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Intergenerational Child Mortality Impacts of Deworming : Experimental Evidence from Two Decades of the Kenya Life Panel Survey
Walker, Michael W.; Huang, Alice H.; Asman, Suleiman; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
of improved health, education and living standards, increased urban residence, delayed fertility, and greater use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250179
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A Secure Query System to Improve Access to Individual Income Tax Data
O'Hara, Amy - 2024
In recent years, important and headline-grabbing findings have emerged from research using individual income tax data for statistical purposes. Demand for these microdata, accessible under the tax administration authority of the Internal Revenue Code and through the IRS Statistics of Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072910
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Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition
Bloom, David E. - 2001
, combined with reduced fertility and increases in the working-age population, have contributed to economic growth in some areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470030
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Population, Technology, and Growth : From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond
Galor, Oded - 1998
in the average level of education. Second, technological progress creates a state of disequilibrium, which raises the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472002
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Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition : The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Barrage, Lint; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We investigate the short- and long-term effects of a natural gas boom in an economy where energy can be produced with coal, natural gas, or clean sources and the direction of technology is endogenous. In the short run, a natural gas boom reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372414
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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth
Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from a below- to an above-median birth weight location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388779
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The Intergenerational Consequences of Economic Distress : In-Utero Exposure to Financial Crises and Birth Outcomes
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
fertility, abortion, and neonatal mortality are more common during an economic downturn, and play a significant role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537794
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Fertility and the Education of African Parents and Children
Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic … theory posit that these phenomena are linked, with slow fertility decline connected to slow education growth among both …, fertility, and child education in female birth cohorts surrounding the onset of the region's fertility transition. Fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388830
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Estimating Causal Effects of Fertility on Life Course Outcomes : Evidence Using A Dyadic Genetic Instrumental Variable Approach
Zheng, Boyan; Lu, Qiongshi; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The causal effects of fertility are a central focus in the social sciences, but the analysis is challenged by the … endogeneity of fertility choices. Earlier work has proposed several "natural experiments" from twin births or gender composition … rare (twins) and weak (gender composition) instrumental variables for fertility. This paper proposes a new "natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226152
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Fertility in the Heart of the COVID-19 Storm
Dench, Daniel; Li, Wenhui; Joyce, Theodore J.; Minkoff, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We describe how the COVID-19 pandemic affected reproductive choices in New York City, the most acutely impacted area of the United States. We contrast changes in New York City with reproductive outcomes in the rest of the US. We find that births to New York City residents fell 8.4% more between...
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