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A Cautionary Tale about the Use of Administrative Data: Evidence from Age of Marriage Laws

Blank, Rebecca M.; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Sallee, James M. - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1 (2009) 2, pp. 128-49

examine the effect of state laws governing the minimum age of marriage in the United States. The estimated effects of these …

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What Linear Estimators Miss: The Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes

Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4 (2012) 2, pp. 1-35

to be linear. Our application is the causal link between family income and child outcomes. Our nonlinear IV and FE … estimates show an increasing, concave relationship between family income and children's outcomes. We find that the linear … estimators miss the significant effects of family income because they assign little weight to the large marginal effects in the …

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Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South Africa

Magruder, Jeremy R. - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 62-85

This paper examines the importance of network-based intergenerational correlations in South Africa. I use longitudinal data on young South Africans to examine the covariance of children's employment with the usefulness of parents in their job search. I find that fathers serve as useful network...

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Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids

Carrell, Scott E.; Hoekstra, Mark L. - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 211-28

in the classroom. The achievement spillovers are robust to within-family differences and when controlling for school …

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Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan

Chou, Shin-Yi; Liu, Jin-Tan; Grossman, Michael; Joyce, Ted - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 33-61

In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years and opened over 150 new junior high schools at a differential rate among regions. Within each region, we exploit variations across cohorts in new junior high school openings to construct an instrument for...

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The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior

Bertrand, Marianne; Pan, Jessica - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 32-64

This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment -- boys do especially poorly in broken families. In contrast, we find little...

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Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on US Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X

Bailey, Martha J. - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4 (2012) 2, pp. 62-97

Almost 50 years after domestic US family planning programs began, their effects on childbearing remain controversial … effects on US fertility rates. I find that the introduction of family planning is associated with significant and persistent … reductions in fertility driven both by falling completed childbearing and childbearing delay. Although federally funded family …

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Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?

Barcellos, Silvia Helena; Carvalho, Leandro S.; … - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 157-89

developing countries, boys have an advantage in height and weight relative to girls. Neither greater needs nor anticipated family …

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The Importance of Being Wanted

Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung D. - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010) 4, pp. 236-53

We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have two...

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Do Opposites Detract? Intrahousehold Preference Heterogeneity and Inefficient Strategic Savings

Schaner, Simone - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7 (2015) 2, pp. 135-74

This paper uses a field experiment to test whether intrahousehold heterogeneity in discount factors leads to inefficient strategic savings behavior. I gave married couples in rural Kenya the opportunity to open both joint and individual bank accounts at randomly assigned interest rates. I also...

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