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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714375
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Family Planning: Program Effects
Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This chapter reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning programs in middle- and low-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio-economic outcomes (mortality, human capital, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951137
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Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration
Neumark, David; Finlay, Keith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
may be driven by other factors that affect marital status at birth, post-conception marriage decisions, and later child … outcomes, rather than causal effects of family structure. Given that changes in the availability of men in the marriage market … should affect marriage decisions, we use incarceration rates for men as an instrumental variable for family structure in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050158
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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
effects of marriage penalties. In addition, it offers a unique perspective on 19th century marriage markets, which are little … substantially greater. This indicates that women were willing to substitute away from marriage if the alternatives were favorable … enough, suggesting that changes in the desirability of marriage to women may account for some of the aggregate patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780811
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Can Variation in Subgroups' Average Treatment Effects Explain Treatment Effect Heterogeneity? Evidence from a Social Experiment
Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In this paper, we assess whether welfare reform affects earnings only through mean impacts that are constant within but vary across subgroups. This is important because researchers interested in treatment effect heterogeneity typically restrict their attention to estimating mean impacts that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950955
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The Child and Adult Care Food Program: Who is Served and What are Their Nutritional Outcomes?
Kaestner, Robert; Gordon, Rachel A.; Korenman, Sanders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper addresses three basic questions about an under-studied food subsidy program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who participate differ from those who do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008625937
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women
Dave, Dhaval M.; Reichman, Nancy E.; Corman, Hope - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Education beyond traditional ages for schooling is an important source of human capital acquisition among adult women. Welfare reform, which began in the early 1990s and culminated in the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996, has promoted work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000624
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Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal
Helliwell, John F.; Aknin, Lara B.; Barrington-Leigh, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). Analyzing survey data from 136 countries, we show that prosocial spending is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674242
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Distributional Effects of Means Testing Social Security: An Exploratory Analysis
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper examines the distributional implications of introducing additional means testing of Social Security benefits where proceeds are used to help balance Social Security's finances. Benefits of the top quarter of households ranked according to the relevant measure of means are reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951055
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Is Business Cycle Volatility Costly? Evidence from Surveys of Subjective Wellbeing
Wolfers, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
This paper analyzes the effects of business cycle volatility on measures of subjective well-being, including self-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower perceived well-being. Greater macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710864