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作者:Ferrazares, Toshio; Sabia, Joseph J.; Anderson, D. Mark
作者单位:City University of New York (CUNY) System; Hunter College (CUNY); California State University System; San Diego State University; Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
摘要:Gun buyback programs (GBPs), which use public funds to purchase civilians' privately-owned firearms, aim to reduce gun violence. However, next to nothing is known about their effects on firearm-related crime or deaths. Using data from the National Incident Based Reporting System, we find no evidence that GBPs reduce gun crime. Given our estimated null findings, with 95% confidence, we can rule out decreases in firearm-related crime of greater than 1.2% during the year following a buyback. Usin...
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作者:Hatsor, Limor; Shurtz, Ity
作者单位:Jerusalem College of Technology; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
摘要:We use a baby formula food scare in Israel in 2003 as a plausible natural experiment to study the causal relationship between breastfeeding and mothers' return to work after childbirth. Analysis of administrative data covering the universe of births in the country shows that first-time mothers who gave birth shortly after the scare delayed their return to work. Their average months worked in the first 6 months after childbirth fell by about 11% relative to their counterparts in the previous ye...
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作者:Michelmore, Katherine; Akee, Randall
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
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作者:Dragan, Kacie L.
作者单位:Columbia University; New York University
摘要:Low-income housing is often of substandard quality. Health care payers like Medicaid and Medicare are piloting reimbursement for housing quality improvement with the rationale of reducing expenses from acute care use, but little is known about whether housing quality interventions can alter health utilization. I evaluate a large-scale policy mandating remediation of NYC's worst buildings in a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of housing improvements on health utiliz...
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作者:[Anonymous]
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作者:Cancian, Maria
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作者:Nadal-Fernandez, Josep M.; Pepin, Gabrielle; Schrader, Kane
作者单位:Michigan State University; W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
摘要:Work requirements are perhaps the most controversial aspect of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, America's sole federal cash assistance program for low-income families with children. In 2025, for the first time in nearly 20 years, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA) will implement policy changes intended to strengthen states' work requirements. However, researchers' and policymakers' understanding of how FRA will impact states' compliance with federal requirem...
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作者:Smetters, Kent
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania
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作者:Ambrozek, Charlotte E.; Beatty, Timothy K. M.; Bitler, Marianne P.; Cheng, Xinzhe H.; Rabbitt, Matthew P.
作者单位:University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of California System; University of California Davis; University of California System; University of California Davis; National Bureau of Economic Research; Congressional Budget Office; United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
摘要:We evaluate the effects of the nationwide transition in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) from paper vouchers to Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards on store decisions to seek authorization to accept WIC benefits. We combine novel administrative data from The Integrity Profile (USDA administrative data on stores participating in WIC and their WIC reimbursements) with new nationwide policy data on WIC EBT implementation. Using a staggered adop...
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作者:Sheiner, Louise
作者单位:Brookings Institution