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Estimating a Theoretically Consistent Human Capital Production Function With an Application to Head Start

Kaestner, Robert; Faundez, Luis F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This article describes a conceptual and empirical approach for estimating a human capital production function of child development that incorporates mother- or child-fixed effects. The use of mother- or child-fixed effects is common in this applied economics literature, but its application is...

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Get High and Get Stupid : The Effect of Alcohol and Marijuana Use on Teen Sexual Behavior

Grossman, Michael - 2002

Numerous studies have documented a strong correlation between substance use and teen sexual behavior, and this empirical relationship has given rise to a widespread belief that substance use causes teens to engage in risky sex. This causal link is often used by advocates to justify policies...

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The Effect of Maternal Drug Use on Birth Weight : Measurement Error in Binary Variables

Kaestner, Robert - 1996

This paper develops a method to correct for non-random measurement error in a binary indicator of illicit drugs. Our results suggest that estimates of the effect of self reported prenatal drug use on birth weight are biased upwards by measurement error -- a finding contrary to predictions of a...

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The Effects of Child Health on Marital Status

Corman, Hope - 1991

that children in poor health will, more likely, face obstacles beyond their illness, since they will also be more likely to … mitigating factor is that, for white children, they will be more likely than healthy children to living in an extended family …

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Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys : Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior

Kaestner, Robert; Malamud, Ofer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender … children. In contrast, there are no penalties for men who were headstrong or for women who were dependent. While other child …

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Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization

Wherry, Laura R. - 2015

Policy-makers have argued that providing public health insurance coverage to the uninsured lowers long-run costs by reducing the need for expensive hospitalizations and emergency department visits later in life. In this paper, we provide evidence for such a phenomenon by exploiting a legislated...

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Does Publicly Provided Health Insurance Improve the Health of Low-Income Children in the United States

Kaestner, Robert - 1999

In this study we analyze the effect of Medicaid on children's heath. We examine the effect of Medicaid on a variety of … known to be sensitive to medical intervention and are objective measures of children's health. The results of this paper … provide at best weak support for the hypothesis that Medicaid improves the health of low-income children …

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Effects of Income on Infant Health : Evidence from the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Pandemic Stimulus Checks

Lyu, Wei; Wehby, George; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

pandemic payments varied by marital status and the number of children in the household and were substantial with some families … children (parity). Estimates indicate that these pandemic cash payments had no statistically significant, or clinically or …

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Does Drug Use Cause Poverty?

Kaestner, Robert - 1998

In this study, I examine the effect of drug use on poverty. The main objective of the paper is to provide descriptive empirical information about the relationship between drug use and poverty, and to explore, in a preliminary fashion, the question of whether drug use causes poverty. Toward this...

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Drug Use and AFDC Participation : Is There a Connection?

Kaestner, Robert - 1996

Drug use and welfare are two serious social problems that have received widespread public attention. Recently, it has been suggested that illicit drug use is a major cause of welfare, although there is only anecdotal evidence to support such a claim. This paper provides the first systematic...

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