Journal ArticleJournal of Marriage and Family · April 1, 2025
Objectives: Guided by the life-course principles of linked lives embedded in historical time and place, we investigated whether nonresident adult children provided financial and time assistance to parents in response to their needs during the COVID-19 pand ...
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Journal ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · August 2024
ObjectivesRacial-ethnic disparities in experiences of economic hardship during the pandemic are well documented in the population overall and among older adults. Existing research shows that this economic hardship was much less common at older tha ...
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Journal ArticleThe Gerontologist · June 2024
Background and objectivesThe oldest adults faced the highest risk of death and hospitalization from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but less is known about whether they also were the most likely to experience pandemic-related economic, health ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2024
Activity space research explores the behavioral impact of the spaces people move through in daily life. This research has focused on urban settings, devoting little attention to non-urban settings. We examined the validity of the activity space method, com ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · January 2024
BackgroundAlzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease related dementias (AD/ADRD) have increased in prevalence.ObjectiveThis article describes the Add Health Parent Study (AHPS) Phase 2, a study of social, behavioral, and biological facto ...
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Scholarly Edition · January 1, 2023
This work examines the influence of parental wealth and income on children’s college attendance and parents’ financing decisions and on whether children graduate from college. We also examine whether parental financing affects the subsequent indebtedness o ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · August 2022
The federal statistical system is experiencing competing pressures for change. On the one hand, for confidentiality reasons, much socially valuable data currently held by federal agencies is either not made available to researchers at all or only made avai ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Labor Economics · October 1, 2021
This paper investigates the wage returns to schooling and actual early work experiences and how these returns have changed over the past 20 years. Using the NLSY surveys, we develop and estimate a dynamic model of the joint schooling and work decisions tha ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Prev Med · October 2021
INTRODUCTION: The generational relevance for determining disease risk for the leading causes of morbidity and mortality for U.S. adults is a source of debate. METHODS: Data on 12,300 adults (Add Health Study Members) participating in Wave V (2016-2018) of ...
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Journal ArticleJ Adolesc Health · March 2021
PURPOSE: We aimed to assess the prevalence of four cardiovascular risk factors (obesity, diabetes, excessive alcohol intake, and cigarette smoking) for parents and their adult children at the same approximate midlife age. We also evaluated associations of ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Political Economy · December 1, 2020
Using data from Duke University undergraduates, we make three main contributions to the literature. First, we show that data on earnings beliefs and probabilities of choosing particular occupations are highly informative of future earnings and occupations. ...
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Journal ArticleResearch in social stratification and mobility · October 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified U.S. health disparities. Though disparities in COVID-19 hospitalization by race-ethnicity are large, disparities by income and education have not been studied. Using an index based on preexisting health conditions and ag ...
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Journal ArticlemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · May 30, 2020
This paper provides the first nationally representative estimates of vulnerability to severe complications from COVID-19 overall and across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine the prevalence ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of marriage and the family · April 2020
ObjectiveThis brief report presents contemporary national estimates of the spatial distance between residences of parents and adult children in the United States, including distance to one's nearest parent and/or adult child and whether one lives ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · November 1, 2019
We analyze policies that support and affect the provision and costs of child care in the United States. These policies are motivated by at least three objectives: (1) improving the cognitive and social development of young children, (2) facilitating matern ...
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Journal ArticleDemography · February 2019
Unstable couple relationships and high rates of repartnering have increased the share of U.S. families with stepkin. Yet data on stepfamily structure are from earlier periods, include only coresident stepkin, or cover only older adults. In this study, we u ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
The everyday hardships of teen motherhood come into public consciousness through media attention to and the prevalence of teen childbearing throughout the United States. The apparent adverse consequences of teen motherhood have become an important issue in ...
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Journal ArticleEconometric Theory · February 1, 2017
This paper examines the problem of identification and inference on a conditional moment condition model with missing data, with special focus on the case when the conditioning covariates are missing. We impose no assumption on the distribution of the missi ...
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Journal ArticleResearch on aging · January 2017
Early in the last century, it was commonplace for elderly women to live with their adult children. Over time, the prevalence of this type of living arrangement declined, as incomes increased. In more recent decades, coresidence between adult children and t ...
