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The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
Chetty, Raj; Katz, Lawrence F.; Hendren, Nathaniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families living in high-poverty housing projects … housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We present new evidence on the impacts of MTO on children's long …-term outcomes using administrative data from tax returns. We find that moving to a lower-poverty neighborhood significantly improves …
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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
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An Optimal Tax System
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
A notable feature and principal virtue of Tax by Design is its system-wide perspective on different elements of the tax system. This review essay builds on this trait and offers a more explicit foundation for the report's general approach, drawing on a distribution-neutral methodology that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226936
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …
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Optimal Taxation with Endogenous Insurance Markets
Golosov, Mikhail; Tsyvinski, Aleh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
We study optimal tax policy in a dynamic private information economy with endogenous private markets. We characterize efficient allocations and competitive equilibria. A standard assumption in the literature is that trades are observable by all agents. We show that in such an environment the...
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How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Disability Insurance (DI) programs have long been criticized by economists for apparent work disincentives. Some countries have recently modified their programs such that DI recipients are allowed to keep some of their benefits if they return to work, and other countries are considering similar...
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Effects of Maternal Depression on Family Food Insecurity
Noonan, Kelly; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Theory suggests that adverse life events--such as unemployment or health shocks--can result in food insecurity, which has increased substantially in the U.S. over the past decade alongside the obesity epidemic. We test this proposition by estimating the effects of a specific and salient mental...
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Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Niehaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Anti-poverty programs in developing countries are often difficult to implement; in particular, many governments lack …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950950
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Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
A growing economics literature establishes a causal link between in utero shocks and health and human capital in adulthood. Most studies rely on extreme negative shocks such as famine and pandemics. We are the first to examine the impact of a positive and policy-driven change in economic...
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Misclassification in Binary Choice Models
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
While measurement error in the dependent variable does not lead to bias in some well-known cases, with a binary dependent variable the bias can be pronounced. In binary choice, Hausman, Abrevaya and Scott-Morton (1998) show that the marginal effects in the observed data differ from the true ones...
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