Harvard University Native American Program

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Join us for the HUNAP Research Colloquium feat. Randy Akee. Open to the public.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 12:15-1:15pm
HUNAP, 14 Story Street, Cambridge, MA (Click here for map)

Parents' Incomes and Children's Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment using Transfer Payments from Casino Profits

By Randy Akee, Assistant Professor at Tufts University

We examine the role that an increase in household income due to per capita income disbursements have on long-run child outcomes such as educational attainment and criminal activity. Children in affected households have higher levels of eduction in their young adulthood and a lower incidence of criminality for minor offenses. Effects differ by initial household poverty status. We have some evidence that improved parental quality is a likely mechanism for the change.

Professor Akee completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in June 2006. Prior to to his doctoral studies, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Russian at Dartmouth College and a Master’s degree in International and Development Economics at Yale University. He also spent several years working for the State of Hawaii Office of Hawaiian Affairs Economic Development Division. His main research interests are Labor Economics, Economic Development and Migration of Indigenous Peoples. He was a Researcher at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) from 2006 until this past August, 2009. He has recently joined the Economics Department at Tufts University as an Assistant Professor.

For more information about Professor Akee and Additional Papers, click here.