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Scholarly Edition · March 2016
We examine differences in minority science graduation rates among University of California campuses when racial preferences were in place. Less prepared minorities at higher ranked campuses had lower persistence rates in science and took longer to graduate ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Economic Review · March 2016
We examine differences in minority science graduation rates among
University of California campuses when racial preferences were
in place. Less prepared minorities at higher ranked campuses had
lower persistence rates in science and took longer to graduate ...
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Scholarly Edition · March 1, 2016
We examine differences in minority science graduation rates among University of California campuses when racial preferences were in place. Less-prepared minorities at higher-ranked campuses had lower persistence rates in science and took longer to graduate ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of population economics · October 2015
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Fueled by new evidence, there has been renewed interest about the effects of birth order on human capital accumulation. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more stringent disciplin ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2015
In reviewing the work by Manlove, Franzetta, Ryan, and Moore (this volume), I begin with a brief discussion of the economic approach to the modeling of adolescent sexual behavior and discuss its empirical implications. To illustrate this approach, I discus ...
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Scholarly Edition · December 1, 2014
Proposition 209 banned the use of racial preferences in admissions at public colleges in California. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system before and after Prop 209. After Prop 209, minority ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper · October 1, 2014
We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as preferences for different treatments. In this paper we focus o ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Inquiry · January 1, 2013
We examine the incentives for firms to voluntarily disclose otherwise private information about the quality attributes of their products. In particular, we focus on the case of differentiated products with multiple attributes and heterogeneous consumers. W ...
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Journal Article · 2012
The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future earnings streams associated with the different majors. We survey students abo ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Econometrics · January 1, 2012
The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future earnings streams associated with the different majors. We survey students abo ...
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Journal ArticleThe American economic review · August 2011
We examine the impact of state child care regulations on the supply and quality of care in child care markets. We exploit panel data on both individual establishments and local markets to control for state, time, and, where possible, establishment-specific ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Economic Review · August 2011
We examine the impact of state child care regulations on the supply and
quality of care in child care markets. We exploit panel data on both
individual establishments and local markets to control for state, time,
and, where possible, establishment-speci ...
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Journal ArticleAdvances in life course research · March 2010
Medical practitioners typically utilize the following protocol when advising pregnant women about testing for the possibility of genetic disorders with their fetus: Pregnant women over the age of 35 should be tested for Down syndrome and other genetic diso ...
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Journal ArticleBiometrika · March 1, 2009
Estimation of average treatment effects under unconfounded or ignorable treatment assignment is often hampered by lack of overlap in the covariate distributions between treatment groups. This lack of overlap can lead to imprecise estimates, and can make co ...
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Scholarly Edition · 2009
Estimation of average treatment effects under unconfounded or ignorable treatment assignment is often hampered by lack of overlap in the covariate distributions between treatment groups. This lack of overlap can lead to imprecise estimates, and can make co ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Economics and Statistics · August 1, 2008
In this paper we develop two nonparametric tests of treatment effect heterogeneity. The first test is for the null hypothesis that the treatment has a zero average effect for all subpopulations defined by covariates. The second test is for the null hypothe ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic journal (London, England) · April 2008
This paper examines parental reputation formation in intra-familial interactions. In a repeated two-stage game, children decide whether to drop out of high school or daughters decide whether to have births as teens and parents then decide whether to provid ...
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Scholarly Edition · 2008
This study examines how the returns to wages of early work and schooling experiences changed for young men and women in the United States over the latter half of the twentieth century. Our analysis focuses on the experi¬ences of young men and women from tw ...
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Scholarly Edition · 2008
In this paper we develop two nonparametric tests of treatment effect heterogeneity. The first test is for the null hypothesis that the treatment has a zero average effect for all subpopulations defined by covariates. The second test is for the null hypothe ...
