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Workplace Breastfeeding and Maternal Employment

Heckl, Pia; Wurm, Elisabeth - 2024

This paper investigates the impact of workplace breastfeeding laws on the labor supply of mothers. We exploit a unique … room for women to express milk or breastfeed. Our results show an increase in breastfeeding initiation and the probability … that a child was breastfed at three and six months after birth. We find that workplace breastfeeding significantly increase …

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Acess to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival

Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - 2013

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...

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Evidence on Individual Preferences for Longevity Risk

Delprat, Gaëtan; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2013

The standard model of intertemporal choice assumes risk neutrality toward the length of life: due to additivity, agents are not sensitive to a mean preserving spread in the length of life. Using a survey fielded in the RAND American Life Panel (ALP), this paper provides empirical evidence on...

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Biological Well-Being in Late 19th Century Philippines

Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Dovis, Marion; Komlos, John - 2015

This paper investigates the biological standard of living toward the end of Spanish rule. We investigate levels, trends, and determinants of physical stature from the birth cohorts of the 1860s to the 1890s using data on 23,000 Filipino soldiers enlisted by the U.S. military between 1901 and...

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Nineteenth Century Weight in the United States: Revaluating Net Nutrition during Economic Development

Carson, Scott A. - 2015

Heights and body mass index values (BMIs) are now well accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development and institutional change. This study uses 19th century weights instead of BMIs to measure factors associated with current net nutrition. Across the weight distribution...

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Mexican and Hispanic Net Nutrition in the 19th Century American West

Carson, Scott A. - 2015

When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...

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Optimal Social Insurance and Health Inequality

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2015

This paper integrates into public economics a biologically founded, stochastic process of individual ageing. The novel approach enables us to investigate the interaction between health and retirement policy in order to quantitatively characterize the optimal joint design of the social insurance...

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Statures, BMIs, and Weight: A Reassessment

Carson, Scott A. - 2013

Much has been written about the modern obesity epidemic, and historical BMIs are low compared to their modern counterparts. However, interpreting BMI variation is difficult because BMIs increase when weight increases or when stature decreases, and the two have different implications for human...

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Can you Leave High School Behind?

Black, Sandra E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cullinane, Jenna; … - 2014

In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these students will perform. This paper examines the relationship...

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Birthweight and Academic Achievement in Childhood

Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2014

Research has shown that birthweight has a lasting impact on later-life outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide the link between birthweight and adult outcomes. Using...

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