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Nevin, Rick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

A robust environmental health literature demonstrates that preschool lead exposure can cause neurodevelopmental damage and associated adverse impacts on IQ, education, and behavior. Cognitive psychology research also shows an association between IQ and education and behavior risks, but finds...

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Fertility. Abortion. Contraception. Demographic situation in Russia in 1994-2003.

Dmitriev, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

sense it turns out that women that follow very cautios contraceptive strategy make abortion very rarely. Author offers …

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A Preliminary Investigation of The Effects of Restrictions on Medicaid Funding for Abortions on Female STD Rates

Sen, Bisakha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

There is evidence in the economic literature that restrictions on Medicaid funding for abortion reduces the demand for … abortion. The unresolved question is whether such restrictions also increase safe sex (that is, pregnancy avoidance) behavior … Medicaid funding for abortion fail to promote safe sex behavior among women. …

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Unmarried fertility, crime, and cocial stigma

Kendall, Todd; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

“abortion-crime” link of Donohue and Levitt (2001). …

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AIDing Contraception: HIV and Recent Trends in Abortion Rates

Hussey, Andrew; Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, Alex; Walker, Jay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Since the onset of HIV/AIDS awareness in the early 1980s, much attention has centered around the substantial negative effects of the disease throughout the world. This paper provides evidence of a secondary effect the disease has had on sexual behavior in the United States. Using a...

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Contraceptive supply and fertility outcomes: evidence from Ghana

Jones, Kelly M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

contraceptive supply in Ghana, resulting from cuts in U.S. funding, to examine impacts on pregnancy, abortion, and births. Women are … by 10%. Only non-poor women offset these unwanted pregnancies with induced abortion. Using separate data, I find that …

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Analyzing Washington state's welfare program design, workfirst

Axelsen, Dan; Snarr, Hal W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Much debate in the early nineties centered on whether the federal entitlement program Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) reduced welfare dependency. Many contend that AFDC discouraged work, increased welfare dependency, and undermined the institution of family. Partly in response to...

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Effects of welfare reform and the state children’s health insurance program on medicaid and total health expenditures

Datta, Anusua; Vandegrift, Donald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Medicaid expenditures account for a sizeable proportion of U.S. GDP - $360.3 billion in 2009 or 2.55 percent of GDP. Despite this, the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (i.e. the new Obama healthcare initiative) further expands eligibility criteria for the Medicaid program. However, there is little...

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A preliminary investigation of welfare migration induced by time limits

Snarr, Hal W.; Burkey, Mark L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Studies on welfare programs in the United States have identified three types of welfare migration (employment, benefit, and amenity-related). This paper introduces a fourth type of migration induced by welfare time limits. After a welfare-dependent family runs out of benefits, it is possible for...

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Welfare reform in the United States. A descriptive policy analysis

Martin, Megan; Caminada, Koen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Poverty alleviation is an important objective of European countries and of the United States. If these ‘rich’ states offer elaborate systems of income maintenance, why is there still a considerable amount of poverty? And why are anti-poverty outcomes so different in the United States...

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