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Does reality TV induce real effects? : on the questionable association between 16 and pregnant and teenage childbearing
Jaeger, David A.; Joyce, Theodore J.; Kaestner, Robert - 2016
We reassess recent and widely reported evidence that the MTV program 16 and Pregnant played a major role in reducing teen birth rates in the U.S. since it began broadcasting in 2009 (Kearney and Levine, American Economic Review 2015). We find Kearney and Levine's identification strategy to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572304
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Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? On the Questionable Association between 16 and Pregnant and Teenage Childbearing
Jaeger, David A. - 2016
We reassess recent and widely reported evidence that the MTV program 16 and Pregnant played a major role in reducing teen birth rates in the U.S. since it began broadcasting in 2009 (Kearney and Levine, American Economic Review 2015). We find Kearney and Levine's identification strategy to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980271
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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 effects of child health on marital status and family structure
Corman, Hope; Kaestner, Robert - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000824854
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A cautionary tale of evaluating identifying assumptions : did reality tv really cause a decline in teenage childbearing?
Jaeger, David A.; Joyce, Theodore J.; Kaestner, Robert - In: Journal of business & economic statistics : JBES ; a … 38 (2020) 2, pp. 317-326
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Has welfare reform changed teenage behaviors?
Kaestner, Robert; O'Neill, June - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001669835
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Has Welfare Reform Changed Teenage Behaviors?
Kaestner, Robert; O'Neill, June - 2021
We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979 and 1997 cohorts to compare welfare use, fertility … rates, educational attainment, and marriage rates among teenage women in the years before and the years immediately … associated with reduced welfare receipt, reduced fertility, reduced marriage, and lower school drop-out among young women who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225938
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Has Welfare Reform Changed Teenage Behaviors?
Kaestner, Robert - 2002
We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979 and 1997 cohorts to compare welfare use, fertility … rates, educational attainment, and marriage rates among teenage women in the years before and the years immediately … associated with reduced welfare receipt, reduced fertility, reduced marriage, and lower school drop-out among young women who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469782
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Does medicaid coverage for pregnant women affect prenatal health behaviors?
Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George - 2016
Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452186
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The effect of maternal drug use on birth weight : measurement error in binary variables
Kaestner, Robert - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 34 (1996) 4, pp. 617-629
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