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Boomerang Children and Parental Retirement Outcomes

Seiter, Grant M.; Lopez, Mary J.; Slavov, Sita N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

As the share of U.S. adult children living with their parents increases, it is important to understand how children who "boomerang" back home impact their parents in their pre-retirement and post-retirement years. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to examine the effects of...

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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last … has been rising in the last decade. However, so too have negative affect in Europe and despair in the USA …

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Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity : Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending

Johnson, Rucker C. - 2017

We explore whether early childhood human-capital investments are complementary to those made later in life. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we compare the adult outcomes of cohorts who were differentially exposed to policy-induced changes in pre-school (Head Start) spending and...

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Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century?

Jaremski, Matthew S. - 2017

to test the interaction between inequality and financial development when the banking system was starting over from …

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Globalization and Inequality in Latin America

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … inequality. After summarizing both design-based and quantitative work in this area, we propose directions for future work. Our …

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The Long-Run Effects of Psychotherapy on Depression, Beliefs, and Economic Outcomes

Bhat, Bhargav; De Quidt, Jonathan; Haushofer, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We revisit two clinical trials that randomized depressed adults in India (n=775) to a brief course of psychotherapy or a control condition. Four to five years later, the treatment group was 11 percentage points less likely to be depressed than the control group. The more effective intervention...

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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship

Hamilton, Barton H. - 2018

We construct a structural model of entry into self-employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a business and not necessarily because they are good at...

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Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

Heckman, James J. - 2012

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...

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Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility : Evidence from Norway’s “Reform 94”

Bertrand, Marianne - 2019

High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff between teaching readily deployable occupational skills versus shunting mostly disadvantaged students away from the educational and career flexibility afforded by general...

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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country

Cesur, Resul - 2013

Turkey, which is a predominantly Muslim country, enacted an education law in 1997 which increased the compulsory secular education from five to eight years. We employ a unique nation-wide survey of adults in 2012 to investigate the impact of education on religiosity, lifestyles and political...

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