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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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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...

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Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care

Joseph J. Doyle, Jr. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Nearly 20% of young prison inmates spent part of their youth in foster care - the placement of abused or neglected children with substitute families. Little is known whether foster care placement reduces or increases the likelihood of criminal behavior. This paper uses the placement frequency of...

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The Impact of State Tax Subsidies for Private Long-Term Care Insurance on Coverage and Medicaid Expenditures

Goda, Gopi Shah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

In spite of the large expected costs of needing long-term care, only 10-12 percent of the elderly population has private insurance coverage. Medicaid, which provides means-tested public assistance and pays for almost half of long-term care costs, spends more than $100 billion annually on...

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Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment and New Product Take-up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome

De Arcangelis, Giuseppe; McKenzie, David Mckenzie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … school and the student’s educational performance monitored. We find that the introduction of simple labeling for education … ability to label remittances for education, rather than to the hard commitment feature of directly paying schools. …

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Individuals' Use of Care While Uninsured: Effects of Time Since Episode Inception and Episode Length

Gresenz, Carole Roan; Rogowski, Jeannette; Escarce, José J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Few studies have addressed how use of care may vary over the course of an episode of being uninsured or across uninsured episodes of varying duration. This research models the probability that an uninsured individual has (a) any medical expenditures or charges, and (b) any office-based visit...

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Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor

Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev; Gatti, Roberta - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socio-economic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … negative returns to their own education. This evidence suggests that reducing child labor will require facilitating access to …

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Estate Taxes and Charitable Bequests by the Wealthy

Joulfaian, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

Charitable bequests are an important source of philanthropic support. Unlike bequests to children which can be taxed at a maximum statutory rate of 0.55, such transfers are exempt from estate taxation. Thus, by lowering the price of charitable giving, the estate tax may influence the disposition...

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The Effect of Daughters on Partisanship

Conley, Dalton; Rauscher, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Washington (2008) finds that, controlling for total number of children, each additional daughter makes a member of Congress more likely to vote liberally and attributes this finding to socialization. However, daughters' influence could manifest differently for elite politicians and the general...

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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

Chetty, Raj; Friedman, John N.; Rockoff, Jonah E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Are teachersʼ impacts on studentsʼ test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? One reason this question has sparked debate is disagreement about whether value-added (VA) measures provide unbiased estimates of teachersʼ causal impacts on student achievement. We test for bias...

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