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. Women's BMIs decreased throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which may have implications for the health and …
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We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …
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It is frequently asserted that a college's female undergraduate enrollment in the sciences and engineering can be increased by raising female representation on the faculties in these areas. Despite the widespread acceptance of this proposition, it does not appear to have been subjected to any...
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How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable characteristic of same-age neighbors-their gender-affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from...
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concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … with regard to mothers ́mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …
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earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …
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pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in … chronic pain at age 44 continue to report pain and poor general health in their 50s. However, the associations are much … stronger for those with chronic pain. Furthermore, chronic pain at age 44 is associated with a range of poor mental health …
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the level of nutrition and health on economic, social, and demographic behavior. It is based on a set of samples covering …
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We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by … using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth …
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This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i … college degrees. Non-remote workers also experienced relatively worse respiratory health, which likely occurred because it was … job losses and, to a lesser extent, health losses were highest among non-remote workers from low-income households …
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