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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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their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling …
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China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …
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Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking …. -- Migration ; land rights insecurity ; China ; semiparametric censored regression models …
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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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offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is … to IV estimation. -- malnutrition ; health ; schooling ; Barker hypothesis ; China Famine …
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China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and … evaluating our identification strategy. -- migration ; migrant networks ; consumption ; poverty ; wealth ; rural China …
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