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The Effect of Teen Childbearing and Single Parenthood on Childhood Disabilities and Progress in School

Angrist, Joshua D. - 1996

from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Another finding of interest is that having a father in the household is …

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Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance?

Currie, Janet - 1995

Medicaid is one of the most costly welfare programs available to immigrants. This paper uses data from the 1989 to 1992 National Health Interview Survey to compare the effects of Medicaid eligibility on public and private health insurance coverage and on the utilization of medical services among...

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Health Insurance Eligibility, Utilization of Medical care, and Child Health

Currie, Janet - 1995

The poor health status of children in the U.S. relative to other industrialized nations has motivated recent efforts to extend insurance coverage to underprivileged children. There is little past evidence that extending eligibility for public insurance to previously ineligible groups will...

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The Relationship Between Diet, Parent"s Fatness, and Obesity in Children and Adolescents

Coate, Douglas - 1983

In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular …-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or … the youth skin-fold equations, the larger calorie coefficients in the skin-fold equation for 10-16 year old youths with …

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An Economic Analysis of the Diet, Growth, and Health of Young Children in the United States

Chernichovsky, Dov - 1979

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which family income and education are obstacles to the provision of adequate diets for young children in the United States. An examination of the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey reveals the following: 1. Average nutrient intakes...

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Risk Preferences of Children and Adolescents in Relation to Gender, Cognitive Skills, Soft Skills, and Executive Functions

Andreoni, James - 2019

We conduct experiments eliciting risk preferences with over 1,400 children and adolescents aged 3-15 years old. We complement our data with an assessment of cognitive and executive function skills. First, we find that adolescent girls display significantly greater risk aversion than adolescent...

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O Youth and Beauty : Children’s Looks and Children’s Cognitive Development

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2019

We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children …

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Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life

Aizer, Anna - 2018

Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first births at older ages. However, previous research has attributed much of these effects to selection rather than a causal effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still...

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Social and Genetic Effects on Educational Performance in Early Adolescence

Isunget, Martin A.; Conley, Dalton; Zachrisson, Henrik D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Research into the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage has long been criticized for not paying sufficient attention to genetics. This study is based on the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) and administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian...

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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years : An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2010

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may...

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