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From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger : early life conditions and adult health in Ireland
Delaney, Liam; McGovern, Mark E.; Smith, James P. - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910207
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Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland
Pierenkemper, Toni; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2010
The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system took place and trace back the development of wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968435
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Migration, migrants and policy in the United Kingdom
Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1999
This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom's international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of international migration and the factors influencing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316910
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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913 - 1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536419
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127786
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The quantity-quality tradeoff of children in a developing country : identification using Chinese twins
Li, Hongbin (contributor); Zhang, Junsen (contributor);  … - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641527
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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? : Twins, birthweight, and China's 'one child' policy
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard (contributor);  … - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310954
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Substitution effects in parental investments
Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - 2009
their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003899970
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China’s higher education expansion and its labor market consequences
Li, Shi; Xing, Chunbing - 2010
Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China’s higher education expansion commenced in … school graduate. That of the college graduate deceased, but only slightly and not significantly. -- China ; higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969742
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Child health and the income gradient : evidence from China
Chen, Yi; Lei, Xiaoyan; Zhou, Li-An - 2010
longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007348