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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2004
This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds after controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor supply has deleterious effects on cognitive development,...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471069
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The Role of Alcohol and Drug Consumption in Determining Physical Fights and Weapon Carrying by Teenagers
Markowitz, Sara - 2000
violent behaviors as measured by physical fighting, carrying a gun, or carrying other types of weapons. Simple OLS estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471276
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I Did What Last Night?!!! Adolescent Risky Sexual Behaviors and Substance Use
Grossman, Michael - 2002
This purpose of this paper is to examine the causal impact of substance use on risky sexual behaviors by teenagers. Risky sexual behaviors, which include unprotected sex and multiple partners, are highly correlated with alcohol and illicit drug use, although the nature of the causal relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469465
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Effects of State-Level Earned Income Tax Credit Laws in the U.S. on Maternal Health Behaviors and Infant Health Outcomes
Markowitz, Sara - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) laws in the U.S. on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes. Using multi-state, multi-year difference-in-differences analyses, we estimated effects of state EITC generosity on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453997
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What U.S. Data Should be Used to Measure the Price Elasticity of Demand for Alcohol?
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
This paper examines how estimates of the price elasticity of demand for beer vary with the choice of alcohol price series examined. Our most important finding is that the commonly used ACCRA price data are unlikely to reliably indicate alcohol demand elasticities--estimates obtained from this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461080
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Get High and Get Stupid : The Effect of Alcohol and Marijuana Use on Teen Sexual Behavior
Grossman, Michael - 2002
Numerous studies have documented a strong correlation between substance use and teen sexual behavior, and this empirical relationship has given rise to a widespread belief that substance use causes teens to engage in risky sex. This causal link is often used by advocates to justify policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469493
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An Economic Analysis of Alcohol, Drugs, and Violent Crime in the National Crime Victimization Survey
Markowitz, Sara - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct relationship between the prices of alcohol and drugs and the incidence of criminal violence in a nationally representative sample of individuals in the United States. The positive association between substance use and violence is well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470747
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Alcohol Regulation and Violence Towards Children
Markowitz, Sara - 1999
aimed" at children. Data on violence come from the 1976 Physical Violence in American Families survey. " We estimate a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471888
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The Effects of Alcohol Regulation on Physical Child Abuse
Markowitz, Sara - 1998
structural model where violence is determined partly by consumption. Both equations are estimated separately for mothers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472181