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Edlund, Lena; Machado, Cecilia - 2011

Goldin and Katz [2002], in an influential paper, argued that giving unmarried minors access to the contraceptive Pill was instrumental for women's professional advancement, because such access allowed marriage to be postponed. However, by 1960, married women could get the Pill and thence it is...

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Bandwidth selection and the estimation of treatment effects with unbalanced data

Galdo, Jose; Smith, Jeffrey A.; Black, Dan - 2007

This paper addresses the selection of smoothing parameters for estimating the average treatment effect on the treated using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual is particularly important in regions containing the mass of the treated units, we define and...

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Social mixing as a cure for negative neighbourhood effects: Evidence based policy or urban myth?

Manley, David; van Ham, Maarten; Doherty, Joe - 2011

In this paper, we review the evidence base for social mixing in neighbourhoods, which is used as a strategy to tackle assumed negative neighbourhood effects. We discuss in detail the theoretical links between neighbourhood characteristics, and outcomes of individuals living in concentrations of...

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Cigarette taxes and the social market

Hansen, Benjamin; Sabia, Joseph J.; Rees, Daniel I. - 2011

Previous researchers have argued that the social market for cigarettes insulates its participants from policies designed to curb youth smoking. Using state Youth Risk Behavior Survey data, we examine whether recent changes in state cigarette taxes affected how young smokers obtained their...

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Inference with imperfect randomization: The case of the Perry Preschool program

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2011

This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...

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The labor market value to legal status

Lozano, Fernando A.; Sorensen, Todd - 2011

We present estimates of the effect of legal immigration status on earnings of undocumented workers. Our contribution to the literature centers on a two-step procedure that allows us to first estimate the legal status of an immigrant and then estimate the effect of the Immigration Reform and...

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Alcohol and student performance: Estimating the effect of legal access

Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2011

We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic performance. We first estimate the effect using an RD design but argue that this approach is not well-suited to the research question in our setting. Our preferred approach instead...

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Minimum wages and teen employment: A spatial panel approach

Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Lacombe, Donald J. - 2011

for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. Spatial econometrics techniques account … for the fact that employment is correlated across states. Such correlation may exist if a change in the minimum wage in a … state affects employment not only in its own state but also in other, neighboring states. The authors show that state …

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Long term impacts of compensatory preschool on health and behavior: Evidence from head start

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012

This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to...

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An examination of the work history of Pittsburgh steelworkers, who were displaced and received publicly-funded retraining in the early 1980s

Bednarzik, Robert W.; Szalanski, Joseph - 2012

A gap in the displaced worker-training literature is that the post-retraining period has not been studied over the long term. The approach here will be to examine in-depth the experience of a selected few displaced worker trainees over a 20 to 25 year period following their training. With our...

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