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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

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Estimating welfare effects consistent with forward-looking behavior, Part 1: Lessons from a simulation exercise

Keane, Michael P.; Wolpin, Kenneth I. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 37 (2002) 3, pp. 570-599

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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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Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences, and Overindebtedness

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2009

We analyze a national sample of Americans with respect to their debt literacy, financial experiences, and their judgments about the extent of their indebtedness. Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial...

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Do Liquidity Constraints and Interest Rates Matter for Consumer Behavior? Evidence from Credit Card Data

Gross, David B. - 2001

This paper utilizes a unique new dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how people respond to changes in credit supply. The data consist of a panel of thousands of individual credit card accounts from several different card issuers, with associated credit bureau data. We estimate both...

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Payment Systems and Interchange Fees

Schmalensee, Richard - 2001

In a typical bank credit card transaction, the merchant's bank pays an interchange fee, collectively determined by all participating banks, to the cardholder's bank. This paper shows how the interchange fee balances charges between cardholders and merchants under imperfect competition. The...

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Do Banks Pass Through Credit Expansions to Consumers Who Want to Borrow?

Agarwal, Sumit - 2015

We propose a new approach to studying the pass-through of credit expansion policies that focuses on frictions, such as asymmetric information, that arise in the interaction between banks and borrowers. We decompose the effect of changes in banks' cost of funds on aggregate borrowing into the...

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Occupation, Race, Unemployment and Crime In a Dynamic System

Massourakis, Michael - 1984

Inthis paper, the relationship between unemployment and property crime is investigated in the context of dynamic system … robbery, which is the most serious property crime. Unemployment by race (white, black, and Hispanic) also supports the above … finding. In general, the linkage between unemployment rate and property crime seems to become stronger as the degree of …

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