Showing 1 - 10 of 65
This article describes a conceptual and empirical approach for estimating a human capital production function of child development that incorporates mother- or child-fixed effects. The use of mother- or child-fixed effects is common in this applied economics literature, but its application is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250216
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469493
This paper develops a method to correct for non-random measurement error in a binary indicator of illicit drugs. Our results suggest that estimates of the effect of self reported prenatal drug use on birth weight are biased upwards by measurement error -- a finding contrary to predictions of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473430
that children in poor health will, more likely, face obstacles beyond their illness, since they will also be more likely to … mitigating factor is that, for white children, they will be more likely than healthy children to living in an extended family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475143
the material circumstances of single mothers improved in the decades following welfare reform. The consumption of the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616635
The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender … children. In contrast, there are no penalties for men who were headstrong or for women who were dependent. While other child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696418
Policy-makers have argued that providing public health insurance coverage to the uninsured lowers long-run costs by reducing the need for expensive hospitalizations and emergency department visits later in life. In this paper, we provide evidence for such a phenomenon by exploiting a legislated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457737
extended eligibility only to children born after September 30, 1983. This feature resulted in a large discontinuity in the … lifetime years of Medicaid eligibility of children at this birthdate cutoff. Those with family incomes at or just below the … cohorts of children born on either side of this cutoff from childhood through early adulthood. We examine changes in rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460352
anti-poverty effect on children than any existing government program, though at a higher cost per child raised above the … at all by at least $2,000 per child for most workers with children. Relying on elasticity estimates consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660044
In this study we analyze the effect of Medicaid on children's heath. We examine the effect of Medicaid on a variety of … known to be sensitive to medical intervention and are objective measures of children's health. The results of this paper … provide at best weak support for the hypothesis that Medicaid improves the health of low-income children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471924