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Earnings Growth and Movements in Self-Reported Health

Halliday, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal claims are predicated upon appropriate moment...

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Income Volatility and Health

Halliday, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on the estimation of dynamic panel data models. Contrary to much of the previous literature on health and socio-economic...

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Heterogeneity, State Dependence and Health

Halliday, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence. Estimation indicates that there is a large degree of heterogeneity. For half the population, there are modest degrees of state dependence. For the...

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Domestic Abuse and Child Health

Rawlings, Samantha; Siddique, Zahra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine the effects of different kinds of domestic abuse (physical violence, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and physical violence while the victim is pregnant) on health outcomes of children born to victims. We use data on approximately 0.6 million children born between 1975 and 2013 across...

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Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Menon, Nidhiya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are...

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The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia

Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Kuehnle, Daniel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Providing mothers with access to paid parental leave may be an important public policy to improve child and maternal health. Using extensive information from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Children (LSAC), we contribute to the literature by estimating the effect of paid parental leave...

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Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard; de Walque, Damien; Kazianga, Harounan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...

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Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children

Akresh, Richard; Verwimp, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey conducted in 1992. We exploit district and time variation in...

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School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty; Husain, Muna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In light of the recent rise in childhood obesity, the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and National School Lunch Program (NSLP) have received renewed attention. Using panel data on over 13,500 primary school students, we assess the relationship between SBP and NSLP participation and (relatively)...

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Is There an Income Gradient in Child Health? It Depends Whom You Ask

Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

socioeconomic gradient are likely to be biased and potentially misleading. In this paper we examine this issue. We directly compare … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently … and while the sign of the income gradient is in the same direction across respondents, systematic differences in …

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