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Causes and Consequences of Early Life Health
Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We examine the consequences of childhood health for economic and health outcomes in adulthood, using height as a marker … height and a range of outcomes, including schooling, employment, earnings, health and cognitive ability, using data collected … from early to late adulthood on cohort members in five longitudinal data sets. We find height is uniformly associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634631
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Teen Smoking and Birth Outcomes
Tekin, Erdal; Walker, MaryBeth; Wallace, Sally - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
In the U.S. teen mothers are more likely to give birth to low birth weight babies than non-teen mothers. There is also substantial evidence that smoking is a risk factor correlated with low birth weight. Low birth weight is a costly outcome in both the short and long term for parents, children,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049919
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Does Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women Affect Prenatal Health Behaviors?
Dave, Dhaval M.; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s for pregnant women. Accordingly, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213646
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Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children
Deaton, Angus; Stone, Arthur A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Elderly Americans who live with people under age 18 have lower life evaluations than those who do not. They also experience worse emotional outcomes, including less happiness and enjoyment, and more stress, worry, and anger. In part, these negative outcomes come from selection into living with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969330
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Does the Gender of Offspring Affect Parental Political Orientation?
Lee, Byungkyu; Conley, Dalton - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Recently, the sex of child has been widely used as a natural experiment and shown to induce change of the allegedly stable political predisposition, however, prior results have been contradictory: in the U.K., researchers found that having daughters leads to parents favoring left-wing political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887114
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House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This project investigates how changes in Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)- level housing prices affect household fertility decisions. Recognizing that housing is a major cost associated with child rearing, and assuming that children are normal goods, we hypothesize that an increase in real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009328098
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Extended Families and Child Well-being
Thomas, Duncan; LaFave, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Whereas studies have established the intra-household distribution of resources affects allocation decisions, little is known about how these decisions are affected by the distribution of resources among co-resident and non co-resident extended family members. Drawing on theoretical models of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079875
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Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?
Cohen, Alma; Dehejia, Rajeev; Romanov, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper investigates how fertility responds to changes in the price of a marginal child and in household income. We construct a large, individual-level panel data set of married Israeli women during the period 1999-2005 that contains fertility histories and detailed controls. We exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992023
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Second Trimester Sunlight and Asthma: Evidence from Two Independent Studies
Zeckhauser, Richard; Wernerfelt, Nils; Slusky, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
One in twelve Americans suffers from asthma and its annual costs are estimated to exceed $50 billion. Simultaneously, the root causes of the disease remain unknown. A recent hypothesis speculates that maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy affect the probability the fetus later develops...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950848
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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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