EARLY, LATE OR NEVER? WHEN DOES PARENTAL EDUCATION IMPACT CHILD OUTCOMES? [0.03%]
早育、晚育还是根本不育？父母教育背景对子女的影响何时显现？
Matt Dickson,Paul Gregg,Harriet Robinson
Matt Dickson
We estimate the causal effect of parents' education on their children's education and examine the timing of the impact. We identify the causal effect by exploiting the exogenous shift in (parents') education levels induced by the 1972 minim...
LONGITUDINAL EVIDENCE FOR A MIDLIFE NADIR IN HUMAN WELL-BEING: RESULTS FROM FOUR DATA SETS [0.03%]
来自四个数据集的证据表明人类福祉在中年时出现低谷：纵向证据
Terence C Cheng,Nattavudh Powdthavee,Andrew J Oswald
Terence C Cheng
There is a large amount of cross-sectional evidence for a midlife low in the life cycle of human happiness and well-being (a 'U shape'). Yet no genuinely longitudinal inquiry has uncovered evidence for a U-shaped pattern. Thus, some researc...
Rita Santos,Hugh Gravelle,Carol Propper
Rita Santos
Reforms giving users of public services choice of provider aim to improve quality. But such reforms will work only if quality affects choice of provider. We test this crucial prerequisite in the English health care market by examining the c...
How Social Preferences Shape Incentives in (Experimental) Markets for Credence Goods [0.03%]
社会偏好如何影响（实验）信誉商品市场中的激励机制
Rudolf Kerschbamer,Matthias Sutter,Uwe Dulleck
Rudolf Kerschbamer
Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies caused by superior information of sellers about the surplus-maximising quality. While standard theory predicts that equal mark-up prices solve the credence goods problem if customers can ver...
The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviour [0.03%]
两种有影响力的儿童早期干预措施对健康和健康行为的影响
Gabriella Conti,James Heckman,Rodrigo Pinto
Gabriella Conti
This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool P...
Achyuta Adhvaryu,Anant Nyshadham
Achyuta Adhvaryu
Do parents invest more in higher quality children, or do they compensate for lower quality by giving more to children with lower endowments? We answer this question in the context of a large-scale iodine supplementation programme in Tanzani...
Alícia Adserà,Mariola Pytliková
Alícia Adserà
This paper examines the importance of language in international migration from multiple angles by studying the role of linguistic proximity, widely spoken languages, linguistic enclaves and language-based immigration policy requirements. To...
Janet Currie,Valentina Duque,Irwin Garfinkel
Janet Currie
We use longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study to investigate the impacts of the Great Recession on the health of mothers. We focus on a wide range of physical and mental health outcomes, as well as health beh...
Early Health Shocks, Intra-household Resource Allocation and Child Outcomes [0.03%]
早期健康冲击、家庭内部资源配置与儿童发展结果的关系研究
Junjian Yi,James J Heckman,Junsen Zhang et al.
Junjian Yi et al.
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey...
James J Heckman
James J Heckman