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We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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This paper examines how child maltreatment is affected by the economic circumstances of parents. 'Child maltreatment … structure, welfare benefits, and child maltreatment. Welfare programs affect the incentives of women and men to work and to live …, welfare reforms can be expected to affect the incidence of child maltreatment. Although is too early to accurately determine …
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identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …
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We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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to the child or the children with greatest needs. When parents are drawn between these two ambitions, the degree of … income compensation should be stronger in one-child families and we expect the altruism motive to dominate the equal division …
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Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as "consumptionʺ vs. "investmentʺ good. We use as a natural experiment the Italian pension reforms of the 90s that introduced a clear discontinuity in the treatment across...
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This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
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transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern economic growth. This paper contributes to the literature on the child quantity …
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