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The Health Effects of Cesarean Delivery for Low-Risk First Births

Card, David - 2018

Cesarean delivery for low-risk pregnancies is generally associated with worse health outcomes for infants and mothers … use birth records from California, merged with hospital and emergency department (ED) visits for infants and mothers in … significant effects on mothers' hospitalizations or ED use after birth, or on subsequent fertility, but we find a ripple effect on …

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Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends

Card, David - 2011

We study social interactions in the risky behavior of best-friend pairs in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use, truancy) by the first wave of the survey, we estimate...

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Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?

Card, David - 2019

We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find that referee gender has no effect on the relative assessment of female- versus male-authored papers, suggesting that any differential biases of male referees are negligible. To...

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Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities

Card, David - 2009

Economists are often puzzled by the stronger public opposition to immigration than trade, since the two policies have similar effects on wages. Unlike trade, however, immigration can alter the composition of the local population, imposing potential externalities on natives. While previous...

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Family Violence and Football : The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior

Card, David - 2009

Family violence is a pervasive and costly problem, yet there is no consensus on how to interpret the phenomenon of violence by one family member against another. Some analysts assume that violence has an instrumental role in intra-family incentives. Others argue that violent episodes represent a...

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Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions on Low Income Children

Card, David - 2002

'100 percent' expansion, effective in 1991, extended Medicaid eligibility to children born after September 30, 1983 in … children born just after the cutoff date, and a similar or slightly smaller rise in overall health insurance. It also increased … the fraction of children in the newly eligible group with a doctor visit in the previous year. The '133 percent' expansion …

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The More Things Change : Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s

Card, David - 1998

exerting an even bigger intergenerational effect: at present one-in-ten native born children are in the 'second generation … their children, utilizing data from the 1940 and 1970 Censuses, and from recent (1994-96) Current Population Surveys. We … marriage patterns of their native born sons and daughters. Much of this linkage works through education: children of better …

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Do Immigrant Inflows Lead to Native Outflows?

Card, David - 2000

We use 1980 and 1990 Census data for 119 larger Metropolitan Statistical Areas to examine the effect of skill-group specific immigrant inflows on the location decisions of natives in the same skill group, and on the overall distribution of human capital. To control for unobserved skill-group...

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Rent-sharing, Holdup, and Wages : Evidence from Matched Panel Data

Card, David - 2010

When wage contracts are relatively short-lived, rent sharing may reduce the incentives for investment since some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. In this paper we use a matched worker-firm data set from the Veneto region of Italy that combines Social Security earnings...

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The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Card, David - 2005

In many European countries sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover all firms in an industry. Employers and employees can also negotiate firm-specific contracts. We use a large matched employer-employee data set from Spain to study the effects of firm-level contracting...

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