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Angrist, Joshua; Pathak, Parag A.; Walters, Christopher R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Estimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter schools in other settings do not. We explore student-level and school-level explanations for these differences using a large sample of Massachusetts charter schools. Our results show...

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Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

Angrist, Joshua; Chen, Stacey; Frandsen, Brigham R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The veterans disability compensation (VDC) program, which provides a monthly stipend to disabled veterans, is the third largest American disability insurance program. Since the late 1990s, VDC growth has been driven primarily by an increase in claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about...

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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...

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New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children

Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor Chaim; Schlosser, Analia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

capital formation and economic welfare. If there is a %u201Cquantity-quality trade-off,%u201D then policies that discourage …. This paper provides new evidence on the child-quantity/child-quality trade-off. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous … structure of families drawn from a population registry. Our results show no evidence of a quantity-quality trade-off, though …

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Long-Term Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia

Angrist, Joshua; Bettinger, Eric P.; Kremer, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

Colombia's PACES program provided over 125,000 poor children with vouchers that covered half the cost of private secondary school. The vouchers were renewable annually conditional on adequate academic progress. Since many vouchers were assigned by lottery, program effects can reliably be...

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The Effect of Teen Childbearing and Single Parenthood on Childhood Disabilities and Progress in School

Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor Chaim - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special disability and grade repetition questions from the school enrollment supplement to the 1992 Current Population Survey to estimate the effect of maternal age and single...

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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of the 1970 State Abortion Reforms

Angrist, Joshua; evans, william n. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

This study uses the 1970 state abortion reforms to estimate the effect of teen and out-of-wedlock childbearing on the schooling and labor market outcomes of mothers observed in 1980 and 1990 Census microdata. Reduced-form estimates suggest that state abortion reforms had a negative impact on...

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