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Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery
Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2012
Are smarter machines our children's friends? Or can they bring about a transfer from our relatively unskilled children to ourselves that leaves our children and, indeed, all our descendants - worse off? This, indeed, is the dire message of the model presented here in which smart machines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096141
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The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty : 9-Year Evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program
Blattman, Christopher - 2018
years to find these start-up grants acted more as a kick-start than a lift out of poverty. Grantees' investment leveled off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911477
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The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth
Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2010
measures of disadvantage as well as parental involvement with religious and other social organizations when the youth were ages … childhood (family income and poverty measures, family characteristics including parental education, and child characteristics … measures of health and psychological wellbeing). Overall, we find strong evidence that youth with religiously active parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759867
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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration
Dobbie, Will - 2018
parents with young children may increase the intergenerational persistence of poverty and criminal behavior, even in affluent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930351
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Early Teen Marriage and Future Poverty
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2021
outcomes, including higher poverty rates throughout life. Are these negative outcomes due to pre-existing differences or do … a woman who marries young is 31 percentage points more likely to live in poverty when she is older. Similarly, a woman …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223609
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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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Investing in Our Young People
Cunha, Flavio - 2010
This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140990
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The Impact of Youth Service on Future Outcomes : Evidence from Teach for America
Dobbie, Will - 2011
Nearly one million American youth have participated in service programs such as Peace Corps and Teach For America. This …-based survey of former Teach For America applicants. We estimate the effect of voluntary youth service using a sharp discontinuity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120306
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High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers : a Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis
Papay, John P. - 2011
We ask whether failing one or more of the state-mandated high-school exit examinations affects whether students graduate from high school. Using a new multi-dimensional regression-discontinuity approach, we examine simultaneously scores on mathematics and English language arts tests. Barely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123983
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Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends
Card, David - 2011
We study social interactions in the risky behavior of best-friend pairs in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use, truancy) by the first wave of the survey, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124547