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Welfare reform and health
Bitler, Marianne; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary W. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 40 (2005) 2, pp. 309-334
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002825188
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Personality Psychology and Economics
Almlund, Mathilde - 2011
This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129922
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Violence and Birth Outcomes : Evidence from Homicides in Brazil
Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux - 2015
This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence – measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that exposure to violence during the first trimester of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016283
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China's Sex Ratio and Crime : Behavioral Change or Financial Necessity?
Cameron, Lisa A. - 2016
part of the increase in criminality. The primary avenue through which the sex-ratio increases crime, however, is the direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997453
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Criminalization of Homosexuality and Sex Ratios
Chang, Simon - 2015
Sexual activities between consenting adults of the same sex are still criminalized in more than one third of the countries in the world despite a global wave of decriminalization in the past sixty years. This paper empirically investigates the effect of sex ratios, i.e. relative number of men to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028180
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What's Best for Women : Gender Based Taxation, Wage Subsidies or Basic Income?
Colombino, Ugo - 2012
We use a microeconometric model of household labour supply in order to evaluate, with Italian data, the behavioural and welfare effects of gender based taxation (GBT) as compared to other policies based on different optimal taxation principles. The comparison is interesting because GBT, although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099744
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Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data
Amarante, Verónica - 2012
There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves … births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a generous cash transfer program led to a sizeable 15% reduction in the …'s smoking all appear to contribute to the effect. We conclude that, by improving child health, unrestricted unconditional cash …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113077
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The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia
Broadway, Barbara - 2015
Providing mothers with access to paid parental leave may be an important public policy to improve child and maternal health. Using extensive information from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Children (LSAC), we contribute to the literature by estimating the effect of paid parental leave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023769
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Welfare Reform and Children's Health
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2014
This study investigates the effect of the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program on children's health outcomes using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) over the period 1994 to 2005. The TANF policies have been credited with increased employment for single...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042979
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Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens : Comment
Stark, Oded - 2021
In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens …," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249121