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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity
Herbst, Chris M. - 2011
This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location of virtually every human services agency in the U.S....
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Unfit for Service : The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment
Cawley, John - 2010
Excess body weight or body fat hinders performance of military duties. As a result, the U.S. military has weight-for-height and percent body fat standards for enlistment. This paper estimates the number and percent of military-age civilians who meet, and do not meet, the current active duty...
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Projecting the Effect of Changes in Smoking and Obesity on Future Life Expectancy in the United States
Preston, Samuel H. - 2012
We project the effects of declining smoking and increasing obesity on mortality in the United States over the period 2010-2040. Data on cohort behavioral histories are integrated into these projections. Future distributions of body mass indices are projected using transition matrices applied to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100360
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Current and Future Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in the United States
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2014
The prevalence of obesity has increased rapidly since the mid-1970s, following a period of relative stability. This study examines past patterns and projects future prevalence rates of obesity and severe obesity among US adults through 2020. Trends in body mass index (BMI), overweight (BMI 25),...
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When are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States
Cutler, David M. - 2007
Recent literature on the relationship between ethnic or racial segregation and outcomes has failed to produce a … segregation, controlling for individual characteristics and both metropolitan area and country-of-origin fixed effects, we … may illuminate some of the causal mechanisms relating segregation to outcomes …
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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David - 2021
We study workplace segregation in the United States using a unique matched employer-employee data set that we have … created. We present measures of workplace segregation by education and language%u2013as skilled workers may be more … measure segregation beyond what would occur randomly as workers are distributed across establishments. We also assess the role …
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The Ethnic Segregation of Immigrants in the United States from 1850 to 1940
Eriksson, Katherine - 2018
We provide the first estimates of ethnic segregation between 1850 and 1940 that cover the entire United States and are … consistent across time and space. To do so, we adapt the Logan-Parman method to immigrants by measuring segregation based on the … nativity of the next-door neighbor. In addition to providing a consistent measure of segregation, we also document new patterns …
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The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being : Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies
Herbst, Chris M. - 2010
In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts to move economically disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous empirical studies consistently show that these employment-related subsidies raise work levels among this group,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139557
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Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment
Compton, Janice - 2011
We show that close geographical proximity to mothers or mothers-in-law has a substantial positive effect on the labor supply of married women with young children. We argue that the mechanism through which proximity increases labor supply is the availability of childcare. We interpret...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117382
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Who Offers Tax-Based Business Development Incentives?
Felix, R. Alison - 2011
Many American communities seek to attract or retain businesses with tax abatements, tax credits, or tax increment financing of infrastructure projects (TIFs). The evidence for 1999 indicates that communities are most likely to offer one or more of these business development incentives if their...
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