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two measures and their estimates of child poverty around the 2021 temporary changes to the Child Tax Credit (CTC). We … measures suffer from important drawbacks. We also conclude that widely publicized claims that child poverty fell by 25 percent …
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The same government policy that incentivizes individuals to make a certain choice can have different effects across groups due to the existence of social norms. In this paper, we study how Chinese ethnic policies that give material benefits to minorities affect ethnicity choices for children in...
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This paper relies on birth and death lists from plantation records to investigate the causes of low birth weight and poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine was arduous overall and particularily intense during...
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determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on …
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During the 20th century there was a secular transformation within American families from a household dominated by the father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with two major economic and demographic changes, namely the...
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advancement. Third, extensions in existing paid leave policies have no impact on measures of child well-being, but the …
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arrival of a second-born child extends early-childhood parental investments for first-borns …
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, but that the effects are often heterogeneous reflecting differences in child endowments, budget constraints, and … improving child outcomes in early life and throughout the life course …
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, growing up in a one SD better county from birth increases a child's income by approximately 10%. There is substantial local … increase a given child's income by approximately 30% relative to growing up in Cook County. Areas with less concentrated …
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Despite being key to theories of economic growth and the demographic transition, evidence on how fertility responds to aggregate income change is mixed. We analyze economic growth and fertility change in the developing world over six decades, using data on 2.3 million women from 255 surveys in...
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