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Adoptive Expectations : Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms
Mehrotra, Vikas - 2011
The practice of adopting adults, even if one has biological children, makes Japanese family firms unusually competitive. Our nearly population-wide panel of postwar listed nonfinancial firms shows inherited family firms more important in postwar Japan than generally realized, and also performing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128613
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Mother's Schooling and Fertility Under Low Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Lavy, Victor - 2011
This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force participation. The results we present are particularly relevant to many countries in the Muslim world where 70-80 percent of women are still out of the labor force. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128898
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Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health
Currie, Janet - 2011
We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989-2003 in five large states. Our "difference in differences" approach compares birth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128904
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Life Shocks and Homelessness
Curtis, Marah A. - 2011
We exploit an exogenous health shock--the birth of a child with a severe health condition--to investigate the causal … effect of a life shock on homelessness. Using survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study that have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129129
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Inequality at Birth : Some Causes and Consequences
Currie, Janet - 2011
Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and participation in social programs. In turn, endowments at birth are predictive of adult outcomes, and of the outcomes of future generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129227
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Is Being in School Better? the Impact of School on Children's BMI When Starting Age is Endogenous
Anderson, Patricia M. - 2011
have their child start school late (or early). If one does not account for this endogeneity, it appears that an additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131666
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Identifying Sibling Influence on Teenage Substance Use
Altonji, Joseph G. - 2010
A number of studies have found substantial correlations in risky behavior between siblings, raising the possibility that adolescents may directly influence the actions of their brothers or sisters. We assess the extent to which correlations in substance use and selling drugs are due to causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136547
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The State of the Safety Net in the Post-Welfare Reform Era
Bitler, Marianne P. - 2010
detectible increase in poverty or worsening of child-well-being. We re-evaluate these results in light of the severe recession …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136551
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The Benefits of Breastfeeding Across the Early Years of Childhood
Belfield, Clive R. - 2010
more recent times. Yet, key identification issues remain to be resolved, including the array of possible child development … that promote child health. This study uses the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey - Birth Cohort to explore the causal … set of potential confounding factors that also promote child development, our empirical method uses simultaneous equations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136561
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Child-Adoption Matching : Preferences for Gender and Race
Baccara, Mariagiovanna - 2010
This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137306