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When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...
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show that, in terms of health setbacks, children exposed in utero only to the former suffered as much as those exposed to … stronger crop failure effect for children born in isolated areas …
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We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children’s stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and … the earthquake’s aftermath. This aid mitigated but could not fully prevent the adverse effects on children’s health and …
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We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an event-study design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
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-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic …
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The purpose of this paper is to construct a relative performance index for the States in India in terms of their …
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children and use this tool to show that children from high socioeconomic status (SES) families are more accurate in their self …-assessment, compared to children from low SES families. To move beyond correlational evidence, we then exploit the exogenous variation of … participation in a mentoring program designed to enrich the social environment of children. We document that the mentoring program …
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-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …
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Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique Indian household survey, we estimate peer effects on agricultural revenue. Results show that 60% of farmers' revenue is explained by peers. Input expenditures and land allocation to...
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How costly are droughts to individuals’ nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite-based vegetation index observed bi-monthly for 0.08° grids between 1982 and 2015. Across 32 African countries, conditional on individual characteristics, timing relative to...
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