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Early childhood education programs

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J Currie - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2001 - JSTOR
HT ead Start is a preschool program for disadvantaged children which aims to improve their
skills so that they can begin schooling on an equal footing with their more advantaged
peers. Begun in 1965 as part of PresidentJohnson's" War on Poverty," Head Start now ...
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Does Head Start make a difference?

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J Currie… - 1993 - nber.org
Although there is a broad hi-partisan support for Head Start, the evidence of positive
longterm effects of the program is not overwhelming. Using data from the National
Longitudinal Survey's Child-Mother file, we examine the impact of the program on a range ...
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Health, health insurance and the labor market

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J Currie… - Handbook of labor economics, 1999 - Elsevier
Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the literature linking health, health insurance
and labor market outcomes such as wages, earnings, employment, hours, occupational
choice, job turnover, retirement, and the structure of employment. The first part of the ...
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Mother's education and the intergenerational transmission of human capital: Evidence from college openings

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J Currie… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We examine the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using Vital Statistics
Natality data for 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four channels through
which maternal education may improve birth outcomes: use of prenatal care, smoking, ...
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Saving babies: The efficacy and cost of recent expansions of Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women

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J Currie… - 1994 - nber.org
A key question for health care reform in the US is whether expanded health insurance
eligibility will lead to improvements in health outcomes. We address this question in the
context of dramatic expansions in the Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women that took ...
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Health insurance eligibility, utilization of medical care, and child health

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J Currie… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1996 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We study the effect of public insurance for children on their utilization of medical
care and health outcomes by exploiting recent expansions of the Medicaid program to low-
income children. These expansions doubled the fraction of children eligible for Medicaid ...
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Early test scores, socioeconomic status and future outcomes

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J Currie… - 1999 - nber.org
This paper examines the long-term effects of early test scores using data from the British
National Child Development Survey. We show that test scores measured as early as age 7
have significant effects on future educational and labor market outcomes. For example, ...
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Socioeconomic status and health: why is the relationship stronger for older children?

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J Currie… - 2002 - nber.org
Case, Lubotsky, and Paxson (2001) show that the well-known relationship between socio-
economic status (SES) and health exists in childhood and grows more pronounced with age.
However, in cross-sectional data it is difficult to distinguish between two possible ...
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Is the impact of health shocks cushioned by socioeconomic status? The case of low birthweight

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J Currie… - 1999 - nber.org
This paper examines the long-term effects of low birthweight (LBW) on educational
attainments, labor market outcomes, and health status using data from the National Child
Development Study. The study has followed the cohort of children born in Great Britain ...
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[PDF] Sharing the costs: the impact of trade reform on capital and labor in Morocco

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J Currie… - Journal of Labor Economics, 1997 - econ.ucla.edu
Abstract We examine the impact of recent trade reforms in Morocco. Although employment in
the average private sector manufacturing firm was unaffected, there were significant
employment losses in exporting firms and in the most highly affected firms. Parastatals ...
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School quality and the longer-term effects of Head Start

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J Currie… - 1998 - nber.org
Recent research on Head Start, an enriched preschool program for poor children that effects
on test scores fade out'more quickly for black children than for white children. This" paper
uses data from the 1988 wave of the National Educational Longitudinal Survey to show ...
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The take up of social benefits

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J Currie - 2004 - nber.org
This paper offers a review of recent literature regarding the take up of social programs in the
US and UK A few general conclusions are drawn: First, take up is enhanced by automatic or
default enrollment and lowered by administrative barriers, although removing individual ...
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Healthy, wealthy, and wise: Socioeconomic status, poor health in childhood, and human capital development

J Currie - Journal of Economic Literature, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and
health, and between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored
in the literature. This essay focuses on links between parental socioeconomic status (as ...
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Child mental health and human capital accumulation: the case of ADHD

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J Currie… - 2004 - nber.org
Disorder (ADHD), the most common child mental health problem. ADHD increases the
probability of delinquency and grade repetition, reduces future reading and mathematics
scores, and increases the probability of special education. The estimated effects are ...
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Pre-School, Day Care, and after-School Care: Who's Minding the Kids?

