Pub Date : 2023-10-06DOI: 10.3368/jhr.0220-10720r4
Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei, Guangjun Shen, Ang Sun
Abstract
The impact of maternal education on child health has been well documented. Using the variations in exposure to China’s Compulsory Schooling Law (CSL), we find that education induced a lower incidence of teenage pregnancy and a higher likelihood of induced abortion following prenatal checkups. A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that these channels could explain 45% of the birth defect decline induced by the CSL. The findings suggest that in countries where abortions are allowed, maternal education improves child health by decreasing pregnancy at an immature age and selection against abnormal/unhealthy fetuses.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-06DOI: 10.3368/jhr.0522-12328r2
Hélène Benghalem, Pierre Cahuc, Pierre Villedieu
Abstract
We conducted a large randomized controlled experiment that provides information on part-time unemployment benefits to unemployment insurance recipients in France. The information provision had a significant positive impact on the propensity to work while on claim, but reduced the unemployment exit rate, showing important lock-in effects into unemployment associated with part-time unemployment benefits. The extension of the duration of compensated unemployment counterbalanced the increase in the number of days worked while on claim so that the net expenditure of unemployment insurance remained unchanged.
{"title":"The Lock-in Effects of Information on Part-time Unemployment Benefits","authors":"Hélène Benghalem, Pierre Cahuc, Pierre Villedieu","doi":"10.3368/jhr.0522-12328r2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0522-12328r2","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> We conducted a large randomized controlled experiment that provides information on part-time unemployment benefits to unemployment insurance recipients in France. The information provision had a significant positive impact on the propensity to work while on claim, but reduced the unemployment exit rate, showing important lock-in effects into unemployment associated with part-time unemployment benefits. The extension of the duration of compensated unemployment counterbalanced the increase in the number of days worked while on claim so that the net expenditure of unemployment insurance remained unchanged.","PeriodicalId":48346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Resources","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135302452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-06DOI: 10.3368/jhr.1222-12703r2
Ezra Golberstein, Irina Zainullina, Aaron Sojourner, Mark A. Sander
ABSTRACT
School-based mental health services (SBMH) may increase students’ access to care, which could yield benefits for mental health status and human capital-related outcomes. This paper uses a difference-in-differences design with 19 years of survey and administrative data to estimate the impacts of SBMH on a range of K-12 student outcomes. SBMH increases average outpatient mental health service use and reduces self-reported suicide attempts. There is weaker evidence that SBMH reduces suspensions and juvenile justice involvement, and no evidence that SBMH affects average attendance, standardized test scores, or self-reported substance use.
{"title":"Effects of School-Based Mental Health Services on Youth Outcomes","authors":"Ezra Golberstein, Irina Zainullina, Aaron Sojourner, Mark A. Sander","doi":"10.3368/jhr.1222-12703r2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1222-12703r2","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>ABSTRACT</h3> School-based mental health services (SBMH) may increase students’ access to care, which could yield benefits for mental health status and human capital-related outcomes. This paper uses a difference-in-differences design with 19 years of survey and administrative data to estimate the impacts of SBMH on a range of K-12 student outcomes. SBMH increases average outpatient mental health service use and reduces self-reported suicide attempts. There is weaker evidence that SBMH reduces suspensions and juvenile justice involvement, and no evidence that SBMH affects average attendance, standardized test scores, or self-reported substance use.","PeriodicalId":48346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Resources","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135352590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.3368/jhr.1222-12705r2
Lauren Jones, Mark Stabile, Kourtney Koebel, Jill Furzer
{"title":"The Effect of Household Earnings on Child School Mental Health Designations: Evidence from Administrative Data","authors":"Lauren Jones, Mark Stabile, Kourtney Koebel, Jill Furzer","doi":"10.3368/jhr.1222-12705r2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1222-12705r2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Resources","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86253318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.3368/jhr.0320-10756r4
Alexander Paul, Dorthe Bleses, Michael Rosholm
Abstract
Using Danish administrative data, we address the issue of efficient targeting in childhood interventions. We define children to be in need of an intervention if they experience one or more socially undesirable outcomes in adulthood. Because interventions are very effective early in life, we then test if and to what extent indicators available at birth can predict these outcomes. We find fair to good levels of prediction accuracy for many outcomes, driven by a parsimonious set of predictors. We show that optimal weights for the construction of risk scores deviate from the weights typically used in targeted interventions.
