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