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The effects of incentivizing early prenatal care on infant health
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2022
We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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What explains fertility? : evidence from Italian pension reforms
Billari, Francesco C.; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2009
Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as "consumptionʺ vs. "investmentʺ good. We use as a natural experiment the Italian pension reforms of the 90s that introduced a clear discontinuity in the treatment across...
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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition : evidence from the Greek famine
Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2010
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
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Family location and caregiving patterns from an international perspective
Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2010
parents. -- geography of the family ; child-to-parent time transfers …
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The dynamics of Income-related health inequality among US children
Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal; Song, Jingya - 2011
We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … waves of the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The findings show that family … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …
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Globalization, gender and development : the effect of parental labor supply on child schooling
Ural Marchand, Beyza; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2011
households, which in turn affects child outcomes. We estimate how changes in parental labor supply due to these tariff reductions … affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro …
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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
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Sports and child development
Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2011 - This draft: October 2011
Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children's skill...
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Gender power, fertility, and family policy
Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - 2012
The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the spouses' welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. The allocation of resources after the birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal...
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Vertical transmission of overweight : evidence from English adoptees
Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Le Grand, Julian - 2015
adopted child being overweight is between 10% and 20% higher than when they are not. We also find that the cultural … labour market participation penalty on child overweight among adoptees. Overall, our findings, despite subject to data …
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