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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation
Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and … parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437042
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
Dave, Dhaval - 2018
We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how policies that restrict access to Rx opioids per se within the healthcare system would impact broader non-health domains. In response to the substantial increase in opioid use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480628
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Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor : Experimental Evidence from Malawi
Dupas, Pascaline - 2020
children. The program is more effective and much more cost-effective than asking Community Health Workers (CHWs) to distribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481425
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Gender Differences in (some) Formative Inputs to Child Development
Baker, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, mothers in the US and Canada are more likely to experience depression post birth when the first born child is a boy. Perhaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482600
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Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes Between England and the United States
Banks, James - 2011
In this paper we examine the link between retrospectively reported measures of childhood health and the prevalence of various major and minor diseases at older ages. Our analysis is based on comparable retrospective questionnaires placed in the Health and Retirement Study and the English...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461561
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Firm Level Investment and R&D in France and the United States : A Comparison
Mulkay, Benoit - 2000
This paper is a contribution to the small but growing literature that compares the investment and R&D behavior of manufacturing firms in large developed countries that have varying financial and capital market institutions. Specifically, we look at two similar samples of French and United States...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470693
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471064
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Labor and Investment Demand at the Firm Level : A Comparison of French, German and U.S. Manufacturing, 1970-79
Mairesse, Jacques - 1985
We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment separately) differs in French, German and U.S. manufacturing, and has changed since the 1974-75 crisis. We use three consistent panel data samples of large firms for1970-79, and rely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477531
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How Does State-Level Carbon Pricing in the United States Affect Industrial Competitiveness?
Casey, Brendan J. - 2020
Pricing carbon emissions from a jurisdiction could harm the competitiveness of local firms, causing the leakage of emissions and economic activity to other regions. Past research concentrated on national carbon prices, but the impacts of subnational carbon prices could be more severe due to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479153
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Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Account
McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2008
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates the return on investments of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. multinational companies over the period 1982--2006 averaged 9.4 percent annually after taxes; U.S. subsidiaries of foreign multinationals averaged only 3.2 percent. Two factors distort...
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