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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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One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly absorb new health-related information. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) controversy provides a case where, for a short period, some publicized research suggested that the...
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This paper analyzes the main uncertainty of college saving - the child’s ability - in the context of the saving with … child’s ability. The model infers that, with enough time spent learning, information can improve parents’ welfare. This can … status and the child’s true ability. Next, I test the implications of the model from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics/Child …
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