T Besley… - 1992 - nber.org
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of tax competition when voters
use the tax policy of neighboring jurisdictions as information to evaluate the performance of
their incumbent politicians. We show that this has implications both for voter tolerance of ...
AC Case… - 1991 - nber.org
Page 1. The Company You Keep: The Effects of Family and Neighborhood on
Disadvantaged Youths Anne C. Case Princeton University and NBER Lawrence
F. Katz Harvard University and NBER May 1991 We thank Joseph ...
AC Case, HS Rosen, JR Hines - Journal of public economics, 1993 - Elsevier
We show that the well-known positive association between health and income in adulthood
has antecedents in childhood. Using the National Health Interview Surveys, the Panel Study
of Income Dynamics, and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we find ...
A Case, A Fertig… - Journal of health economics, 2005 - Elsevier
We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult
health, employment and socioeconomic status, using data from a birth cohort that has been
followed from birth into middle age. Controlling for parental income, education and social ...
T Besley… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1995 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper analyzes the behavior of US governors from 1950 to 1986 to investigate
a reputation-building model of political behavior. We argue that differences in the behavior
of governors who face a binding term limit and those who are able to run again provides a ...
T Besley… - Journal of Economic Literature, 2003 - JSTOR
The essence of the literature is illustrated in the following example. A number of states have
recently passed laws that tie voter registration to motor vehicle registration, socalled" motor-
voter" laws. The intention is to promote voting, particularly among disadvantaged groups ...
A Case… - The Economic Journal, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the social pension in South Africa, where large cash sums—about twice the
median per capita income of African households—are paid to people qualified by age but
irrespective of previous contributions. We present the history of the scheme and use a ...
T Besley… - 1994 - nber.org
The US federal system provides great potential for estimating the effects of policy on
behavior. There are numerous empirical studies that exploit variation in policies over space
and time. In pursuing this line of enquiry, the issue of policy endogeneity is central. If state ...
AC Case - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1991 - JSTOR
Page 1. Econometrica, Vol. 59, No. 4 (July, 1991), 953-965 SPATIAL PATTERNS IN
HOUSEHOLD DEMAND BY ANNE C. CASE' In this paper I discuss economic processes
that may give rise to spatial patterns in data, and explore ...
A Case… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We examine the relationship between educational inputs—primarily pupilteacher
ratios—and school outcomes in South Africa immediately before the end of apartheid
government. Black households were severely limited in their residential choice under ...
KF Butcher, A Case - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1994 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper documents the impact of siblings on the education of men and women
born in the United States between 1920 and 1965. We examine the effect of the number and
sex composition of a boy or girl's siblings on that child's educational attainment. We find ...
A Case… - 2006 - nber.org
It has long been recognized that taller adults hold jobs of higher status and, on average,
earn more than other workers. A large number of hypotheses have been put forward to
explain the association between height and earnings. In developed countries, researchers ...
A Case - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1992 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper presents an estimation scheme that allows individuals to be influenced
by neighbors when making discrete choice decisions. The model developed is used to test
interdependence in farmers' attitudes toward the adoption of new technologies in ...
A Case, C Paxson… - Demography, 2004 - Springer
Abstract We examine the impact of orphanhood on children's school enrollment in 10 sub-
Saharan African countries. Although poorer children in Africa are less likely to attend school,
the lower enrollment of orphans is not accounted for solely by their poverty. We find that ...
T Besley… - The American Economic Review, 1993 - JSTOR
Perhaps one of the main reasons for studying economic development is to understand better
how individuals are able to make the transition out of poverty. Technology may be viewed as
a means to this end. Yet, while the development of higher-yielding varieties (HYV's) of ...
A Case - 2004 - nber.org
A strong, positive association between income and health status has been documented
between countries, within countries at points in time, and within countries over time with
economic development. The channels by which better health leads to higher income, and ...
AC Case… - 2004 - nber.org
... SEX DIFFERENCES IN MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY Anne Case Christina Paxson ... The views
expressed herein are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the National Bureau
of Economic Research. ©2004 by Anne Case and Christina Paxson. All rights reserved. ...
A Case - European Economic Review, 2001 - Elsevier
This paper examines the impact of political competition on block grants from federal to sub-
federal levels of government. We model the extent and direction of income redistribution as
determined proximately by the political agendas of central decision makers and, at a ...
