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New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children

Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor Chaim; Schlosser, Analia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of …

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The Perils of Peer Effects

Angrist, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Individual outcomes are highly correlated with group average outcomes, a fact often interpreted as a causal peer effect. Without covariates, however, outcome-on-outcome peer effects are vacuous, either unity or, if the average is defined as leave-out, determined by a generic intraclass...

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Long-Term Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia

Angrist, Joshua; Bettinger, Eric P.; Kremer, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

Colombia's PACES program provided over 125,000 poor children with vouchers that covered half the cost of private secondary school. The vouchers were renewable annually conditional on adequate academic progress. Since many vouchers were assigned by lottery, program effects can reliably be...

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Primate Evidence on the Late Health Effects of Early Life Adversity

Conti, Gabriella; Hansman, Christopher; Heckman, James J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper exploits a unique ongoing experiment to analyze the effects of early rearing conditions on physical and mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys which were randomly allocated at birth across three rearing conditions:...

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Zhang, Junsen; Conti, Gabriella; Yi, Junjian; Heckman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...

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The Economics of Child Well-Being

Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in international comparisons. Recent evidence on child development is summarized, and policies to promote child...

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The Effect of Teen Childbearing and Single Parenthood on Childhood Disabilities and Progress in School

Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor Chaim - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special disability and grade repetition questions from the school enrollment supplement to the 1992 Current Population Survey to estimate the effect of maternal age and single...

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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of the 1970 State Abortion Reforms

Angrist, Joshua; evans, william n. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The … teen marriage effects are largest and most precisely estimated for white women while the teen fertility and out …-of-wedlock childbearing effects are largest and most precisely estimated for black women. The relatively modest fertility and marriage …

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Effects of Work-Related Absences on Families: Evidence from the Gulf War

Angrist, Joshua; John H. Johnson, IV - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

Labor economists and policy makers have long been interested in work-family interactions. Work generates income but also reduces the time families have to spend together. Many soldiers who were mobilized for Gulf War service were away from home for an extended period of time, so Gulf War...

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