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We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child … childhood developmental outcomes, and only maternal smoking and drinking during pregnancy have some effects on child height. Not … surprisingly, family child-rearing environment has sizeable negative and positive effects on behavioral problems index and math …
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We study the consequences of mothers' and fathers' job loss for parents, families, and children. Rich Swedish register data allow us to identify plant closures and account for non-random selection of workers to closing plants by using propensity score matching and controlling for...
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. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate … on long-term child outcomes differ substantially according to the availability of formal childcare and the mother …
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home environment of disadvantaged families, on child health in the first 3 years of life. We recruited and randomized 233 … commencing at 2 years. Maternal reports of child health are assessed at 6, 12, 18, 24, and 36 months. Treatment effects are … a community-based home visiting program may have favorable impacts on early health conditions. As child ill health is …
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While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores, and earnings, the evidence for effects on health is more limited. This paper uses a large dataset on the population of Norway and focuses on the effect of birth order on a range...
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examines the relationship between changing economic conditions during the Irish recession and child weight. Fixed effect … parental unemployment on children's weight before, during and after a recession. Child growth charts are used to quantify … children according to overweight for BMI, weight for age, and weight for height measures. For BMI, the probability of a child …
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We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of …
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We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … waves of the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The findings show that family … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …
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