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Fertility in high-income countries : trends, patterns, determinants, and consequences
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2023
economic consequences, iii) discuss adjustment mechanisms for individuals and economies, iv) propose a simple economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377694
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Do cash transfers improve birth outcomes? : evidence from matched vital statistics, social security and program data
Amarante, Verónica; Manacorda, Marco; Miguel, Edward; … - 2011
There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523455
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Education, information, and COVID-19 excess mortality
Bello, Piera; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2021
We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare the trends of mortality rates between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519183
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Exploring the relationship between care homes and excess deaths in the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Italy
Alacevich, Caterina; Cavalli, Nicolò; Giuntella, Osea; … - 2020
We explore the relationship between the spatial distributions of excess deaths and care home facilities during the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-based mortality data (January 1st- March 31st, 2015-2020) for Lombardy, one of the areas hit most severely, we estimate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252791
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Turnout in the municipal elections of March 2020 and excess mortality during the COVID-19 epidemic in France
Bertoli, Simone; Guichard, Lucas; Marchetta, Francesca - 2020
We analyze the consequences of the decision of French government to maintain the first round of the municipal elections on March 15, 2020 on local excess mortality in the following weeks. We exploit heterogeneity across municipalities in voter turnout, which we instrument using a measure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233373
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The mechanisms of alcohol control
Carpenter, Christopher; Dobkin, Carlos; Warman, Casey - 2014
is known about mechanisms. We use the universe of Canadian mortality records to document that Canada's Minimum Legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458505
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The impacts of a prototypical home visiting program on child skills
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu - 2022
This paper uses random assignment to estimate the causal impacts on child skills of a widely emulated early childhood home visiting program. We show the feasibility of replicating it at scale. We estimate vectors of latent skills for individual children and compare treatments and controls. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168792
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Understanding the mechanisms linking college education with longevity
Hong, Kai; Savelyev, Peter A.; Tan, Kegon T.K. - 2020
We go beyond estimating the effect of college attainment on longevity by uncovering the mechanisms behind this effect … potential mechanisms, including health behaviors, lifestyles, earnings, work conditions, and health at the start of the risk … longevity is well explained by observed mechanisms. Furthermore, we find that for women, the positive effect of education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200924
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Treatment effects and the measurement of skills in a prototypical home visiting program
Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu; Zhou, Jin - 2020
This paper evaluates the causal impacts of an early childhood home visiting program for which treatment is randomly assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We identify average treatment effects of skills on performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237115
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How good am I? : effects and mechanisms behind salient ranks
Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2022
and mechanisms of achievement rank effects in middle schools when ranks are salient to students and their parents. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412824