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Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that determines an individual's demand for knowledge and...
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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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externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …
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effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our …
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We study the consequences of mothers' and fathers' job loss for parents, families, and children. Rich Swedish register … with universal health care and free education is likely to be protective for children. …
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Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … 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 uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the … effort from their children, which translates into significant gains in achievement. Relative to other interventions …
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We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of exogenous variation in the labor-market opportunities of potential college entrants. Exploiting business cycle fluctuations across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find...
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We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children’s socio-emotional skills. The classroom …-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely … to complete academic high school and enroll in university. Two mechanisms drive these results. Treated children show …
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children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children's skills. …
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