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Geography of the Family

By Kai A. Konrad, Harald Künemund, Kjell Erik Lommerud, and Julio R. Robledo

American Economic Review, September 2002

We study the residential choice of siblings who are altruistic towards their parents. The firstborn child's location choice influences the behavior of the second-born child and can shift some of the burden of providing care for the parents from one child ...

Longer-Term Effects of Head Start

By Eliana Garces, Duncan Thomas, and Janet Currie

American Economic Review, September 2002

Specially collected data on adults in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics are used to provide evidence on the longer-term effects of Head Start, an early intervention program for poor preschool-age children. Whites who attended Head Start are, relative to ...