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Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment

Kaestner, Robert - 2009

In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and adolescent's educational attainment, as measured by highest grade attended, highest grade completed, and drop out status. Data for the study came from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which...

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Childhood medicaid coverage and later-life health care utilization

Wherry, Laura R.; Miller, Sarah; Kaestner, Robert; … - In: The review of economics and statistics 100 (2018) 2, pp. 287-302

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Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health

Wehby, George - 2016

The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. We examine the impact of the state minimum wage on infant health. Using data on the universe of births in the US over 24 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is associated with an increase in birth...

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Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization

Wherry, Laura R. - 2015

pronounced for hospitalizations and emergency department visits related to chronic illnesses and those of patients living in low-income …

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Estimating a Theoretically Consistent Human Capital Production Function With an Application to Head Start

Kaestner, Robert; Faundez, Luis F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This article describes a conceptual and empirical approach for estimating a human capital production function of child development that incorporates mother- or child-fixed effects. The use of mother- or child-fixed effects is common in this applied economics literature, but its application is...

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Effects of Income on Infant Health : Evidence from the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Pandemic Stimulus Checks

Lyu, Wei; Wehby, George; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

pandemic payments varied by marital status and the number of children in the household and were substantial with some families … receiving several thousand dollars. We exploit this plausibly exogenous variation in income to obtain estimates of the effect … income on infant health. We measure the total amount of pandemic payments received during pregnancy, or the year before birth …

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