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Intergenerational Transmission of Skills During Childhood and Optimal Public Policy
Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2021
that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316071
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315601
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Taxation and Parental Time Allocation Under Different Assumptions on Altruism
Casarico, Alessandra - 2014
reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055994
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315887
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316015
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120563