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Birthweight and Academic Achievement in Childhood

Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2021

data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in …

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Efficiency Potential and Efficiency Variation in Norwegian Lower Secondary Schools

Borge, Lars-Erik - 2006

The paper performs an efficiency analysis of the lower secondary school sector in Norway. The efficiency potential is calculated to 14 percent based on a DEA analysis with grades in core subjects (adjusted for student characteristics and family background) as outputs. The analysis of the...

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Examining the Education Gradient in Chronic Illness

Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal - 2021

This study examines the education gradient in three chronic conditions – diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. In the analysis, we take into account diagnosed as well as undiagnosed cases, and we use methods that account for the possibility that unmeasured factors exist that are...

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Racial/Ethnic and Education-Related Disparities in Control of Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease Among Diabetics

Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal - 2021

Objectives: To estimate racial/ethnic and education-related disparities and examine trends in uncontrolled cardiovascular (CVD) risk factors among adults with diabetes. Methods: The analysis samples include adults aged 20 and over from NHANES III, 1988-1994 and NHANES 1999-2008 who self-report...

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The Dynamics of Income-Related Health Inequality Among US Children

Chatterji, Pinka - 2011

, our findings also suggest that as children grow up, changes in family income ranking over time are related to children …We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 …

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Local Economic Consequences of Investment in Children : Capitalization of Child Care Services

Borge, Lars-Erik - 2018

Recent analyses of intergenerational mobility show that investments in children pay big dividends. The priority of …

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