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The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone : Evidence from African-American Siblings in 1870–1940

Abramitzky, Ran; Conway, Jacob; Mill, Roy; Stein, Luke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study differences in economic outcomes by perceived skin tone among African Americans using full-count U.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census enumerators and linking these children across population...

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Granular Income Inequality and Mobility using IDDA : Exploring Patterns across Race and Ethnicity

Kondo, Illenin O.; Rinz, Kevin; Gubbay, Natalie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We explore the evolution of income inequality and mobility in the U.S. for a large number of subnational groups defined by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income growth derived from the universe of tax filers and W-2...

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Health Inequality and Economic Disparities by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Russo, Nicolo; McGee, Rory; De Nardi, Mariacristina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We measure health inequality during middle and old age by race, ethnicity, and gender and evaluate the extent to which it can explain inequalities in other key economic outcomes using the Health and Retirement Study data set. Our main measure of health is frailty, which is the fraction of one's...

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Economics of Foster Care

Bald, Anthony; Doyle, Joseph J, Jr; Gross, Max; Jacob, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Foster care provides substitute living arrangements to protect maltreated children. The practice is remarkably common: it is estimated that 5 percent of children in the United States are placed in foster care at some point during childhood. These children exhibit poor outcomes as children and...

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Introducing CogX : A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2020

We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were randomized to receive a new preschool and parent education program focused on cognitive and non-cognitive skills (CogX) or to a control group that did not receive preschool...

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Parental Education and Parental Time With Children

Guryan, Jonathan - 2008

framework of time allocation with a view toward establishing whether parental childcare appears to be more akin to leisure or …

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School Quality and the Longer-Term Effects of Head Start

Currie, Janet - 1998

Recent research on Head Start, an enriched preschool program for poor children that effects on test scores fade out' more quickly for black children than for white children. This" paper uses data from the 1988 wave of the National Educational Longitudinal Survey to show that" black children who...

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The Distributional Effects of the Tax Treatment of Child Care Expenses

Gentry, William M. - 1995

Tax relief for child care expenses, encompassing the Child Care Tax Credit and Dependent Care Assistance Plans, is the largest federal government program in the United States aimed at helping families with child care. We examine the distributional effects of these policies among families with...

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The Effects of Accountability Incentives in Early Childhood Education

Bassok, Daphna - 2017

In an effort to enhance the quality of early childhood education (ECE) at scale, nearly all U.S. states have recently adopted Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS). These accountability systems give providers and parents information on program quality and create both reputational and...

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New Evidence on the Impacts of Access to and Attending Universal Childcare in Canada

Kottelenberg, Michael J. - 2013

causal impact of childcare availability and not child care attendance. A notable exception is that despite estimated effects … analyses imply that on average attending childcare in Canada leads to a significant increase in this test score. However, our … most of the negative impacts reported in earlier research are driven by children from families who only attended childcare …

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