The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Public Assistance - Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit [0.03%]
贫困的代际传递与公共援助——来自美国所得税收抵免政策的证据
Nicardo McInnis,Katherine Michelmore,Natasha Pilkauskas
Nicardo McInnis
This paper examines the intergenerational effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on poverty and public assistance use. Using PSID data, we find that increased exposure to the EITC in childhood reduces the likelihood of being in pove...
Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Older Adult Mortality in Rural Mexico [0.03%]
非 contributory 养老金对墨西哥农村老年人口死亡率的影响
Felipe Menares,William H Dow,Susan W Parker et al.
Felipe Menares et al.
We study an unconditional cash transfer program aimed at alleviating rural poverty among older adults. Using death records and a triple difference design, we find a 5.5% reduction in mortality for women, mostly due to a decrease in non-card...
Early-life Exposure to the Great Depression and Long-term Health and Economic Outcomes [0.03%]
大萧条时期的早期生活经历与长期健康和经济结果之间的关系
Valentina Duque,Lauren L Schmitz
Valentina Duque
Using state-year-level variation from the Great Depression we show that adverse economic conditions experienced in early life are associated with worse labor market outcomes in prime-age years and worse economic wellbeing, morbidity, and mo...
Orla Doyle
Orla Doyle
Many early intervention studies experience a dissolution of treatment effects in the aftermath of the intervention. Using a randomized trial, this paper examines the impact of Preparing for Life, a pregnancy to age five home visiting and pa...
"Whose help is on the way?": The importance of individual police officers in law enforcement outcomes [0.03%]
“谁来提供帮助？”：个别警察在执法结果中的重要性
Emily K Weisburst
Emily K Weisburst
Police discretion has large potential consequences for public trust and safety; however, little is known about the extent of this discretion. I show that arrests critically depend on which officer responds to a 911 call; 1 standard deviatio...
Trajectories of Early Childhood Skill Development and Maternal Mental Health [0.03%]
幼儿技能发展轨迹和母亲心理健康状况
Dilek Sevim,Victoria Baranov,Sonia Bhalotra et al.
Dilek Sevim et al.
We investigate the impacts of a perinatal psychosocial intervention on trajectories of maternal mental health and child skills, from birth to age 3. We find improved maternal mental health and functioning (0.17 to 0.29 SD), modest but impre...
The Consequences of Performance Standards in Need-Based Aid: Evidence from Community Colleges [0.03%]
基于需求的援助中的绩效标准会带来哪些后果？社区大学的证据
Judith Scott-Clayton,Lauren Schudde
Judith Scott-Clayton
Even need-based financial aid programs typically require recipients to meet Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) requirements. Using regression discontinuity and difference-in-difference designs, we examine the consequences of failing SAP f...
Publish or Perish: Selective Attrition as a Unifying Explanation for Patterns in Innovation over the Career [0.03%]
发表或消亡：职业生涯中创新模式的统一解释——择优淘汰机制的影响
Huifeng Yu,Gerald Marschke,Matthew B Ross et al.
Huifeng Yu et al.
Studying 5.6 million biomedical science articles published over three decades, we reconcile conflicts in a longstanding interdisciplinary literature on scientists' life-cycle productivity by controlling for selective attrition and distingui...
Silvia H Barcellos,Leandro S Carvalho,Patrick Turley
Silvia H Barcellos
This paper studies distributional effects of education on health. In 1972, England, Scotland, and Wales raised their minimum school-leaving age from 15 to 16 for students born after 9/1/1957. Using a regression discontinuity design and obje...
Is There a Male-Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes [0.03%]
是否存在一种以男性为主要养家人的规范？从婚姻市场结果推断偏好的危险性
Ariel J Binder,David Lam
Ariel J Binder
This paper argues that distributions of spousal earnings gaps provide no identifying information for the male breadwinner norm, nor such a norm's consequences for gender inequality. First, we show that simple marital matching models-without...