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Card, David - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 1-21

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Some Income-Measurement Issues and Their Policy Implications

Weicher, John C. - In: American Economic Review 89 (1999) 2, pp. 29-33

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The War on Poverty's Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans

Bailey, Martha J.; Goodman-Bacon, Andrew - In: American Economic Review 105 (2015) 3, pp. 1067-1104

This paper uses the rollout of the first Community Health Centers (CHCs) to study the longer-term health effects of increasing access to primary care. Within ten years, CHCs are associated with a reduction in age-adjusted mortality rates of 2 percent among those 50 and older. The implied 7 to 13...

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SSI for Disabled Immigrants: Why Do Ethnic Networks Matter?

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 462-66

Immigrants residing among many coethnics are especially likely to receive SSI for a disability when they belong to high … SSI take-up immigrant groups. After showing that this relationship cannot be fully explained by differences in health, we … consider the likely sources of these network effects by separately examining their role in the decision to apply for SSI and …

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Growing Up in the Projects: The Economic Lives of a Cohort of Men Who Came of Age in Chicago Public Housing

Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi; Levitt, Steven D. - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 2, pp. 79-84

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Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity

Ludwig, Jens; Duncan, Greg J.; Gennetian, Lisa A.; … - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 226-31

We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized housing-mobility experiment. This experiment offered to some public-housing families but not to others the chance to move to less-disadvantaged neighborhoods. We show that...

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Achieving Escape Velocity: Neighborhood and School Interventions to Reduce Persistent Inequality

Fryer, Roland G.; Katz, Lawrence F. - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 232-37

This paper reviews the evidence on the efficacy of neighborhood and school interventions in improving the long-run outcomes of children growing up in poor families. We focus on studies exploiting exogenous sources of variation in neighborhoods and schools and which examine at least medium-term...

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Disability Screening and Labor Supply: Evidence from South Africa

Mitra, Sophie - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 512-16

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How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work

Kostol, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 2, pp. 624-55

Using a local randomized experiment that arises from a sharp discontinuity in Disability Insurance (DI) policy in Norway, we provide transparent and credible identification of how financial incentives induce DI recipients to return to work. We find that many DI recipients have considerable...

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Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt

Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; Strand, Alexander - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 5, pp. 1797-1829

We present the first causal estimates of the effect of Social Security Disability Insurance benefit receipt on labor supply using all program applicants. We use administrative data to match applications to disability examiners and exploit variation in examiners' allowance rates as an instrument...

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