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Identification of Marginal Treatment Effects using Subjective Expectations

Briggs, Joseph; Caplin, Andrew; Leth-Petersen, Søren; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We develop a method to identify the individual latent propensity to select into treatment and marginal treatment effects. Identification is achieved with survey data on individuals' subjective expectations of their treatment propensity and of their treatment-contingent outcomes. We use the...

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U.S. Safety Net Programs and Early Life Skills Formation : Results from a Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study

Bolbocean, Corneliu - 2018

A large body of literature suggests that the first years of life are critical for long-term economic, health and social outcomes. However, the effect of public programs on early life skills formation is largely unknown due to data limitations. In this paper we use novel data from a large...

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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth Y. - 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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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below...

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A Trajectories-Based Approach to Measuring Intergenerational Mobility

Chang, Yoosoon; Durlauf, Steven N.; Lee, Seunghee; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper develops an approach to intergenerational mobility in which the trajectories of parental incomes during childhood and adolescence are the conditioning objects for characterizing dependence across generations. We use functional regression methods to produce an intergenerational...

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The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I : Childhood Exposure Effects

Chetty, Raj - 2016

We show that the neighborhoods in which children grow up shape their earnings, college attendance rates, and fertility and marriage patterns by studying more than seven million families who move across commuting zones and counties in the U.S. Exploiting variation in the age of children when...

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Inflation's Children : Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms

Bruno, Michael - 1996

Are broad reforms the children of high inflation? Do growth recoveries follow? We find that countries that had external … debt crises with high inflation both reformed more and recovered better than countries that had external debt crises with … low inflation. Countries with extremely high inflation also later wound up with lower inflation than countries that has …

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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes

Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...

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The Effect of Medicaid Expansions for Low-Income Children on Medicaid Participation and Insurance Coverage : Evidence from the SIPP

Ham, John C. - 2001

Increased availability of public health insurance for children has led to two potentially contradictory concerns for public policy: that expanded availability of public insurance may lead families to decline private insurance and that additional public coverage may not reach many uninsured...

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Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children? The Long Run Implications of Unilateral Divorce

Gruber, Jonathan - 2000

Most states in the U.S. allow for unilateral divorce, which increases the ease of divorce by not requiring the explicit consent of both partners. Such regulations have come under fire for their perceived negative consequences for marital stability and resulting child outcomes, but there is no...

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