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How do parents respond to regulation of sugary drinks in child care? : evidence from California

Hu, Jiafei; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Yuan, Haishan - 2019

care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary beverages in the short run and weaken their … regulation by providing sugary drinks at home. Using detailed scanner data of grocery purchases, we find that affected California … households increased their juice purchases right after the regulation became effective. However, this increase disappears after …

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Intrafamily resource allocations : a dynamic model of birth weight

Del Bono, Emilia (contributor); Ermisch, John (contributor); … - 2008

This paper estimates a model of dynamic intrahousehold investment behavior which incorporates family fixed effects and child endowment heterogeneity. This framework is applied to large American and British survey data on birth outcomes, with focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and...

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Are children decision-makers within the household?

Dauphin, Anyck; El Lahga, AbdelRahmen; Fortin, Bernard; … - 2008

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated children through the "caring preferences" of their...

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The impact of parental income and education on the health of their children

Doyle, Orla (contributor); Harmon, Colm (contributor); … - 2005

This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious correlation rather than some causal mechanism. A...

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Disability and work : the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten (contributor); … - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...

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Daughters and left-wing voting

Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor); … - 2006

This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon -- nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also...

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Fertility decline and the heights of children in Britain, 1886 - 1938

Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - 2009

In this paper we argue that the fertility decline that began around 1880 had substantial positive effects on the health of children, as the quality-quantity trade-off would suggest. We use microdata from a unique survey from 1930s Britain to analyze the relationship between the standardized...

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Mother's education and birth weight

Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor); … - 2007

"Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the mother pre- and during pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could...

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From shame to game in one hundred years : an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...

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Childhood economic conditions and length of life : evidence from the UK boyd orr cohort, 1937 - 2005

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael; Hatton, Timothy J.; … - 2007

We study the importance of childhood socioeconomic conditions in explaining differences in life expectancy using data from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records up to 2005. We estimate a number of duration of life...

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