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D Blau… - Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2006 - Elsevier
Abstract The majority of children in the US and many other high-income nations are now
cared for many hours per week by people who are neither their parents nor their school
teachers. The role of such pre-school and out-of-school care is potentially two-fold: First, ...
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Does Head Start help hispanic children?

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J Currie… - 1996 - nber.org
Poor educational attainment is a persistent problem among Latino children, relative to non-
Latinos. This paper examines the effects of participation in the Head Start program on
Latinos. We find that large and significant benefits accrue to Head Start children when we ...
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Are public housing projects good for kids?

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J Currie… - Journal of public economics, 2000 - Elsevier
One goal of federal housing policy is to improve the prospects of children in poor families.
This paper examines the effect of public housing participation on housing quality and
educational attainment. Using the SIPP, we show that living in projects is associated with ...
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Poverty, food insecurity, and nutritional outcomes in children and adults

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J Bhattacharya, J Currie… - Journal of Health economics, 2004 - Elsevier
Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we examine the
relationship between nutritional status, poverty, and food insecurity for household members
of various ages. Our most striking result is that, while poverty is predictive of poor nutrition ...
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The minimum wage and the employment of youth: evidence from the NLSY

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J Currie… - 1993 - nber.org
Using panel data on individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that
employed individuals who were affected by the increases in the federal minimum wage in
1979 and 1980 were 3 to 4% less likely to be employed a year later, even after accounting ...
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Human capital development before age five

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D Almond… - 2010 - nber.org
This chapter seeks to set out what Economists have learned about the effects of early
childhood influences on later life outcomes, and about ameliorating the effects of negative
influences. We begin with a brief overview of the theory which illustrates that evidence of a ...
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An experimental comparison of dispute rates in alternative arbitration systems

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O Ashenfelter, J Currie, HS Farber… - 1990 - nber.org
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES AN EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON OF DISPUTE RATES
IN ALTERNATIVE ARBITRATION SYSTEMS Orley Ashenfelter Janet Currie Henry S. Farber
Matthew Spiegel Working Paper No. 3417 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ...
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Biology as destiny? Short and long-run determinants of intergenerational transmission of birth weight

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J Currie… - 2005 - nber.org
Little is known about the mechanisms underlying the transfer of economic status between
generations. This paper addresses the question of whether inter-generational correlations in
health contribute to the perpetuation of economic status. We examine inter-generational ...
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Welfare and child health: the link between AFDC participation and birth weight

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J Currie… - The American Economic Review, 1993 - JSTOR
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was introduced in 1935 as a way to protect
children against poverty. For the most part, the program involves cash transfers to single
mothers. In 1988, the average monthly number of AFDC recipients was 11 million, and the ...
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Air pollution and infant health: What can we learn from California's recent experience

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J Currie… - 2004 - nber.org
We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work
offers several innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far
greater levels of pollution. In contrast, the experience of California in the 1990s is clearly ...
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Health disparities and gaps in school readiness

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J Currie - The Future of Children, 2005 - JSTOR
The author documents pervasive racial disparities in the health of American children and
analyzes how and how much those disparities contribute to racial gaps in school readiness.
She explores a broad sample of health problems common to US children, such as ...
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Networks or neighborhoods? Correlations in the use of publicly-funded maternity care in California

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A Aizer… - Journal of Public Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
This study focuses on “network effects” in the utilization of publicly-funded prenatal care
using Vital Statistics data from California for 1989–2000. Networks are defined using 5-digit
zip codes and a woman's racial or ethnic group. Like others, we find evidence that the use ...
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Does WIC work? The effects of WIC on pregnancy and birth outcomes

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MP Bitler… - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Support for WIC, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants,
and Children, is based on the belief that “WIC works.” This consensus has lately been
questioned by researchers who point out that most WIC research fails to properly control ...
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Welfare and the well-being of children: The relative effectiveness of cash and in-kind transfers

J Currie - 1993 - nber.org
Cash transfers to families with children are increasingly being restricted to parents who
work, while families of non-working parents are receiving a progressively larger share of
their benefits in kind. This paper provides an evaluation of the empirical evidence ...
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WIC eligibility and participation

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MP Bitler, J Currie… - Journal of Human Resources, 2003 - JSTOR
We examine WIC eligibility and participation using the Current Population Survey (CPS), the
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), and state-level administrative data.
Comparisons suggest significant undercounts in CPS and SIPP, although characteristics ...
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Getting Inside the" Black Box" of Head Start Quality: What Matters and What Doesn't?

