VoxEU Talk

Parents’ incomes and children’s outcomes

The opening of a casino on an American Indian reservation in North Carolina offered a natural experiment to examine the impact of changes in household income on children’s later life outcomes, particularly their educational attainment and involvement in crime. In an interview recorded at the annual congress of the European Economic Association in Milan in August 2008, Randall Akee of IZA talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the findings.

A red triangular warning sign reading "MINAS" attached to a barbed wire fence in a grassy field, with promotional text overlay for "Clearing the path to growth" by VoxEU, CEPR, and VoxTalks with Tim Phillips, interviewing Mounu Prem.
VoxEU Talk

Clearing the path to growth

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  • Development
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  • Political Economy