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Health insurance coverage and risky health behaviors among young adults
Yörük, Barış K. - 2015
This paper investigates the relationship between health insurance coverage and risky health behaviors among young adults using the confidential version of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97). Before the Affordable Care Act required all employers to provide health...
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Does legalization of sunday alcohol sales increase crime?
Lee, Jungtaek; Yörük, Barış K. - 2014
Recently, several states repealed their laws restricting the sale of alcohol on Sundays. We investigate the effect of this policy change on crime trends in seven states using data from FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). We identify the impact of the legalization of Sunday...
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Family disadvantage and the gender gap in behavioral and educational outcomes
Autor, David H.; Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztopf; … - 2016
Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...
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Consequences of parental job loss on the family environment and on human capital formation : evidence from plant closures
Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2019
We study the consequences of mothers' and fathers' job loss for parents, families, and children. Rich Swedish register data allow us to identify plant closures and account for non-random selection of workers to closing plants by using propensity score matching and controlling for...
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Raising children to work hard : altruism, work norms and social insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten - 2001
Children who can count on support from altruistic parents may not try hard to succeed in the labor market. Moreover, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms which later cause their children to experience guilt or...
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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and tertiary degree. Neither individual and family background nor labor market characteristics appear...
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Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores
Graetz, George; Öckert, Björn; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2020
college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear consistent with … basic economic theory. In contrast, very talented students with low-educated parents react to higher scores by increasing … programs and institutions that they could have attended even with a lower score. This suggests that students with low …
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Family, community and life-cycle earnings : evidence from siblings and youth peers
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2017
Using longitudinal data based on administrative registers for the population of Danish men we develop a model which accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We are the first to decompose the sibling correlation of permanent earnings into family and...
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Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children?
Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte - 2018
Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is made...
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Job insecurity and children's emancipation
Becker, Sascha O.; Bentolila, Samuel; Fernandes, Ana … - 2004
The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. We present a theoretical model predicting that higher job security of parents and lower job security of children may delay emancipation. We then provide aggregate evidence which supports this hypothesis for...
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