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Swallow This : Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability
Abrahamsson, Sara Sofie; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...
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The Effect of a Peer's Teen Pregnancy on Sexual Behavior
Anand, Priyanka; Kahn, Lisa B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
birth. Our work suggests that connecting youth personally with the experiences of teen parents is a promising avenue for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287329
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Taking Teacher Evaluation to Scale : The Effect of State Reforms on Achievement and Attainment
Bleiberg, Joshua; Brunner, Eric J.; Harbatkin, Erica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Federal incentives and requirements under the Obama administration spurred states to adopt major reforms to their teacher evaluation systems. We examine the effects of these reforms on student achievement and attainment at a national scale by exploiting the staggered timing of implementation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247915
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Paying Moms to Stay Home : Short and Long Run Effects on Parents and Children
Gruber, Jonathan; Kosonen, Tuomas; Huttunen, Kristiina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the impacts of a policy designed to reward mothers who stay at home rather than join the labor force when … high school, and increase youth crimes. We confirm that the mechanism of action is changing work/home care arrangements by … on mothers and children compared to HCA. Our findings suggest that shifting child care from the home to the market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226128
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Estimating a Theoretically Consistent Human Capital Production Function With an Application to Head Start
Kaestner, Robert; Faundez, Luis F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This article describes a conceptual and empirical approach for estimating a human capital production function of child development that incorporates mother- or child-fixed effects. The use of mother- or child-fixed effects is common in this applied economics literature, but its application is...
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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation
Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and …
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The Hidden Cost of Firearm Violence on Pregnant Women and Their Infants
Currie, Janet M.; Dursun, Bahadir; Hatch, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Firearm violence is a pervasive public health crisis in the United States, with significant numbers of homicides involving firearms, including indiscriminate shootings in public spaces. This paper investigates the largely unexplored consequences of stress induced by these attacks on newborn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421199
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Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home Environments
Kalil, Ariel; Corman, Hope; Dave, Dhaval; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-income mothers and reliance on their own earnings instead of cash assistance through the welfare system, on the quality of the home …'s skill development. The results suggest that welfare reform did not affect the amount of time and material resources mothers ….3-0.4 standard deviation lower scores on provision of emotional support, with stronger effects for mothers with low human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362060
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Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes
Dobbie, Will S. - 2016
We estimate the impact of charter schools on early-life labor market outcomes using administrative data from Texas. We find that, at the mean, charter schools have no impact on test scores and a negative impact on earnings. No Excuses charter schools increase test scores and four-year college...
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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below...
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