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Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below...
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-specific effects for occupation. We conclude that important information about the links between parental incomes and children exists …
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We show that the neighborhoods in which children grow up shape their earnings, college attendance rates, and fertility ….S. Exploiting variation in the age of children when families move, we find that neighborhoods have significant childhood exposure … effects: the outcomes of children whose families move to a better neighborhood - as measured by the outcomes of children …
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the incidence of diabetes in the population of future mothers. The exposed mothers are less likely to be married, have … reflect a "scarring" vs. selection story; whites who go on to have children are negatively impacted, while blacks who go on to … have children are positively selected having survived a higher early childhood mortality rate …
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We conducted a large-scale field experiment to calibrate phone messaging to its potential of overcoming behavioral barriers to maternal care uptake in the countryside of a developing country, where a significant share of women forgoes life-saving maternity-related care even when within reach....
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We examine the impact of the drug crisis that has unfolded over the last three decades in the United States on children … point in a child's life, we measure children's exposure to the crisis with the cumulative drug-related mortality of likely … could also have altered the living arrangements of their children. Within a 2SLS framework, we instrument for the cumulative …
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longitudinal study of urban parents that includes post-partum interviews with mothers, hospital medical record data on the mother …
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A number of studies have found substantial correlations in risky behavior between siblings, raising the possibility that adolescents may directly influence the actions of their brothers or sisters. We assess the extent to which correlations in substance use and selling drugs are due to causal...
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aimed" at children. Data on violence come from the 1976 Physical Violence in American Families survey. " We estimate a …
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