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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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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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Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation

Kleven, Henrik - 2020

Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and child care, using administrative data covering the labor market and birth histories of Austrian workers over more than half a century. We start by...

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The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J. - 2009

This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...

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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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Targeted or Universal Coverage? Assessing Heterogeneity in the Effects of Universal Childcare

Kottelenberg, Michael J. - 2016

We extend earlier research evaluating the Quebec Family Policy by providing the first evidence on the distributional effects of universal child care on two specific developmental outcomes. Our analysis uncovers substantial policy relevant heterogeneity in the estimated effect of access to...

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Early Childhood Education

Elango, Sneha - 2015

This paper organizes and synthesizes the literature on early childhood education and childcare. In it, we go beyond …

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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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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Black, Sandra E. - 2012

Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on both parental and student outcomes. We find very small and …

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Inference with Imperfect Randomization : The Case of the Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J. - 2011

This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...

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