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Ports vs. Roads: Infrastructure, Market Access and Regional Outcomes
Bonadio, Barthélémy - 2024
components of a country’s infrastructure to access international markets. I provide a framework to jointly estimate the quality … international and internal trade with port and road infrastructure to assess the relative importance of ports versus roads in … shaping international market access, and estimate it using a novel transaction-level export dataset for India. A key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015096827
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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek famine
Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2010
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270545
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Mothers' Care : Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks Through Parental Investments
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina - 2019
, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892138
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Taxes on Unhealthy Food and Externalities in the Parental Choice of Children's Diet
Kalamov, Zarko - 2019
externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861438
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Dark Passage : Mental Health Consequences of Parental Death
Bockerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2021
This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224254
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The Effects of Incentivizing Early Prenatal Care on Infant Health
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2022
We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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Trends of Children's Height and Parental Unemployment : A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994 - 2006
Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - 2021
The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316616
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The Long-Term Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Maternal Health and Subjective Well-Being
Heisig, Katharina - 2023
This paper studies the long-term impact of a paid parental leave reform in former East Germany in 1986 on maternal physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a maximum of twelve months. I use representative survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259688
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Priority Roads: The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018169
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How productive is public capital?: a meta-analysis
Bom, Pedro R. D.; Ligthart, Jenny E. - 2008
The paper analyzes the contribution of public capital to private output using several meta-analytical techniques. Both fixed and random effects models are estimated by Weighted Least Squares. Sample overlap across studies is explicitly controlled for by employing a full' Generalized Least...
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