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Using a 1993 Dutch policy reform and a regression discontinuity design, we find children of parents whose disability … government programs, and earn 2% more as adults. The reduced transfers and increased taxes of children account for 40% of the … fiscal savings relative to parents in present discounted value terms. Moreover, children of treated parents complete more …
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Using quasi-random assignment of criminal cases to judges, we estimate large incarceration spillovers in criminal and brother networks. When a defendant is sent to prison, there are 51 and 32 percentage point reductions in the probability his criminal network members and younger brothers will be...
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fixed effect instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading …,100. Using a panel of over 6,000 children matched to their mothers from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth datasets allows us … reading test scores by 3.6% of a standard deviation. The results are even stronger when looking at children from disadvantaged …
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measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children … $2,100, between 1993 and 1997. Using a panel of roughly 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National … math and reading test scores by 6% of a standard deviation in the short-run. Test gains are larger for children from …
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An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected …
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