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Friends with Benefits : Social Capital and Household Financial Behavior
Cannon, Brad; Hirshleifer, David; Thornton, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using friendship data from Facebook, we study the effects of three aspects of social capital on household financial behavior. We find that the most important measure of social capital in explaining stock market and saving participation is Economic Connectedness, defined as the fraction of one's...
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The Effects of Income on the Economic Wellbeing of Families with Low Incomes : Evidence from the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit
Pilkauskas, Natasha; Michelmore, Katherine; Kovski, Nicole - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
needs, money on hand, use of friends and family for assistance, and employment) of families and children with very low …
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Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development : Experimental Evidence from Brazil
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Barros, Ricardo Paes de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their caregivers over the course of seven years after enrollment into daycare. At the end of 2007, the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil used a lottery to assign children to limited...
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Early Childhood Intervention for the Poor : Long Term Outcomes
Andrew, Alison; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Early childhood interventions aim to promote skill acquisition and poverty reduction. While their short-term success is well established, research on longer-term effectiveness is scarce, particularly in LDCs. We present results of a randomized scalable intervention in India, that affected...
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Trends in Social Security Incentives in Belgium
Fraikin, Anne-Lore; Jousten, Alain; Lefebvre, Mathieu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
studies the impact of those incentive-based reforms on observed changes in older workers' employment patterns. We investigate …
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Effects of Childhood Cognitive and Behavioral Disabilities on Adult Economic Outcomes
Corman, Hope; Noonan, Kelly; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, employment, wages, and access to transportation and credit in adulthood, using household fixed effects models to control for …
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How Do Holistic Wrap-Around Anti-Poverty Programs Affect Employment and Individualized Outcomes?
Espinosa, Javier; Evans, William N.; Phillips, David C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
percentage points higher employment rates after one year compared with a control group offered only help with an immediate need … services affect areas beyond employment, even when other areas of life are participants' primary goals. We find some evidence …
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Matching with Couples : Stability and Incentives in Large Markets
Kojima, Fuhito - 2010
doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are … present. We find conditions under which a stable matching exists with high probability in large markets. We present a … mechanism that finds a stable matching with high probability, and which makes truth-telling by all participants an approximate …
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The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers to Agricultural Households
Aggarwal, Shilpa; Aker, Jenny C.; Jeong, Dahyeon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
While cash transfers will tautologically increase contemporaneous consumption, it is unclear whether these gains will persist, especially in rural agricultural settings with limited productive investment opportunities. Using bi-monthly survey data from recipients of a large, unconditional cash...
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Financial Incentives for Adoption and Kin Guardianship Improve Achievement for Foster Children
Simon, David; Sojourner, Aaron; Pedersen, Jon; Skallet, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper reports new evidence that giving financial rewards for adopting a child from foster care or becoming a kin guardian improves the later school performance of these children. It uses linked administrative data to examine a policy change in Minnesota. This change increased the payments...
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