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With fortuitously timed data – collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria – we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
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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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and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong … education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on … outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant …
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In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …
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different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and …
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The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
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, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …
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. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality …. This paper exploits a large social experiment where an education reform expanded compulsory schooling during the 1960s in … reform on various cancer outcomes. Our main finding is that education has little if any impact on cancer risk. This holds for …
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's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …
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education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …
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