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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights

Qian, Nancy - 2010

This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic...

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Constitutional Rights and Education : An International Comparative Study

Edwards, Sebastian - 2014

We investigate whether the inclusion of social rights in political constitutions affects social performance. More specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational outcomes." We rely on data for 61 countries that...

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Does Welfare Prevent Crime? The Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed From SSI

Deshpande, Manasi; Mueller-Smith, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

removal, youth are twice as likely to be charged with an illicit income-generating offense than they are to maintain steady …

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When Scale and Replication Work : Learning from Summer Youth Employment Experiments

Heller, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

trials of summer youth employment programs in Chicago and Philadelphia to demonstrate how multiple experiments can help …; youth at higher risk of socially costly outcomes experience larger benefits. Identifying more interventions that combine …

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Exposure to Cigarette Taxes as a Teenager and the Persistence of Smoking into Adulthood

Friedson, Andrew; Li, Moyan; Meckel, Katherine; Rees, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Are teenage and adult smoking causally related? Recent anti-tobacco policy is predicated on the assumption that preventing teenagers from smoking will ensure that fewer adults smoke, but direct evidence in support of this assumption is scant. Using data from three nationally representative...

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Minimum Wages and Teenage Childbearing : New Estimates Using a Dynamic Difference-in-Differences Approach

Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J.; Margolit, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The minimum wage is increasingly viewed as an important tool for improving public health outcomes, including reducing childbearing among teenagers. Taken at face value, recently reported estimates suggest that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour could reduce the number of teenage...

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Bad Lighting : Effects of Youth Indoor Tanning Prohibitions

Carpenter, Christopher; Churchill, Brandyn F.; Marcus, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

tanning using a difference-in-differences research design. We find that youth ITB prohibitions reduced population search … increased sun protective behaviors. We also find that youth ITB prohibitions significantly reduced the size of the indoor …

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Intended and Unintended Effects of E-cigarette Taxes on Youth Tobacco Use

Abouk, Rahi; Courtemanche, Charles; Dave, Dhaval; Feng, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has … (Monitoring the Future and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System), this study explores the impact of ENDS taxes on youth … tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth e-cigarette consumption, with estimated e-cigarette tax elasticities of -0 …

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Heterogeneity in Place Effects on Health : The Case of Time Preferences and Adolescent Obesity

Datar, Ashlesha; Nicosia, Nancy; Samek, Anya Savikhin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We leverage a natural experiment in combination with data on adolescents' time preferences to assess whether there is heterogeneity in place effects on adolescent obesity. We exploit the plausibly exogenous assignment of military servicemembers, and consequently their children, to different...

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The Demand For Protection and the Persistently High Rates of Gun Violence Among Young Black Males

Evans, William N.; Kotowski, Maciej H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a theoretical model to explain both the high level and persistence in gun violence for black males ages 15-24 consistent with the empirical literature. A person may carry a gun for instrumental (i.e., criminal) reasons or for its perceived protective benefit. Discerning underlying...

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