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This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in … pregnant. In some of our specifications, we use a sample of students from predominantly non-Muslim countries as an additional … achievement scores of Muslim students, especially females. Our analysis further reveals that most of these effects are …
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Obesity is associated with serious health problems, and it can generate adverse economic outcomes. We analyze a nationally-representative sample of young American adults to investigate the interplay between obesity, wages and self-esteem. Wages can be impacted directly by obesity, and they can...
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This paper examines the effect of body composition on wages. We develop measures of body composition - body fat (BF) and fat-free mass (FFM) - using data on bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) that are available in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III and estimate wage...
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This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
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that students in face-to-face courses perform better than their online counterparts with respect to their grades, the … grading. While these developments led to an increase in grades for all students overall, those who began Spring 2020 in face … with better broadband technology is associated with a larger increase in grades among students who had to switch from in …
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disadvantaged students. Finally, results from supplementary analyses suggest that these deleterious effects faded out in subsequent …
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Debate over safe-storage gun regulations has captured public attention in the aftermath of several high-profile shootings committed by minors. Whether these laws actually decrease youth gun violence, however, is an unanswered question. Using data from the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports for...
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disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous empirical studies consistently show that these employment … estimates suggest that children receiving subsidized care in the year before kindergarten score lower on tests of cognitive … time children reach the end of third grade. Our results point to an unintended consequence of a child care subsidy regime …
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the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals …. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …
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parents to purchase high-quality child care. Consequently, there are reasons to be concerned about the implications of child … that subsidized children are more likely to receive intense exposure to low-quality child care …
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