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

Kleven, Henrik - 2020

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

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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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Adoptive Expectations : Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms

Mehrotra, Vikas - 2011

The practice of adopting adults, even if one has biological children, makes Japanese family firms unusually competitive. Our nearly population-wide panel of postwar listed nonfinancial firms shows inherited family firms more important in postwar Japan than generally realized, and also performing...

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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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Medicaid Expansions and Welfare Contractions : Offsetting Effects on Prenatal Care and Infant Health?

Currie, Janet - 2000

Evaluations of changes to the Medicaid program have focused on increases in the generosity of income cutoffs for Medicaid eligibility. Previous research shows that despite dramatic increases in the number of births paid for by the Medicaid program, women often enroll in Medicaid at the point of...

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Children and the US Social Safety Net : Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children

Aizer, Anna; Hoynes, Hilary W.; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Economic research on the safety net has evolved significantly over time, moving away from a near exclusive focus on the negative incentive effects of means-tested assistance on employment, earnings, marriage and fertility to include examination of the potential positive benefits of such programs...

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Early Childhood Education in the United States : What, When, Where, Who, How, and Why

Cascio, Elizabeth U. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This chapter concerns the state of the literature on early childhood education (ECE) - formal programs offering group instruction for children younger than the standard eligibility age for public education. I describe how ECE programs can be convincingly evaluated and why they may or may not...

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The Psychosocial Effects of the Flint Water Crisis on School-Age Children

Trejo, Sam; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria; Jacob, Brian Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Lead poisoning has well-known impacts for the developing brain of young children, with a large literature documenting the negative effects of elevated blood lead levels on academic and behavioral outcomes. In April of 2014, the municipal water source in Flint, Michigan was changed, causing lead...

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