heterogeneity? Evidence from a Social Experiment
Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In this paper, we assess whether welfare reform affects earnings only through mean impacts that are constant within but vary across subgroups. This is important because researchers interested in treatment effect heterogeneity typically restrict their attention to estimating mean impacts that are...
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Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care
Joseph J. Doyle, Jr. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Nearly 20% of young prison inmates spent part of their youth in foster care - the placement of abused or neglected children with substitute families. Little is known whether foster care placement reduces or increases the likelihood of criminal behavior. This paper uses the placement frequency of...
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The Impact of State Tax Subsidies for Private Long-Term Care Insurance on Coverage and Medicaid Expenditures
Goda, Gopi Shah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
In spite of the large expected costs of needing long-term care, only 10-12 percent of the elderly population has private insurance coverage. Medicaid, which provides means-tested public assistance and pays for almost half of long-term care costs, spends more than $100 billion annually on...
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The social protection of rural workers in the construction industry in urban China
Li, Bingqin; Peng, Huamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
The construction industry is important for Chinese rural to urban migrants. Over 90% of urban construction workers are rural migrants, and over a third of all rural migrants work in construction. The construction industry is not only particularly important, but is also different from other...
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Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Niehaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Anti-poverty programs in developing countries are often difficult to implement; in particular, many governments lack the capacity to deliver payments securely to targeted beneficiaries. We evaluate the impact of biometrically-authenticated payments infrastructure ("Smartcards") on beneficiaries...
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