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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
measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children … $2,100, between 1993 and 1997. Using a panel of roughly 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National … math and reading test scores by 6% of a standard deviation in the short-run. Test gains are larger for children from …
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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. In earlier work (Meyer and Sullivan, 2003) we emphasized that conceptual arguments generally favor using consumption data to measure the well-being of the poor, and, on...
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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What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?
Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
empirical results reveals the expansions had little effect on a wide variety of outcomes, including children's school outcomes …
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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
reduced crime rates of the targeted generation and their children by comparable amounts. We attribute these outcomes to …
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Foreclosure, Vacancy and Crime
Walsh, Randall Phillip; Cui, Lin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper examines the impact of residential foreclosures and vacancies on violent and property crime. To overcome confounding factors, a difference-in-difference research design is applied to a unique data set containing geocoded foreclosure and crime data from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
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Can Variation in Subgroups' Average Treatment Effects Explain Treatment Effect Heterogeneity? Evidence from a Social Experiment
Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In this paper, we assess whether welfare reform affects earnings only through mean impacts that are constant within but vary across subgroups. This is important because researchers interested in treatment effect heterogeneity typically restrict their attention to estimating mean impacts that are...
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Distributional Effects of Means Testing Social Security: An Exploratory Analysis
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper examines the distributional implications of introducing additional means testing of Social Security benefits where proceeds are used to help balance Social Security's finances. Benefits of the top quarter of households ranked according to the relevant measure of means are reduced...
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Family Planning: Program Effects
Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
-economic outcomes (mortality, human capital, and labor force participation), and children's health and socio-economic outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951137