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of results on children is likewise consistent with the observed variation between programs and among children of …
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household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra-family … of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children …
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breastfeeding on child disability using data from the National Survey of Family Growth merged to the National Health Interview … Survey for a large nationally representative sample of children aged 1 to 18 years from the U.S. including over 3 … order to account for family-level unobservable confounders and employ multiple specifications including a dynamic model that …
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estimate a joint dynamic model of the behavior of older and younger siblings that allows for family specific effects …
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families with children. Importantly, along with other changes, the reform imposed lifetime time limits for receipt of welfare … de facto ending the entitlement nature of cash welfare for poor families with children in the United States. Despite dire … which began in December 2007. In particular, we examine how the cyclicality of the response of program caseloads and family …
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This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially poorly in broken families. In contrast, we find little...
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to either learn from him (if children act as teachers then adults' cost of learning the skill falls) or lean on him (if … children's human capital substitutes for that of adults in household production then adults' benefit of learning the skill … falls). I exploit regional variation in two shocks to children's human capital and examine the effect on adults. The rapid …
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employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First …, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on these outcomes measured when children are 6 months old. Next, we use … dynamic panel data models to examine the effects of maternal employment on family outcomes during the first 4.5 years of …
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Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future earnings abilities. Optimal … low-income parents than existing U.S. tax policy. It also increases the probability that low-income children move up the …
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This paper evaluates the health impact of a central piece in the U.S. safety net for families with children: the Earned …
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