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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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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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In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is … concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not …. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care usage on mother-child interaction are examined. The analysis is based on data …
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Much has been written about the modern obesity epidemic, and historical BMIs are low compared to their modern counterparts. However, interpreting BMI variation is difficult because BMIs increase when weight increases or when stature decreases, and the two have different implications for human...
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Research has shown that birthweight has a lasting impact on later-life outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide the link between birthweight and adult outcomes. Using...
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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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Using a sample of sibling pairs from a nationally representative U.S. survey, we examine the effects of the fetal growth rate on a set of neurobehavioral outcomes in childhood measured by parent-reported diagnosed developmental disabilities and behavior problems. Based on models that include...
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Oil spills can lead to irreversible environmental degradation and pose hazards to human health. We are the first to study the causal effects of onshore oil spills on neonatal and infant mortality rates. We use spatial data from the Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor and the Demographic and Health...
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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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