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1.	Currie, Janet Neidell, Matthew J.
1.	Getting Inside the "Black Box" of Head Start Quality: What Matters and What Doesn't Economics of Education Review 26,1 (February 2007): 83-99. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775706000215 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Poverty; Children, Preschool; Head Start; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Poverty; Record Linkage (also see Data Linkage); School Progress Critics of Head Start contend that many programs spend too much money on programs extraneous to children. On the other hand, Head Start advocates argue that the families of severely disadvantaged children need a broad range of services. Given the available evidence, it has been impossible to assess the validity of these claims. In this study, we match detailed administrative data with data on child outcomes from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, including test scores, behavior problems, and grade repetition. We find that former Head Start children have higher reading and vocabulary scores where Head Start spending was higher. Holding per capita expenditures constant, children in programs that devoted higher shares of their budgets to child-specific expenditures have fewer behavior problems and are less likely to have been retained in grade. [Copyright 2007 Elsevier]
	Bibliography Citation Currie, Janet and Matthew J. Neidell. "Getting Inside the "Black Box" of Head Start Quality: What Matters and What Doesn't." Economics of Education Review 26,1 (February 2007): 83-99.

2.	Glied, Sherry A. Neidell, Matthew J.
2.	The Economic Value of Teeth NBER Working Paper No. 13879, National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2008. Also: http://www.nber.org/papers/w13879 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Keyword(s): Discrimination, Employer; Earnings, Husbands; Economic Well-Being; Gender Differences; Health Factors; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Labor Market Outcomes; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Well-Being Healthy teeth are a vital and visible component of general well-being, but there is little systematic evidence to demonstrate their economic value. In this paper, we examine one element of that value, the effect of oral health on labor market outcomes, by exploiting variation in access to fluoridated water during childhood. The politics surrounding the adoption of water fluoridation by local water districts suggests exposure to fluoride during childhood is exogenous to other factors affecting earnings. We find that women who resided in communities with fluoridated water during childhood earn approximately 4% more than women who did not, but we find no effect of fluoridation for men. Furthermore, the effect is almost exclusively concentrated amongst women from families of low socioeconomic status. We find little evidence to support occupational sorting, statistical discrimination, and productivity as potential channels of these effects, suggesting consumer and employer discrimination are the likely driving factors whereby oral health affects earnings
	Bibliography Citation Glied, Sherry A. and Matthew J. Neidell. "The Economic Value of Teeth." NBER Working Paper No. 13879, National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2008.

3.	Glied, Sherry A. Neidell, Matthew J.
3.	The Economic Value of Teeth Journal of Human Resources 45,2 (March 2010): 468-496. Also: http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/45/2/468.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Discrimination, Employer; Earnings; Economic Well-Being; Gender Differences; Health Reform; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Labor Market Outcomes; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Well-Being This paper examines the effect of oral health on labor market outcomes by exploiting variation in fluoridated water exposure during childhood. The politics surrounding the adoption of water fluoridation by local governments suggests exposure to fluoride is exogenous to other factors affecting earnings. Exposure to fluoridated water increases women's earnings by approximately 4 percent, but has no detectable effect for men. Furthermore, the effect is largely concentrated amongst women from families of low socioeconomic status. We find little evidence to support occupational sorting, statistical discrimination, and productivity as potential channels, with some evidence supporting consumer and possibly employer discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Human Resources is the property of University of Wisconsin Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
	Bibliography Citation Glied, Sherry A. and Matthew J. Neidell. "The Economic Value of Teeth." Journal of Human Resources 45,2 (March 2010): 468-496.

4.	Neidell, Matthew J.
4.	Early Parental Time Investments in Children's Capital Development: Effects of Time in the First Year on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Outcomes Working Paper No. 806, Department of Economics, University of California - Los Angeles, 2000. Also: http://www.econ.ucla.edu/workingpapers/wp806.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Birth Order; Birthweight; Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Well-Being; Cognitive Development; Fathers, Involvement; Human Capital; Infants; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC); Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Based on recent neuropsychological literature, this study measures the effects of early parental time investments on children's cognitive and non-cognitive development. This study offers three innovations. First, time investments are not permitted to be substitutable over time. Second, short and long term cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes are considered. Third, a household fixed effect is constructed to capture the unobserved heterogeneity of caregivers and children. This offers a lower bound of the true effect of time investments. Using the National Longitudinal Survey Child-Mother file, the results are consistent with neuropsychological evidence. They suggest that uninterrupted parental time investments for up to one year offer lasting benefits, particularly for non-cognitive outcomes, but longer spells of uninterrupted investments are of questionable value.
	Bibliography Citation Neidell, Matthew J. "Early Parental Time Investments in Children's Capital Development: Effects of Time in the First Year on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Outcomes." Working Paper No. 806, Department of Economics, University of California - Los Angeles, 2000.

5.	Zivin, Joshua Graff Hsiang, Solomon M. Neidell, Matthew J.
5.	Temperature and Human Capital in the Short- and Long-Run Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 5,1 (January 2018): 77-105. Also: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/694177 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Cognitive Development; Environment, Pollution/Urban Density; Geocoded Data; Human Capital; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Testing Conditions We provide the first estimates of the potential impact of climate change on cognitive performance and attainment, focusing on the impacts from both short-run weather and long-run climate. Exploiting the longitudinal structure of the NLSY79 and random fluctuations in weather across interviews, we identify the effect of temperature in models with child-specific fixed effects. We find that short-run changes in temperature lead to statistically significant decreases in cognitive performance on math (but not reading) beyond 26 C (78.8 F). In contrast, our long-run analysis, which relies upon long-difference and rich cross-sectional models, reveals an imprecisely estimated effect that is significantly smaller than the short-run relationship between climate and human capital.
	Bibliography Citation Zivin, Joshua Graff, Solomon M. Hsiang and Matthew J. Neidell. "Temperature and Human Capital in the Short- and Long-Run." Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 5,1 (January 2018): 77-105.

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