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Economic conditions, parental employment and health of newborns
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Paul, Alexander Gabriel; … - 2018
this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national … possible selective fertility based on labor market conditions. We find that downturns are beneficial; for example, a one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798225
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Economic conditions at birth and cardiovascular disease risk in adulthood : evidence from new cohorts
Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola; Berg, Gerard J. van den; … - 2017
Most of the literature that exploits business cycle variation at birth to study long-run effects of economic conditions on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely absent and they grew up in societies with relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664514
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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013
. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127786
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Reading aloud to children, social inequalities, and vocabulary development: evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Barone, Carlo; Fougère, Denis; Martel, Karine - 2020
sample of families and provided parents with free books, information on the benefits of SBR and tips for effective reading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248941
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The effects of day care on health during childhood : evidence by age
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Sifinger, Bettina M. - 2018
ages during childhood. We draw on a unique set of merged population register data from Sweden over the period 1999 …-2008. This includes merged information at the individual level from the inpatient and outpatient registers, the population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821530