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J Currie… - 2003 - nber.org
Critics of Head Start contend that many programs spend too much money on programs
extraneous to education. On the other hand, Head Start advocates argue that severely
disadvantaged children need a broad range of services. Given the available evidence, it ...
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Medical care for children: Public insurance, private insurance, and racial differences in utilization

J Currie… - Journal of Human Resources, 1995 - JSTOR
Data from two waves of the Child-Mother module of the National Longitudinal Surveys are
used to examine the medical care received by children. We compare those covered by
Medicaid, by private health insurance and those with no insurance coverage at all. We ...
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Explaining recent declines in food stamp program participation [with comments]

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J Currie, J Grogger, G Burtless… - Brookings-Wharton papers on …, 2001 - JSTOR
Background The FSP began as a small pilot program in 1961 but had become a national
program by 1974.5 In contrast to the rules for cash welfare receipt under the old AFDC (Aid
to Families with Dependent Children) program and the new TANF (Temporary Aid for ...
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Transfers in cash and in kind: Theory meets the data

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J Currie… - 2007 - nber.org
We review theoretical explanations for in-kind transfers in light of the limited empirical
evidence. After reviewing the traditional paternalistic arguments, we consider explanations
based on imperfect information and self-targeting. We then discuss the large literature on ...
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Medicaid expansions and welfare contractions: offsetting effects on prenatal care and infant health?

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J Currie… - Journal of Health Economics, 2002 - Elsevier
Most states have adopted administrative measures to encourage the use of prenatal care
among medicaid-eligible women. At the same time, declining welfare caseloads have
caused many women to lose medicaid. We examine the effects of changes in income ...
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[CITATION] Trade reform and labor market adjustment in Morocco

J Currie… - Journal of Labor economics, 1997
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Collective bargaining in the public sector: the effect of legal structure on dispute costs and wages

J Currie… - The American Economic Review, 1991 - JSTOR
This paper examines the impact of collective-bargaining legislation on dispute costs and
wages using a panel of Canadian public-sector contracts. Our results suggest that
policymakers designing collective-bargaining legislation face a trade-off between ...
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First Do No Harm?: Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes

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J Currie… - 2006 - nber.org
We examine the impact of tort reforms using US birth records for 1989-2001. We make four
contributions: First, we develop a model that analyzes the incentives created by specific tort
reforms. Second, we assemble new data on tort reform. Third, we examine a range of ...
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Child health in developed countries

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J Currie - Handbook of health economics, 2000 - Elsevier
Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the literature on child health in developed
countries. I first lay out a simple economic model of the demand for child health inputs, and
discuss whether the evidence is consistent with that model. Next, two main causes of ...
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Breakfast of champions? The School Breakfast Program and the nutrition of children and families

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J Bhattacharya, J Currie… - 2004 - nber.org
We use the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) III to examine
the effect of the availability of the school breakfast program (SBP). Our work builds on
previous research in four ways: First, we develop a transparent difference-in-differences ...
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[BOOK] The invisible safety net: protecting the nation's poor children and families

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JM Currie - 2008 - books.google.com
Page 1. Poor Children and Families Janet M. Currie Page 2. The Invisible Safety Net Page 3.
Page 4. The Invisible Safety Net Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families Janet M.
Currie PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Page 5. ...
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Chipping away at health: more on the relationship between income and child health

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J Currie… - Health Affairs, 2007 - Health Affairs
Low-income children are in worse health than other children are. This paper explores the
extent to which insults to health and activity limitations are responsible. In the most recent
National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data, low-income children are more likely than ...
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Physician payments and infant mortality: Evidence from Medicaid fee policy

J Currie, J Gruber… - 1994 - nber.org
While efforts to improve the health of the uninsured have focused on demand side policies
such as increasing insurance coverage, supply side changes may be equally important. Yet
there is little direct evidence on the effect of policies designed to increase the supply of ...
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The technology of birth: Health insurance, medical interventions, and infant health

