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The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries
Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam; Kessler, Judd B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114855
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor
Soares, Rodrigo R.; Falcao, Bruno L. S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
capital and to have children. Particularly, gains in adult longevity reduce fertility, increase investments in market human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088850
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Etnicidad y acumulación de capital humano en México Urbano
Ñopo, Hugo; Winder, Natalia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
Se analiza la movilidad social y la acumulación de capital humano entre minorías étnicas en zonas urbanas de México, se exploran los cambios en el logro académico y la situación en el mercado laboral y se emplean datos de panel provenientes de la Encuesta sobre la Vida de la Familia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528915
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Ethnicity and Human Capital Accumulation in Urban Mexico
Ñopo, Hugo; Winder, Natalia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This study analyzes social mobility and human capital accumulation among ethnic minorities in Mexican urban areas, exploring changes in educational attainment and labor market status and using panel data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MFxLS). The results indicate important ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005342530
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Public Policies and Women's Employment after Childbearing
Ruhm, Christopher; Han, Wen-Jui; Waldfogel, Jane; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
policies aiming to increase maternal employment and those maximizing the choices available to families with young children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828493
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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone
Mocan, Naci H.; Cannonier, Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by … regarding violence against women. An increase in education has also reduced the number of desired children by women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227910
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The Child and Adult Care Food Program: Who is Served and What are Their Nutritional Outcomes?
Kaestner, Robert; Gordon, Rachel A.; Korenman, Sanders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who … and children's food intake, weight, and food security? We use the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort to … examine these questions for a representative sample of young children and their providers. We find that program eligibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008625937
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Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on U.S. Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X
Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Almost 50 years after domestic U.S. family planning programs began, their effects on childbearing remain controversial. Using the county-level roll-out of these programs from 1964 to 1973, this paper reevaluates their shorter- and longer-term effects on U.S. fertility rates. I find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251508
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The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth
Weil, David; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Wilde, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous reductions in fertility on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for effects that run through schooling, the size and age structure of the population, capital accumulation, parental time input into child-rearing, and crowding of fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277258