Parents' Incomes and Children's Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment.
Abstract
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.2.1.86Publication Info
(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.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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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
William Everett Copeland
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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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