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. Another ("incentives") was offered substantial merit-scholarships for solid, but not necessarily top, first year grades. A … students offered both services and incentives than for those offered services alone. No program had an effect on men's grades … of the fact that incentives were given in the first year only. The results suggest that the study skills acquired in …
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incentives to high school seniors in an experimental demonstration program. As a theoretical matter, such incentives may be … outcomes in an effort to determine how students responded to incentives. These results show students took more tests and were …
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suggest that a combination of services and incentives is more promising than either alone …
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offering substantial cash incentives in two demonstration programs. As a theoretical matter, cash incentives may be helpful if …
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This paper introduces an instrumental variables estimator for the effect of a binary treatment on the quantiles of potential outcomes. The quantile treatment effects (QTE) estimator accommodates exogenous covariates and reduces to quantile regression as a special case when treatment status is...
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efforts to go from local average treatment effects (LATE) to population average treatment effects are inherently speculative … tenuous. Another interesting finding is that for the sample of teen mothers, LATE is essentially equal to the population …
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Although theoretical models of labor supply and the family are well developed, there are few credible estimates of key empirical relationships in the work-family nexus. This study uses a new instrumental variable, the sex composition of the first two births in families with at least two...
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state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The … teen marriage effects are largest and most precisely estimated for white women while the teen fertility and out …-of-wedlock childbearing effects are largest and most precisely estimated for black women. The relatively modest fertility and marriage …
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Applied economists have long struggled with the question of how to accommodate binary endogenous regressors in models with binary and non-negative outcomes. I argue here that much of the difficulty with limited-dependent variables comes from a focus on structural parameters, such as index...
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