NBER Papers in Child Welfare

NBER Papers in Child Welfare

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2008
w13987 Janet Currie
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development

w13969 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Too Young to Leave the Nest: The Effects of School Starting Age

w13947 Seema Jayachandran
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence From Maternal Mortality Declines

w13928 Keith Finlay
David Neumark

Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration

w13898 John Komlos
Ariane Breitfelder
Marco Sunder

The Transition to Post-industrial BMI Values Among US Children

w13890 Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Marianne Bertrand
Leigh L. Linden
Francisco Perez-Calle

Conditional Cash Transfers in Education Design Features, Peer and Sibling Effects Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia

w13883 Joseph G. Altonji
Prashant Bharadwaj
Fabian Lange

Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes

w13877 Douglas Almond
Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.

After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays

w13847 Jason M. Fletcher
Barbara L. Wolfe

Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects

w13826 Michael Baker
Kevin Milligan

Evidence From Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development

w13810 Lex Borghans
Angela Lee Duckworth
James J. Heckman
Bas ter Weel

The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

w13793 Christopher Ruebeck
Susan Averett
Howard Bodenhorn

Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents' Identity and Behavior

w13773 Anna Aizer
Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth

w13758 Jonathan Gruber
Covering the Uninsured in the U.S.

w13718 Gordon Dahl
Stefano DellaVigna

Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?

w13717 Kaivan Munshi
Nicholas Wilson

Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest


2007
w13707 Matthias Doepke
Moshe Hazan
Yishay Maoz

The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

w13700 Alma Cohen
Rajeev Dehejia
Dmitri Romanov

Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?

w13697 Wen-Jui Han
Christopher Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel

Parental Leave Policies and Parents' Employment and Leave-Taking

w13680 Larry E. Jones
Alice Schoonbroodt

Complements versus Substitutes and Trends in Fertility Choice in Dynastic Models

w13670 James J. Heckman
Paul A. LaFontaine

The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels

w13663 Elizabeth Cascio
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

First in the Class? Age and the Education Production Function

w13649 Ashlesha Datar
Arkadipta Ghosh
Neeraj Sood

Mortality Risks, Health Endowments, and Parental Investments in Infancy: Evidence from Rural India

w13623 Justine S. Hastings
Jeffrey M. Weinstein

Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two Experiments

w13609 John Cawley
Feng Liu

Mechanisms for the Association Between Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Development

w13600 John Cawley
Feng Liu

Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A Search for Mechanisms in Time Use Data

w13539 David Cutler
Winnie Fung
Michael Kremer
Monica Singhal

Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India

w13524 Dennis N. Epple
Maria Marta Ferreyra

School Finance Reform: Assessing General Equilibrium Effects

w13514 Brian Jacob
Lars Lefgren

The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion

w13495 Anne Case
Diana Lee
Christina Paxson

The Income Gradient in Children's Health: A Comment on Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price

w13494 Anna Aizer
Wages, Violence and Health in the Household

w13492 Anna Aizer
Pedro Dal Bó

Love, Hate and Murder: Commitment Devices in Violent Relationships

w13485 Jeffrey Grogger
Lynn Karoly

The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review

w13479 Patricia M. Anderson
Kristin F. Butcher
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity: Is Nurture Trumping Nature?

w13474 Jason Fletcher
Barbara L. Wolfe

Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD Revisited

w13461 Alex Y. Chen
José Escarce

Family Structure and the Treatment of Childhood Asthma

w13443 Julie Berry Cullen
Brian A. Jacob

Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence From Randomized Lotteries

w13442 Cally Ardington
Anne Case
Victoria Hosegood

Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa

w13441 Theodore Joyce
Andrew D. Racine
Cristina Yunzal-Butler

Reassessing the WIC Effect: Evidence from the Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System

w13436 Melissa S. Kearney
Phillip B. Levine

Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Early Childbearing

w13402 Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
Daniel M. Hungerman

The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation

w13386 MaryBeth Walker
Erdal Tekin
Sally Wallace

Teen Smoking and Birth Outcomes

w13384 Douglas Almond
Lena Edlund
Hongbin Li
Junsen Zhang

Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

w13369 Rajeev Dehejia
Thomas DeLeire
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Joshua Mitchell

The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth

w13348 Daniel M. Hungerman
Diversity and Crowd-out: A Theory of Cold-Glow Giving

w13347 Douglas Almond
Lena Edlund
Mårten Palme

Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden

w13343 Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks Estimating the Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on City Outcomes

w13336 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men

w13323 Daniel M. Hungerman
Race and Charitable Church Activity

w13293 Derek Neal
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Left Behind By Design: Proficiency Counts and Test-Based Accountability

w13292 Victor Lavy
Analía Schlosser

Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School

w13291 Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.

Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care

w13279 Elizabeth Cascio
Nora Gordon
Ethan Lewis
Sarah Reber

From Brown to Busing

w13252 Janet Currie
Eric Hanushek
E. Megan Kahn
Matthew Neidell
Steven Rivkin

Does Pollution Increase School Absences?

w13237 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men

w13217 Janet Currie
Mark Stabile

Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital

w13178 Olivier Deschênes
Michael Greenstone

Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US

w13188 Michael Baker
Kevin S. Milligan

Maternal employment, breastfeeding, and health: Evidence from maternity leave mandates

w13182 Florian Hoffman
Philip Oreopoulos

A Professor Like Me: The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement

w13117 Jesse Rothstein
Cecilia Elena Rouse

Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices

w13105 John Ameriks
Andrew Caplin
Steven Laufer
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

The Joy of Giving or Assisted Living? Using Strategic Surveys to Separate Bequest and Precautionary Motives

w13097 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime

w13045 Melissa S. Kearney
Phillip B. Levine

Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior

w13039 Guido Imbens
Thomas Lemieux

Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice

w13038 Bruce A. Weinberg
Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations

w13025 Hilary W. Hoynes
Diane Schanzenbach

Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program

w13016 James J. Heckman
Dimitriy V. Masterov

The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

w13009 Justine S. Hastings
Jeffrey M. Weinstein

No Child Left Behind: Estimating the Impact on Choices and Student Outcomes

w12995 Justine S. Hastings
Richard Van Weelden
Jeffrey Weinstein

Preferences, Information, and Parental Choice Behavior in Public School Choice

w12988 Jacob Vigdor
Jens Ludwig

Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap

w12985 Anders Bjorklund
Markus Jantti
Gary Solon

Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents

w12973 Jens Ludwig
Deborah A. Phillips

The Benefits and Costs of Head Start

w12966 Carlos Bozzoli
Angus S. Deaton
Climent Quintana-Domeque

Child Mortality, Income and Adult Height

w12944 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

w12932 Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson
David Pozen

Building Criminal Capital behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections

w12931 Jeffrey R. Kling
Methodological Frontiers of Public Finance Field Experiments

w12926 Eric V. Edmonds
Child Labor

w12906 Jens Ludwig
Dave E. Marcotte
Karen Norberg

Anti-depressants and Suicide

w12895 Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Gilles Postel-Vinay
Timothy M. Watts

Long Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France

w12892 Dalton Conley
Gordon C. McCord
Jeffrey D. Sachs

Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition: Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology

w12884 Eric V. Edmonds
Nina Pavcnik
Petia Topalova

Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

w12840 Flavio Cunha
James Heckman

The Technology of Skill Formation

w12832 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development

w12830 Li Gan
Guan Gong

Estimating Interdependence Between Health and Education in a Dynamic Model

w12817 Brian A. Jacob
Test-Based Accountability and Student Achievement: An Investigation of Differential Performance on NAEP and State Assessments


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