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Enforcement and Immigrant Location Choice
Watson, Tara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper investigates the effect of local immigration enforcement regimes on the migration decisions of the foreign born. Specifically, the analysis uses individual level American Community Survey data to examine the effect of recent 287(g) agreements which allow state and local law...
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Family Planning: Program Effects
Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
-economic outcomes (mortality, human capital, and labor force participation), and children's health and socio-economic outcomes …
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Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
Eggleston, Karen Nisa; Zeckhauser, Richard; Fang, Hai; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
married woman's preferred number of children by 0.35 on average and her actual number by 0.50. Ramifications for China's one …
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Under-investment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh
Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
migrants are sufficiently close to subsistence that failed migration is very costly. We document evidence consistent with this …
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What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?
Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
by 2011. We assess the case for paid maternity leave, focusing on parents' responses to a series of policy reforms in … empirical results reveals the expansions had little effect on a wide variety of outcomes, including children's school outcomes … had little impact on parents' future tax payments and benefit receipt. As a result, the large increases in public spending …
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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
reduced crime rates of the targeted generation and their children by comparable amounts. We attribute these outcomes to …
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Foreclosure, Vacancy and Crime
Walsh, Randall Phillip; Cui, Lin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper examines the impact of residential foreclosures and vacancies on violent and property crime. To overcome confounding factors, a difference-in-difference research design is applied to a unique data set containing geocoded foreclosure and crime data from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
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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...
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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...
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College as Country Club: Do Colleges Cater to Students' Preferences for Consumption?
McCall, Brian Mccall; Jacob, Brian; Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper investigates whether demand-side market pressure explains colleges' decisions to provide consumption amenities to their students. We estimate a discrete choice model of college demand using micro data from the high school classes of 1992 and 2004, matched to extensive information on...
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