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作者：Chou, Shin-Yi; Liu, Jin-Tan; Grossman, Michael; Joyce, Ted
作者单位：Lehigh University; National Bureau of Economic Research; National Taiwan University; City University of New York (CUNY) System; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years and opened over 150 new junior high schools at a differential rate among regions. Within each region, we exploit variations across cohorts in new junior high school openings to construct an instrument for schooling, and employ it to estimate the causal effects of mother's or father's schooling on infant birth outcomes in the years 1978-1999. Parents' schooling does cause favorable infant health outcomes. The incr...
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作者：Magruder, Jeremy R.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This paper examines the importance of network-based intergenerational correlations in South Africa. I use longitudinal data on young South Africans to examine the covariance of children's employment with the usefulness of parents in their job search. I find that fathers serve as useful network connections to their sons (not daughters), and that mothers do not seem to be useful network connections. The father-son effect is robust to alternate explanations of specific human capital and correlate...
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作者：Adda, Jerome; Cornaglia, Francesca
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of London; Queen Mary University London
摘要：We evaluate the effect of smoking bans and excise taxes on the exposure to tobacco smoke of nonsmokers, and we show their unintended consequences on children. Smoking bans perversely increase nonsmokers' exposure by displacing smokers to private places where they contaminate nonsmokers. We exploit data on bio-samples of cotinine, time use, and smoking cessation, as well as state and time variation in anti-smoking policies across US states. We find that higher taxes are an efficient way to decr...
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作者：Akee, Randall K. Q.; Copeland, William E.; Keeler, Gordon; Angold, Adrian; Costello, E. Jane
作者单位：Tufts University; Duke University
摘要：We examine the role an exogenous increase in household income, due to a government transfer unrelated to household characteristics, plays in children's long-run outcomes. Children in affected households have higher levels of education in their young adulthood and a lower incidence of criminality for minor offenses. Effects differ by initial household poverty status. An additional $4,000 per year for the poorest households increases educational attainment by one year at age 21, and reduces the ...
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作者：Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles
作者单位：Columbia University; University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：Some individuals borrow extensively on their credit cards. This paper tests whether present-biased time preferences correlate with credit card borrowing. In afield study, we elicit individual time preferences with incentivized choice experiments, and match resulting time preference measures to individual credit reports and annual tax returns. The results indicate that present-biased individuals are more likely to have credit card debt, and to have significantly higher amounts of credit card de...
