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The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...
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We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We investigate the degree to which there is under-investment in human capital, and...
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This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian … after having children. The simple conditional correlation between children and earnings is positive. When only variation …
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the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently … determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether …
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-curricular activities, on children's skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: both cognitive skills, measured by school … datasets as well as alternative estimation and identification strategies. The effects can be partially explained by increased …
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This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
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In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from …
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examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …
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This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We find consistent effects of the program on reductions...
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from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer …
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