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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance
Black, Sandra E. - 2012
these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106633
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Care or cash? : the effect of child care subsidies on student performance
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Løken, Katrine V.; … - 2012
these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537636
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Economic Crises and Mortality Among the Elderly : Evidence from Two Russian Crises
Khvan, Margarita - 2020
We assess the short-term effects of the two recent economic crises, the Great Recession and the collapse of the USSR, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with quantitatively similar elasticities of death with respect to GDP fall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826758
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Economic Crises and Mortality Among the Elderly. Evidence from Two Russian Crises
Khvan, Margarita - 2020
We assess the short-term effects of the two recent economic crises, the Great Recession and the collapse of the USSR, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with quantitatively similar elasticities of death with respect to GDP fall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827309
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Economic crises and mortality among the elderly: evidence from two Russian crises
Khvan, Margarita; Smorodenkova, Elizaveta; Jakovlev, Evgenij - 2020
We assess the short-term effects of the two recent economic crises, the Great Recession and the collapse of the USSR, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with quantitatively similar elasticities of death with respect to GDP fall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257425
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COVID-19 mortality and economic losses : the role of policies and structural conditions
Wang, Weichen; Gurgone, Andrea; Martinez, Humberto; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 8, pp. 1-28
The response of governments to the COVID-19 outbreak was foremost oriented to two objectives: saving lives and limiting economic losses. However, the effectiveness and success factors of interventions were unknown ex-ante. This study aims to shed light on the drivers of countries' performances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380491
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The effects of expanding a neonatal intensive care system on infant mortality and long-term health impairments
Hajdu, Tamás; Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor; … - 2020
We study the effects of the geographic expansion of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) system and a Newborn Emergency Transportation System (NETS) on neonatal and infant mortality and long-term impairments. We utilize gradual expansion in Hungary, we use administrative and census data, and we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212846
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Medicaid as an Investment in Children : What is the Long-Term Impact on Tax Receipts?
Brown, David; Kowalski, Amanda; Lurie, Ithai - 2015
eligibility variation by cohort and state that we can relate to outcomes graphically. We find that children with greater Medicaid … these children reach age 60. This return does not include estimated private gains from increased college attendance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139112
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Testing a conditional cash transfer program in the US : the effects of the family rewards program in New York City
Miller, Cynthia K.; Riccio, James A.; Verma, Nandita; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-29
incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288704
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The distributional impacts of early employment losses from COVID-19 : [running head: employment losses from COVID-19]
Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020
COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment rate understates employment losses. We focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221840