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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Yi, Junjian - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457909
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Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education
Biroli, Pietro - 2017
We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipally offered infant-toddler (ages 0-3) and preschool (ages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455291
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The Life-cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program
García, Jorge Luis - 2016
beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455687
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Personality Psychology and Economics
Almlund, Mathilde - 2011
, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461835
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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …
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