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The Long-Run Impact of Childhood Poverty and the Mediating Role of Education
Bellani, Luna - 2017
This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959042
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The Education-Health Gradient : Revisiting the Role of Socio-Emotional Skills
Gørtz, Mette; Gensowski, Miriam - 2023
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346610
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Saving Lives at Birth : The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012
Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where home births are widespread. To account for endogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099684
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity Among Elementary School Children
Cawley, John - 2012
have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099766
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Understanding the Mechanisms of Parental Divorce Effects on Child's Higher Education
Chen, Yen‐Chien; Fan, Elliott; Liu, Jin-Tan - 2021
the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. Using one million siblings, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246025
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Expanding opportunities for the next generation : early childhood development in the Middle East and North Africa
El-Kogali, Safaa; Krafft, Carolyn - 2015 - Online-Ausg.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245111
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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being : Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia - 2011
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128226
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Wars and Child Health : Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict
Akresh, Richard - 2011
This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128230
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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health : Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
Chang, Simon - 2011
We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129095
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The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China
Smith, James P. - 2010
In this paper, we model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socio-economic status outcomes in China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), the CHARLS Pilot survey respondents are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135829