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J Currie… - 1997 - nber.org
Two key issues for public insurance policy are the effect of insurance status on medical
treatment, and the implications of insurance-induced treat-ment differentials for health
outcomes. We address these issues in the context of the treatment of childbirth, using Vital ...
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Health insurance and less skilled workers

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J Currie… - 1999 - nber.org
We begin this research with the belief that low and declining levels of private-employer
sponsored health insurance were a continuing problem, especially among less skilled
workers. Our analysis, however, paints a more complex picture. Using data from the March ...
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Air pollution and infant health: Lessons from New Jersey

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J Currie, M Neidell… - Journal of health economics, 2009 - Elsevier
We examine the impact of three “criteria” air pollutants on infant health in New Jersey in the
1990s by combining information about mother's residential location from birth certificates
with information from air quality monitors. Our work offers three important innovations. First ...
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[PDF] Mental health in childhood and human capital

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J Currie… - 2007 - nber.org
The prevalence and importance of child mental health problems have been increasingly
recognized in recent years. The Methodology for Epidemiology of Mental Disorders in
Children and Adolescents (MECA) Study cited in the 1999 US Surgeon General's Report ...
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Restrictions on Medicaid funding of abortion: Effects on birth weight and pregnancy resolutions

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J Currie, L Nixon… - Journal of Human Resources, 1996 - JSTOR
Previous research suggests that restricting the availability of abortion reduces average birth
weight. In this paper we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to
reexamine this question. Most previous studies have estimated the probability that a ...
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[PDF] Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance?

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J Currie - 2000 - nber.org
The fraction of the US population that is foreign born has risen dramatically over the past two
decades from 4.7 percent in 1970 to 7.9 percent in 1990 (Banister 1994). First-and second-
generation children of immigrants are the fastest-growing segment of the US population ...
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[PDF] Youths at Nutrition Risk: Malnourished or Misnourished?

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J Bhattacharya… - 2001 - nber.org
The words youth malnutrition conjure up images of gaunt, starving waifs. Fortunately, such
extreme nutrition deprivation is rare in the United States and in other developed countries.
Nevertheless, as we will show, many American youths are “misnourished.” The nutrition ...
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Public health insurance and medical treatment: The equalizing impact of the Medicaid expansions

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J Currie… - Journal of Public Economics, 2001 - Elsevier
We investigate the impact of expanding public health insurance on the medical treatment
received by women at childbirth, using Vital Statistics data on every birth in the US over the
1987–1992 period. The effects of insurance status on treatment are identified using the ...
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Mother's education and the intergenerational transmission of human capital: evidence from college openings and longitudinal data

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J Currie… - 2002 - nber.org
We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital
Statistics Natality files for 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential
channels through which maternal education may improve birth outcomes: use of prenatal ...
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Employment determination in a unionized public-sector labor market: the case of Ontario's school teachers

J Currie - Journal of Labor Economics, 1991 - JSTOR
A standard efficient-contracts model of employment determination in a unionized labor
market is contrasted with a naive model of labor supply and demand that allows for the
possibility of monopsony in the market for public school teachers. The standard model is ...
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Firm-specific determinants of the real wage

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J Currie… - 1992 - nber.org
Bargaining models suggest that firm-specific variables play an important role in wage
determination. Yet previous empirical studies of wage determination have largely ignored
these variables. Our analysis of a large panel data set of US wage contracts suggests that ...
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Accidents will happen?: Unintentional childhood injuries and the effects of child care regulations

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J Currie… - Journal of Health Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
Accidents are the leading cause of death and injury among children in the United States, far
surpassing diseases as a health threat. We examine the effects of child care regulation on
rates of accidental injury using both micro data from the National Longitudinal Survey of ...
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Killing me softly: The fetal origins hypothesis

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D Almond… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: In the epidemiological literature, the fetal origins hypothesis associated with David
J. Barker posits that chronic, degenerative conditions of adult health, including heart disease
and type 2 diabetes, may be triggered by circumstances decades earlier, particularly, by in ...
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Does child abuse cause crime?

