Showing 1 - 10 of 544
, because a good deal of inequality is already apparent by the time children start school, and because children’s development … know a good deal from research about what quality means, and about what types of experiences are best for children. The …; offering a more flexible package of supports to families with children under the age of 2 or 3; providing high-quality centre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126160
(2008), and using Indonesian crosssectional data, I show that people who were exposed to Ramadan fasting during their mother’s … fasting mainly occurring among women who, irrespective of fasting or not, would have had unhealthier children anyway. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746478
children. These factors will vary systematically between and perhaps within cities. This paper explores the sources and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928693
A dynamic panel data model is considered that contains possibly stochastic individual components and a common fractional stochastic time trend. We propose four different ways of coping with the individual effects so as to estimate the fractional parameter. Like models with autoregressive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126139
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206865
We focus on the statics and dynamics of poverty in Spain using data from the first eight waves of the European Community Household Panel from 1994 to 2001, a period not sufficiently covered by recent literature. The results confirm the pattern of poverty changes noted by other authors for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745472
current happiness and self-esteem of the children. We find that a past unemployment spell of the father has important … consequences for their children and leads to them having both lower subjective well-being and self-confidence. In addition, this …-esteem predicts educational attainments at 16. Together these findings offer new evidence of unemployment scarring on children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746278
We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746420
children’s outcomes in early adulthood. Parental wealth is positively associated with all outcomes examined (which include … association reflects the indirect effect of parental wealth on children’s education whereas for homeownership the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746617
This paper introduces a tractable, structural model of subjective beliefs. Since agents that plan for the future care about expected future utility flows, current felicity can be increased by believing that better outcomes are more likely. On the other hand, expectations that are biased towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746723