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This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal … relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares … results provide strong evidence that maternal substance use is associated with children's behavior problems. Models that …
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Single mothers are more likely to experience mental health problems and stress-related negative health behaviors, but a more generous safety net may improve these outcomes. We use a simulated safety net eligibility approach that accounts for interactions across safety net programs and relies on...
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We examine the impact of the drug crisis that has unfolded over the last three decades in the United States on children … point in a child’s life, we measure children’s exposure to the crisis with the cumulative drug-related mortality of likely … parents. A potential omitted variables bias complicates the analysis, as the factors that may have led parents to abuse drugs …
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and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic …
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This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …
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Information about children's school performance appears to be readily available. Do frictions prevent parents … test this. I find that parents' baseline beliefs about their children's academic performance are inaccurate. Providing …, particularly low-income parents, from acting on this information when making decisions? I conduct a field experiment in Malawi to …
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concentrated among children whose parents have a high school education or less …We study the relationship between parental job loss and children's academic achievement using data on job loss and … parental job loss increases the probability of children's grade retention by 0.8 percentage points, or around 15 percent. After …
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. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …
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This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to …
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Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … sectional patterns in time spent with children by parents within the United States. Second, we interpret our results in a … thought to be critical to the development of quot;qualityquot; children who will become productive adults. This paper has …
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