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Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System
Lochner, Lance - 2003
survey data from the recent National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort and the National Youth Survey. While beliefs … idiosyncratic and unresponsive to information about the arrests of other random individuals and local neighborhood conditions. There … to changes in an individual's own criminal and arrest history. Young males who engage in crime but are not arrested …
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Urban Renewal and Inequality : Evidence from Chicago's Public Housing Demolitions
Almagro, Milena; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies one of the largest spatially targeted redevelopment efforts implemented in the United States: public housing demolitions sponsored by the HOPE VI program. Focusing on Chicago, we study welfare and racial disparities in the impacts of demolitions using a structural model that...
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Eviction and Poverty in American Cities
Collinson, Robert; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
More than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them each year. Policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels are increasingly pursuing policies to reduce the number of evictions, citing harm to tenants and high public expenditures related to homelessness. We...
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The Scale and Nature of Neighborhood Effects on Children : Evidence from a Danish Social Housing Experiment
Billings, Stephen B.; Hoekstra, Mark; Pons Rotger, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Recent research documents a causal impact of place on the long-run outcomes of children. However, little is known about which neighborhood characteristics are most important, and at what scale neighborhood effects operate. By using the random assignment of public housing along with...
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Supporting Women's Livelihoods at Scale : Evidence from a Nationwide Multi-Faceted Program
Botea, Ioana; Brudevold-Newman, Andrew; Goldstein, Markus P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The success of multi-faceted "graduation" programs at reducing poverty raises three questions: can the impacts of these programs be maintained when implemented by governments at scale, will positive effects be offset by negative spillovers, and can bundled programs be streamlined without losing...
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The Value of Communication for Mental Health
Annan, Francis; Archibong, Belinda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Mental health disorders account for a significant share of the overall global disease burden. The economic losses from such disorders are staggeringly large, particularly in low-income countries, where people are faced with several unexpected shocks. We test whether improved communication can...
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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
parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on …
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Cash Transfers and Social Preferences of Children
Haushofer, Johannes; Larreboure, Magdalena; Lowes, Sara; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the effects of an unconditional cash transfer program on social preferences of children. The program allocated $1,076 to randomly selected households in rural Kenya. We measure the social preferences of 4,022 children from 1,687 households with survey questions and incentivized...
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Effects of Universal and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Child Abuse and Neglect
Bullinger, Lindsey R.; Packham, Analisa; Raissian, Kerri M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the effects of cash transfers on a severe measure of child welfare: maltreatment. To do so, we leverage year-to-year household variation from a universal and unconditional cash transfer, the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). Using linked individual-level administrative data on...
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Aspiring to a Better Future : Can a Simple Psychological Intervention Reduce Poverty?
Orkin, Kate; Garlick, Robert; Mahmud, Mahreen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How do aspirations influence investment decisions for people living in poverty? Does this change as peoples economic conditions improve? To answer these questions, we design a workshop teaching techniques to raise aspirations and plan to achieve them. We cross-randomise this with large...
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