T Besley… - Working Papers, 1994 - ideas.repec.org
This paper develops new methods for studying the adoption of technologies that, at the time
of their introduction, are of uncertain profitability. We focus on the rols played by learning in
the evolution of a diffusion path and present a model that allows learning from the ...
A Case - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract When a governor announces that a tax increase is necessary, how do voters decide
whether the governor is representing the situation honestly, or just preparing to line his or
her pockets? This paper presents evidence that voters may look at the tax increases in ...
A Case… - 2000 - nber.org
We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using
data from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey Child Health Supplement. Controlling
for household size, income and characteristics, we find that children living with step ...
A Case… - 2005 - nber.org
The literature contains many examples of the relationship between health and various
measures of socioeconomic status, including income, education, and employment. There
are undoubtedly multiple causal links between these variables; income and education ...
A Case, IF Lin… - The Economic Journal, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
We examine resource allocation in step-households in the United States and South Africa to
test whether child investments vary according to economic and genetic bonds between
parent and child. In the United States, households spend less on food when a child is ...
A Case, IF Lin… - Evolution and human behavior, 2001 - Elsevier
In this paper, we compare the educational attainment of birth and nonbirth children of
women in the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). We find that children raised by
step, adoptive, or foster mothers obtain significantly less education, on average, than do ...
A Case, C Ardington - Demography, 2006 - Springer
Abstract We analyze longitudinal data from a demographic surveillance area (DSA) in
KwaZulu-Natal to examine the impact of parental death on children's outcomes. The results
show significant differences in the impact of mothers' and fathers' deaths. The loss of a ...
MA Case - Va. L. Rev., 1993 - HeinOnline
OF three possible focal points for gay identity-the individual, the community, and the couple-
the couple is the least visible in litigation about the public sphere rights of gay men and
lesbians. Using as my starting point the cases collected in Professor Patricia Cain's ...
MA Case - Cornell L. Rev., 1999 - HeinOnline
1, 2-4, 9-13 (1995), I shall throughout this article use the term" sex discrimination" to refer to
discrimination between males and females and reserve the term" gender discrimination" to
refer to discrimination on the basis of qualities coded as masculine or feminine, whether ...
A Case, V Hosegood… - Development Southern Africa, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the reach and impact of the South African Child Support Grant, using
longitudinal data collected through the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies. The
grant is being taken up for a third of all age-eligible resident children, and appears to be ...
A Case… - 1999 - nber.org
This paper contributes to what is known about the impact of school quality, by documenting
its effect on the incomes of Black South Africans, using data from the 1996 South African
census and two national surveys of school quality. South Africa provides an interesting ...
MA Case - Chi.-Kent L. Rev., 2000 - HeinOnline
There is fairly widespread agreement among feminists that, as Linda McClain puts it in Care
As a Public Value," women (both as paid and unpaid caregivers) continue to bear the
disproportionate burden for caregiving." 1 Where to look in order to shift some of the ...
A Case - Fathers under fire: The revolution in child support …, 1998 - books.google.com
The last twenty years have witnessed fundamental change in child support enforcement in
the United States. The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program, added as part D to Title
IV of the Social Security Act in 1975, provided federal backing for state programs designed ...
C Ardington, A Case… - 2007 - nber.org
The South African old-age social pension has been much studied by both researchers and
policy makers, in part for the larger lessons that might be learned about behavioral
responses to cash transfers in developing countries. In this paper, we quantify the labor ...
A Case, A Fertig… - 2003 - nber.org
We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult
health and earnings, using data from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into
middle age. We find, controlling for parents' incomes, educations and social status, that ...
KG Anderson, A Case… - Social Dynamics, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Education lies at the foundation of many issues in South Africa today. It is impossible to
analyze issues such as racial differences in income, trends in unemployment, or
intergenerational transmission of inequality without looking at the role of education. One of ...
A Case… - 2003 - books.google.com
Abstract Standard methods of measuring poverty assume that an individual is poor if he or
she lives in a family whose income or consumption lies below an appropriate poverty line.
Such methods provide only limited insight into male and female poverty separately. ...
A Case… - The American Economic Review, 2008 - JSTOR
Research across a number of disciplines has highlighted the role of early life health and cir?
cumstance in determining health and economic outcomes at older ages. Nutrition in utero
and in infancy may set the stage for the chronic disease burden that an individual will face ...
A Case… - The Future of Children, 2006 - JSTOR
Children from low-income families are more likely than other children to have serious health
problems. And, as Anne Case and Christina Paxson show, childhood health problems can
prevent poor children from achieving economic success as adults. Income-related ...
