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We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …
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child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …
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child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149131
' mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against … several mental health indicators, including the Mental Component Summary score and the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 score … country-specific human capital. While the estimated effect is only transitory, we argue that negative mental health shocks …
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In this paper, we develop a two period overlapping generation model on the effects of child nutrition in developing countries.The model gives rise to multiple equilibria including a poverty trap. We show that child nutrition status affects unfavorably the evolution of human capital and leads...
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The objective of this paper is to determine whether health (measured by life expectancy at birth) contributes to … this study further by incorporating other dimensions of health that are not captured by life expectancy. …
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economy with the increase of health demand, the domestic wages and the increase in education capacity for medical doctors. …
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Competitiveness Index (GCI), health and primary education (HPE) pillar for not included in the Global Competitiveness Report countries …
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We ask whether prime-age adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS decreases the endowment of knowledge for agricultural production in Kagera, Tanzania, reducing total factor productivity. We also quantify how much this negative effect contributes to the decrease in long-term household agricultural output...
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effect of both health and education capital on economic growth and poverty at the district level in Indonesia. Second … the analysis and probed the effects of health capital as well. As far as we are aware, no study has done a direct and … comprehensive examination of the impacts of health on growth and poverty at the subnational level. Thus, this study is the first at …
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