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

Currie, Janet M. - 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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Human Capital Development Before Age Five

Almond, Douglas - 2010

This chapter seeks to set out what Economists have learned about the effects of early childhood influences on later life outcomes, and about ameliorating the effects of negative influences. We begin with a brief overview of the theory which illustrates that evidence of a causal relationship...

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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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Violence While in Utero : The Impact of Assaults During Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes

Currie, Janet M. - 2018

We study the effects of prenatal exposure to violent crime on infant health, using New York City crime records linked to mothers' addresses in birth records data. We address endogeneity of assault exposure with three strategies and find that in utero assault exposure significantly increases the...

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Does Prenatal WIC Participation Improve Child Outcomes?

Chorniy, Anna - 2018

Large literatures document positive effects of WIC on birth outcomes, and separately connect health at birth and future outcomes. But little research investigates the link between prenatal WIC participation and childhood outcomes. We explore this question using a unique data set from South...

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Does Participation in Transfer Programs During Pregnancy Improve Birth Weight?

Currie, Janet M.; Cole, Nancy - 2021

A primary goal of transfer programs to the non-aged, non-disabled poor in the United States is to improve the well-being of children in poor families. Thus it is surprising that most of the considerable research which has been devoted to the study of transfer programs focuses on the incentive...

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Socioeconomic Status and Health : Why is the Relationship Stronger for Older Children?

Currie, Janet M.; Stabile, Mark - 2021

Case, Lubotsky, and Paxson (2001) show that the well-known relationship between socio- economic status (SES) and health exists in childhood and grows more pronounced with age. However, in cross-sectional data it is difficult to distinguish between two possible explanations. The first is that...

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The Technology of Birth : Health Insurance, Medical Interventions, and Infant Health

Currie, Janet M.; Gruber, Jonathan - 2021

Two key issues for public insurance policy are the effect of insurance status on medical treatment, and the implications of insurance-induced treat- ment differentials for health outcomes. We address these issues in the context of the treatment of childbirth, using Vital Statistics data on every...

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From Infant to Mother : Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health

Almond, Douglas - 2011

This paper examines the links between the disease environment around the time of a woman's birth, and her health at the time she delivers her own infant. Our results suggest that exposure to disease in early childhood significantly increases the incidence of diabetes in the population of future...

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Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries

Currie, Janet M. - 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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