When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health [0.03%]
当爸爸可以待在家时 —— 父亲的工作场所灵活性与母亲的健康状况之间的关系
Petra Persson,Maya Rossin-Slater
Petra Persson
We study how fathers' access to workplace flexibility affects maternal postpartum health. We use variation from a Swedish reform that granted new fathers more flexibility to take intermittent parental leave during the postpartum period and ...
Mitra Akhtari,Natalie Bau,Jean-William Laliberté
Mitra Akhtari
Though racial affirmative action (AA) policies are widespread in college admissions, evidence on their effects before college is limited. We study a US Supreme Court ruling that reinstated AA in three states. Using nationwide SAT data, we s...
Yiqun Chen,Petra Persson,Maria Polyakova
Yiqun Chen
In the context of Sweden, we show that having a doctor in the family raises preventive health investments throughout the life cycle, improves physical health, and prolongs life. Two quasi-experimental research designs-medical school admissi...
The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being [0.03%]
现金转移支付对贫困母亲的家庭结构和身心健康的影响分析
Anna Aizer,Sungwoo Cho,Shari Eli et al.
Anna Aizer et al.
We use newly collected data for 16,000 women who applied for Mothers' Pensions, America's first welfare program, to investigate the effect of means-tested cash transfers on lifetime family structure and maternal well-being. In the short ter...
Parag Mahajan,Dean Yang
Parag Mahajan
How readily do potential migrants respond to increased returns to migration? Even if origin areas become less attractive vis-à-vis migration destinations, fixed costs can prevent increased migration. We examine migration responses to hurri...
Externalities and Taxation of Supplemental Insurance: A Study of Medicare and Medigap [0.03%]
外部性和补充保险的税收：一项关于医疗保险和Medigap的研究
Marika Cabral,Neale Mahoney
Marika Cabral
Most health insurance uses cost-sharing to reduce excess utilization. Supplemental insurance can blunt the impact of this cost-sharing, increasing utilization and exerting a negative externality on the primary insurer. This paper estimates ...
Michael Geruso,Dean Spears,Ishaana Talesara
Michael Geruso
Inversions-in which the popular vote winner loses the election-have occurred in four US presidential races. We show that rather than being statistical flukes, inversions have been ex ante likely since the early 1800s. In elections yielding ...
Michael Geruso,Dean Spears
Michael Geruso
In this paper, we shed new light on a long-standing puzzle: in India, Muslim children are substantially more likely than Hindu children to survive to their first birthday, even though Indian Muslims have lower wealth, consumption, education...
Bryan A Stuart
Bryan A Stuart
This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census data, I estimate difference-in-differences regressions that exploit variation across counties in recession severity and a...
When Sarah Meets Lawrence: The Effects of Coeducation on Women's College Major Choices [0.03%]
当莎拉遇见劳伦斯：男女同校对女子大学专业选择的影响
Avery Calkins,Ariel J Binder,Dana Shaat et al.
Avery Calkins et al.
We leverage variation in the adoption of coeducation by U.S. women's colleges to study how exposure to a mixed-gender collegiate environment affects women's human capital investments. Our event-study analyses of newly collected historical d...