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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 of young children are well above recommended dietary standards …, with the exception of iron. 2. Average nutrient intakes for children in households of lower economic status are very …
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data on the universe of Danish children and their healthcare providers, we first construct and validate a measure of …
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This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …: reforms to the household registration (hukou) system, and historical migration flows. We show that temporary migration due to … a government policy called the "sent-down youth" (SDY) program created lasting inter-province links, so that decades …
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We examine how export expansion induced by the U.S-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) affected migration, school … enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff … prior to the policy change. We find that the BTA led to migration to the most affected provinces, particularly by …
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The choice to breastfeed rather than formula-feed an infant as well as the duration of doing so has been scrutinized in more recent times. Yet, key identification issues remain to be resolved, including the array of possible child development benefits, the optimal intensity of breastfeeding...
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Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who … and children's food intake, weight, and food security? We use the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort to … examine these questions for a representative sample of young children and their providers. We find that program eligibility …
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Because breastfeeding protects against water- and food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health outcomes. We find that child-mortality patterns mirror those of breastfeeding with respect to gender and its interactions with birth order and ideal family size. Our results...
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How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical...
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This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle investment framework is the foundation for understanding the origins of human inequality and for...
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Public health agencies around the world have renewed efforts to increase the incidence and duration of breastfeeding. Maternity leave mandates present an economic policy that could help achieve these goals. We study their efficacy focusing on a significant increase in maternity leave mandates in...
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