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Several recent surveys have asked Americans whether they support policies to reduce childhood obesity. There is reason for skepticism of such surveys because people are not confronted with the tax costs of such policies when they are asked whether they support them. This paper uses contingent...
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children are released into the air. In this paper we estimate the effect of these releases on the health of newborns. Using …
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We examine the impact of three quot;criteriaquot; air pollutants on infant health in New Jersey in the 1990s by combining information about mother's residential location from birth certificates with information from air quality monitors. In addition to large sample size, our work offers three...
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We investigate the effect of having a child on parents’ criminal behavior using rich administrative data from Brazil … associated with significant and enduring declines in criminal behavior by both parents. Our findings can be explained by the …
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document that three years after the intervention the children who received training have a roughly 16 percentage points higher …
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We study the choice of acquiring STEM and non-STEM college education using variation induced by the proximity to universities offering different types of programs. We adopt a novel methodology allowing the identification of the distribution of response types and treatment effects in a multiple...
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. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …
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effects at the individual level, depending on household equivalent income. Specifically, we show that ethnic heterogeneity in …
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-consistent personality and environment. We explain when stressors reduce income. We also explain under which conditions rising income does …
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domain that depart from the income domain, and discusses its implementation in health system priority-setting decisions. We … estimates from the literature are unclear. Unlike the income-inequality literature, standard approaches in the health …-economics do not follow a "veil-of-ignorance" approach and elicit mostly bivariate (income-related health) inequality aversion …
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