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The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investment and Child Well-Being

Aizer, Anna; McLanahan, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Increasing the probability of paying child support, in addition to increasing resources available for investment in children, may also alter the incentives faced by men to have children out of wedlock. We find that strengthening child support enforcement leads men to have fewer out-of-wedlock...

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Public Health Insurance, Program Take-Up, and Child Health

Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Of the ten million uninsured children in 1996, nearly half were eligible for Medicaid, the public health insurance program for poor families, but not enrolled. In response, policy efforts to improve coverage have shifted to increasing Medicaid take-up among those already eligible rather than...

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The Long Term Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families

Aizer, Anna; Eli, Shari; Ferrie, Joseph P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We estimate the long-run impact of cash transfers to poor families on children's longevity, educational attainment, nutritional status, and income in adulthood. To do so, we collected individual-level administrative records of applicants to the Mothers' Pension program--the first...

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Networks or Neighborhoods? Correlations in the Use of Publicly-Funded Maternity Care in California

Aizer, Anna; Currie, Janet - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

This study focuses on network effects' in the utilization of publicly funded prenatal care using Vital Statistics data from California for 1989 to 2000. Networks are defined using 5-digit zipcodes and a woman's racial or ethnic group. Like others, we find evidence that the use of public programs...

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The Production of Human Capital: Endowments, Investments and Fertility

Aizer, Anna; Cunha, Flavio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

average quality (the quantity-quality tradeoff) but to an increase in the variation in quality, due to both greater variation … quantity-quality trade-off model to include heterogeneous child endowments and parental preferences that feature … complementarity between quality and quantity and moderate aversion to inequality in child human capital within the household. …

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Education, Knowledge and the Evolution of Disparities in Health

Aizer, Anna; Stroud, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We study how advances in scientific knowledge affect the evolution of disparities in health. Our focus is the 1964 Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health - the first widely publicized report of the negative effects of smoking on health. Using an historical dataset that includes the smoking...

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Wages, Violence and Health in the Household

Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. I study both the economic causes and consequences of domestic violence. I find that decreases in the male-female wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with a household bargaining model. The...

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