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We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using … childhood health and cognitive skills at ages 7 and 10, educational and occupational choice at age 16-20, employment, earnings … and occupation at age 36-40, and pension income at age 71. Leveraging quasi-random variation in eligibility by birth date …
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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys, and the relative chances of girls surviving...
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after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for … ; income ; disability ; mortality trends …
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This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …. -- Intergenerational transmission ; early life conditions ; health ; infant mortality ; height ; growth ; income ; education ; public …
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We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in late childhood. We estimate that a one standard...
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This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
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health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …
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health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure. …
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the mother's health and health-related behaviours and exposures are systematically positively associated with the …
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births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non- IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor … market outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health …, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …
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