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Parents' Incomes and Children's Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment.

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Akee, Randall KQ
Copeland, William E
Keeler, Gordon
Angold, Adrian
Costello, Elizabeth J
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We examine the role that 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 $4000 per year for the poorest households increases educational attainment by one year at age 21 and reduces having ever committed a minor crime by 22% at ages 16-17. Our evidence suggests that improved parental quality is a likely mechanism for the change.
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10.1257/app.2.1.86
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Akee, Randall KQ; Copeland, William E; Keeler, Gordon; Angold, Adrian; & Costello, Elizabeth J (2010). Parents' Incomes and Children's Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment. Am Econ J Appl Econ, 2(1). pp. 86-115. 10.1257/app.2.1.86. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/3357.
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Angold

Adrian Christopher Angold

Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Developmental epidemiology seeks to apply developmental and epidemiological principles to the study of psychopathology. Within this overall framework, my main research interests relate to the study of depression, anxiety, and disruptive behavior disorders and their effects on service use in children and adolescents. Current activities include studies of (1) relationships among pubertal hormonal changes, morphological changes, life strain, and psychopathology; (2) the development of measures
Copeland

William Everett Copeland

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Costello

Elizabeth Jane Costello

Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Developmental epidemiology applies the research methods of findings of developmental science to epidemiology--the study of patterns of disease distribution in time and space. Developmental epidemiology can cover the life span, but my own work concentrates on childhood and adolescence. I study change and continuity in psychiatric disorders, in the context of change and continuity in the risk factors for those disorders. An important application of the work of the Developmen
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