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The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors

Conti, Gabriella - 2015

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health …

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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 …

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The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health

Conti, Gabriella - 2012

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

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Sources for Financing Domestic Capital -- Is Foreign Saving a Viable Option for Developing Countries?

Aizenman, Joshua - 2004

This paper proposes a new method for measuring the degree to which the domestic capital stock is self-financed. The main idea is to use the national accounts to construct a self-financing ratio, indicating what would have been the autarky stock of tangible capital supported by actual past...

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Endogenous Financial Openness : Efficiency and Political Economy Considerations

Aizenman, Joshua - 2003

This paper studies the endogenous determination of financial openness. We outline a framework where financial openness is endogenously determined by the authority's choice of financial repression as a taxation device, and where the private sector determines endogenously the magnitude of capital...

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Living with the Trilemma Constraint : Relative Trilemma Policy Divergence, Crises, and Output Losses for Developing Countries

Aizenman, Joshua - 2013

This paper investigates the potential impacts of the degree of divergence in open macroeconomic policies in the context of the trilemma hypothesis. Using an index that measures the relative policy divergence among the three trilemma policy choices, namely monetary independence, exchange rate...

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Sectoral Debt and Global Dollar Cycles in Developing Economies

Han, Bada; Ahmed, Rashad; Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We explore the role of sectoral debt dynamics in shaping business cycles in a sample of 52 Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) and Frontier Market Economies (FMEs) from 2005 to 2021. Higher household debt levels and growth are associated with significantly slower GDP growth in more developed EMEs...

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The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation

Heckman, James J. - 2007

This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics …

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