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Take two! : SAT retaking and college enrollment gaps

Goodman, Joshua S.; Gurantz, Oded; Smith, Jonathan - 2018

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Markussen, Simen; Mykletun, Arnstein; Røed, Knut - 2010

Can activation requirements control moral hazard problems in public sickness absence insurance and accelerate recovery? Based on empirical analysis of Norwegian data, we show that it can. Activation requirements not only bring down benefit claims, they also reduce the likelihood that long-term...

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What to expect when it gets hotter : the impacts of prenatal exposure to extreme heat on maternal and infant health

Kim, Jiyoon; Lee, Ajin; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2019

We use temperature variation within narrowly-defined geographic and demographic cells to show that prenatal exposure to extreme heat increases the risk of maternal hospitalization during pregnancy, and that this effect is larger for black than for white mothers. At childbirth, heat-exposed...

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The phenomenon of summer diarrhea and its waning, 1910-1930

Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I.; Wang, Tianyi - 2019

During the first two decades of the 20th century, diarrheal deaths among American infants and children surged every summer. Although we still do not know what pathogen (or pathogens) caused this phenomenon, the consensus view is that it was eventually controlled through public health efforts at...

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Projected Health Benefits and Health Care Savings from the United States National Hepatitis C Elimination Initiative

Chhatwal, Jagpreet; Aaron, Alec; Zhong, Huaiyang; Sood, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

disease burden and cost of care in the US for the next 20 years under status quo and national hepatitis C elimination … of diabetes, and 25,000 cases of chronic kidney disease. The initiative will also avert 24,000 deaths adding 220,000 life …

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Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21 : Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?

Mulligan, Casey B.; Arnott, Robert D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

,000 in excess of previous trends. Hypertension and heart disease deaths combined were elevated 32,000. Diabetes or obesity …

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The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks

Coile, Courtney; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Su, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper analyzes the impact of paid family leave (PFL) policies in California, New Jersey, and New York on the labor market and mental health outcomes of individuals whose spouses or children experience health shocks. We use data from the 1996-2019 restricted-use version of the Medical...

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The Effects of Medical Debt Relief : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments

Kluender, Raymond; Mahoney, Neale; Wong, Francis; Yin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Two in five Americans have medical debt, nearly half of whom owe at least $2,500. Concerned by this burden, governments and private donors have undertaken large, high-profile efforts to relieve medical debt. We partnered with RIP Medical Debt to conduct two randomized experiments that relieved...

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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

expansion in female sports participation by using variation in the level of boys' athletic participation across states before … changes between pre- and post-cohorts reveals that a 10-percentage point rise in state-level female sports participation … participation. Furthermore, greater opportunities to play sports leads to greater female participation in previously male …

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Does head start improve children's life chances? : Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Ludwig, Jens (contributor); Miller, Douglas Lee (contributor) - 2006

This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program's effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties to develop Head Start proposals. The result was a large and...

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