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The Impact of Maternal Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use on Children's Behavior Problems : Evidence from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey

Chatterji, Pinka - 2000

This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal … relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares … results provide strong evidence that maternal substance use is associated with children's behavior problems. Models that …

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Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing

Chatterji, Pinka - 2011

children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive …, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on these outcomes measured when children are 6 months old. Next, we use … symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared …

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ACA Medicaid Expansions and Maternal Morbidity

Chatterji, Pinka; Glenn, Hanna; Markowitz, Sara; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In this paper, we test whether the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions are associated with in-hospital maternal morbidity. The ACA expansions may have affected maternal morbidity by increasing pre-conception access to health care, and by improving the quality of delivery care through...

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Does Returning to Work After Childbirth Affect Breastfeeding Practices?

Chatterji, Pinka - 2003

the probability that the mother will initiate breastfeeding by 16-18%. Among those mothers who initiate breastfeeding … consistent evidence that working at least 35 hours per week (among mothers who return to work within 3 months) detracts from …

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The Consequences of Abuse, Neglect and Cyber-bullying on the Wellbeing of the Young

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using cross-sectional data files for the United States we show that difficulties experienced in childhood - so-called Adverse Child Experiences (ACE)s - are strongly and significantly associated with mental health in adulthood. Our evidence is taken from eight Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...

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Underemployment in the US and Europe

Bell, David N.F. - 2018

Large numbers of part-time workers around the world, both those who choose to be part-time and those who are there involuntarily and would prefer a full-time job report they want more hours. Full-timers who say they want to change their hours mostly say they want to reduce them. When recession...

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Consequences of Eliminating Federal Disability Benefits for Substance Abusers

Chatterji, Pinka - 2007

Using annual, repeated cross-sections from national household survey data, we estimate how the January 1997 termination of federal disability insurance, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Disability Insurance (DI), for those with Drug Addiction and Alcoholism affected labor market outcomes...

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Illicit Drug Use and Educational Attainment

Chatterji, Pinka - 2003

This paper uses data from the National Education Longitudinal Study to estimate the association between illicit drug use during high school and the number of years of schooling completed. The analysis accounts for the possibility that drug use is endogenous using two methods: (1) by controlling...

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Substance Use and Suicidal Behaviors Among Young Adults

Markowitz, Sara - 2002

The purpose of this paper is to examine the causal impact of alcohol and illicit drug use on suicidal behaviors among college students. Every year, more American youth die from suicide than from all leading natural causes of death combined. Substance use has been identified as a leading risk...

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Do State Expenditures on Tobacco Control Programs Decrease Use of Tobacco Products Among College Students?

Ciecierski, Christina Czart - 2006

The objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of state tobacco control program expenditures on individual-level tobacco use behaviors among young adults. Data come from the 1993, 1997, 1999 and 2001 waves of the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS). Our...

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