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after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for …
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We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using … childhood health and cognitive skills at ages 7 and 10, educational and occupational choice at age 16-20, employment, earnings … and occupation at age 36-40, and pension income at age 71.Leveraging quasi-random variation in eligibility by birth date …
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health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure …
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This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …
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This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
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