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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong
Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including:...
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Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
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Medium-Term Health Impacts of Shocks Experienced In Utero and After Birth: Evidence from Detailed Geographic Information on War Exposure
Akresh, Richard; Thirumurthy, Harsha; Caruso, German Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper estimates the impact of armed conflict on subsequent health outcomes using detailed geographic information on households’ distance from conflict sites—a more accurate measure of conflict exposure— and compares the impact on children exposed in utero versus after birth. The...
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Wages, Violence and Health in the Household
Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. I study both the economic causes and consequences of domestic violence. I find that decreases in the male-female wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with a household bargaining model. The...
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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Education, Knowledge and the Evolution of Disparities in Health
Aizer, Anna; Stroud, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We study how advances in scientific knowledge affect the evolution of disparities in health. Our focus is the 1964 Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health - the first widely publicized report of the negative effects of smoking on health. Using an historical dataset that includes the smoking...
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Breastfeeding and Child Disability: A Comparison of Siblings from the United States
Wehby, George - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Little is known about whether breastfeeding may prevent disabilities throughout childhood. We evaluate the effects of breastfeeding on child disability using data from the National Survey of Family Growth merged to the National Health Interview Survey for a large nationally representative sample...
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Human Capital Development Before Age Five
Currie, Janet; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This chapter seeks to set out what Economists have learned about the effects of early childhood influences on later life outcomes, and about ameliorating the effects of negative influences. We begin with a brief overview of the theory which illustrates that evidence of a causal relationship...
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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Tekin, Erdal; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Greve, Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an … experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of nutrients essential for fetal development. Specifically, we use … exposure to nutritional disruptions during a critical stage of fetal development has scarring effects on the fetus expressed as …
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Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries
Currie, Janet; Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
A growing literature documents the links between long-term outcomes and health in the fetal period, infancy, and early childhood. Much of this literature focuses on rich countries, but researchers are increasingly taking advantage of new sources of data and identification to study the long reach...
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