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Welfare reform and health
Bitler, Marianne; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary W. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 40 (2005) 2, pp. 309-334
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Personality Psychology and Economics
Almlund, Mathilde - 2011
This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...
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Skill-Biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime
Mocan, Naci H. - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality … crime regressions. Regressions that employ state panels reveal that technology-induced variations in unskilled workers …' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also …
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Crime and Circumstance : The Effects of Infant Health Shocks on Fathers' Criminal Activity
Corman, Hope - 2010
, job, or community. With fewer connections, crime may become a more attractive option. This study addresses the question of …
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Exposure to a School Shooting and Subsequent Well-Being
Levine, Phillip; McKnight, Robin - 2022
This paper examines the impact of school shootings on the educational performance and long-term health consequences of students who survive them, highlighting the impact of indiscriminate, high-fatality incidents. Initially, we focus on test scores in the years following a shooting. We also...
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Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data
Amarante, Verónica - 2011
There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves … births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a generous cash transfer program led to a sizeable 15% reduction in the …'s smoking all appear to contribute to the effect. We conclude that, by improving child health, unrestricted unconditional cash …
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The Nexus of Social Security Benefits, Health, and Wealth at Death
Poterba, James M. - 2012
Social Security benefits are the most important component of the income of a large fraction of older Americans. A significant fraction of persons approach the end of life with few financial assets and no home equity, relying almost entirely on Social Security benefits for support. Whether...
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Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs : Experimental Evidence from Indonesia
Cahyadi, Nur - 2018
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread worldwide, and are designed to promote comprehensive human capital … impacts of Indonesia's cash transfer program (PKH) six years after the program launched, using data from about 14 …
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Does Participation in Transfer Programs During Pregnancy Improve Birth Weight?
Currie, Janet; Cole, Nancy - 2021
A primary goal of transfer programs to the non-aged, non-disabled poor in the United States is to improve the well-being of children in poor families. Thus it is surprising that most of the considerable research which has been devoted to the study of transfer programs focuses on the incentive...
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Effects of Child Health on Sources of Public Support
Reichman, Nancy E.; Corman, Hope; Noonan, Kelly - 2021
We estimate the effects of having a child in poor health on the mother's receipt of both cash assistance and in … (20%) more likely to rely on TANF and 16 percentage points more likely to rely on cash assistance (TANF and/or SSI) than …
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