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How and When to Use the Political Cycle to Identify Advertising Effects
Moshary, Sarah; Shapiro, Bradley; Song, Jihong - 2022
A central challenge in estimating the causal effect of TV advertising on demand is isolating quasi-random variation in advertising. Political advertising, which topped $14 billion in expenditures in 2016, has been proposed as a plausible source of such variation and thus a candidate for an...
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Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...
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How Does Household Income Affect Child Personality Traits and Behaviors?
Akee, Randall - 2015
Existing research has investigated the effect of early childhood educational interventions on the child's later-life outcomes. These studies have found limited impact of supplementary programs on children's cognitive skills, but sustained effects on personality traits. We examine how a positive...
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Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago
Heller, Sara - 2015
We present the results of three large-scale randomized controlled trials (RCTs) carried out in Chicago, testing interventions to reduce crime and dropout by changing the decision-making of economically disadvantaged youth. We study a program called Becoming a Man (BAM), developed by the...
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Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children? The Long Run Implications of Unilateral Divorce
Gruber, Jonathan - 2021
Most states in the U.S. allow for unilateral divorce, which increases the ease of divorce by not requiring the explicit consent of both partners. Such regulations have come under fire for their perceived negative consequences for marital stability and resulting child outcomes, but there is no...
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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years : An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2010
Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may...
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The Supply of Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory Beliefs
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2013
What determines beliefs about the ability and appropriate role of women? An overwhelming majority of men and women born early in the 20th century thought women should not work; a majority now believes that work is appropriate for both genders. Betty Friedan (1963) postulated that beliefs about...
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Sex, Drugs, and Catholic Schools : Private Schooling and Non-Market Adolescent Behaviors
Figlio, David N.; Ludwig, Jens - 2022
This paper examines the effects of private schooling on adolescent non-market behaviors. We control for differences between private and public school students by making use of the rich set of covariates available with our NELS micro-dataset. We also employ an instrumental-variables strategy that...
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Party on : The Labor Market Returns to Social Networks and Socializing
Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Miller, Matthew; Sheng, Shuyang; … - 2022
A person’s schooling years are a formative time for cognitive development, and also a period of intense social interaction and friendship formation. In this paper, we estimate the production of social capital during adolescence and its effect on wages. We develop a model where homophily and...
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"Lost" on the Web : Does Web Distribution Stimulate or Depress Television Viewing?
Waldfogel, Joel - 2008
from network television shows. Networks fear that availability of their clips on YouTube will depress television viewing …. But unauthorized clips are also free advertising for television shows. As YouTube has grown quickly, major networks have … web distribution on television viewing between 2005 and 2007 using a survey of Penn students on their tendencies to watch …
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