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The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime : A Review of Economic Studies
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Mallatt, Justine; Ruhm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
opioids and health and healthcare, and crime outcomes in the U.S. We focus on the U.S., a country particularly hard hit by the … continuation. Further, studies suggest that opioids increase crime, although the link is not as strong as has been observed in … substances (e.g., cocaine) that dominated earlier drug epidemic periods characterized by higher levels of crime. Through the …
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Trauma at School : The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes
Cabral, Marika - 2020
A growing number of American children are exposed to gun violence at their schools, but little is known about the impacts of this exposure on their human capital attainment and economic well-being. This paper studies the causal effects of exposure to shootings at schools on children's...
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Effects of Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes : Reconciling a Messy Literature
Corman, Hope - 2018
Research on the effects of prenatal care on birth outcomes has produced a patchwork of findings that are not easily summarized. Studies have used varying definitions of prenatal care, leading to estimates that are difficult to compare. The identification of causal effects is particularly...
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Teacher Performance Pay, Coaching, and Long-Run Student Outcomes
Cohodes, Sarah; Eren, Ozkan; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the effects of a comprehensive performance pay program for teachers implemented in high-need schools on students' longer-run educational, criminal justice, and economic self-sufficiency outcomes. Using linked administrative data from a Southern state, we leverage the...
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Teacher performance pay, coaching, and long-run student outcomes
Cohodes, Sarah; Eren, Ozkan; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249163
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The Hidden Cost of Firearm Violence on Pregnant Women and Their Infants
Currie, Janet M.; Dursun, Bahadir; Hatch, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Firearm violence is a pervasive public health crisis in the United States, with significant numbers of homicides involving firearms, including indiscriminate shootings in public spaces. This paper investigates the largely unexplored consequences of stress induced by these attacks on newborn...
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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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The Economic and Social Outcomes of Refugees in the United States : Evidence from the ACS
Evans, William N. - 2017
Using data from the 2010-2014 American Community Survey, we use a procedure suggested by Capps et al. (2015) to identify refugees from the larger group of immigrants to examine the outcomes of refugees relocated to the U.S. Among young adults, we show that refugees that enter the U.S. before age...
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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
children (parity). Estimates indicate that these pandemic cash payments had no statistically significant, or clinically or …
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Federal Pandemic Relief and Academic Recovery
Dewey, Dan C.; Fahle, Erin M.; Kane, Thomas J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We measure the effect of district use of federal pandemic relief during the 2022-23 school year for a sample of more than 5000 districts in 29 states. We rely on several plausibly exogenous sources of variation in federal grants: differences in state Title I funding formulas, estimation error in...
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