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How have Europeans Grown so Tall?
Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Increases in human stature are seen as a key indicator of improvement in the average health of populations. The literature associates stature with a variety of socioeconomic variables, and much of the focus is on the nineteenth century and on the last 50 years. In this paper I present and...
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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government’s HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...
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Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Model of Birth Weight
del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John F; Francesconi, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has … virtually no effect. Mothers' work interruptions of up to two months before birth have a positive effect on birth outcomes …
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Gender Differences in Smoking Behaviour
Bauer, Thomas; Göhlmann, Silja; Sinning, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behaviour using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behaviour between men …
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Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Using exceptionally rich linked administrative and survey information on German welfare recipients we investigate the health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find...
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Food and Cash Transfers: Evidence from Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio; Battistin, Erich; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia. After controlling for the endogeneity of total expenditure and for the (unobserved) variability of prices across villages, the best fit is provided by a log-linear specification....
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A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns
Basu, Arnab K; Chau, Nancy H; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper develops a theory of employment guarantees when labor markets are imperfect and when the credibility of government policy announcements could be in doubt. The basic feature of an EGS is that any individual who satisfies a set of specified criteria is guaranteed public employment at a...
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Immigrant Assimilation And Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into Or Out Of Welfare?
Hansen, Jörgen; Löfström, Magnus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper analyses differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in the 1990's. We find that immigrants use welfare to a...
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The Impact of Divorce on School Performance: Evidence from France, 1968-2002
Piketty, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
For given observable parental characteristics, children with divorced or separated parents tend to perform less well at school than children living with their two parents. This result has been used to argue that softening divorce legislation might be bad for children. This might, however, just...
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A Positive Theory of Social Security
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Social Security programmes around the world link public pensions to retirement: people do not lose their pensions if they make a million dollars a year in the stock market, but they do confront marginal tax rates of up to 100% if they choose to work. After arguing that most existing theories...
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