This paper studies the introduction of electronic voting technology in Brazilian elections.
Estimates exploiting a regression discontinuity design indicate that electronic voting reduced …

Mounting evidence across different disciplines suggests that earlylife conditions can have
consequences on individual outcomes throughout the life cycle. Relative to other developed …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing
the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality …

In the first longitudinal, population-based study of full-day kindergarten (FDK) outcomes
beyond primary school in Canada, we used linked administrative data to follow 15 …

Housing instability is an understudied social condition that may be a severe stressor during
pregnancy. Aims of this study are to identify correlates of housing instability and to explore …

This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic to test how household resources are
reallocated in response to a health shock to one child. Using a new dataset linking census …

The domains of child development and early learning are discussed in different terms and
categorized in different ways in the various fields and disciplines that are involved in …

This paper presents a test of the exogeneity of a single explanatory variable in a multivariate
model. It does not require the exogeneity of the other regressors or the existence of …

Minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) laws are known to reduce alcohol consumption among
young adults. One additional benefit of higher MLDAs may be that they improve health …

Using birth records in Japan, where school entry rule is strictly enforced, this paper shows
that more than 1,800 births a year are shifted from one week before the school entry cutoff …