Despite substantial evidence that resources and outcomes are transmitted across generations, there has been limited inquiry into the extent to which anti-poverty programs actually disrupt the cycle of bad outcomes. We explore how the effects of the United States’ largest early childhood program transfer across generations. We leverage the geographic rollout of this federally funded, means-teste...

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Ð This paper assesses the Argentine stabilization and market reform strategies since 1989. We argue that Argentina may be penned in by its own success: exchange rate targeting quelled in ̄ation but the resulting real appreciation has limited export and employment growth; microeconomic reforms raised eciency but have threatened income distribution and hence political stability; exclusive styles ...

Background: Monotherapy is not usually effective in the treatment of hirsutism. Objective: Comparison of 2 therapeutic regimens in the treatment of hirsutism. Patients and methods: In this open parallel controlled clinical trial, 101 Patients suffering from hirsutism were randomly divided into two equal groups. 50 patients were treated with spironolactone (50 mg/day) plus cyproterone comp...

In this paper, the problem of the robustness of the sample autocovariance function is addressed. We propose a new autocovariance estimator, based on a highly robust estimator of scale. Its robustness properties are studied by means of the in ̄uence function, and a new concept of temporal breakdown point. As the theoretical variance of the estimator does not have a closed form, we perform a simul...