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income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of the children of … immigrants. Their parents are disproportionately represented in minimum wage jobs, typically have less access to health care and … the National Health Interview Survey from the years 2000 - 2015, we examine whether children of low-educated immigrants …
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This paper explores the relationship between gender wage gaps and women's overall health. Using data from the 2011 … the association between wage gaps and self-rated health. Our results suggest that closing the wage gap results in a 1 ….2 percent reduction in women reporting poor or fair health, equivalent to nearly 170,000 fewer women. These effects are more …
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We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 survey are examined. Outcomes include macrosomia,...
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This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a …/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential effects of changes in the minimum wage on health. We find that white women are more … likely to report better health with a minimum wage increase while Hispanic men report worse health. …
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The increasing prevalence of obesity during pregnancy raises concerns over the intergenerational transmission of obesity and its potential to exacerbate the current obesity epidemic. The fetal origins hypothesis posits that the intrauterine environment might have lasting effects on children's...
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-rated health for children of unmarried black mothers and married white and Hispanic mothers, lower accident rates for children of …
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disorders using data from the American College Health Association. Using Propensity Score Matching and Instrumental Variable …
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-makers regarding the trade-off between flight optimization and human health. …
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impact on infant health at birth. We find evidence of reduced birth weight, shortened gestational length and even preterm … the causal chain underlying our finding on the adverse health impact of skyglow. Our study has important policy …
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income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of low-educated Hispanic … typically have less access to health care. Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy and data drawn from the … that low-educated Hispanic women likely affected by minimum wage increases experience any changes in health status, access …
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