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Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life

Aizer, Anna - 2018

Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first births at older ages. However, previous research has attributed much of these effects to selection rather than a causal effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still...

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Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement : Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

Sanbonmatsu, Lisa; Kling, Jeffrey R.; Duncan, Greg J.; … - 2021

Families originally living in public housing were assigned housing vouchers by lottery, encouraging moves to neighborhoods with lower poverty rates. Although we had hypothesized that reading and math test scores would be higher among children in families offered vouchers (with larger effects...

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Socioeconomic Status and Health in Childhood : A Comment on Chen, Martin and Matthews (2006)

Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina H.; Vogl, Tom - 2021

Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age is an important first step in uncovering the mechanisms that connect economic and health status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children's health. To that end, this paper examines why two sets...

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The Relationship between Diet, Parent"S Fatness, and Obesity in Children and Adolescents

Coate, Douglas - 2021

In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular emphasis on isolating the effects of diet and parent's fatness on the obesity outcome. The results show that parents fatness has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth...

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Why are Children Poor?

Fuchs, Victor R. - 2021

are relatively unchanged when estimates of the value ofnonmarket production and in-kind government social welfare programs …

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Welfare and the Well-Being of Children : The Relative Effectiveness of Cash and In-Kind Transfers

Currie, Janet M. - 2021

-working parents are receiving a progressively larger share of their benefits in kind. This paper provides an evaluation of the … empirical evidence regarding the effects of in-kind and cash transfer program on the children who are their intended … beneficiaries. A distinction is made between in- kind transfer programs, such as the Food Stamp Program, that provide transfers to …

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High Birth Weight and Cognitive Outcomes

Cesur, Resul; Kelly, Inas - 2021

While the effects of low birth weight have long been explored, those of high birth weight have been essentially ignored. Economists have analyzed the negative effects that low birth weight might have on subsequent school outcomes, while taking into account unobserved characteristics that may be...

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Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...

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Home Computer Use and the Development of Human Capital

Malamud, Ofer - 2010

This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the effect of home computers on child and adolescent outcomes. We collected survey data from households who participated in a unique government program in Romania which allocated vouchers for the purchase of a home computer to...

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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years : An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2010

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may...

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