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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The intergenerational transmission of human capital and the extent to which policy interventions can affect it is an issue of importance. Policies are often evaluated on either short term outcomes or just in terms of their effect on individuals directly targeted. If such policies shift outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969389
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The Effects of Paid Family Leave in California on Labor Market Outcomes
Ruhm, Christopher; Baum, Charles L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY-97), we examine the effects of California's first in the nation government-mandated paid family leave program (CA-PFL) on mothers' and fathers' use of leave during the period surrounding child birth, and on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951270
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Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on U.S. Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X
Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Almost 50 years after domestic U.S. family planning programs began, their effects on childbearing remain controversial. Using the county-level roll-out of these programs from 1964 to 1973, this paper reevaluates their shorter- and longer-term effects on U.S. fertility rates. I find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251508
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Low Life Expectancy in the United States: Is the Health Care System at Fault?
Preston, Samuel H.; Ho, Jessica Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
rates above age 50. Its low ranking is often blamed on a poor performance by the health care system rather than on … behavioral or social factors. This paper presents evidence on the relative performance of the US health care system using death … health care system. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033475
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Women's Income and Marriage Markets in the United States: Evidence from the Civil War Pension
Salisbury, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Under the Civil War pension act of 1862, the widow of a Union Army soldier was entitled to a pension if her husband died as a direct result of his military service; however, she lost her right to the pension if she remarried. I analyze the effect this had on the rate of remarriage among these...
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Projecting the Effect of Changes in Smoking and Obesity on Future Life Expectancy in the United States
Preston, Samuel H.; Stokes, Andrew; Mehta, Neil K.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
current and age-25 obesity status observed in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-2006. Projections of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571514
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Differential Fertility, Human Capital, and Development
Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
education but now reduce it. While the reversal is unrelated to changes in GDP, women's work, sectoral composition, or health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951054
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Social Security, Demographic Trends, and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience
Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
these systems may have exerted adverse effects on key demographic factors, private savings, and long-term growth rates …. Through a comprehensive endogenous-growth model where human capital is the engine of growth, family choices affect human … growth, especially in OECD countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248856
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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies
Williamson, Jeffrey Gale; Hatton, Timothy J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087443
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Endogenous Fertility, Mortality and Economic Growth: Can a Malthusian Framework Account for the Conflicting Historical Trends in Population?
Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
at a fixed wage-income level because population growth tends to outstrip real output growth. Dynamic equilibrium with … Asian economies, have experienced steady income growth accompanied by sharply falling fertility and mortality rates. We … allows for diminishing returns to labor but also for the role of human capital as an engine of growth. Our model accounts for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710563