AC Case, IF Lin… - Demography, 2003 - Springer
Page 1. Explaining Trends in Child Support 171 Demography, Volume 40-Number 1, February
2003: 171–189 171 W EXPLAINING TRENDS IN CHILD SUPPORT: ECONOMIC, DEMOGRAPHIC,
AND POLICY EFFECTS* ANNE C. CASE, I-FEN LIN, AND SARA S. MCLANAHAN ...
A Case - Annual World Bank Conference on Development …, 2001 - books.google.com
There is a strong positive relationship between income and health throughout the world. If
part of this association represents a causal effect from income to health, the maintenance
and support of incomes become a potential policy instrument for promoting health among ...
MA Case - The Supreme Court Review, 2003 - JSTOR
In at least three different respects, this essay's title describes its contents: First, rather than
make a single overarching claim about Lawrence, the essay makes a variety of different
observations about this and that aspect of the decision and its implications. 1 Second, ...
A Case… - The American Economic Review, 1999 - JSTOR
The living conditions of American children have changed dramatically during the past 50
years. In 1950, the vast majority of children were born to married parents and lived with both
parents until they reached adulthood. Today, over a third of all children are born to ...
A Deaton… - Papers, 1988 - ideas.repec.org
No abstract is available for this item. ... To our knowledge, this item is not available for
download. To find whether it is available, there are three options: 1. Check below under "Related
research" whether another version of this item is available online. 2. Check on the ...
A Case… - Health Affairs, 2002 - Health Affairs
In this paper we document the ways in which parental behavior and socioeconomic status
affect children's health. We examine parental behavior in both the prenatal period and
childhood. We present evidence on the correlation of this behavior with income and ...
A Case, V Hosegood… - 2003 - princeton.edu
The end of apartheid in South Africa brought with it the need to reform one component of the
system of social assistance for poorer people–that dealing with support to women and
children. Under the old regime, a State Maintenance Grant had been awarded by ...
A Case… - 2010 - nber.org
We examine the consequences of childhood health for economic and health outcomes in
adulthood, using height as a marker of health in childhood. After reviewing previous
evidence, we present a conceptual framework that highlights data limitations and ...
A Case, C Ardington - CSSR working paper, 2004 - saldru.uct.ac.za
Abstract We analyse longitudinal data from a demographic surveillance area (DSA) in
KwaZulu-Natal, to examine the impact of parental death on children's outcomes. We find
significant differences in the impact of mothers' and fathers' deaths. The loss of a child's ...
AC Case, JR Hines Jr… - 1994 - nber.org
Page 1. NEER WORKING PAPER SERIES COPYCATTINC: FISCAL POLICIES OF
STATES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS Anne C. Case James R. Hines, Jr. Haney S. Rosen
Working Paper No. 3032 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ...
[CITATION] The company you keep: the effects of family and neighborhood on disadvantaged families
A Case… - NBER working paper, 1991
A Case - Understanding poverty, 2006 - books.google.com
Many economists, pressed to list the keys to economic development, would turn first to
education. Beliefs regarding the primacy of education in the development process stem both
from the fundamental role of education in income generation and from the many other ...
RE Boyatzis… - Journal of Management Development, 1989 - emeraldinsight.com
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MA Case - Cal. L. Rev., 2002 - HeinOnline
In commenting on Kathleen Sullivan's Brennan Lecture, Constitutionalizing Women's
Equality, I am, in a sense, continuing a conversation begun nearly fifteen years ago, in a
seminar on Groups, Inequality, and the Constitution, which was the first course Sullivan ...
A Case - Conference on Poverty and the International Economy, …, 2000 - princeton.edu
Trade liberalization will influence many aspects of the South African economy. First among
these will be the effect of liberalization on income distribution, as jobs are created and
wages respond to changes in demand for South African exports and to changes in the mix ...
A Case… - The American Economic Review, 2009 - JSTOR
Child health in the United States improved dramaticallyover the twentieth century. Data from
the National Center for Health Statistics indicate the infant mortality rate was 23 times
greater in 1900 than in 2004. The mortality rate of one-to four-year-old children, although ...
A Case… - Economics & Human Biology, 2009 - Elsevier
Globally, men and women face markedly different risks of obesity. In all but of handful of
(primarily Western European) countries, obesity is much more prevalent among women than
men. We examine several potential explanations for this phenomenon. We analyze ...
