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"boomerang" back home impact their parents in their pre-retirement and post-retirement years. We use data from the Health and … well as on their wealth, health, and life satisfaction. Event study analysis suggests that boomerang children return home … there any evidence that they affect parents' wealth, health, or life satisfaction …
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multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health … behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater … fact, they tend to engage in health-compromising behaviors, such as increased smoking, and exhibit higher rates of obesity …
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treatment heterogeneity in the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment …
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A longstanding and influential view in U.S. correctional policy is that "nothing works" when it comes to rehabilitating incarcerated individuals. We revisit this hypothesis by studying an innovative law-enforcement-led program launched in the county jail of Flint, Michigan: Inmate Growth...
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We develop new quasi-experimental tools to understand algorithmic discrimination and build non-discriminatory algorithms when the outcome of interest is only selectively observed. These tools are applied in the context of pretrial bail decisions, where conventional algorithmic predictions are...
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bounds. We illustrate our approach with two applications, involving the effect of (1) health insurance on emergency …
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A growing number of central authorities use assignment mechanisms to allocate students to schools in a way that reflects student preferences and school priorities. However, most real-world mechanisms incentivize students to strategically misreport their preferences. In this paper, we provide an...
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We propose a new specification test to assess the validity of the judge leniency design. We characterize a set of sharp testable implications, which exploit all the relevant information in the observed data distribution to detect violations of the judge leniency design assumptions. The proposed...
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How does ESG (environmental, social, and governance) performance affect stock returns? Answering this question is difficult because existing measures of ESG perfor- mance -- ESG ratings -- are noisy and, therefore, standard regression estimates suffer from attenuation bias. To address the bias,...
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We provide simple tests for selection on unobserved variables in the Vytlacil-Imbens-Angrist framework for Local Average Treatment Effects (LATEs). Our setup allows researchers not only to test for selection on either or both of the treated and untreated outcomes, but also to assess the...
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