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Journal ArticleNational Tax Journal · January 1, 2008
We examine EITC compliance using a unique dataset combining income tax returns, Unemployment Insurance data, state child support data, and data collected by hand from Wisconsin courthouses. A substantial number of EITC claims are made by adults listed as t ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics of Education Review · August 1, 2006
This study examines the changes in the school-to-work transition of young adults in the United States over the latter part of the twentieth century. Their transition is portrayed using data from National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women, Young Men, and ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Labor Economics · July 1, 2006
We show how data from an evaluation in which subjects are randomly assigned to some treatment versus a control group can be combined with nonexperimental methods to estimate the differential effects of alternative treatments. We propose tests for the valid ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of marriage and the family · November 2005
Twenty years ago, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) issued a request for proposals that resulted in the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), a unique survey valuable to a wide range of family scholars. This ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Econometrics · March 1, 2005
The problem of predicting the average effect of a new training program using experiences with previous implementations was investigated. The ability to adjust for population differences depends on the availability of characteristics of the two populations ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Human Resources · January 1, 2005
We exploit a "natural experiment" associated with human reproduction to identify the causal effect of teen childbearing on the socioeconomic attainment of teen mothers. We exploit the fact that some women who become pregnant experience a miscarriage and do ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Human Resources · 2005
We exploit a “natural experiment” associated with human reproduction to
identify the causal effect of teen childbearing on the socioeconomic attainment
of teen mothers. We exploit the fact that some women who become
pregnant experience a miscarriage and do ...
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Journal Article · December 1, 2004
This chapter examines the trends in and determinants of child death rates in the United States over the period 1980 to 1998. The annual death rate (number of deaths per 100,000 population) of children age zero to nineteen declined by 39.6 percent over this ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health economics · January 2004
Accidents are the leading cause of death and injury among children in the United States, far surpassing diseases as a health threat. We examine the effects of child care regulation on rates of accidental injury using both micro data from the National Longi ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Economics and Statistics · May 1, 2002
This paper examines the effects of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates. Previous studies have found sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high sc ...
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Scholarly Edition · January 31, 2001
In this paper we examine the effect of the EITC on the employment rates of adults who received welfare (AFDC) during the 1990s. The first part of the paper begins with a description of the changes in the EITC over the last ten years, its administration, an ...
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Scholarly Edition · August 1, 1999
In this paper, we exploit a "natural experiment" associated with human reproduction to identify the effect of teen childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes, and financial self-sufficiency. In particular, we ...
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Scholarly Edition · July 1, 1999
This paper examines the impacts of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men’s wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while ...
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Scholarly Edition · July 1, 1999
In this report, we examine the eligibility for and participation in the earned income tax credit (EITC) for low-income families in California during the 1990s. The EITC is a federal in-come tax credit available to working poor families, with the amount of ...
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Journal ArticleThe Review of Economic Studies · 1997
In this paper, we consider what can be learned about causal effects when one uses a contaminated instrumental variable. In particular, we consider what inferences can be made about the causal effect of teenage childbearing on a teen mother's subsequent out ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Economic Studies · January 1, 1997
In this paper, we consider what can be learned about causal effects when one uses a contaminated instrumental variable. In particular, we consider what inferences can be made about the causal effect of teenage childbearing on a teen mother's subsequent out ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Human Resources · January 1, 1996
This paper investigates the degree to which the local prevalence of AIDS increases the demand for disease-preventing methods of contraception among young adults. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY-1979), we find substantial evi ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Economic Studies · April 1994
This paper analyzes a new estimator for the structural parameters of
dynamic models of discrete choice. Based on an inversion theorem due to V.
J. Hotz and R. Miller (1993), which establishes the existence of a
one-to-one mapping between the conditional ...
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Journal ArticleThe Review of Economic Studies · 1994
This paper analyses a new estimator for the structural parameters of dynamic models of discrete choice. Based on an inversion theorem due to Hotz and Miller (1993), which establishes the existence of a one-to-one mapping between the conditional valuation f ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Economic Studies · January 1, 1994
This paper analyses a new estimator for the structural parameters of dynamic models of discrete choice. Based on an inversion theorem due to Hotz and Miller (1993), which establishes the existence of a one-to-one mapping between the conditional valuation f ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Economic Studies · July 1993
This paper develops a new method for estimating the structural parameters
of (discrete choice) dynamic programming problems. They show the valuation
functions characterizing the expected future utility associated with the
choices often can be represente ...
