, lower average quality of infant and toddler care in MDC. We find that Florida?s welfare reform, with its requirement that …

and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as …. Although focus is on hurricanes in Florida, this GDD technique is applicable to a wider range of exogenous shocks. …

average worker in a Florida county rises over 4% within the first quarter of being hit by a major Category 4 or 5 hurricane … relative to counties not hit, and rises about 1¼% for workers in Florida counties hit by less major Category 1-3 hurricanes …

In this paper, we estimate the demand for homeowner insurance in Florida. Since we are interested in a number of … Florida market as a whole. …

We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001-02 and …

This paper studies the evolution of hurricane insurance in Florida over the last decades. Hurricanes (and other natural …. The state of Florida has reacted to the incapacity of the private sector to insure hurricane risks at reasonable premium … levels with the creation of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (an insurer of last resort) and the Florida Hurricane …

We use statewide administrative data from Florida to estimate the impact of attending public schools with different …

standardized test scores. We do this by utilizing grade-level longitudinal data on Florida's school districts from the Florida … Department of Education combined with 4-H participation statistics from Florida 4-H. Specifically, we analyze the effect of the … extent of 4-H participation for third through tenth grade on the mathematics and reading subtests of the Florida …

data set covering all Florida public school students in grades 3-10 over a five-year period. Unlike many previous data sets …

Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In … above the threshold value for admissions eligibility at a large public university in Florida are much more likely to attend … returns to college for the population of Florida high school students. Consistent with the credit constraints hypothesis …