Does Access to Family Planning Increase Children's Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X [0.03%]
计划生育能增加儿童的机会吗？来自主导战争和题十早期的证据
Martha J Bailey,Olga Malkova,Zoë M McLaren
Martha J Bailey
This paper examines the relationship between parents' access to family planning and the economic resources of their children. Using the county-level introduction of U.S. family planning programs between 1964 and 1973, we find that children ...
Developing Hope Among Impoverished Children: Using Child Self-Portraits to Measure Poverty Program Impacts [0.03%]
在贫困儿童中培养希望的心情——利用儿童自画像衡量扶贫项目的影响
Paul Glewwe,Phillip H Ross,Bruce Wydick
Paul Glewwe
The role of psychological attributes such as hope in escaping poverty has attracted increasing attention. Crucial questions include the impact of early development of positive psychological attributes on socioeconomic outcomes, and whether ...
Anna Aizer,Laura Stroud,Stephen Buka
Anna Aizer
We study how maternal stress affects offspring outcomes. We find that in-utero exposure to elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol negatively affects offspring cognition, health and educational attainment. These findings are based on...
Does Clean Water Make You Dirty?: Water Supply and Sanitation in the Philippines [0.03%]
清洁的水会让你变“脏”吗——论菲律宾的供水和卫生设施问题
Daniel Bennett
Daniel Bennett
Water supply investments in developing countries may inadvertently worsen sanitation if clean water and sanitation are substitutes. This paper examines the negative correlation between the provision of piped water and household sanitary beh...
Janet Currie,Hannes Schwandt
Janet Currie
The events of 9/11 released a million tons of toxic dust into lower Manhattan, an unparalleled environmental disaster. It is puzzling then that the literature has shown little effect of fetal exposure to the dust. However, inference is comp...
Aging and Strategic Learning: The Impact of Spousal Incentives on Financial Literacy [0.03%]
老龄化与战略性学习：配偶激励对金融知识影响的研究
Joanne W Hsu
Joanne W Hsu
Women tend to be less financially literate than men, consistent with a division of labor where husbands manage finances. However, women tend to outlive their husbands. I find that older women acquire financial literacy as they approach wido...
Christopher S Carpenter,Carlos Dobkin,Casey Warman
Christopher S Carpenter
A substantial economics literature documents that tighter alcohol controls reduce alcohol-related harms, but far less is known about mechanisms. We use the universe of Canadian mortality records to document that Canada's Minimum Legal Drink...
Dan A Black,Amelia Haviland,Seth G Sanders et al.
Dan A Black et al.
In the U.S. college-educated women earn approximately 30 percent less than their non-Hispanic white male counterparts. We conduct an empirical examination of this wage disparity for four groups of women-non-Hispanic white, black, Hispanic, ...
Wealth gradients in early childhood cognitive development in five Latin American countries [0.03%]
五个拉美国家儿童早期认知发展中的财富梯度差异
Norbert Schady,Jere Behrman,Maria Caridad Araujo et al.
Norbert Schady et al.
Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and non-cognitive ability appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. This paper provides new evidence of sharp d...
Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps? [0.03%]
强化型儿童早期干预项目能否消除基于收入的认知和成就差距？
Greg J Duncan,Aaron J Sojourner
Greg J Duncan
How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly a...