{"title":"Efficient targeting in childhood interventions","authors":"Alexander Paul, Dorthe Bleses, Michael Rosholm","doi":"10.3368/jhr.0320-10756r4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0320-10756r4","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> Using Danish administrative data, we address the issue of efficient targeting in childhood interventions. We define children to be in need of an intervention if they experience one or more socially undesirable outcomes in adulthood. Because interventions are very effective early in life, we then test if and to what extent indicators available at birth can predict these outcomes. We find fair to good levels of prediction accuracy for many outcomes, driven by a parsimonious set of predictors. We show that optimal weights for the construction of risk scores deviate from the weights typically used in targeted interventions.","PeriodicalId":48346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Resources","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135097983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.3368/jhr.0423-12854r1
Adriana Corredor-Waldron, Janet Currie
Abstract
Rising reports of suicidal behaviors in children and adolescents have led to the recognition of a youth mental health crisis. However, reported rates can be influenced by access to screening and changes in reporting conventions, as well as by changes in social stigma. Using data on all hospital visits in New Jersey from 2008-2019, we investigate two inflection points in adolescent suicide-related visits and show that a rise in 2012 followed changes in screening recommendations, while a sharp rise in 2016-2017 followed changes in the coding of suicidal ideation. Rates of other suicidal behaviors including self-harm, attempted suicides, and completed suicides were essentially flat over this period. These results suggest that underlying suicide-related behaviors among children, while alarmingly high, may not have risen as sharply as reported rates suggest. Hence, researchers should approach reported trends cautiously.
{"title":"To What Extent are Trends in Teen Mental Health Driven by Changes in Reporting?","authors":"Adriana Corredor-Waldron, Janet Currie","doi":"10.3368/jhr.0423-12854r1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0423-12854r1","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> Rising reports of suicidal behaviors in children and adolescents have led to the recognition of a youth mental health crisis. However, reported rates can be influenced by access to screening and changes in reporting conventions, as well as by changes in social stigma. Using data on all hospital visits in New Jersey from 2008-2019, we investigate two inflection points in adolescent suicide-related visits and show that a rise in 2012 followed changes in screening recommendations, while a sharp rise in 2016-2017 followed changes in the coding of suicidal ideation. Rates of other suicidal behaviors including self-harm, attempted suicides, and completed suicides were essentially flat over this period. These results suggest that underlying suicide-related behaviors among children, while alarmingly high, may not have risen as sharply as reported rates suggest. Hence, researchers should approach reported trends cautiously.","PeriodicalId":48346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Resources","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135150770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.3368/jhr.1222-12698r1
Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon B. Dahl, K. Løken, M. Mogstad
{"title":"Domestic Violence Reports and the Mental Health and Well-being of Victims and Their Children","authors":"Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon B. Dahl, K. Løken, M. Mogstad","doi":"10.3368/jhr.1222-12698r1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1222-12698r1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Resources","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83679862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-11DOI: 10.3368/jhr.0522-12347r1
C. Carpenter, Brandyn F. Churchill
{"title":"“There She Is, Your Ideal”","authors":"C. Carpenter, Brandyn F. Churchill","doi":"10.3368/jhr.0522-12347r1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0522-12347r1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Resources","volume":"152 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78067868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-11DOI: 10.3368/jhr.0320-10784r2
Sangita Vyas
{"title":"The child health impacts of coal","authors":"Sangita Vyas","doi":"10.3368/jhr.0320-10784r2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0320-10784r2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Resources","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85030999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-11DOI: 10.3368/jhr.0321-11538r2
Matthew Ridley, Camille Terrier
Abstract
Do charter schools drain resources and high-achieving peers from non-charter schools? We provide new evidence on the fiscal and educational consequences of charter expansion for non-charter students in Massachusetts, which temporarily compensates districts losing students to charter schools. Exploiting a 2011 reform that lifted caps on charter schools for underperforming districts, we use complementary synthetic control (SC) and differences- in-differences instrumental variables (IV-DiD) estimators. Our results suggest charter expansion leaves districts’ overall per-pupil revenue and expenditure unchanged, but induces districts to shift expenditure from capital investment and support services to instruction and salaries, and ultimately increases non-charter students’ achievement in math.
{"title":"Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion","authors":"Matthew Ridley, Camille Terrier","doi":"10.3368/jhr.0321-11538r2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0321-11538r2","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> Do charter schools drain resources and high-achieving peers from non-charter schools? We provide new evidence on the fiscal and educational consequences of charter expansion for non-charter students in Massachusetts, which temporarily compensates districts losing students to charter schools. Exploiting a 2011 reform that lifted caps on charter schools for underperforming districts, we use complementary synthetic control (SC) and differences- in-differences instrumental variables (IV-DiD) estimators. Our results suggest charter expansion leaves districts’ overall per-pupil revenue and expenditure unchanged, but induces districts to shift expenditure from capital investment and support services to instruction and salaries, and ultimately increases non-charter students’ achievement in math.","PeriodicalId":48346,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Resources","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135354244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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