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U.S. Safety Net Programs and Early Life Skills Formation : Results from a Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study

Bolbocean, Corneliu - 2018

A large body of literature suggests that the first years of life are critical for long-term economic, health and social outcomes. However, the effect of public programs on early life skills formation is largely unknown due to data limitations. In this paper we use novel data from a large...

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Supplemental security income for children, maternal labor supply, and family well‐being : evidence from birth weight eligibility cutoffs

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Minimum Payments and Debt Paydown in Consumer Credit Cards

Keys, Benjamin J. - 2016

Using a dataset covering one quarter of the U.S. general-purpose credit card market, we document that 29% of accounts regularly make payments at or near the minimum payment. We exploit changes in issuers' minimum payment formulas to distinguish between liquidity constraints and anchoring as...

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A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

We propose a test of bias based upon patterns of judicial errors. We model the trial court as minimizing a weighted sum of type I and II errors. We define racial bias a situation where the weight depends on defendant/victim race. If the court is unbiased, the error rate should be independent of...

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Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior

Anderson, D. Mark - 2012

likelihood of engaging in violent crime or the selling of illicit drugs. However, our empirical estimates show that adolescents … who suffer from depression face an increased probability of engaging in property crime. Our estimates imply that the lower …-bound economic cost of property crime associated with adolescent depression is about 219 million dollars annually …

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