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Melissa Kearney outlines child poverty response
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Plan could virtually end child poverty
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The Impact of Family Income in the First Year of Life on Child and Maternal Health: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
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Michel Boudreaux, Health Policy and Management, and Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Urban Institute
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Local Food Prices, SNAP Purchasing Power, and Child Health
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AREC Seminar Series
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Audrey Dorelien, University of Minnesota
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The Effects of In Utero Exposure to Influenza on Birth and Infant Outcomes in the US
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Kirsten Stoebenau, Behavioral & Community Health
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"Come, we try" - A qualitative study of changing marital practices in low-income settings in Eastern Africa and the implications for maternal and child health
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Madhavan leads team to study kinship effects
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Five-year R01 project will examine kin relationships in Nairobi, Kenya
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Quantiles of the Gain Distribution of an Early Childhood Intervention
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We offer a new strategy to identify the distribution of treatment effects using data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), a relatively understudied early-childhood intervention for low birth-weight infants. We introduce a new policy parameter, QCD, which denotes quantiles of the effect distribution conditional on latent neonatal health. The dependence between potential outcomes originates from a new class of factor models where latent health can affect the location and shape of distributions. We first show that QCD depends on quantiles of marginal outcome distributions given latent health. We then achieve identification of these marginal distributions and QCD by proxying latent health with neonatal anthropometrics and accounting for measurement error in these proxies. The effects of enrolling in IHDP are widely distributed across children and depend on neonatal health. Moreover, the large average effects documented in past work for close to normal birth weight children from low-income families are driven by a minority of children in this group.
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Erich Battistin, Ph.D.
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Erich Battistin Publications
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Using New Policy Parameter to Study Early Childhood Intervention for Low Birth-weight Infants
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Erich Battistin examines a relatively understudied early-childhood intervention for low birth-weight infants using new policy parameter
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How Ending a Conditional Cash Transfer Program Impacts Children’s School Enrollment: Evidence from Mexico
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Susan W. Parker, Public Policy
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MacDorman co-authors midwifery outcomes research
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Midwifery linked to better birth outcomes in state-by-state "report card"
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