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J Currie… - 2006 - nber.org
Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social
problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using
data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We focus on ...
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Medicaid managed care: effects on children's Medicaid coverage and utilization

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J Currie… - Journal of Public Economics, 2005 - Elsevier
We use data from the National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS) to measure the effects of the
growth of Medicaid managed care on children. We examine both the probability that
individual children were Medicaid-covered and their utilization of care. We find that ...
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Accidents will happen? Unintentional injury, maternal employment, and child care policy

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J Currie… - 2001 - nber.org
In western countries, accidents are the leading cause of death and injury among children, far
surpassing diseases as a health threat. We examine the effect of maternal employment and
child care policy on rates of accidental injury using both micro data from the National ...
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[CITATION] Saving our children from poverty: What the United States can learn from France

BR Bergmann, J Currie - Journal of …, 1997 - Nashville [etc.]: American Economic …
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Healthy, wealthy, and wise: socioeconomic status, poor health in childhood, and human capital development

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J Currie - 2008 - nber.org
There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and
between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored in the
literature. This essay focuses on links between parental socioeconomic status (as ...
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Stroll your way to well-being: a survey of the perceived benefits, barriers, community support, and stigma associated with pram walking groups designed for new …

JL Currie… - Health Care for Women International, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
... 1997). Accepted 12 December 2001. Address correspondence to Dr. Janet Currie,
Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, PO Box 968, North Sydney
NSW 2059, Australia. 882 Page 2. Stroll to Well-Being 883 ...
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Traffic congestion and infant health: evidence from E-Zpass

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J Currie… - 2009 - nber.org
This paper provides evidence of the significant negative health externalities of traffic
congestion. We exploit the introduction of electronic toll collection, or E-ZPass, which greatly
reduced traffic congestion and emissions from motor vehicles in the vicinity of highway toll ...
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[PDF] Understanding when agents are fairmen or gamesmen

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M Spiegel, J Currie, H Sonnenschein… - Games and Economic …, 1994 - econ.ucla.edu
Abstract Non—cooperative game theory produces sharp predictions about the way surplus
will be divided in alternating offer games with discounting. Experiments that have attempted
to test these predictions have produced conflicting results. Taken together, they support ...
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Who Uses Interest Arbitration-The Case of British Columbia's Teachers, 1947-1981

J Currie - Indus. & Lab. Rel. Rev., 1988 - HeinOnline
Several researchers have attempted to identify the circumstances under which parties
subject to compulsory interest arbitration will actually push a contract dispute to arbitration.
In this paper, a simple model that incorporates elements of the leading hypotheses is ...
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Child health and young adult outcomes

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J Currie, M Stabile, P Manivong… - 2008 - nber.org
Previous research has shown a strong connection between birth weight and future child
outcomes. But this research has not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-
term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily because it predicts future health ...
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Hospitals, managed care, and the charity caseload in California

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J Currie… - 2001 - nber.org
Many observers have blamed HMOs for increasing financial pressures on private hospitals
and causing them to cut back on the provision of charity care. We examine this issue using
data on all hospital discharges in California between 1988 and 1996. We find that public ...
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The effect of welfare on child outcomes

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J Currie - Welfare, the family, and reproductive behavior: …, 1998 - books.google.com
There is hroad support for the idea that welfare should benefit poor children. Yet most
research on welfare programs, as well as much of the debate ahout welfare reform, has
focused on the way that parents respond to incentives created by welfare, rather than on ...
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Race, children's cognitive achievement and the Bell Curve

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J Currie… - 1995 - nber.org
In The Bell Curve, Herrnstein and Murray demonstrate that a mother's score on the Armed
Forces Qualification Test is a powerful predictor of her child's score on a cognitive
achievement test. We replicate this finding. However, even after controlling for maternal ...
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Negotiator Behavior and the Occurrence of Dispute

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O Ashenfelter… - The American Economic Review, 1990 - JSTOR
It is generally recognized that gains from cooperation are sometimes lost because
negotiating parties fail to reach agreement. Table 1 shows dispute rates that have been
reported in a wide variety of negotiating situations. The estimates suggest that between 10 ...
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[PDF] Welfare and the well-being of children: The relative effectiveness of cash and in-kind transfers

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J Currie - 1994 - nber.org
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Cash transfers to families with children are being restricted
increasingly to parents who work, while families of nonworking parents are receiv-ing a
progressively larger share of their benefits in kind. This paper provides an evaluation of ...
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Motherhood, stress and the exercise experience: freedom or constraint?

