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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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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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Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …

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Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being After Welfare Reform

Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper investigates how material well-being has changed over time for those at the bottom of the distributions of income and consumption. We document the sharp differences between recent trends in measured income and consumption, focusing on families headed by a single mother. Since the...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin; Sacks, Daniel W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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How's Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness

Helliwell, John F.; Grover, Shawn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued that this correlation may be result of happier people being more likely to marry. Others have presented evidence suggesting that the well-being benefits of marriage are...

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Well-being and Trust in the Workplace

Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values of financial and non-financial job characteristics. The well-being results show strikingly large values for non-financial job characteristics, especially workplace trust and...

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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Crime

Dave, Dhaval M.; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that …

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Child Cash Benefits and Family Expenditures: Evidence from the National Child Benefit

Milligan, Kevin; Stabile, Mark; Jones, Lauren E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. Income may improve child outcomes through two mechanisms. First, income may improve development outcomes if it improves a family’s ability to purchase direct inputs into child...

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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Borghans, Lex; Gielen, Anne Christina; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

In this paper, we exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to obtain causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients. We find evidence of substantial "social support...

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