Melinda Sandler Morrill

TL;DR: Using a regression discontinuity model and exact dates of birth, it is found that children born just after the cutoff, who are relatively old-for-grade, have a significantly lower incidence of ADHD diagnosis and treatment compared with similar children bornjust before the cutoff date.

TL;DR: Using the restricted-access National Health Interview Survey (1985-2004), the effects on overnight hospitalizations, asthma episodes, and injuries/poisonings for children ages 7-17 are identified and do not reflect a non-representative local effect.

TL;DR: The authors examined whether women's rising labor force participation led to increased intergenerational transmission of occupation from fathers to daughters, and developed a model where fathers invest in human capital that is specific to their own occupations.

TL;DR: Exogenous variation in years of completed college induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War is exploited to examine the impact of college on adult mortality, implying that increasing college attainment from the level of the state at the 25th percentile of the education distribution would decrease cumulative mortality by 8 to 10 percent relative to the mean.

TL;DR: A significant and robust negative relationship between the unemployment and divorce rates is found, whereby a one percentage point rise in the unemployment rate is associated with a decrease of 0.043 divorces per one thousand people, or about a one percent fall in the divorce rate.