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The Impact of Maternal Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use on Children's Behavior Problems : Evidence from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey

Chatterji, Pinka - 2000

This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal … relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares … results provide strong evidence that maternal substance use is associated with children's behavior problems. Models that …

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Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing

Chatterji, Pinka - 2011

children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive …, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on these outcomes measured when children are 6 months old. Next, we use … symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared …

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ACA Medicaid Expansions and Maternal Morbidity

Chatterji, Pinka; Glenn, Hanna; Markowitz, Sara; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In this paper, we test whether the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions are associated with in-hospital maternal morbidity. The ACA expansions may have affected maternal morbidity by increasing pre-conception access to health care, and by improving the quality of delivery care through...

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Does Returning to Work After Childbirth Affect Breastfeeding Practices?

Chatterji, Pinka - 2003

the probability that the mother will initiate breastfeeding by 16-18%. Among those mothers who initiate breastfeeding … consistent evidence that working at least 35 hours per week (among mothers who return to work within 3 months) detracts from …

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Consequences of Eliminating Federal Disability Benefits for Substance Abusers

Chatterji, Pinka - 2007

Using annual, repeated cross-sections from national household survey data, we estimate how the January 1997 termination of federal disability insurance, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Disability Insurance (DI), for those with Drug Addiction and Alcoholism affected labor market outcomes...

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Illicit Drug Use and Educational Attainment

Chatterji, Pinka - 2003

This paper uses data from the National Education Longitudinal Study to estimate the association between illicit drug use during high school and the number of years of schooling completed. The analysis accounts for the possibility that drug use is endogenous using two methods: (1) by controlling...

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Substance Use and Suicidal Behaviors Among Young Adults

Markowitz, Sara - 2002

The purpose of this paper is to examine the causal impact of alcohol and illicit drug use on suicidal behaviors among college students. Every year, more American youth die from suicide than from all leading natural causes of death combined. Substance use has been identified as a leading risk...

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Do State Expenditures on Tobacco Control Programs Decrease Use of Tobacco Products Among College Students?

Ciecierski, Christina Czart - 2006

The objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of state tobacco control program expenditures on individual-level tobacco use behaviors among young adults. Data come from the 1993, 1997, 1999 and 2001 waves of the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS). Our...

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High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes

Chatterji, Pinka - 2006

We estimate the relationship between 10th grade binge drinking in 1990 and labor market outcomes in 2000 among National Educational Longitudinal Survey respondents. For females, adolescent drinking and adult wages are unrelated, and negative employment effects disappear once academic achievement...

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Adolescent Drinking and High School Dropout

Chatterji, Pinka - 2005

This paper estimates the effect of binge and frequent drinking by adolescents on subsequent high school dropout using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Young Adults. We estimate an instrumental variables model with an indicator of any past month alcohol use, which is by...

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