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in Taiwan as a natural experiment. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero … during the pandemic are shorter as children/adolescents and less educated compared to other birth cohorts. We also find that … they are more likely to have serious health problems including kidney disease, circulatory and respiratory problems, and …
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of school test scores when children, in addition to labor market income when adults. Today, however, with increasing … ensuring that mothers receive adequate support during pregnancy. In this study we find that cognitive outcomes are adversely …
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Research has found that season of birth is associated with later health and professional outcomes; what drives this … association remains unclear. In this paper we consider a new explanation: that children born at different times in the year are … women giving birth throughout the year in the United States. Children born in the winter are disproportionally born to women …
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Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal … Survey of Youth respondents over time, I compare siblings who were gestating before versus after a Toxic Release Inventory …
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Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and … generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is one potential determinant of health at birth that has received increasing … children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …
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This paper exploits a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of parental education on child health in Taiwan … indeed cause favorable infant health outcomes. The increase in schooling associated with the reform saved almost 1 infant …
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effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative …
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these laws may have also increased cigarette use during pregnancy by making it more difficult to use e-cigarettes to reduce …
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concentrated on the children with low socioeconomic status (SES) background. These results indicate that fetal insults such as … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also … complicate the efforts of policy-makers in improving the human capital, health, and labor market outcomes of low-SES individuals …
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and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic …
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