A Case, D Lee… - Journal of Health Economics, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper re-examines differences found between income gradients in American and
English children's health, in results originally presented by [Case, A., Lubotsky, D., Paxson,
C., 2002. Economic status and health in childhood: the origins of the gradient. American ...
A Case… - The American economic review, 2005 - JSTOR
Health and wealth are the two most important components of well-being. Rankings of
wellbeing based on income will differ from more comprehensive rankings, depending on the
way that income and health are related. There are strong bidirectional causal links ...
A Case… - Scandinavian journal of public health, 2007 - sjp.sagepub.com
Aims: To quantify the impact of the South African old age (social) pension on outcomes for
pensioners and the prime-aged adults and children who live with them, and to examine
alternative means by which pensions affect household outcomes. Methods: We collected ...
A Case… - 2009 - nber.org
The Commission for Macroeconomics and Health (World Health Organization 2001) used
the same data to argue that it is health care, acting through health status, that is an important
engine of economic growth. Another strand of research, particularly associated with ...
A Case, A Menendez… - Somkhele: Africa Centre for …, 2005 - cssr.uct.ac.za
Abstract We examine patterns of health seeking behaviour prior to death among 1282
individuals who lived in the Umkhanyakude District of Northern KwaZulu-Natal. Information
on the health care choices of these individuals, who died between January 2003 and July ...
A Case… - Working Papers, 1998 - ideas.repec.org
That educational inputs should be important determinants of educational outcomes is a
proposition that appeals to common sense, but is nevertheless controversial in the literature
both for developed and lessdeveloped countries. Surveys by Hanushek (1986), for ...
A Case, C Paxson… - Economics Letters, 2009 - Elsevier
We use data from the British Household Panel Survey to examine the labor market premium
in height. Most of the premium is explained by higher average educational attainment and
sorting into higher-status occupations and industries by those who are taller.
A Case… - … Program in Development Studies, Princeton, NJ ( …, 2000 - princeton.edu
The causal links between health and income are poorly understood, in both rich and poor
countries. Indeed, understanding the mechanisms has been one of the great intellectual
challenges of the last century. Across countries, inhabitants of richer countries live longer ...
A Case - Business review, 1994 - phil.frb.org
Lecent tax increases in several eastern states have received attention from both voters and
the press. In 1991, New Jersey Republicans gained veto-proof majorities in both houses of
the legislature for the first time in 20 years. Shortly after the election, the New York Times of
MA Case - U. Chi. Legal F., 1999 - HeinOnline
In her keynote speech for this Symposium, Judge Diane Wood lamented that" the terms of
the sex discrimination debate still reflect to an alarming degree the failure to communicate
and the insistence on a male perspective so aptly and humorously illustrated by" ...
A Case, A Garrib, A Menendez… - 2008 - nber.org
We analyze funeral arrangements following the deaths of 3,751 people who died between
January 2003 and December 2005 in the Africa Centre Demographic Surveillance Area. We
find that, on average, households spend the equivalent of a year's income for an adult's ...
A Case… - 2009 - nber.org
We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen
sub-Saharan African countries. Using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys
(DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of ...
A Case - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995 - ideas.repec.org
This symposium explores how households in low-income countries, even without access to
formal credit and insurance markets, find ways to smooth consumption in the face of large
shocks to their income. This general area of risk sharing and consumption smoothing has ...
A Case, I Le Roux… - The American Economic Review, 2004 - JSTOR
Wealthier people live longer and experience less morbidity than do poorer people, in both
developed and developing countries. While the association between income and health
status has been well documented, the mechanisms leading to this correlation are unclear. ...
A Case… - The Economic Journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
2. This article has been written for Professor Angus Deaton's festschrift, celebrating his
presidency of the American Economic Association. We thank Dr. Aida Sanchez and the
Whitehall II team for help accessing the Whitehall II data and Kimberly Bryan for expert ...
[CITATION] The education of African orphans
A Case, C Paxson, J Ableidinger - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Research …, 2003
MA Case - UCLA Law Review, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This Article highlights both the rewards in accepting and the risks in rejecting a
claim of sex discrimination as one constitutional basis for invalidating restrictions on
marriage for same-sex couples. It argues that recognition of same-sex marriage and ...
MA Case - The Supreme Court Review, 2000 - JSTOR
Race and religion each have a privileged position in the American constitutional scheme:
Both racial equality and religious freedom are central commitments of modern American
constitutionalism. Similar awareness of historical abuses has led to a wariness about the ...
