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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise : Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development

Currie, Janet - 2010

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

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Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011

technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading …

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Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health

Currie, Janet - 2011

We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989-2003 in five large states. Our "difference in differences" approach compares birth...

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Inequality at Birth : Some Causes and Consequences

Currie, Janet - 2011

Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and participation in social programs. In turn, endowments at birth are predictive of adult outcomes, and of the outcomes of future generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is...

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Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries

Currie, Janet - 2012

A growing literature documents the links between long-term outcomes and health in the fetal period, infancy, and early childhood. Much of this literature focuses on rich countries, but researchers are increasingly taking advantage of new sources of data and identification to study the long reach...

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Weathering the Storm : Hurricanes and Birth Outcomes

Currie, Janet - 2012

A growing literature suggests that stressful events in pregnancy can have negative effects on birth outcomes. Some of the estimates in this literature may be affected by small samples, omitted variables, endogenous mobility in response to disasters, and errors in the measurement of gestation, as...

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Something in the Water : Contaminated Drinking Water and Infant Health

Currie, Janet - 2013

This paper provides estimates of the effects of in utero exposure to contaminated drinking water on fetal health. We examine the universe of birth records and drinking water testing results for the state of New Jersey from 1997 to 2007. Our data enable us to compare outcomes across siblings who...

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Traffic Congestion and Infant Health : Evidence from E-Zpass

Currie, Janet - 2010

We exploit the introduction of electronic toll collection, (E-ZPass), which greatly reduced both traffic congestion and vehicle emissions near highway toll plazas. We show that the introduction of E-ZPass reduced prematurity and low birth weight among mothers within 2km of a toll plaza by 10.8%...

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Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes

Currie, Janet - 2010

Previous research has shown a strong connection between birth weight and future child outcomes. But this research has not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily because it predicts future health or through some other...

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Has Public Health Insurance for Older Children Reduced Disparities in Access to Care and Health Outcomes?

Currie, Janet - 2010

from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an … important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 … these children in the past decade are responsible for the decline in the importance of income. We find that while …

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