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The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
Chetty, Raj; Katz, Lawrence F.; Hendren, Nathaniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families living in high-poverty housing projects … housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We present new evidence on the impacts of MTO on children's long …-term outcomes using administrative data from tax returns. We find that moving to a lower-poverty neighborhood significantly improves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276428
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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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Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption
Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777994
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Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being After Welfare Reform
Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
This paper investigates how material well-being has changed over time for those at the bottom of the distributions of income and consumption. We document the sharp differences between recent trends in measured income and consumption, focusing on families headed by a single mother. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050115
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin; Sacks, Daniel W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
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Well-being and Trust in the Workplace
Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper summarizes and extends our recent work using life satisfaction regressions to estimate the relative values of financial and non-financial job characteristics. The well-being results show strikingly large values for non-financial job characteristics, especially workplace trust and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714136
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How's Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness
Helliwell, John F.; Grover, Shawn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued that this correlation may be result of happier people being more likely to marry. Others have presented evidence suggesting that the well-being benefits of marriage are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114858
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How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Disability Insurance (DI) programs have long been criticized by economists for apparent work disincentives. Some countries have recently modified their programs such that DI recipients are allowed to keep some of their benefits if they return to work, and other countries are considering similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969414
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Effects of Maternal Depression on Family Food Insecurity
Noonan, Kelly; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Program; Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; Medicaid; and the Temporary Assistance to Needy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950921
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Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Niehaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Anti-poverty programs in developing countries are often difficult to implement; in particular, many governments lack …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950950