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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714375
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Child Cash Benefits and Family Expenditures: Evidence from the National Child Benefit
Milligan, Kevin; Stabile, Mark; Jones, Lauren E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. Income may improve child outcomes through two mechanisms. First, income may improve development outcomes if it improves a family’s ability to purchase direct inputs into child...
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women
Dave, Dhaval M.; Reichman, Nancy E.; Corman, Hope - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Education beyond traditional ages for schooling is an important source of human capital acquisition among adult women. Welfare reform, which began in the early 1990s and culminated in the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996, has promoted work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000624
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What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?
Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
, parental earnings and participation in the labor market in the short or long run, completed fertility, marriage or divorce. Not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969227
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Family Planning: Program Effects
Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio … programs may only explain a small share of fertility decline in real-world settings. Family planning programs may also have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951137
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The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes
Ruhm, Christopher; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Waldfogel, Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403426
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Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on U.S. Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X
Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
-term effects on U.S. fertility rates. I find that the introduction of family planning is associated with significant and persistent … reductions in fertility driven both by falling completed childbearing and childbearing delay. Although federally-funded family … planning accounted for a small portion of the post-baby boom U.S. fertility decline, the estimates imply that they reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251508
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The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth
Weil, David; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Wilde, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous reductions in fertility on output per capita. Our simulation model … quantitative macroeconomic theory. We apply the model to examine the effect of a change in fertility from the UN medium-variant to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277258
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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone
Mocan, Naci H.; Cannonier, Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by date of birth and the variation in resources...
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The Child and Adult Care Food Program: Who is Served and What are Their Nutritional Outcomes?
Kaestner, Robert; Gordon, Rachel A.; Korenman, Sanders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper addresses three basic questions about an under-studied food subsidy program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who participate differ from those who do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008625937