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Research on the effects of prenatal care on birth outcomes has produced a patchwork of findings that are not easily summarized. Studies have used varying definitions of prenatal care, leading to estimates that are difficult to compare. The identification of causal effects is particularly...
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This paper examines the effects of a comprehensive performance pay program for teachers implemented in high-need schools on students' longer-run educational, criminal justice, and economic self-sufficiency outcomes. Using linked administrative data from a Southern state, we leverage the...
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Using data from the 2010-2014 American Community Survey, we use a procedure suggested by Capps et al. (2015) to identify refugees from the larger group of immigrants to examine the outcomes of refugees relocated to the U.S. Among young adults, we show that refugees that enter the U.S. before age...
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Whenever unemployment stays high for an extended period, it is common to see analyses, statements, and rebuttals about the extent to which the high unemployment is structural, not cyclical. This essay views the Beveridge Curve pattern of unemployment and vacancy rates and the related matching...
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We analyze a national sample of Americans with respect to their debt literacy, financial experiences, and their judgments about the extent of their indebtedness. Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial...
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a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase … and a seasonal adjustment to argue that school increases reported crime rates (and arrests) involving 10-17-year …-old offenders by 47% (41%) annually relative to a counterfactual where crime rates follow typical seasonal patterns. School …
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Few empirical studies of the economics of crime have doubted the deterrent effects of the legal sanctions on crime …. Those studies, however, have not established a definitive understanding of the effects of labor market conditions on crime … labor force participation rates, on seven major categories of crime, using the quarterly crime-rate data for the United …
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Much work on crime has focused on the effect of criminal sanctions on crime, ignoring (except as a control variable …) the effect of labor market conditions on crime. This study reviews studies of time series, cross area, and individual … evidence pertaining to the effect of unemployment and other labor market variables on crime and compares the "strength" of the …
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beauty, high school beauty (pre-labor market beauty) has a separate impact on crime, and that high school beauty is …
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