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Vagueness and Thought
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ISBN: 9780198712060 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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A philosophical introduction to higher-order logics
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ISBN: 9780367483029 Year: 2024 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,

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This is the first comprehensive textbook on higher-order logic that is written specifically to introduce the subject matter to graduate students in philosophy. The book covers both the formal aspects of higher-order languages-their model theory and proof theory, the theory of λ-abstraction and its generalizations-and their philosophical applications, especially to the topics of modality and propositional granularity. The book has a strong focus on non-extensional higher-order logics, making it more appropriate for foundational metaphysics than other introductions to the subject from computer science, mathematics, and linguistics. A Philosophical Introduction to Higher-order Logics assumes only that readers have a basic knowledge of first-order logic. With an emphasis on exercises, it can be used as a textbook though is also ideal for self-study.


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Changes in Family Structure and Welfare Participation Since the 1960s : The Role of Legal Services
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Year: 2019 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Difference-in-Differences with Variation in Treatment Timing
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Year: 2018 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Federalizing Benefits : The Introduction of Supplemental Security Income and the Size of the Safety Net
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Year: 2019 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage : Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health, and Labor Market Outcomes
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Year: 2016 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research

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The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage : Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health, and Labor Market Outcomes
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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This paper exploits the original introduction of Medicaid (1966-1970) and the federal mandate that states cover all cash welfare recipients to estimate the effect of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health, labor supply, program participation, and income. Cohorts born closer to Medicaid implementation and in states with higher pre-existing welfare-based eligibility accumulated more Medicaid eligibility in childhood but did not differ on a range of other health, socioeconomic, and policy characteristics. Early childhood Medicaid eligibility reduces mortality and disability and, for whites, increases extensive margin labor supply, and reduces receipt of disability transfer programs and public health insurance up to 50 years later. Total income does not change because earnings replace disability benefits. The government earns a discounted annual return of between 2 and 7 percent on the original cost of childhood coverage for these cohorts, most of which comes from lower cash transfer payments.


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Difference-in-Differences with Variation in Treatment Timing
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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The canonical difference-in-differences (DD) model contains two time periods, "pre" and "post", and two groups, "treatment" and "control". Most DD applications, however, exploit variation across groups of units that receive treatment at different times. This paper derives an expression for this general DD estimator, and shows that it is a weighted average of all possible two-group/two-period DD estimators in the data. This result provides detailed guidance about how to use regression DD in practice. I define the DD estimand and show how it averages treatment effect heterogeneity and that it is biased when effects change over time. I propose a new balance test derived from a unified definition of common trends. I show how to decompose the difference between two specifications, and I apply it to models that drop untreated units, weight, disaggregate time fixed effects, control for unit-specific time trends, or exploit a third difference.


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Federalizing Benefits : The Introduction of Supplemental Security Income and the Size of the Safety Net
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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In 1974, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) federalized cash welfare programs for the aged, blind, and disabled, imposing a national minimum benefit. Because of pre-existing variation in generosity, SSI differentially raised payment levels in states below its benefit floor, but had no effect in states that paid above it. We show that SSI increased disability participation in states with the lowest pre-SSI benefits, but shrank non-disability cash transfer programs. For every four new SSI recipients, three came from other welfare programs. Each dollar of per capita SSI income increased total per capita transfer income by just over 50 cents.


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The War on Poverty's Experiment in Public Medicine : Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans
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Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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This paper uses the rollout of the first Community Health Centers (CHCs) to study the longer-term health effects of increasing access to primary care. Within ten years, CHCs are associated with a reduction in age-adjusted mortality rates of 2 percent among those 50 and older. The implied 7 to 13 percent decrease in one-year mortality risk among beneficiaries amounts to 20 to 40 percent of the 1966 poor/non-poor mortality gap for this age group. Large effects for those 65 and older suggest that increased access to primary care has longer-term benefits, even for populations with near universal health insurance.

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