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The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family's role in human capital production...
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at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit …, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human …
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's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …
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children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children's skills. …
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affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …
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This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy loss improves maternal health investments in the subsequent pregnancy … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …
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This paper analyzes how culture affects the engagement of parents in child-rearing activities, and time allocations of parents inside the family. We use data from the World Value Survey to construct a country-specific measure of the value attached to obedience as a child quality, which we...
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Effective and scalable strategies for promoting youth mental health are urgently needed. We conducted a randomized … controlled trial to assess the impact of school-based, teacher-led coping skills instruction on youth mental health and academic …
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ratio), considering the potential endogeneity of the health shock to examine the persistence of AIP preferences. Our … percentage points (pp). However, the experience of a health shock partially reverts such culturally embedded preference for AIP … AIP preference is to investigate the effect of health shocks on residential mobility to smaller size or value dwellings …
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