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Early life conditions can have profound effects on individual health, longevity, and biological fitness. Two classes of hypotheses are used to explain the evolutionary origins of these effects: developmental constraints (DC) hypotheses, which focus on the deleterious effects of low-quality...
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How do children affect women in science? We investigate this question using rich biographical data, linked with patents and publications, for 83,000 American scientists in 1956 at the height of the baby boom. Our analyses reveal a unique life-cycle pattern of productivity for mothers. While...
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How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social scientists during the past half-century. Recent empirical studies using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs...
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pioneering high-quality early childhood education program implemented before Head Start that targeted disadvantaged African … education program. We follow participants into late midlife as well as their children into adulthood. Impacts on the original …
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The recent Supreme Court decision NCAA vs Alston (June 2021) has heightened interest in the benefits and costs of participation in sports for student athletes. Anecdotes about the exploitation of student athletes were cited in the opinion. This paper uses panel data for two different cohorts...
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This paper documents the share of investable wealth that middle-class U.S. investors hold in the stock market over their working lives. This share rises modestly early in life and falls significantly as people approach retirement. Prior to 2000, the average investor held less of their investable...
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. The gender differences in headstrong and dependent behavior are not explained by education, marriage, depression, self …
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in life. Though a large prior literature attempts to isolate the causal effect of education on health via instrumental …
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There is little theoretical and empirical research on the effects of education on health over the life cycle. In this … education on health at different ages. The main conclusion from our model is that it is unlikely that the relationship between … education and health will be constant over the life cycle and that education is likely to have little effect on health at …
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participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and …
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