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Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators
Baron, E. Jason; Gross, Max - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Foster care placement is strongly associated with crime--for example, close to one fifth of the prison population in the United States is comprised of former foster children--yet there is little evidence on whether this relationship is causal. Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of child...
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Parental Education and Parental Time With Children
Guryan, Jonathan - 2008
is a strong positive relationship between parental education, or earnings, and time spent with children. We then show … difference. We speculate that one reason for this positive education gradient relates to the investment aspect of time spent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464653
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Mechanism Reform : An Application to Child Welfare
Baron, E. Jason; Lombardo, Richard; Ryan, Joseph P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In many market-design applications, a new mechanism is introduced to reform an existing institution. Compared to the design of a mechanism in isolation, the presence of a status-quo system introduces both challenges and opportunities for the designer. We study this problem in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528408
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Does Money Matter? Regression-Discontinuity Estimates from Education Finance Reform in Massachusetts
Guryan, Jonathan - 2001
The paper studies a typical state-level education finance equalization scheme, and considers two questions. First, what … fraction of state education aid is spent on schools? And second, does increased educational funding for historically low … that 50 to 75 cents of each dollar of education aid were spent on schools. Estimates also suggest that increased spending …
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