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作者：Anders, John; Barr, Andrew C.; Smith, Alexander A.
作者单位：Trinity University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; United States Department of Defense; United States Army; United States Military Academy
摘要：We compare the effects of early childhood education on adult crimi-nal behavior across time periods, using administrative crime data that provide significant precision advantages over existing work. We find that improvements in early childhood education led to large (20 per-cent) reductions in later criminal behavior, reductions that far exceed those implied by estimates of test score gains in prior studies. While the benefits generated account for a large portion of the costs of the education...
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作者：Wu, Jia; Zhang, Junsen; Wang, Chunchao
作者单位：Shandong University; Zhejiang University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Jinan University; Jinan University
摘要：We estimate the effects of an educational peer intervention in which previously high-and low-achieving students are randomly paired as deskmates in elementary schools in China. Our treatment boosts the mathematics scores of the low-achieving students. Moreover, the treatment enhances the extraversion and agreeableness of high -and low-achieving students, thereby providing evidence that peers can influence personality traits. The positive treatment effects can be attributed to the deskmate-leve...
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作者：Shi, Ying; Singleton, John D.
作者单位：University of Rochester; University of Rochester
摘要：We examine the causal influence of educators elected to the school board on local education production. The key empirical challenge is that school board composition is endogenously determined through the electoral process. To overcome this, we develop a novel research design that leverages California's randomized assignment of the order that candidate names appear on election ballots. We find that an additional educator elected to the school board reduces charter schooling and increases teache...
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作者：Wallace, Jacob
作者单位：Yale University
摘要：Leveraging the random assignment of over 50,000 Medicaid enroll-ees in New York, I present causal evidence that narrower networks are a blunt instrument for reducing health care spending. While nar-rower networks constrain spending, they do so by generating hassle costs that reduce quantity, with modest effects on prices paid to pro-viders. Enrollees assigned to narrower networks use fewer of both needed and unneeded services and are less satisfied with their plans. Using my causal estimates t...
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作者：Achou, Bertrand
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要：Housing is mostly exempted from Medicaid and Supplemental Social Insurance means tests. Reforms of this special treatment have been debated, but little is known about its costs, benefits, and redistributive implications. I estimate a life cycle model of single retirees accounting for this exemption. It shows that the homestead exemption explains important patterns of Medicaid recipiency and that it is highly valued. It also shows that estate recovery could cover most of its costs with possibly...
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作者：Miglino, Enrico; Navarrete, Nicolas h.; Navarrete, Gonzalo h.; Navarrete, Pablo h.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Universidad de Chile; Polytechnic University of Milan; Universidad de Chile; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We estimate the effect of a permanent income increase on the health outcomes of the elderly poor. Our regression discontinuity design exploits an eligibility cutoff in a Chilean basic pension program that grants monthly payments to retirees without a contributory pension. Using administrative data, we find that four years after applying, basic pension recipients are 2.7 percentage points less likely to have died. Survey evidence suggests an increase in food consumption and visits to health cen...
