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adults' well-being indirectly through the health of their children. Results show that ozone decreases the well-being of … workdays to care for a sick child, providing evidence on the children's health channel to adults' welfare losses. … individuals with children while not affecting persons without kids. We confirm the same effect for fine particulate matter and …
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satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … equivalent of health changes. Next, the health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to estimate the … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in …
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This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health …. Instrumental variable estimates and difference-in-differences estimates reveal that increases in maternal schooling reduce children … children's education and improvements in their peer environment early in life are important for explaining the effects. Changes …
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significantly slowed the growth trajectory of exposed children from herding households. This negative effect is still observable … experienced head are better able to protect their children from the negative consequences of the 2009/10 winter shock. There are …
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We study the effectiveness, spillovers, and well-being effects of low emission zones in Germany, an emission-intensity-based driving restriction rapidly growing in popularity. Using regression discontinuity and group-time difference-in-differences designs, we show that previous estimates of the...
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This paper investigates the causal impact of displacement on health outcomes for Colombian children of different age …, displacement increases the likelihood for malnutrition for young children and primary school children. Moreover, being displaced … leads to a lower subjective health status for children from all age cohorts. Yet, displaced children are not affected by …
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Republic in promoting investments in children. Based on the capabilities approach to well-being initiated by Sen (2010), we … look at the impact of remittances and domestic transfer payments primarily from internal migration on children's education … children, and health habits of older children. We use unique panel data from the Kyrgyz Republic for 2005-2008 and thus control …
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This paper analyzes the influence of children's health and mothers' physical and mental wellbeing on female labor force … us to measure children's health based on the occurrence of severe health problems including mental and physical …
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children from low socioeconomic background are more likely to suffer from "objectively measured" health problems - except for … obesity. There is some evidence, however, that high income children are better able to cope with the adverse consequences of …
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respiratory diseases for a 10 percentage point rise in childcare coverage rates when their children are 1–2 years old. In contrast …
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