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The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being : Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies

Herbst, Chris M. - 2010

disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous empirical studies consistently show that these employment … paper, we identify the causal effect of child care subsidies on child development by exploiting geographic variation in the …

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Ugly Criminals

Mocan, Naci H.; Tekin, Erdal - 2006

Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...

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Child Care Subsidies and Child Development

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2021

Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One … care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on … relationship between child care subsidies and child development. In particular, our results suggest that subsidy receipt in the …

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Less Cash, Less Crime : Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program

Wright, Richard - 2014

stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the 1990s, the Federal government mandated individual states to convert … the delivery of their welfare program benefits from paper checks to an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system, whereby …

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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity

Herbst, Chris M. - 2011

This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location of virtually every human services agency in the U.S....

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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality : Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure

Cesur, Resul - 2013

One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing countries, environmental regulations are rare and the...

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Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity

Herbst, Chris M. - 2014

Child care subsidies play a critical role in facilitating the transition of disadvantaged mothers from welfare to work …

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Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success : Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Greve, Jane - 2015

exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …

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The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement : Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks

Gershenson, Seth - 2015

Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...

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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency : Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 2014

This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an … experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of nutrients essential for fetal development. Specifically, we use … exposure to nutritional disruptions during a critical stage of fetal development has scarring effects on the fetus expressed as …

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