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We exploit the changes in the distribution of family income to estimate the effect of parental resources on college education. Our strategy exploits the fact that families at the bottom of the income distribution were much poorer in the 1990s than they were in the 1970s, while the opposite is...
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mechanisms influence family investments in children, we evaluate the extent to which these mechanisms also explain other …
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This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
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Between-family differences in expenditures and output reflect the effect of simultaneous increases in children … parents toward disparity among children. In this paper we characterize the conditions on parents' preferences that determine …
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We assemble a novel dataset of matched legislative and constituent votes and demonstrate that less income does not mean less representation. We show 1) The opinions of high and low income voters are highly correlated; the legislator's vote often reflects the desire of both. 2) What differences in...
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In this paper we explore income and race differences in nine measures of the health of children aged 6 through 11. We … black and white children and of children from high and low income families, but these differences by no means overwhelmingly … favor the white or high-income children. With respect to differences by race, whether or not they are adjusted for …
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This paper reexamines differences found between income gradients in American and English children's health, in results … the same time period, the income gradient in children's health increases with age by the same amount in the two countries … are larger in the English sample than in the American sample, and that income plays a larger role in buffering children …
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Although mental disorders are common among children, we know little about their long term effects on child outcomes …. This paper examines U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression … representative samples of children from both countries. Second, we focus on "screeners" that were administered to all children in our …
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-income families with children in the United States, with 1.04 million children currently receiving SSI benefits and 6 percent of … children in a household with some SSI income. In this paper we use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation …
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fixed effect instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading …,100. Using a panel of over 6,000 children matched to their mothers from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth datasets allows us … reading test scores by 3.6% of a standard deviation. The results are even stronger when looking at children from disadvantaged …
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