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Journal ArticleThe Review of Economic Studies · 1993
This paper develops a new method for estimating the structural parameters of (discrete choice) dynamic programming problems. The method reduces the computational burden of estimating such models. We show the valuation functions characterizing the expected ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Economic Studies · January 1, 1993
First version received April final version accepted January 1993 This paper develops a new method for estimating the structural parameters of (discrete choice) dynamic programming problems. The method reduces the computational burden of estimating such mod ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Statistical Association · January 1, 1989
The recent literature on evaluating manpower training programs demonstrates that alternative nonexperimental estimators of the same program produce an array of estimates of program impact. These findings have led to the call for experiments to be used to p ...
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Journal ArticleEconometrica · January 1988
This paper examines household fertility and female labor supply over the
life cycle. The authors investigate ho w maternal time and market inputs,
and benefits children yield their parents, vary with their ages and
influence female labor supply and c on ...
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Journal ArticleEvaluation Review · January 1, 1987
This article assesses several recent studies in the manpower training evaluation literature claiming that (1) nonexperimental methods of program evaluation produce unreliable estimates of program impacts and (2) randomized experiments are necessary to prod ...
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Proposition 209 banned using racial preferences in admissions at California's public colleges. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system before and after Prop 209. After Prop 209, graduation rat ...
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Proposition 209 banned the use of racial preferences in admissions at public colleges in California. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system before and after Prop 209. After Prop 209, graduati ...
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The low number of college graduates with science degrees - particularly among underrepresented minorities - is of growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student-level data on the Univer ...
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The low number of college graduates with science degrees – particularly among under-represented minorities – is of growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student-level data on the Unive ...
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Since the mid-1970s, the U.S. experienced substantial changes in the industrial composition of employment and wages owing to energy price shocks, increased international competition, and technological change. As the share of total manufacturing employment ...
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In this paper, I review the issues confronted in designing the U.S. National Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Study, discuss how these issues were dealt with and assess the efficacy of the final design in evaluating the JTPA system and in resolving the ...
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We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of income and employment data in national surveys, in unemployment insurance (UI) wage records, and in tax returns. The CPS, SIPP, NLS, and PSID surveys provide valuable information on the behavior of the low-income ...
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We examine the impact of minimum quality standards on the supply side of the child care market, using a unique panel data set merged from the Census of Services Industries, state regulation data, and administrative accreditation records from the National A ...
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Since its inception in 1975, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has grown into the largest, Federally-funded means-tested cash assistance program in the United States. In this chapter, we review the political history of the EITC, its rules and goals and p ...
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In this paper, we explore a strategy for constructing non-parametric bounds on the effects of treatments actually received in experiments. While treatment statuses may be randomly assigned, experiments involving human subjects are potentially vulnerable to ...
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This paper investigates the degree to which the local prevalence of AIDS increases the demand for disease-preventing methods of contraception among young adults. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we find substantial evidence ...
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We examine the effects of the failure of teen mothers to delay their childbearing on their subsequent behavior and socioeconomic attainment. We estimate these causal effects by exploiting an innovative evaluation design in which women who first become preg ...
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In this paper, we explore ways of combining experimental data and non-experimental methods to estimate the differential effects of components of training programs. We show how data from a multi-site experimental evaluation in which subjects are randomly as ...
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This paper examines the impacts of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while ...
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This paper investigates the patterns and determinants of how families care for their pre-school age children. In contrast to all existing studies, we analyze the child care decisions of households with non-working mothers as well as those with working moth ...
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A large part of the recent literature on program evaluation has focused on estimation of the average effect of the treatment under assumptions of unconfoundedness or ignorability following the seminal work by Rubin (1974) and Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983). In ...
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In this paper, we examine the empirical implications of reputation formation using a game-theoretic model of intra-familial interactions. We consider parental reputation in repeated two-stage games in which daughters' decision to have a child as a teenager ...
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This study examines the changes in the school-to-work transition in the
United States over the latter part of the twentieth century and their consequences
for the wages of young adults. In particular, we document the various types of work
and schoo ...
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