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The Spaniards stature evolution between 1850 and 1930 as well as the relationships among nutrition, health, and welfare …
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paper also addresses the channels through which the conflict has affected health and nutrition. The results have not only …
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health and socioeconomic status is partly explained by a gradient that runs from health to earnings, rather than the other …This study investigates the impact of childhood health on labor market outcomes. We used type 1 diabetes as an … instrument of health because its cause is multifactorial and it is triggered by a complex combination of genetic and …
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health and economic outcomes at older ages. Nutrition in utero and in infancy may set the stage for the chronic disease …Research across a number of disciplines has highlighted the role of early life health and circumstance in determining …). Childhood health may also have significant effects on economic outcomes in adulthood. Collectively, a set of childhood health …
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basic facts about growth, poverty and nutrition in India, it points to a number of puzzles, and it sketches a preliminary … health environment. If correct, this analysis does not imply that Indians are currently adequately nourished; nothing could …
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Although it is intuitive and morally compelling that the worst forms of child labour should be eliminated, banning them in poor countries is unlikely to be welfare improving and can come at the expense of human capital accumulation. We show that the existence of harmful forms of child labour, in...
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Although it is intuitive and morally compelling that the worst forms of child labour should be eliminated, banning them in poor countries is unlikely to be welfare improving and can come at the expense of human capital accumulation. We show that the existence of harmful forms of child labour, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696402
Many community organizations provide services similar to government income assistance programs but there is little empirical evidence on how these systems interact. We examine how greater access to government nutritional aid through free school meals affects local food bank utilization by...
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While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …
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A large share of young mothers return to work before their child turns one year. Exploiting exogenous variation in daycare vacancy rates, we estimate the causal effects of enrollment age in universal daycare on child development for children younger than two years. We find modest effects of...
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