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Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success : Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Greve, Jane - 2015
This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in … utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that some Muslim women might have fasted during Ramadan when they were … pregnant. In some of our specifications, we use a sample of students from predominantly non-Muslim countries as an additional …
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity Among Elementary School Children
Cawley, John - 2012
In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However, little is known about the effect of PE on child weight. This...
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The Long-Run Impact of Childhood Poverty and the Mediating Role of Education
Bellani, Luna - 2017
This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes in adulthood in the European Union. We apply a potential outcomes approach to quantify those impacts and we provide a sensitivity analysis on possible unobserved confounders,...
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Understanding the Mechanisms of Parental Divorce Effects on Child's Higher Education
Chen, Yen‐Chien; Fan, Elliott; Liu, Jin-Tan - 2021
We combine multiple administrative datasets from Taiwan to evaluate the degree to which the adverse divorce effect on the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. Using one million siblings, we find that parental divorce occurring at ages 13-18 significantly...
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The Education-Health Gradient : Revisiting the Role of Socio-Emotional Skills
Gørtz, Mette; Gensowski, Miriam - 2023
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by 30-45% by fine-grained personality facets and Locus of Control. Traditional aggregated Big-Five...
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills During Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Anger, Silke - 2011
This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential candidate to explain the intergenerational link of socio-economic status. Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we contrast the impact of...
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Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development
Felfe, Christina - 2012
What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a natural experiment framework and employ a difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable...
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The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of Their Children : Evidence for Europe
Navarro, Maria - 2012
This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity...
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Do Babysitters Have More Kids? The Effects of Teenage Work Experiences on Adult Outcomes
Erdogan, Zeynep - 2012
We examine the work experiences during middle school and high school of U.S. females and males and find that most of the child-oriented work such as babysitting and camp counseling is done by females. If the type of work undertaken while young affects either development of specific human capital...
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Experienced and Inherited Disadvantage : A Longitudinal Study of Early Adulthood Neighbourhood Careers of Siblings
Manley, David - 2018
Longer term exposure to high poverty neighbourhoods can affect individual socio-economic outcomes later in life. Previous research has shown strong path dependence in individual neighbourhood histories. A growing literature shows that the neighbourhood histories of people is linked to the...
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