Erdal Tekin

American University

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Resul Cesur

University of Connecticut

Chris M. Herbst

Arizona State University

Aydogan Ulker

Deakin University

Jane Greve

Danish Center for Social Science Research

Joseph J. Sabia

San Diego State University

Volkan Topalli

Georgia State University

Pınar Mine Güneş

University of Alberta

Chandler McClellan

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen

Rockwool Foundation

Naci Mocan

Louisiana State University

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National Bureau of Economic Research

American University

Georgia State University

IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

Louisiana State University

Emory University

W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

University of Washington

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University of Chicago

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Child Care Subsidies and Child Development

SSRN Electronic Journal (2008)

Chris M. Herbst Erdal Tekin

Child Care

Child Development

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Public Health Policy at Scale: Impact of a Government-sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark

Onur Altındağ Jane Greve Erdal Tekin

We evaluate the impact of a nationwide public health intervention on deaths from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), using population data from Denmark in a regression discontinuity research design.The information campaign-implemented primarily through a universal nurse home visiting program-reduced infant mortality by 17.2 percent and saved between 11.6-13.5 lives over 10,000 births.The estimated effect sizes are 11-14 times larger among low birthweight and preterm infants relative to the overall population.Improvement in infant mortality is concentrated among those with low socio-economic status and with limited access to health information, thereby reducing health inequities at birth.

10.3386/w28621

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Exposure to Economic Distress during Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes

Journal of Labor Research (2024)

Mevlude Akbulut‐Yuksel Seyit Mümin Cılasun Erdal Tekin Belgi Turan

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10.1007/s12122-024-09354-z

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Liquidating Crime with Illiquidity: How Switching from Cash to Credit Can Stop Street Crime

CESifo DICE report (2014)

Erdal Tekin Volkan Topalli Chandler McClellan Richard Wright

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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and its Influence on Youth Body Composition

SSRN Electronic Journal (2013)

Michael Grossman Erdal Tekin Roy Wada

We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as measured by percentage body fat (PBF) and to assess the sensitivity of these effects to using conventional measures of youth obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey with individual level data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from Competitive Media Reporting.Exposure to fast-food restaurant advertising on television causes statistically significant increases in PBF in adolescents. These results are consistent with those obtained by using BMI-based measures of obesity. The responsiveness to fast-food advertising is greater for PBF than for BMI. Males are more responsive to advertising than females regardless of the measure. A complete advertising ban on fast-food restaurants on television would reduce BMI by 2 percent and PBF by 3 percent. The elimination of the tax deductibility of food advertising costs would still leave a considerable number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity.

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10.2139/ssrn.2196764

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Catholic Schools and Bad Behavior: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

H. Naci Mocan Erdal Tekin

Although there is a sizeable literature on the effect of private school attendance on academic student outcomes, the number of studies that investigate the impact of school sector on non-academic outcomes is limited.Using a rich data set, we analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that teenagers use or sell drugs, commit property crime, have sex, join gangs, attempt suicide, and run away from home.We employ propensity score matching methods to control for the endogeneity of school choice.Catholic school attendance reduces the propensity to use cocaine and to have sex for female students.However, it increases the propensity to use and sell drugs for male students.

10.3386/w9172

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Stand Your Ground Laws, Homicides, and Injuries

The Journal of Human Resources (2016)

Chandler McClellan Erdal Tekin

Chandler McClellan and Erdal Tekin Chandler McClellan is an adjunct professor at American University and a post-doctoral researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Erdal Tekin is a professor of public policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and a research associate at the NBER

10.3368/jhr.52.3.0613-5723r2

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Introduction to the Research Articles

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2022)

Erdal Tekin

10.1002/pam.22377

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Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data on Child Care Workers

The Review of Economics and Statistics (2003)

H. Naci Mocan Erdal Tekin

This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers' self-selection into the for-profit or the nonprofit sector and into full-time or part-time work, as well as for unobserved worker heterogeneity, using a discrete factor model. We find differences between the regimes (full-time for-profit, full-time nonprofit, part-time for-profit, part-time nonprofit) in the manner in which human capital characteristics of the workers are rewarded. There is substantial variation in wages as a function of employee characteristics, and there is variation in wages within sectors. The results indicate that part-time jobs are good jobs in center-based child care, and there exist nonprofit wage and compensation premia, which support the property-rights hypothesis.

Nonprofit Sector

Care work

Child Care

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10.1162/003465303762687695

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Introduction to the Research Articles

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2022)

Erdal Tekin

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10.1002/pam.22439

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