This paper evaluates an intervention in India that engaged adolescent girls and boys classroom discussions about gender equality for two years, aiming to reduce their support societal norms restrict women's girls' opportunities. Using a randomized controlled trial, we find the program made attitudes more supportive of by 0.18 standard deviations, or, equivalently, converted 16 percent regressiv...

This paper estimates the long-run effects of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health and economic outcomes using program’s original introduction ( 1966–1970) its mandated coverage welfare recipients. The design compares cohorts born in different years relative to implementation, states with preexisting welfare-based eligibility. Early reduces mortality disability, increases employment, r...

We examine the impact of introduction paid maternity leave in Norway 1977 on maternal health medium and long term. Using administrative data combined with survey women around age 40, we find reform improved a range outcomes, including BMI, blood pressure, pain, mental health. The also increased health-promoting behaviors, such as exercise not smoking. effects were larger for first-time low-reso...

We investigate the effect of teenage driving on mortality and risky behaviors in United States using a regression discontinuity design. estimate that total rises by 5.84 deaths per 100,000 (15 percent) at minimum legal age cutoff, driven an increase motor vehicle fatalities 4.92 (44 percent). also find poisoning deaths, which are caused primarily drug overdoses, rise 0.31 (29 cutoff this is con...

The old-age security motive for fertility postulates that people’s needs support raise the demand children. We exploit extension of social pensions in Namibia during 1990s to provide a quasi-experimental quantification this widespread idea. reform eliminated inequalities pension coverage and benefits across regions ethnic groups. Combining differences pre-reform exposure cohorts, we show substa...

There is strong assortative mating by field of study. To examine to which extent this due self selection or a causal effect access specific ”marriage markets”, we use data from participants in admission lotteries four oversubscribed studies the Netherlands. For each studies, find that winning compliers an lottery are significantly more likely than losing have partner study, whereas only margina...

The gene encoding chitinase from Streptomyces sp. (strain J-13-3) was cloned and its nucleotide structure was analyzed. The chitinase consisted of 298 amino acids containing a signal peptides (29 amino acids) and a mature protein (269 amino acids), and had calculated molecular mass of 31,081Da. The calculated molecular mass (28,229Da) of the mature protein was almost same as that of the native ...

This paper uses panel data of OECD countries during the period 1995–2003 to examine how corruption affects fertility. The Corruption Perceptions Index is used to measure the degree of corruption. Fixed effects IV estimation and the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel estimation are employed to control for endogenous bias and unobservable country-specific effects. Results suggest that the fertility rate...

This paper studies the relationship between mothers’ employment and children’s schooling in India. Using the second National Family Health Survey, the results of a multilevel probit model show that the correlation between mothers’ employment and their children’s schooling is negative. Women in poorer households are more likely to work but, given the negative correlation, their additional income...

We study the effect of unemployment on child maltreatment in the United States for the period 2004-12, at the county level. We use a new administrative dataset containing every report of child abuse and neglect made to the Child Protective Services, and identify the effect using a Bartik instrument. A one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate causes a 20 percent increase in neglect...