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J Currie - Leisure Studies, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Lack of leisure and time to self have been found to be major stressors for mothers. This
paper examines perceived stress‐relieving benefits gained from involvement in a 12 week
exercise class program by a group of mothers (n= 30, x̄ age= 37.3 years). Qualitative ...
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Has public health insurance for older children reduced disparities in access to care and health outcomes?

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J Currie, S Decker… - Journal of Health Economics, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older
children. Using data from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first
show that although income continues to be an important predictor of children's health ...
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Does Pollution Increase School Absences?

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J Currie, EA Hanushek, EM Kahn, M Neidell… - The Review of …, 2009 - MIT Press
Abstract We examine the effect of air pollution on school absences using administrative data
for elementary and middle school children in 39 of the largest school districts in Texas
merged with air quality information maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency. ...
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Cut to the bone? Hospital takeovers and nurse employment contracts

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J Currie, M Farsi… - 2003 - nber.org
This paper uses data from the 1990s to examine changes in the wages, employment, and
effort of nurses in California hospitals following takeovers by large chains. The market for
nurses has been described as a classic monopsony, so that one might expect increases in ...
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Long-term consequences of child abuse and neglect on adult economic well-being

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J Currie… - Child maltreatment, 2010 - cmx.sagepub.com
Abstract Child abuse and neglect represent major threats to child health and well-being;
however, little is known about consequences for adult economic outcomes. Using a
prospective cohort design, court substantiated cases of childhood physical and sexual ...
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The Intergenerational Transmission of “Intelligence”: Down the Slippery Slopes of The Bell Curve

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J Currie… - … Relations: A Journal of Economy and …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Herrnstein and Murray report that conditional on maternal “intelligence”(AFQT scores), child
test scores are little affected by variations in socioeconomic status. Using the same data, we
demonstrate that their finding is very fragile. We explore the effect of adopting a more ...
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Inequality at birth: some causes and consequences

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J Currie - 2011 - nber.org
Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal
education, behaviors, and participation in social programs. In turn, endowments at birth are
predictive of adult outcomes, and of the outcomes of future generations. Exposure to ...
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Choosing among alternative programs for poor children

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JM Currie - The Future of Children, 1997 - JSTOR
Page 1. 113 Choosing Among Alternative Programs for Poor Children Janet M. Currie
Abstract Many public programs serve poor children. By setting budgets, benefit levels,
and pro- gram rules, policymakers decide how many ...
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Socio-economic status and child health: Does public health insurance narrow the gap?

J Currie - The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1995 - JSTOR
Drawing on evidence from the US, this paper examines the effects of public health insurance
on children. Recent expansions of American public health insurance programs to previously
ineligible children have created a great deal of variation that can be used to identify their ...
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[CITATION] Who's Minding the Kids? Preschool, Daycare, and After School Care

D Blau… - The Handbook of Education Economics, 2007 - New York: North Holland
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Distance to hospital and children's use of preventive care: is being closer better, and for whom?

J Currie… - Economic Inquiry, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the effect of distance to hospital on preventive care among children
using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth's Child-Mother file matched to
data from the 1990 American Hospital Association Survey. Among central-city black ...
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Viewpoint: Child research comes of age

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J Currie - Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
1. This paper is based on an invited lecture delivered to the Canadian Economics
Association in June 2003. Financial support from Princeton's Center for Health and Well-
Being is gratefully acknowledged. The author is a research associate at the National ...
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[PDF] Public housing and labor supply

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J Currie… - Joint Center for Poverty Research …, 1998 - ipr.northwestern.edu
The federal government spent more than $19 billion on subsidized housing programs for the
poor in Fiscal Year 1992. Of this amount, roughly two-thirds was spent on Section 8 housing
vouchers and one-third on public housing projects. Although spending on these ...
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[CITATION] A Note on the New Minimum Wage Research

J Currie, B Fallick… - 1993 - National Bureau of Economic …
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The feasibility and effectiveness of pram walking groups for postpartum women in western Sydney.

