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Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice

Angrist, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Instrumental Variables (IV) methods identify internally valid causal effects for individuals whose treatment status is manipulable by the instrument at hand. Inference for other populations requires some sort of homogeneity assumption. This paper outlines a theoretical framework that nests all...

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Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status

Watson, Tara; McLanahan, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

In this paper we investigate the effect of relative income on marital status. We develop an identity model based on Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that people are more likely to marry when their incomes...

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Wages, Violence and Health in the Household

Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

a household bargaining model. The relationship between the wage gap and violence suggests that reductions in violence … greater share of the household resources. Using instrumental variable and propsensity score techniques to control for …

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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including:...

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"Momma's Got the Pill": How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing

Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and smaller family sizes. What catalyzed these changes remains a matter of considerable debate. This paper exploits idiosyncratic variation in the language of "Comstock" statutes,...

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Does the Certainty of Arrest Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Mandatory and Recommended Arrest laws

Iyengar, Radha - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Domestic violence remains a major public policy concern despite two decades of policy intervention. To eliminate police inaction in response to domestic violence, many states have passed mandatory arrest laws, which require the police to arrest abusers when a domestic violence incident is...

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Saving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Expansions of Medicaid Eligibility for Pregnant Women

Currie, Janet; Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994

A key question for health care reform in the U.S. is whether expanded health insurance eligibility will lead to improvements in health outcomes. We address this question in the context of dramatic expansions in the Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women that took place during the 1980s. We...

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50,000 People a Day: The Use of Federally Funded Services for Intimate Partner Violence

Iyengar, Radha; Sabik, Lindsay; Southworth, Cindy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Intimate partner violence is a serious and preventable health problem affecting more than 30 million Americans each year. We use an innovative new research design to describe the frequency and correlates of emergency and crisis intervention services provided by domestic violence programs using...

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Bargaining Around the Hearth

Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In "Unpacking the Household: Informal Property Rights Around the Hearth" (Yale Law Journal, 2006) Robert Ellickson … argues that as long as members of a household expect their relationship to continue, norms, rather than law, will determine … allocations among them. More specifically, Ellickson argues that in "midgame" household members either ignore the "endgame …

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Marrying Your Mom: Preference Transmission and Women's Labor and Education Choices

Fernandez, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

This paper argues that the evolution of male preferences contributed to the dramatic increase in the proportion of working and educated women in the population over time. Male preferences evolved because some men experienced a different family model one in which their mother was skilled and/or...

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