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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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Variation in the quality of regional child welfare services

Henningsen, Morten; Kornstad, Tom - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012

While child welfare services of high quality are very important for many children, measuring quality is not a simple … task. This paper presents a method for estimating differences in the quality of local child welfare services. We identify … eliminate effects that cannot be attributed to child welfare services. Our findings may then be interpreted as mainly quality …

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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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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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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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Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurcance applicants

Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2015

Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate our paper. We begin by describing the earnings, disposable income and...

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