NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

NBER Papers in Child Welfare


2012
w17834 Susan Dynarski
Mark Wiederspan

Student Aid Simplification: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

w17803 Gregory F. Branch
Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin

Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: The Case of School Principals

w17781 Silvia H. Barcellos
Leandro Carvalho
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Child Gender And Parental Investments In India: Are Boys And Girls Treated Differently?

w17774 Chris M. Herbst
Erdal Tekin

Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions: Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets

w17730 Eric A. Hanushek
Kuzey Yilmaz

Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education

w17722 C. Kirabo Jackson
Do High-School Teachers Really Matter?

w17720 Scott A. Imberman
Adriana D. Kugler

The Effect of Providing Breakfast on Student Performance: Evidence from an In-Class Breakfast Program


2011
w17715 Maya Rossin-Slater
Christopher J. Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel

The Effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers’ Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

w17713 Douglas Almond
Bhashkar Mazumder
Reyn van Ewijk

Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance

w17710 David J. Deming
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?

w17704 Alexander M. Gelber
Adam Isen

Children’s Schooling and Parents’ Investment in Children: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study

w17702 Esther Duflo
Women’s Empowerment and Economic Development

w17699 Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Jonah E. Rockoff

The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

w17690 Verónica Amarante
Marco Manacorda
Edward Miguel
Andrea Vigorito

Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data

w17676 Douglas Almond
Janet Currie
Mariesa Herrmann

From Infant to Mother: Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health

w17667 Marianne Bitler
Hilary W. Hoynes

Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net

w17633 Martha J. Bailey
Susan M. Dynarski

Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion

w17610 Jesse Rothstein
Nathan Wozny

Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap

w17605 Naci H. Mocan
Bulent Unel

Skill-biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime

w17600 John Cawley
Asako S. Moriya
Kosali I. Simon

The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession

w17589 Daniel M. Hungerman
Substitution and Stigma: Evidence on Religious Competition from the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal

w17541 Marianne Bertrand
Jessica Pan

The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior

w17533 Susan Dynarski
Joshua M. Hyman
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion

w17507 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Erdal Tekin

Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior

w17485 Lisa J. Dettling
Melissa Schettini Kearney

House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

w17478 Harold E. Cuffe
William T. Harbaugh
Jason M. Lindo
Giancarlo Musto
Glen R. Waddell

Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living

w17471 Chris M. Herbst
Erdal Tekin

The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity

w17452 Chloe Gibbs
Jens Ludwig
Douglas L. Miller

Does Head Start Do Any Lasting Good?

w17438 David J. Deming
Justine S. Hastings
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment

w17435 Lance Lochner
Alexander Monge-Naranjo

Credit Constraints in Education

w17434 Nicholas J. Sanders
Charles F. Stoecker

Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Using Gender Ratios to Measure Fetal Death Rates

w17426 Susan Busch
Ezra Golberstein
Ellen Meara

The FDA and ABCs: The Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Human Capital

w17381 Robert Fairlie
Florian Hoffmann
Philip Oreopoulos

A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

w17378 James J. Heckman
Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics

w17375 Daniel M. Hungerman
Do Religious Proscriptions Matter? Evidence from a Theory-Based Test

w17369 Brian A. Jacob
Jens Ludwig
Douglas L. Miller

The Effects of Housing and Neighborhood Conditions on Child Mortality

w17343 Martha J. Bailey
Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on U.S. Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X

w17337 Elisabetta Gentile
Scott A. Imberman

Dressed for Success? The Effect of School Uniforms on Student Achievement and Behavior

w17332 Joshua D. Angrist
Parag A. Pathak
Christopher R. Walters

Explaining Charter School Effectiveness

w17286 Will Dobbie
Roland G. Fryer
Jr.

Exam High Schools and Academic Achievement: Evidence from New York City

w17255 Pascaline Dupas
Jonathan Robinson

Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments

w17235 Ilyana Kuziemko
Human Capital Spillovers in Families: Do Parents Learn from or Lean on their Children?

w17225 C. Kirabo Jackson
School Competition and Teacher Labor Markets: Evidence from Charter School Entry in North Carolina

w17222 Christopher R. Knittel
Douglas L. Miller
Nicholas J. Sanders

Caution, Drivers! Children Present: Traffic, Pollution, and Infant Health

w17210 Michael Greenstone
Rema Hanna

Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India

w17196 Alberto Bisin
Andrea Moro
Giorgio Topa

The Empirical Content of Models with Multiple Equilibria in Economies with Social Interactions

w17185 Ama Baafra Abeberese
Todd J. Kumler
Leigh L. Linden

Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

w17165 Richard Akresh
Eric V. Edmonds

Residential Rivalry and Constraints on the Availability of Child Labor

w17160 Sara Markowitz
E. Kathleen Adams
Patricia M. Dietz
Viji Kannan
Van Tong

Smoking Policies and Birth Outcomes: Estimates From a New Era

w17157 Melissa Schettini Kearney
Phillip B. Levine

Income Inequality and Early Non-Marital Childbearing: An Economic Exploration of the "Culture of Despair"

w17155 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Nora E. Gordon
Sarah J. Reber

