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The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago

Cook, Philip J; Fryer, Roland; Guryan, Jonathan; Dodge, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

There is growing concern that improving the academic skills of disadvantaged youth is too difficult and costly, so policymakers should instead focus either on vocationally oriented instruction for teens or else on early childhood education. Yet this conclusion may be premature given that so few...

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The Effect of School Finance Reforms on the Distribution of Spending, Academic Achievement, and Adult Outcomes

Jackson, C. Kirabo; Johnson, Rucker; Persico, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

data to detailed, nationally-representative data on children born between 1955 and 1985 and followed through 2011 (the … for children from poor families leads to about 0.9 more completed years of education, 25 percent higher earnings, and a 20 … percentage-point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty; we find no effects for children from non-poor families. The …

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Tobacco Use, Taxation and Self Control in Adolescence

Deb, Partha; Fletcher, Jason M.; Sindelar, Jody L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Recent literature has suggested that higher taxes on addictive goods could increase welfare by assisting individuals with self control problems and trouble resisting 'temptation'. In contrast, if individuals continue to use despite increased prices, taxation may serve to reduce the welfare of...

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Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience

Kaushal, Neeraj - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

I use changes in immigrant eligibility for food stamps under the 1996 federal law and heterogeneous state responses to set up a natural experiment research design to study the effect of food stamps on Body Mass Index (BMI) of adults in immigrant families. I find that in the post-1996 period food...

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Geographic and Racial Variation in Premature Mortality in the US: Analyzing the Disparities

Fuchs, Victor R.; Cullen, Mark R.; Cummins, Clint - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Life expectancy at birth, estimated from United States period life tables, has been shown to vary systematically and widely by region and race. We use the same tables to estimate the probability of survival from birth to age 70 (S70), a measure of mortality more sensitive to disparities and more...

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Vengeance

Mocan, Naci H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper investigates the extent of vengeful feelings and their determinants using data on more than 89,000 individuals from 53 countries. Country characteristics (such as per-capita income, average education of the country, presence of an armed conflict, the extent of the rule-of-law,...

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Incomes in South Africa Since the Fall of Apartheid

Leibbrandt, Murray; Levinsohn, James; McCrary, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper examines changes in individual real incomes in South Africa between 1995 and 2000. We document substantial declines--on the order of 40%--in real incomes for both men and women. The brunt of the income decline appears to have been shouldered by the young and the non-white. We argue...

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The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth

Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts about the quality and sustainability of this service-sector growth and its implications for economic development. We show, consistent with the views of the sceptics, that while...

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How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...

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Railroads and American Economic Growth: A "Market Access" Approach

Donaldson, Dave; Hornbeck, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper examines the historical impact of railroads on the American economy. Expansion of the railroad network may have affected all counties directly or indirectly - an econometric challenge that arises in many empirical settings. However, the total impact on each county is captured by...

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