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We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality...
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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children's education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …-quality tradeoff of children in developing countries. -- Quantity-quality tradeoff ; twins ; China …
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In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade … area of China, an extra child at parity one or at parity two, net of birthweight effects, significantly decreases the … deficit of twins. Despite the evident significant trade-off between number of children and child quality in China, however …
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We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China … stronger influence on the joint decision. -- Household decision making ; risk ; field experiment ; China …
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their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling …
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"This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from …
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incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …
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This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the total effects of famine in China on marital behavior of famine …
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longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child …
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