N Watson, AJ Milat, M Thomas… - Health promotion journal …, 2005 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
ISSUE ADDRESSED: Women with children under five are the least physically active
population group. We provided postpartum women living in western Sydney with the
opportunity to participate in weekly pram walking groups and evaluated the effect of the ...
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Health insurance eligibility, utilization of medical care, and child health

J Currie… - 1995 - nber.org
The poor health status of children in the US relative to other industrialized nations has
motivated recent efforts to extend insurance coverage to underprivileged children. There is
little past evidence that extending eligibility for public insurance to previously ineligible ...
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Networks or neighborhoods? Correlations in the use of publicly-funded maternity care in California

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A Aizer… - 2002 - nber.org
This study focuses on network effects' in the utilization of publicly funded prenatal care using
Vital Statistics data from California for 1989 to 2000. Networks are defined using 5-digit
zipcodes and a woman's racial or ethnic group. Like others, we find evidence that the use ...
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Reported Income in the NLSY: Consistency Checks and Methods for Cleaningthe Data

N Cole… - 1994 - nber.org
The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth collects information about over 20 separate
components of respondent income. These disaggregated income components provide many
opportunities to verify the consistency of the data. This note outlines procedures we have ...
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Impact of Collective-Bargaining Legislation on Disputes in the US Public Sector: No Legislation May Be the Worst Legislation, The

J Currie… - JL & Econ., 1994 - HeinOnline
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[CITATION] Best practices treatment and rehabilitation for women with substance use problems

JC Currie, Canada. Health Canada… - 2001 - Health Canada
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[CITATION] Health insurance eligibility and Child Health: lessons from recent expansions of the Medicaid program

J Currie… - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1996
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Gender gaps in benefits coverage

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J Currie - 1993 - nber.org
This paper explores the extent to which there are gender gaps in the provision of 4 common
non-wage benefits offered by employers: pensions, health insurance, sick leaves, and
disability plans. I find that there are gender differences in whether or not benefits are ...
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[PDF] Evaluating the impact of school nutrition programs

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J Bhattacharya, J Currie… - USDA Final Report, 2003 - ers.usda.gov
Abstract This study develops estimates of the efficacy of school nutrition programs in
improving a broad range of dietary outcomes by comparing the nutritional status of students
and their families during the school year with the status when school is out. The study ...
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Arbitrator behavior and the variances of arbitrated and negotiated wage settlements

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J Currie - Journal of Labor Economics, 1994 - JSTOR
The variance of arbitrated wage settlements is significantly lower than the variance of
negotiated wage settlements in a sample of teachers' contracts, even when possible
selection of contracts into arbitration is accounted for. This result is consistent with the ...
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[PDF] Healthy, wealthy, and wise: Is there a causal relationship between child health and human capital development?

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J Currie - Journal of Economic Literature, 2009 - npc.fordschool.umich.edu
Abstract There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and
health, and between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored
in the literature. This essay focuses on links between parental socioeconomic status (as ...
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[CITATION] WIC participation and eligibility

M Bitler, J Currie… - Journal of Human Resources, v38, 2003
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[CITATION] Physician payments and infant health: Effects of increases in Medicaid reimbursements

J Currie, J Gruber… - American Economic Review, 1995
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[CITATION] Welfare and the Well-Being of Children: Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics No. 59

J Currie - Switzerland: Hardwood Academic Publishers, 1995
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Competition in imperfect markets: does it help California's Medicaid mothers?

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A Aizer, J Currie… - 2004 - nber.org
Poor and uneducated patients may not know what health care is desirable and, if fully
insured, have little incentive to minimize the costs of their care. Partly in response to these
concerns, most states have moved a substantial portion of their Medicaid caseloads out of ...
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[BOOK] A Fresh Start for Head Start?

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JM Currie… - 2001 - caoec.org
A Fresh Start for Head Start? by Janet Currie March 2001 When Congress and the new
administration debate the future of Head ... HHS to rigorously test the effects of Head Start on young
children. Janet Currie is professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles ...
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