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Long term impacts of compensatory preschool on health and behavior : evidence from head start

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012

This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to...

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Wealth dynamics in the 1980's and 1990's : Sweden and the U.S.

Klevmarken, Anders; Lupton, Joseph P.; Stafford, Frank - 2000

wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990 s has …

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The Hausman-MaCurdy controversy : why do results differ between studies?

Eklöf, Matias; Sacklén, Hans - 1997

The two perhaps most influential empirical labor supply studies carried out in the U.S. in recent years, Hausman (1981) and MaCurdy, Green & Paarsch (1990), report sharply contradicting labor supply estimates. In this paper we seek to uncover the driving forces behind the seemingly...

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Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe

Chakraborty, Indraneel; Holter, Hans A.; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - 2012

Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also...

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