Federal Aid and Equality of Educational Opportunity: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South

w17135 Liana E. Fox
Wen-Jui Han
Christopher Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel

Time for Children: Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009

w17105 Michael Baker
Kevin S. Milligan

Maternity Leave and Children’s Cognitive and Behavioral Development

w17104 Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
Anna Gassman-Pines
Dania V. Francis
Christina M. Gibson-Davis

Children Left Behind: The Effects of Statewide Job Loss on Student Achievement

w17098 Alberto F. Alesina
Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn

On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

w17093 Ran Abramitzky
Victor Lavy

How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistribution Policies and in Returns

w17089 Sa A. Bui
Steven G. Craig
Scott A. Imberman

Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impact of Gifted and Talented Programs on Achievement

w17088 David Card
Laura Giuliano

Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends

w17081 John Cawley
Christopher Ruhm

The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

w17070 Craig L. Garthwaite
The Doctor Might See You Now: The Supply Side Effects of Public Health Insurance Expansions

w17059 William T. Harbaugh
Naci H. Mocan
Michael S. Visser

Theft and Deterrence

w17047 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

w17039 Lance Lochner
Enrico Moretti

Estimating and Testing Non-Linear Models Using Instrumental Variables

w17016 Joseph P. Ferrie
Karen Rolf

Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and Health After Age 70: A New Longitudinal Analysis for the U.S., 1895-2005

w16973 Daniel M. Hungerman
The Effect of Education on Religion: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws

w16935 James J. Heckman
Rodrigo Pinto
Azeem M. Shaikh
Adam Yavitz

Inference with Imperfect Randomization: The Case of the Perry Preschool Program

w16933 Florencia Devoto
Esther Duflo
Pascaline Dupas
William Pariente
Vincent Pons

Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

w16930 David N. Figlio
Sarah Hamersma
Jeffrey Roth

Information Shocks and Social Networks

w16917 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
James J. Heckman
John Eric Humphries

Identification Problems in Personality Psychology

w16915 Sara Markowitz
Alison Evans Cuellar
Ryan M. Conrad
Michael Grossman

The Effects of Alcohol Policies in Reducing Entry Rates and Time Spent in Foster Care

w16886 Cristian Pop-Eleches
Miguel Urquiola

Going to a Better School: Effects and Behavioral Responses

w16885 Victor Lavy
What Makes an Effective Teacher? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

w16880 Steve Cicala
Roland G. Fryer
Jr.
Jörg L. Spenkuch

A Roy Model of Social Interactions

w16876 Wehn-Jyuan Tsai
Jin-Tan Liu
Shin-Yi Chou
Michael Grossman

Intergeneration Transfer of Human Capital: Results from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan

w16873 Patricia M. Anderson
Kristin F. Butcher
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Adequate (or Adipose?) Yearly Progress: Assessing the Effect of "No Child Left Behind" on Children's Obesity

w16865 Scott E. Carrell
Bruce I. Sacerdote
James E. West

From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects

w16856 Victor Lavy
Alexander Zablotsky

Mother’s Schooling and Fertility under Low Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

w16844 Janet Currie
Michael Greenstone
Enrico Moretti

Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health

w16841 James J. Heckman
The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality

w16830 Jishnu Das
Stefan Dercon
James Habyarimana
Pramila Krishnan
Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman

School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

w16822 Mathilde Almlund
Angela Lee Duckworth
James J. Heckman
Tim D. Kautz

Personality Psychology and Economics

w16817 C. Kirabo Jackson
Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection: Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago

w16802 Mimi Engel
Brian A. Jacob

New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply

w16798 Janet Currie
Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences

w16751 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Consumption and Income Poverty over the Business Cycle

w16722 Lance Lochner
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

w16711 Dalton Conley
Emily Rauscher

The Equal Environments Assumption in the Post-Genomic Age: Using Misclassified Twins to Estimate Bias in Heritability Models

w16673 Patricia M. Anderson
Kristin F. Butcher
Elizabeth U. Cascio
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children's BMI When Starting Age is Endogenous

w16671 Dalton Conley
Jennifer Heerwig

The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability

w16664 Rucker C. Johnson
Long-run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments

w16663 Julie Berry Cullen
Mark C. Long
Randall Reback

Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Choice Under Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan


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