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Goldilocks Economies? Temperature Stress and the Direct Impacts of Climate Change
Heal, Geoffrey; Park, Jisung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We review recent literature on the effect of temperature stress on economic activity, operating through basic human … physiology. There is growing evidence from both micro and macro studies of causal impacts of extreme temperature on health, labor … temperature zone for economic activity, though empirical research on potential adaptive responses remains thin. This emerging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266637
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Temperature and the Allocation of Time: Implications for Climate Change
Graff Zivin, Joshua; Neidell, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
plausibly exogenous variation in daily temperature over time within counties. We find large reductions in U.S. labor supply in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631702
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The Effect of Maternal Employment on Children's Academic Performance
Dunifon, Rachel; Nicholson, Sean; Hansen, Anne Toft; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using a Danish data set that follows 135,000 Danish children from birth through 9th grade, we examine the effect of maternal employment during a child's first three and first 15 years on that child's grade point average in 9th grade. We address the endogeneity of employment by including a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969447
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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform
Lavy, Victor Chaim; Danzer, Natalia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951144
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Ziliak, James P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
In this chapter I provide a brief history of the TANF program, including changes made as part of the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act. I then present a variety of program statistics, including trends in aggregate and state-level caseloads and spending, along with changes in the demographic composition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271423
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The Cost of Caring for Young Children
Rosenbaum, Dan T.; Ruhm, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This study examines the "cost burden" of child care, defined as day care expenses divided by after-tax income. Data are from the wave 10 core and child care topical modules to the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation. We estimate that the average child under six years of age lives in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710276
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The Effects of Child-Bearing on Married Women's Labor Supply and Earnings: Using Twin Births as a Natural Experiment
Rosenbloom, Joshua L.; Gangadharan, Jaisri; Jacobson, Joyce - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
Married women's decisions about child-bearing and market work are importantly interrelated. Although there are many estimates of the effects of fertility on female labor supply few of them have adequately addressed the problems of simultaneity inherent in these choices. In this paper, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710513
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Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A Search for Mechanisms in Time Use Data
Cawley, John; Liu, Feng - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Recent research has found that maternal employment is associated with an increased risk of childhood obesity. This paper explores mechanisms for that correlation. We estimate models of instrumental variables using a unique dataset, the American Time Use Survey, that measure the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714118
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The Dynamic-Optimizing Approach to the Current Account: Theory and Evidence
Razin, Assaf - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993
The organization of this paper is as follows. Section I builds an empirically implementable model of the current account. Likewise, Section II derives the essential time series properties of the real exchange rate. Positive implications of the intertemporal approach against panel and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714600
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Public Preschool and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools
Cascio, Elizabeth U. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Beginning in the mid-1960s, many state governments, particularly in the South and West, began to subsidize kindergartens for the first time. These initiatives generated wide variation across states over time in the supply of seats for five year olds in public schools. This paper uses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718635