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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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The evils of forced migration : do integration policies alleviate migrants' economic situations?
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Link, Susanne - 2011
Armed conflicts, natural disasters and infrastructure projects continue to force millions into migration. This is especially true for developing countries. After World War II, about 8 million ethnic Germans experienced a similar situation when forced to leave their homelands and settle within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310062
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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...
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Public health efforts and the decline in urban mortality : reply to Cutler and Miller
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Rees, Daniel I. - 2019
This is a rejoinder to a comment written by Cutler and Miller on our recent paper, "Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality" (IZA DP No. 11773), which reanalyzes data used by Cutler and Miller to investigate the determinants of the urban mortality decline from 1900 to 1936. Two...
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Public health efforts and the decline in urban mortality
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Rees, Daniel I. - 2018
Using data on 25 major American cities for the period 1900-1940, we explore the effects of municipal-level public health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying interventions such as treating sewage and setting strict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903985
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Was the first public health campaign successful? : the tuberculosis movement and its effect on mortality
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Olivares, … - 2017
The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and supported by the sale of Christmas seals. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621424
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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 …
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