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Differences in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment : Experiences of Insured and Uninsured Patients in a Safety Net Setting
Bradley, Cathy J. - 2008
uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting. Controlling for … socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease, requiring more extensive … treatment relative to insured women, and also experience delays in initiating and completing treatment. The findings suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464772
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Work, Welfare, and Child Maltreatment
Paxson, Christina - 1999
structure, welfare benefits, and child maltreatment. Welfare programs affect the incentives of women and men to work and to live …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471441
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The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries
Miguel, Edward; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This article provides an interim overview of these effects, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Economists have explained how the pandemic is likely to have differential consequences...
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Inequality in Early Care Experienced by U.S. Children
Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...
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Patterns of Time Use Among Older People
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Zucker, Leo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze time use studies to describe how people allocate their time as they age, especially among paid work, unpaid work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and younger people; between developed and developing countries;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210058
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Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators
Baron, E. Jason; Gross, Max - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Foster care placement is strongly associated with crime--for example, close to one fifth of the prison population in the United States is comprised of former foster children--yet there is little evidence on whether this relationship is causal. Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of child...
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Socioeconomic Decline and Death : Midlife Impacts of Graduating in a Recession
Schwandt, Hannes - 2020
This paper uses several large cross-sectional data sources and a new approach to estimate midlife effects of entering the labor market in a recession on mortality by cause and various measures of socioeconomic status. We find that cohorts coming of age during the deep recession of the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479162
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Long-run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479288
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Girls, Boys, and High Achievers
Cools, Angela - 2019
This paper studies the effect of exposure to female and male "high-achievers" in high school on the long-run educational outcomes of their peers. Using data from a recent cohort of students in the United States, we identify a causal effect by exploiting quasi-random variation in the exposure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479713
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Southern (American) Hospitality : Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration
Pérez, Santiago - 2019
I study the selection and economic outcomes of Italians in Argentina and the US, the two largest destinations during the age of mass migration. Prior cross-sectional work finds that Italians had faster assimilation in Argentina, but it is inconclusive on whether this was due to differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480073