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Taxes and the Timing of Births

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S Dickert-Conlin… - Journal of Political Economy, 1999 - JSTOR
Because the tax savings of having a child are a realized only if the birth takes place before
midnight, January 1, the incentives for the “marginal” birth are substantial. Using a sample of
children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that the probability that a ...
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Policy watch: The marriage penalty

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J Alm, S Dickert-Conlin… - The Journal of Economic …, 1999 - JSTOR
This feature contains short articles on topics that are currently on the agendas of
policymakers, thus illustrating the role of economic analysis in illuminating current debates.
Suggestions for future columns and comments on past ones should be sent to C. Eugene ...
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Taxes and transfers: their effects on the decision to end a marriage

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S Dickert-Conlin - Journal of Public Economics, 1999 - Elsevier
The transfer system typically has large marriage disincentives, while the income tax system
is likely to subsidize marriage for many low-income families. In other words, the tax system
may offset an increase in transfer benefits associated with marital separation. The ...
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Did expanding the eitc promote motherhood?

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R Baughman… - The American Economic Review, 2003 - JSTOR
During the 1990's the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) emerged as a primary means of
providing income support for low-income families in the United States. In an effort to keep
the program well targeted, the credit largely restricts eligibility to tax filers with children. ...
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Employee-based versus employer-based subsidies to low-wage workers: A public finance perspective

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S Dickert-Conlin… - Finding jobs: Work and welfare …, 2000 - books.google.com
There has been renewed interest of late in the topic of labor market subsidies to
disadvantaged workers. In part, this reflects widespread concern over shifts in the
distribution of earnings and income over the past two decades. At the same time, it is also ...
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[PDF] EITC, AFDC, and the female headship decision

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S Dickert-Conlin… - Institute for Research on Poverty …, 1999 - ssc.wisc.edu
Abstract Concerns about the incentives for female headship for low-income families have
focused on Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); however, the expansion of the
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has brought more low-income households into the tax ...
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Slippery when wet: the effects of local alcohol access laws on highway safety

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R Baughman, M Conlin, S Dickert-Conlin… - Journal of Health …, 2001 - Elsevier
Using detailed panel data on local alcohol policy changes in Texas, this paper tests whether
the effect of these changes on alcohol-related accidents depends on whether the policy
change involves where the alcohol is consumed and the type of alcohol consumed. After ...
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Widows Waiting to Wed?

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MJ Brien, S Dickert-Conlin… - Journal of Human …, 2004 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract In this paper we focus on an age restriction for remarriage in the Social Security
system to determine if individuals respond to economic incentives for marriage. Aged widow
(er) benefits are paid by the Federal government to persons whose deceased spouses ...
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How well can we track cohabitation using the SIPP? A consideration of direct and inferred measures

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R Baughman, S Dickert-Conlin… - Demography, 2002 - Springer
Abstract Cohabitation is an alternative to marriage and to living independently for an
increasing number of Americans. Still, research that explores links between living
arrangements and economic behavior is limited by a lack of data that explicitly identify ...
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The earned income tax credit and fertility

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R Baughman… - Journal of Population Economics, 2009 - Springer
Abstract Government programs designed to provide income safety nets often restrict
eligibility to families with children, creating an unintended fertility incentive. This paper
considers whether dramatically changing incentives in the earned income tax credit affect ...
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The Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Illicit‐Drug‐Related Crimes*

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M Conlin, S Dickert‐Conlin… - Journal of Law and Economics, 2005 - JSTOR
Abstract We evaluate the effect of alcohol access on drug-related crime and mortality using
detailed information on access laws in Texas between 1978 and 1996. Counties with
alcohol access have higher average levels of drug-related crimes. However, after ...
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[PDF] Utilization of income tax credits by low-income individuals

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S Dickert-Conlin, K Fitzpatrick… - National Tax …, 2005 - andrewrhanson.com
Abstract: The Internal Revenue Service--a sub-agency that exists to collect revenue--has the
task of administering and enforcing a wide array of social policy: from subsidies for college
and child care expenses, to creating jobs in depressed areas, and assisting welfare ...
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The effects of after-tax wages, transfer payments, and child care expenses on labor market and transfer program participation

S Houser… - JCPR Working Papers, 1998 - ideas.repec.org
This paper examines the degree to which after-tax wages, benefit guarantees, child care
expenses, and other factors affect labor market participation and transfer program
participation. We first carefully model the budget constraints that families face using a ...
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Private weather organizations and the founding of the United States Weather Bureau

SDC Hochfelder, JO Backhaus… - The Journal of …, 1999 - Cambridge Univ Press
In late-twentieth-century America, both the National Weather Service and private weather
organizations provide weather services. Although commercially successful, private weather
organizations do not bear the full costs of supplying their services, since they receive ...
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Suburban legend: School cutoff dates and the timing of births

