New Working Papers from the NBER

The Short-Term Mortality Consequences of Income Receipt
William N. Evans, Timothy J. Moore
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The Effect of Maternal Depression and Substance Abuse on Child Human Capital Development
Richard G. Frank, Ellen Meara
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Induced Innovation and Social Inequality: Evidence from Infant Medical Care
David M. Cutler, Ellen Meara, Seth Richards
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Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data
Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen P. Jenkins, Jeff Larrimore
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How large are returns to schooling? Hint: Money isn’t everything
Philip Oreopoulos, Kjell G. Salvanes
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Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor
Eric V. Edmonds, Norbert Schady
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Spatial Development
Klaus Desmet, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
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Misperceptions About the Magnitude and Timing of Changes in American Income Inequality
Robert J. Gordon
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Women’s Rights and Development
Raquel Fernández
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Inheritances, Health and Death
Beomsoo Kim, Christopher J. Ruhm
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Measuring How Risk Tradeoffs Adjust With Income
Mary F. Evans, V. Kerry Smith
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The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime
David A. Weiner, Byron F. Lutz, Jens Ludwig
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Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor
David Deming, Susan Dynarski
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