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The Production of Human Capital: Endowments, Investments and Fertility
Aizer, Anna; Cunha, Flavio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
that the degree of reinforcement increases with family size. Thus, an increase in quantity leads not only to a decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969408
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The Impact of Family Composition on Educational Achievement
Chen, Stacey; Liu, Jin-Tan; Chen, Yen-Chien - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
offer new evidence of sibling rivalry and gender bias in family settings that has not been detected in the literature. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950657
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951110
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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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Fifty Years of Family Planning: New Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Increasing Access to Contraception
Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper assembles new evidence on some of the longer-term consequences of U.S. family planning policies, defined in … second, the expansion of federal funding for local family planning programs from 1964 to 1973. Building on previous research … contraceptives increased their children's college completion, labor force participation, wages, and family incomes decades later. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951258
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Shocking Behavior : Random Wealth in Antebellum Georgia and Human Capital Across Generations
Bleakley, Hoyt; Ferrie, Joseph P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
attendance than non-winners' grandchildren. This suggests only a limited role for family financial resources in the transmission … of human capital across generations and a potentially more important role for other factors that persist through family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951333
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Human Capital Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Lottery
Jacob, Brian; Kapustin, Max; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Whether government transfer programs increase the human capital of low-income children is a question of first-order policy importance. Such policies might help poor children if their parents are credit constrained, and so under-invest in their human capital. But it is also possible that whatever...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951410
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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 Technology of Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper develops a model of skill formation that explains a variety of findings established in the child development and child intervention literatures. At its core is a technology that is stage-specific and that features self productivity, dynamic complementarity and skill multipliers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085050
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Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects
Wolfe, Barbara L.; Fletcher, Jason M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
The question of whether giving birth as a teenager has negative economic consequences for the mother remains controversial despite substantial research. In this paper, we build upon existing literature, especially the literature that uses the experience of teenagers who had a miscarriage as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085203