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S Dickert-Conlin… - Economics of Education Review, 2010 - Elsevier
Many states require children to reach age 5 by a specified date in the calendar year in order
to begin kindergarten. We use birth certificate records from 1999 to 2004 to assess whether
parents systematically time childbirth before these eligibility cutoff dates to capture the ...
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[BOOK] Economic inequality and higher education: access, persistence, and success

S Dickert-Conlin… - 2007 - books.google.com
This book addresses the premise that students from less economically privileged families
face considerable barriers to entering and completing college; that without access and
persistance, higher education does not necessarily mean success for lower-income ...
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The effect of social security on divorce and remarriage behavior

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S Dickert-Conlin… - CRR WP, 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of economic incentives on divorce and
remarriage behavior. Before December 1977, the Social Security law entitled divorcees to
claim auxiliary benefits on their ex-spouse's record only if the marriage lasted at least 20 ...
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[CITATION] Forthcoming.“The Earned Income Tax Credit and Fertility.”

R Baughman… - Journal of Population Economics
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[CITATION] forthcoming.“Suburban Legend: School Cutoff Dates and the Timing of Births.”

S Dickert-Conlin… - Economics of Education Review
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[CITATION] Taxes, Transfers and Family: Are They Related

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[BOOK] Helping the working poor: Employer-vs. employee-based subsidies

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S Dickert-Conlin, D Holtz-Eakin… - 1999 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In the United States and Europe there has been renewed interest in subsidizing
firms that employ disadvantaged workers as a means of addressing poverty and other social
problems. In contrast, the prevailing practice is largely to provide social welfare benefits ...
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[PDF] Inference by college admission departments

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M Conlin… - 2010 - finance.uts.edu.au
Abstract: Both theoretical and experimental research by economists and social
psychologists suggests biases in how people draw inferences about the preferences and
characteristics of others. Eyster and Rabin (2005) review extensive experimental evidence ...
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The Deer Hunter: The Unintended Effects of Hunting Regulations

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M Conlin, S Dickert-Conlin… - The Review of Economics and …, 2009 - MIT Press
Abstract To control the deer population, state game commissions regulate the types of deer
that can be legally harvested. These regulations, however, might have an unintended effect
on hunting-related accidents by changing the care hunters take when firing their rifles-a ...
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The Undeserving Poor?: Welfare, Tax Policy, and Political Discourse

D Brown, S Dickert-Conlin… - 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Low-income taxpayers are politically unpopular these days. Last summer's child
tax rebates were not sent to 12 million low-income families and beginning this year, low-
income taxpayers will have to prove their eligibility for tax benefits before receiving them. ...
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Young Widow (er) s, Social Security, and Marriage

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M Brien, S Dickert-Conlin… - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The Social Security program, like the federal income tax system, is not marriage
neutral. In the income tax literature, when a couple faces a higher (lower) tax bill as a
married couple than as two single individuals, it is said that the couple, in effect, faces a ...
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[CITATION] Marriage Penalties in Public Programs: Social Security's Child-in-Care Widow (er) Benefits

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MJ Brien, S Dickert-Conlin… - National Tax Journal, 2004
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[PDF] Love At What Price? Estimating the Value of Marriage

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S Dickert-Conlin, M Conlin… - 2005 - msu.edu
Abstract: Using a law within Social Security that provides clear financial incentives to delay
marriage, we estimate the financial value of a month of marriage. Specifically, the law
provides that widows who eligible for Social Security benefits on their deceased spouse's ...
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[PDF] The Role of Media Outreach and Program Modernization in the Growth of the SNAP Caseload

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S Dickert-Conlin, K Fitzpatrick… - Atlanta, 2010 - msu.edu
Abstract: This research seeks to understand the role of information, in the form of media
campaigns, and changes in transaction costs, in the form of online applications and call
centers, in the growth in county-level SNAP caseloads. We find that SNAP radio ...
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Love at What Price? Estimating the Value of Marriage

M Conlin… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Using a law within Social Security that provides clear financial incentives to delay
marriage, we estimate the financial value of a month of marriage. Specifically, the law
provides that widows who are eligible for Social Security benefits on their deceased ...
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Widows Waiting to Wed?:(Re) Marriage and Economic Incentives in Social Security Widow Benefits.

