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The effects of incentivizing early prenatal care on infant health

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2020

We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care 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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Mommies' girls get dresses, daddies' boys get toys : gender preferences in Poland and their implications

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - 2011

We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … compared to a first born son and that the probability of having the second child is negatively correlated with a first born … results and may be important for other findings in the literature. Labor supply of mothers and overall child …

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Educational, labor-market and intergenerational consequences of poor childhood health

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Wray, Anthony - 2021

Does childhood health capital affect long-run labor market success? We address this question using inpatient hospital admission records linked to population census records. Sibling fixed effects estimates indicate that in comparison to their brothers, boys with health deficiencies were more...

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(Breaking) intergenerational transmission of mental health

Bütikofer, Aline; Ginja, Rita; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - 2023

(40%) higher probability of a mental health diagnosis of their adolescent child. Intensive margin physical and mental … conditions reduced the parent-child mental health association by about 40%. …

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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability

Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023

Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...

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Sibling spillovers may enhance the efficacy of targeted school policies

Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut - 2023

child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …

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Birth order in the very long-run : estimating firstborn premiums between 1850 and 1940

Cools, Angela; Grooms, Jared; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - 2024

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family's role in human capital production...

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