BA Case - 1994 - getcited.org
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MA Case - JL Fam. Stud., 2009 - litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com
... Introduction The equality of the sexes, and the instantiation of that equality in the
repudiation of" fixed notions concerning the roles and abilities of males and females," are
fundamental commitments on which all levels of government in the United States must ...
A Case, C Paxson… - Social Science & Medicine, 2007 - Elsevier
Abstract Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age
is an important first step in uncovering the mechanisms that connect economic and health
status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children's health. To that ...
[CITATION] Does school quality matter?
A Case… - 1999
[CITATION] Socioeconomic factors
A Case, C Ardington - Population Studies working group (ed.). Mtubatuba: …, 2004
MA Case - The University of Chicago Law Review, 2003 - JSTOR
In this Essay, I am going to try to do what many distinguished legal scholars have said
cannot and should not be done. I am going to take the equal protection holding in Bush v
Gore'seriously. My project is loosely akin to intellectual history: I hope to show that much in ...
BA Case… - 2005 - Springer
This is an edited volume with over a hundred articles by different authors. The writers are
mathematicians, most of them female, nearly all of them working in the United States of
America. The articles are grouped into ''past, present and future.''The historical articles ...
A Case… - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1998 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract We examine the relationship between educational inputs-primarily pupil-teacher
ratios-and school outcomes in South Africa immediately before the end of apartheid
government. Black households were severely limited in their residential choice under ...
[CITATION] On the use of spatial autoregressive models in demand analysis
A Case - 1987 - Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton …
A Case, IF Lin… - 2000 - nber.org
We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine trends in child
support payments over the past thirty years and to assess five different explanations for
these trends: inflation, the shift to unilateral divorce, changes in marital status composition, ...
[CITATION] From cradle to grave?
A Case, A Fertig… - 2003
[CITATION] Keys to Improved Instruction by Teaching Assistants and Part-time Instructors
BA Case - 1989 - MAA Notes
[CITATION] Political institutions and policy outcomes
T Beesley… - Journal of Economic Literature, 2003
T Besley… - forthcoming in Journal of Economic Literature, 2001 - Citeseer
Abstract The rich array of institutional diversity makes the United States an excellent testing
ground for studying the relationship between political institutions and public policy
outcomes. This essay has three main aims. First, it reviews existing empirical evidence on ...
[CITATION] The Company You Keep
A Case… - The Effect of Family and, 2001
A Case - … Woodrow Wilson School–Development Studies. Paper, 1997 - princeton.edu
1In a regression controlling for heteroskedasticity with district-specific clustering, the
coefficient on the percent voting for the Democratic party has a t-statistic of 3.0 (244
communes). Results for Figure I are similar if the total amount of social assistance ...
[CITATION] Analyzing spatial patterns in developing country data
AC Case… - 1988 - UMI
AC Case, HS Rosen… - INTERNATIONAL …, 1998 - en.scientificcommons.org
A Case… - 2009 - nber.org
We examine the costs associated with funerals and the effects of funeral spending on
household functioning, using data collected in the Agincourt Demographic Surveillance Site
in South Africa. We find that large outlays of money at the time of the funeral leave ...
[CITATION] The development of the gradient: earnings and health dynamics
A Case, A Fertig, C Paxson… - Unpublished manuscript, Center for Health and …, 2003
[CITATION] The Effect of Sibling Sex Composition on Women's Educational Attainment
K Butcher… - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1992
A Case… - Working Papers, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
Self-reported health status (SRHS) is an imperfect measure of non-fatal health, but allows
examination of how health status varies over the life course. Although women have lower
mortality than men, they report worse health status up to age 65. The SRHS of both men ...
C Ardington, A Case, M Islam, D Lam… - Research on …, 2010 - roa.sagepub.com
Abstract This study uses panel data from Cape Town to document the role played by aging
parents in caring for grandchildren who lose parents due to illnesses such as AIDS. The
authors quantify the probabilities that older adults and their adult children provide financial ...
[CITATION] Community standards and the margin of appreciation
MA Case - Human Rights LJ (forthcoming 2004), 2005
[CITATION] Incumbent Behavior: Vote Seeking, Tax Setting and
T Besley… - 1995
[CITATION] VElection Goals and Income Redistribution: Recent Evidence from Al& bania
A Case - V European Economic Review, 2001
[CITATION] Stature and status: height, ability, and labor market outcomes 2006
A Case… - J. Pol. Econ.
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