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women. Using the November Current Population Surveys with the added Voting and Registration Supplement for the years 1990 … reform on women's voting registration and voting participation during the period during which welfare reform unfolded. We …
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The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in … being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and women, in order to contrast between the sexes the role of changes in … characteristics and changes in returns to characteristics. We show that the rise of women in the top 1% is primarily accounted for by …
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estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on …
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Education beyond traditional ages for schooling is an important source of human capital acquisition among adult women … the effects of welfare reform on adult women's educational acquisition. We first estimate effects of welfare reform on … women. We conduct numerous specification checks and explore the mediating role of work. We find robust and convincing …
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illicit drugs among pregnant women. The prevalence of prenatal drug use based on post partum interviews was much lower than …
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The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in … being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and women, in order to contrast between the sexes the role of changes in … characteristics and changes in returns to characteristics. We show that the rise of women in the top 1% is primarily accounted for by …
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reform on women's arrests for property crime, the type of crime women are most likely to commit and that welfare reform has … been shown to affect. We found that women's property crime arrest rates declined over the age span; that welfare reform led … to an overall reduction in adult women's property crime arrests of about 4%, with the strongest effects for women ages 25 …
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of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government mandated shutdowns caused a historic shock to the U.S. economy and a disproportionate job loss concentrated among the working class. While an unprecedented social safety net policy response successfully offset earnings loses among lower-wage...
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