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do not exercise. This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s on voting of low income … through 2004 and exploiting changes in welfare policy across states and over time, we estimate the causal effects of welfare … reform on women's voting registration and voting participation during the period during which welfare reform unfolded. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453439
This paper reviews the U.S. welfare reform efforts over the 1990s and the effects of these reforms to date. Seven … paper ends with some speculations about why European policy-makers are becoming more interested in U.S. welfare reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410428
This paper reviews the U.S. welfare reform efforts over the 1990s and the effects of these reforms to date. Seven … skills. The paper ends with some speculations about why European policy-makers are becoming more interested in U.S. welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320413
do not exercise. This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s on voting of low income … through 2004 and exploiting changes in welfare policy across states and over time, we estimate the causal effects of welfare … reform on women's voting registration and voting participation during the period during which welfare reform unfolded. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997423
local labor market conditions in explaining declines in the welfare participation trends of immigrants and reductions in the … that immigrants' participation in welfare declined more rapidly than natives' during the latter half of the decade. Our … reform decrease among immigrants, with immigrant welfare utilization being sensitive to changes in both employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403338
international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …
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This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271256
This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY79 data. The paper finds that preschool investment significantly boosts cognitive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319531
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291343
This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY79 data. The paper finds that preschool investment significantly boosts cognitive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753033