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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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A variety of public campaigns, including the “Just Say No” campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to “Just Say No to Drugs”, are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school...
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Governments, over much of the developed world, make significant financial transfers to parents with dependent children … variation in CB so we infer that parents are sufficiently altruistic towards their children that they completely insure them …. For example, in the US the recently introduced Child Tax Credit (CTC), which goes to almost all children, costs almost $1 …
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