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The Effects of EITC Payment Expansion on Maternal Smoking

Averett, Susan L. - 2012

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest anti-poverty program in the U.S. In 1993, the EITC benefit levels …

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The Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Non-Cognitive Skills

Averett, Susan L. - 2015

In 1993, the benefit levels of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) were changed significantly based on the number of children in the household. Employing a difference-in-differences plus mother fixed-effects framework, we find better mother-rated health for children of unmarried black mothers...

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Exposure to the One-Child Policy and Fertility Among Chinese Immigrants to the Us

Lin, Siyuan; Argys, Laura; Averett, Susan L. - 2023

We examine whether women exposed to China's one-child policy (OCP) change their fertility decisions when they migrate to a country without fertility restrictions. Using American Community Survey data (2010 2020), we compare the childbearing decisions of Chinese-born women with varying degrees of...

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Welfare Reform and Immigrant Fertility

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2014

Immigration policy continues to be at the forefront of policy discussions, and the use of welfare benefits by … immigrants has been hotly debated. In 1996, Congress enacted welfare reform legislation (PRWORA), which denied the use of most … means-tested assistance to non-citizens and lowered immigrant welfare dramatically. While Federal legislation imposed strict …

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Indebted and Overweight : The Link between Weight and Household Debt

Averett, Susan L. - 2012

There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused by unobserved common factors. We use OLS and Propensity Score Matching to ascertain if household...

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The Relationship between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Preschool Obesity

Averett, Susan L. - 2016

The increasing prevalence of obesity during pregnancy raises concerns over the intergenerational transmission of obesity and its potential to exacerbate the current obesity epidemic. The fetal origins hypothesis posits that the intrauterine environment might have lasting effects on children's...

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Identifying the Causal Effect of Alcohol Abuse on the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence by Men Using a Natural Experiment

Averett, Susan L. - 2014

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is widespread among women, with substantial and long-lasting negative consequences. Researchers have documented a strong positive correlation between alcohol abuse and IPV. Yet prior researchers have struggled with the problem of the potential endogeneity of...

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Prepregnancy Obesity and Birth Outcomes

Averett, Susan L. - 2015

We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 survey are examined. Outcomes include macrosomia,...

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The Effect of Sorority Membership on Eating Disorders and Body Mass Index

Averett, Susan L. - 2013

Eating disorders affect 12-25% of college women. Previous research established a positive correlation between sorority membership and eating disorders. We investigate a possible causal link between sororities and weight-related behaviors and eating disorders using data from the American College...

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Minimum Wages and the Health of Hispanic Women

Averett, Susan L. - 2017

States are increasingly resorting to raising the minimum wage to boost the earnings of those at the bottom of the income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of low-educated Hispanic women, who constitute a growing part of the U.S. labor...

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