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What Happens When We Randomly Assign Children to Families?

Sacerdote, Bruce - 2004

I use a new data set of Korean-American adoptees who, as infants, were randomly assigned to families in the U.S. I examine the treatment effects from being assigned to a high income family, a high education family or a family with four or more children. I calculate the transmission of income,...

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Child-Adoption Matching : Preferences for Gender and Race

Baccara, Mariagiovanna - 2010

This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents … over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn … children close to birth, and against African-American children put up for adoption. These attitudes vary in magnitudes across …

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Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children? The Long Run Implications of Unilateral Divorce

Gruber, Jonathan - 2000

Most states in the U.S. allow for unilateral divorce, which increases the ease of divorce by not requiring the explicit consent of both partners. Such regulations have come under fire for their perceived negative consequences for marital stability and resulting child outcomes, but there is no...

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Does Biology Drive Child Penalties? Evidence from Biological and Adoptive Families

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen - 2020

adoptive families using event studies around the arrival of children and almost forty years of adoption data from Denmark …

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What Do Long Data Tell Us About the Inflation Hike Post COVID-19 Pandemic?

Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie; Uribe, Martín - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

To what extent is the recent spike in inflation driven by a change in its permanent component? We estimate a semi-structural model of output, inflation, and the nominal interest rate in the United States over the period 1900-2021. The model predicts that between 2019 and 2021 the permanent...

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Divorce and Property Division Laws Shape Human Capital Investment

Blair, Peter Q.; Neilson, Elijah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In theory, unilateral divorce laws alter the private incentive to invest in human capital by permitting either spouse to initiate the division of the marital assets. Using several causal research designs we show that both men and women are less likely to attain a bachelor's degree in states with...

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The Road Not Taken : How Driving Distance and Appointment Availability Shape the Effects of Abortion Bans

Myers, Caitlin K.; Dench, Daniel; Pineda-Torres, Mayra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We use difference-in-differences research designs to estimate the effects of abortion bans on births at the county level, leveraging data on changes in driving distance and appointment availability at the nearest facility where abortion remains legal. We find that bans alone increase births, but...

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Heterogeneous and Racialized Impacts of State Incarceration Policies on Birth Outcomes in the U.S

Boen, Courtney; Bair, Elizabeth; Lee, Hedwig; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

discourse around the time of policy adoption, while truth in sentencing likely impacted birth outcomes via material mechanisms …

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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation

Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the effects of job-protected leave policies on intergenerational mobility, long-run child outcomes, and parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on family leave policies across the United States since 1973...

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The Long-Term Effects of Income for At-Risk Infants : Evidence from Supplemental Security Income

Hawkins, Amelia A.; Hollrah, Christopher A.; Miller, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper examines whether a generous cash intervention early in life can "undo" some of the long-term disadvantage associated with poor health at birth. We use new linkages between several large-scale administrative datasets to examine the short-, medium-, and long-term effects of providing...

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