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S Dickert-Conlin, DA Weaver - Journal of Human Resources, 2004 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: A widow (er) is only entitled to get the economic incentives benefits only after
she/he attains the age of 60. The rate of remarriages before 60 for widow (er) is gradually
going down resulting in marriages after the age of 60 to gain the economic benefits.
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[CITATION] Taxes and the Poor: A Microsimulation Study of Implicit Taxes and Explicit Taxes

S Dickert-Conlin, S Houser, JK Scholz… - 1994 - Institute for Research on Poverty, …

[PDF] Economic Inequality and Higher Education: Access, Persistence, and Success

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S Dickert-Conlin, R Rubenstein - Industrial & Labor …, 2008 - digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu
BOOK REVIEWS 427 women's large decreases. For example, between 1960 and 2000, the
half-hour increase in French men's time spent performing child care did not nearly counter-
balance the nearly 50% decline in French women's hours devoted to that responsibility. ...
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[PDF] The Deer Hunter: Moral Hazard of Gaming Regulations

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M Conlin, S Dickert-Conlin… - 2006 - msu.edu
Abstract Pennsylvania hunting laws designed to control the population of deer in the state
provide a unique empirical test of moral hazard. By allowing hunters to harvest both bucks
and does at the same time, the law provides insurance against harvesting the wrong type ...
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[CITATION] THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT: MARRIAGE AND COHABITATION

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S Dickert-Conlin, S Houser… - Proceedings …, 2003 - National Tax Association-Tax …
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The Role of Media Outreach and Program Modernization

S Dickert-Conlin, K Fitzpatrick… - 2011 Annual Meeting, July …, 2011 - ideas.repec.org
This research seeks to understand the role of information, in the form of media campaigns,
and changes in transaction costs, in the form of online applications and call centers, in the
growth in county-level SNAP caseloads. We find that SNAP radio advertisements are ...
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[CITATION] The Effect of Social Security Incentives on Divorce and Remarriage Behavior

S Dickert-Conlin, C Meghea… - 2002
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[PDF] The Economics of Voluntary Disclosure in SAT Scores

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G Chapman, M Conlin… - 2004 - msu.edu
An increasing number of colleges have made reporting SAT I (the two-part standardized
verbal and math test) scores voluntary. 1 These schools argue that the test score differentials
in the SAT are not a result of aptitude differences but rather biases in the test that favor ...
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[PDF] Voluntary Disclosure and the Strategic Behavior of Colleges

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M Conlin, S Dickert-Conlin… - 2008 - msu.edu
Abstract: This paper investigates how outside ranking organizations such as US News and
World Report affect colleges' admission decisions. To do so, we focus on a policy that has
received criticism for being motivated by ranking concerns: optional reporting of SAT I ...
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[PDF] Inference by College Admission Departments: Bayesian or Cursed?

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M Conlin… - 2009 - msu.edu
The ability to accurately map other players' private information to their actions plays a key
role in the outcomes of many games. While the Bayesian Nash Equilibrium assumes that
people fully take into account how other players' actions depend on their private ...
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[CITATION] S. and Rubenstein, R.(Eds.)(2007)

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[PDF] The Role of Advertising in the Growth of the SNAP Caseload

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S Dickert-Conlin, K Fitzpatrick… - 2011 - msu.edu
Abstract: In 2004 the US Department of Agriculture began a large-scale advertising
campaign to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP) by increasing awareness about the program. Despite this and other large-scale ...
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[PDF] Student Quality and Reported Student Quality: Higher Education Admissions Decisions

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M Conlin, S Dickert-Conlin, J Wooldridge… - 2006 - msu.edu
Abstract: This paper investigates how outside ranking organizations such as US News and
World Report affect the maximization problem facing colleges with respect to their student
body composition. To do so, we focus on a policy that has received criticism for being ...
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Mills, Edwin S., 421 Mitchell, Janet, 59 Moffit, Robert A., 10, 40, 63, 106, 125, 143, 164n27,
164n28, 169n34, 177, 181, 183, 184, 185, 258, 265, 271n12, 273, 274, 293n2, 317, 317n26,
318, 320, 320n28, 321, 324, 329, 333, 334, 336, 336n41, 337, 338n42, 339n43, 345n51, ...
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[PDF] Applying Early Decision: Student and College Incentives and Outcomes

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G Chapman… - 2011 - econ.msu.edu
Abstract: Colleges' early decision admission policies require accepted students to commit to
attend the school without comparing outside options. With data from two liberal arts schools
we find evidence that students with higher willingness and ability to pay and lower ...
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[CITATION] Widows Waiting to Wed?

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DA Weaver, MJ Brien… - Journal of human …, 2004 - dialnet.unirioja.es
... Widows Waiting to Wed? Autores: David A. Weaver, Michael J. Brien, Stacy Dickert-Conlin;
Localización: Journal of human resources, ISSN 0022-166X, Vol. 39, Nº 3, 2004 , págs.
585-623. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
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