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The Impact of Maternal Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use on Children's Behavior Problems : Evidence from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey

Chatterji, Pinka - 2000

This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal … relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares … results provide strong evidence that maternal substance use is associated with children's behavior problems. Models that …

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The Role of Alcohol and Drug Consumption in Determining Physical Fights and Weapon Carrying by Teenagers

Markowitz, Sara - 2000

violent behaviors as measured by physical fighting, carrying a gun, or carrying other types of weapons. Simple OLS estimation …

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I Did What Last Night?!!! Adolescent Risky Sexual Behaviors and Substance Use

Grossman, Michael - 2002

This purpose of this paper is to examine the causal impact of substance use on risky sexual behaviors by teenagers. Risky sexual behaviors, which include unprotected sex and multiple partners, are highly correlated with alcohol and illicit drug use, although the nature of the causal relationship...

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Effects of State-Level Earned Income Tax Credit Laws in the U.S. on Maternal Health Behaviors and Infant Health Outcomes

Markowitz, Sara - 2017

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) laws in the U.S. on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes. Using multi-state, multi-year difference-in-differences analyses, we estimated effects of state EITC generosity on...

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Get High and Get Stupid : The Effect of Alcohol and Marijuana Use on Teen Sexual Behavior

Grossman, Michael - 2002

Numerous studies have documented a strong correlation between substance use and teen sexual behavior, and this empirical relationship has given rise to a widespread belief that substance use causes teens to engage in risky sex. This causal link is often used by advocates to justify policies...

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An Economic Analysis of Alcohol, Drugs, and Violent Crime in the National Crime Victimization Survey

Markowitz, Sara - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct relationship between the prices of alcohol and drugs and the incidence of criminal violence in a nationally representative sample of individuals in the United States. The positive association between substance use and violence is well...

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Alcohol Regulation and Violence Towards Children

Markowitz, Sara - 1999

aimed" at children. Data on violence come from the 1976 Physical Violence in American Families survey. " We estimate a …

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The Effects of Alcohol Regulation on Physical Child Abuse

Markowitz, Sara - 1998

structural model where violence is determined partly by consumption. Both equations are estimated separately for mothers and …

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Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing

Chatterji, Pinka - 2011

children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive …, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on these outcomes measured when children are 6 months old. Next, we use … symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared …

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ACA Medicaid Expansions and Maternal Morbidity

Chatterji, Pinka; Glenn, Hanna; Markowitz, Sara; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In this paper, we test whether the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions are associated with in-hospital maternal morbidity. The ACA expansions may have affected maternal morbidity by increasing pre-conception access to health care, and by improving the quality of delivery care through...

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