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Estimating a Theoretically Consistent Human Capital Production Function With an Application to Head Start

Kaestner, Robert; Faundez, Luis F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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...

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Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys : Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior

Kaestner, Robert; Malamud, Ofer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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 …

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Does Publicly Provided Health Insurance Improve the Health of Low-Income Children in the United States

Kaestner, Robert - 1999

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 …

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Effects of Income on Infant Health : Evidence from the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Pandemic Stimulus Checks

Lyu, Wei; Wehby, George; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

pandemic payments varied by marital status and the number of children in the household and were substantial with some families … children (parity). Estimates indicate that these pandemic cash payments had no statistically significant, or clinically or …

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The Effect of Welfare Reform on Prenatal Care and Birth Weight

Kaestner, Robert - 2003

Welfare reform has resulted in a dramatic decline in welfare caseloads and some have claimed that a significant number of low-income women may be without health insurance as a result. The loss of insurance may reduce low-income, pregnant women's health care utilization, and this may adversely...

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Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform

Kaestner, Robert - 2001

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates of three groups of low-educated women: foreign-born citizens, foreign-born non-citizens and native-born citizens. Among non-citizens, we investigate whether the behavioral...

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Ban-the-Box Laws : Fair and Effective?

Kaestner, Robert; Wang, Xufei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Ban-the-box (BTB) laws are a widely used public policy rooted in employment law related to unnecessarily exclusionary hiring practices. BTB laws are intended to improve the employment opportunities of those with criminal backgrounds by giving them a fair chance during the hiring process. Prior...

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Did the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Reduce Readmissions? An Assessment of Prior Evidence and New Estimates

Ziedan, Engy; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In this article, we provide a comprehensive, empirical assessment of the hypothesis that the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) affected hospital readmissions. In doing so, we provide evidence as to the validity of prior empirical approaches used to evaluate the HRRP and we present...

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Health and Health Insurance Trajectories of Mexicans in the US

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2010

We study how the health and health insurance coverage of Mexican immigrants change with time in the US. Cross-sectional analyses suggest that approximately three decades of residency in the US is associated with a 9 to 11 percentage point (12% to 15%) decline in the probability of being...

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Smoking, Selection, and Medical Care Expenditures

Darden, Michael; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current understanding of the effect of smoking on annual medical expenditures is limited to studies that use cross-sectional data to make comparisons of medical care expenditures between smokers...

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