Janet Currie,Erdal Tekin
Janet Currie
Child maltreatment is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the relationship between child maltreatment and crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We focus on crime because...
Why Wait?: The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wages of Men and Women [0.03%]
何必等：婚姻和生育如何影响男女工资水平？
David S Loughran,Julie M Zissimopoulos
David S Loughran
We use data from the earlier and later cohorts of the NLSY to estimate the effect of marriage and childbearing on wages. Our estimates imply that marriage lowers female wages 2-4 percent in the year of marriage. Marriage also lowers the wag...
Elderly Care and Intrafamily Resource Allocation when Children Migrate [0.03%]
儿童迁移情况下的老人护理与家庭内部资源分配
Francisca M Antman
Francisca M Antman
This paper considers the intrafamily allocation of elderly care in the context of international migration where migrant children may be able to provide financial assistance to their parents, but are unable to offer physical care. To investi...
Slipping Anchor? Testing the Vignettes Approach to Identification and Correction of Reporting Heterogeneity [0.03%]
锚链松动了吗？检验 vignette 方法以识别和纠正异质性报告问题的有效性
Teresa Bago d&#x;Uva,Maarten Lindeboom,Owen O&#x;Donnell et al.
Teresa Bago d&#x;Uva et al.
We propose tests of the two assumptions under which anchoring vignettes identify heterogeneity in reporting of categorical evaluations. Systematic variation in the perceived difference between any two vignette states is sufficient to reject...
The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya [0.03%]
关于艾滋病治疗的经济影响：肯尼亚西部地区的劳动供给
Harsha Thirumurthy,Joshua Graff Zivin,Markus Goldstein
Harsha Thirumurthy
Using longitudinal survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program, this paper estimates the economic impacts of antiretroviral treatment. The responses in two outcomes are studied: (1) labor supply of treated adult AIDS pat...
Terra McKinnish
Terra McKinnish
I test for welfare-induced migration by comparing AFDC participation in border counties to interior counties in the same state. If migration costs are lower for border county residents, border counties on the high-benefit side of a state bo...
Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age? [0.03%]
教育的长期回报：学校教育是否延长了寿命？
Hans van Kippersluis,Owen O&#x;Donnell,Eddy van Doorslaer
Hans van Kippersluis
While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not firmly established. We exploit a Dutch compulsory schooling law to estimate the causal effect of education ...
What Holds Back the Second Generation? The Intergenerational Transmission of Language Human Capital Among Immigrants [0.03%]
第二代移民为何落后？基于移民的语言人力资本跨代传递的分析
Hoyt Bleakley,Aimee Chin
Hoyt Bleakley
In 2000 Census microdata, various outcomes of second-generation immigrants are related to their parents' age at arrival to the United States, and in particular whether that age fell within the "critical period" of language acquisition. We i...
The impact of state abortion restrictions on minors' demand for abortions [0.03%]
有关州堕胎限制对未成年人寻求堕胎影响的研究
Deborah Haas-Wilson
Deborah Haas-Wilson
K P Dickinson
K P Dickinson
The expected impact of Supported Work on former drug addicts' employment, crime, and drug use are derived from two models: the human capital model and a model of endogenous tastes. Empirically, Supported Work is found to increase the earnin...