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作者：Martini, Alberto; Azzolini, Davide; Romano, Barbara; Vergolini, Loris
作者单位：University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro; Fondazione Bruno Kessler; FBK-IRVAPP - Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies
摘要：We estimate the impact of a matched savings account program on high school students' college enrollment and persistence through a randomized controlled trial carried out in Italy. The tested program (Percorsi) provided low-income high school students with a 4:1 match rate for savings dedicated to higher education expenditures and required that they attended financial education classes. The program increased rates of enrollment and persistence in university by about nine percentage points. Effe...
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作者：Bullinger, Lindsey Rose
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：A quickly developing literature has shown that the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansions have improved health insurance coverage, health, and financial well-being among low-income adults without dependent children. This population includes noncustodial parents. With substantial overlap in the population that is typically obligated to pay child support and the population that has strongly benefited from the expansions, there may be potential implications for child support enforcement....
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作者：Mackenzie-Liu, Mattie; Schwegman, David J.; Lopoo, Leonard M.
作者单位：Syracuse University; Syracuse University; American University
摘要：There has been considerable recent debate regarding proposed policies that would allow foster care administrators to discriminate on the basis of the sexual orientation of the foster parent. To date, however, we know very little about the level of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the foster care system. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical investigation to ask whether foster care agencies, the public, and nonprofit firms that facilitate foster care plac...
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作者：Tekin, Erdal
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作者：Carr, Jillian B.; Packham, Analisa
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This paper exploits a policy change in Illinois that altered monthly nutritional assistance benefits dates to estimate the impact of in-kind benefit receipt on domestic violence. We find that issuing SNAP benefits on days other than the first of the month increases domestic crimes. On average, we find the shifting benefit dates increases domestic abuse by 6.9 percent and child maltreatment by 30.0 percent. We posit that these effects are driven by increases in opportunities for conflict or cha...
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作者：Chalfin, Aaron; LaForest, Michael; Kaplan, Jacob
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Princeton University
摘要：During the last decade, while national homicide rates have remained flat, New York City has experienced a second great crime decline, with gun violence declining by more than 50 percent since 2011. In this paper, we investigate one potential explanation for this dramatic and unexpected improvement in public safety-the New York Police Department's shift to a more surgical form of precision policing, in which law enforcement focuses resources on a small number of individuals who are thought to b...
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作者：Konisky, David M.; Carley, Sanya
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
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作者：Fischer, Carolyn; Jacobsen, Grant D.
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Ottawa; Resources for the Future; University of Oregon
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作者：Venator, Joanna; Fletcher, Jason
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：In this paper, we estimate the impacts of abortion clinic closures on access to clinics in terms of distance and congestion, abortion rates, and birth rates. Between 2010 and 2017, Wisconsin passed three laws regulating abortion providers and two of five abortion clinics closed in Wisconsin, increasing the distance to the nearest clinic to 55 miles on average and to over 100 miles in the most affected counties. We use a difference-in-differences design to estimate the effect of changes in trav...
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作者：Domina, Thurston; Carlson, Deven; Carter, James, III; Lenard, Matthew; McEachin, Andrew; Perera, Rachel
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Harvard University; RAND Corporation; RAND Corporation; Pardee RAND Graduate School
摘要：Many public school diversity efforts rely on reassigning students from one school to another. While opponents of such efforts articulate concerns about the consequences of reassignments for students' educational experiences, little evidence exists regarding these effects, particularly in contemporary policy contexts. Using an event study design, we leverage data from an innovative socioeconomic school desegregation plan to estimate the effects of reassignment on reassigned students' achievemen...
