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View article: The Lifetime Impacts of the New Deal's Youth Employment Program
The Lifetime Impacts of the New Deal's Youth Employment Program Open
We study the lifetime effects of the first and largest American youth employment and training program in the United States—the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 1933–1942. We match newly digitized enrollee records to census, World War II …
View article: The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being
The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being Open
We use newly collected data for 16,000 women who applied for Mothers’ Pensions, America’s first welfare program, to investigate the effect of means-tested cash transfers on lifetime family structure and maternal well-being. In the short te…
View article: Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children
Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children Open
Economic research on the safety net has evolved over time, moving away from a focus on the negative incentive effects of means-tested assistance on employment, earnings, marriage, and fertility to include the potential positive benefits of…
View article: Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children
Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children Open
Economic research on the safety net has evolved significantly over time, moving away from a near exclusive focus on the negative incentive effects of means-tested assistance on employment, earnings, marriage and fertility to include examin…
View article: Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from WWII
Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from WWII Open
The 1940s witnessed substantial reductions in the Black-white earnings gap.We study the role that domestic WWII defense production played in reducing this gap.Exploiting variation across labor markets in the allocation of war contracts to …
View article: The Incentive Effects of Cash Transfers to the Poor
The Incentive Effects of Cash Transfers to the Poor Open
All redistributive and social insurance programs trade off the potential benefits of transfers with the disincentives these programs generate.We investigate this trade-off using newly collected lifetime data for 16,000 women who applied to…
View article: Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal
Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal Open
We study the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) -the first and largest youth training program in the U.S. in operation between 1933 and 1942 -to provide the first comprehensive assessment of the short-and long-term effects of means-tested y…
View article: Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life
Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life Open
Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first births at older ages. However, previous research has attributed much of these effects to selection rather than a causal eff…
View article: Grandparents, mothers, or fathers? Why children of teen mothers do worse in life
Grandparents, mothers, or fathers? Why children of teen mothers do worse in life Open
Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first births at older ages. However, previous research has attributed much of these effects to selection rather than a causal eff…
View article: Lead and Juvenile Delinquency: New Evidence from Linked Birth, School, and Juvenile Detention Records
Lead and Juvenile Delinquency: New Evidence from Linked Birth, School, and Juvenile Detention Records Open
Using a unique data set linking preschool blood lead levels, birth, school, and detention records for 125,000 children born between 1990 and 2004 in Rhode Island, we estimate the impact of lead on school suspension and juvenile detention. …
View article: Economics of Child Protection: Maltreatment, Foster Care, and Intimate Partner Violence
Economics of Child Protection: Maltreatment, Foster Care, and Intimate Partner Violence Open
Violence within families and child neglect are strikingly common: 700,000 children are found to be victims of abuse or neglect in the United States each year; over the course of childhood, 6% of children are placed in foster care, and 18% …
View article: Replication data for: "Lead and Juvenile Delinquency: New Evidence from Linked Birth, School and Juvenile Detention Records"
Replication data for: "Lead and Juvenile Delinquency: New Evidence from Linked Birth, School and Juvenile Detention Records" Open
Replication data for: "Lead and Juvenile Delinquency: New Evidence from Linked Birth, School and Juvenile Detention Records". These files include a readme file, stata do files that convert the raw data into the the analysis dataset, stata …
View article: graphs.do
graphs.do Open
generates the graphs for the paper
View article: certstomerge.tab
certstomerge.tab Open
data on lead-safe certificates
View article: Readme file for Lead and Crime Files July 5.docx
Readme file for Lead and Crime Files July 5.docx Open
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View article: read_add.do
read_add.do Open
reads in the raw data on lead, infractions, crime and birth certificates.
View article: tables45.do
tables45.do Open
generates the main tables for the analysis
View article: read.do
read.do Open
reads in the raw data on lead, infractions, crime and birth certificates.
View article: merge_add.do
merge_add.do Open
merges multiple files
View article: readcrime.do
readcrime.do Open
reads in the crime data
View article: Do Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children's Future Test Scores?
Do Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children's Future Test Scores? Open
We construct a unique individual-level dataset linking preschool blood lead levels with third grade test scores for Rhode Island children born 1997–2005. Using two identification strategies, we show for the first time that reductions of le…
View article: tables1236.do
tables1236.do Open
generates the main tables for the anlaysis
View article: tractmuni_xwalk.tab
tractmuni_xwalk.tab Open
a cross walk from census tract to municipality