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search data to document how the great economic crisis has affected people's well-being and health studying the US, Germany …
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In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...
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Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to …
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We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …
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, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of …
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occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …
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health, including mental health. Three major findings come forward from this work. First, disasters appear to bring …, education, health and many income-generating processes. Furthermore, some of these detrimental effects are both large and long … of improving our understanding of the impacts of disasters on health outcomes, the mechanisms of transmission and the …
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health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …
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This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, NHANES data indicate that the poor have never had a statistically significant higher prevalence of overweight status at any time in the last 35 years. Despite this empirical evidence, the view that the poor are less healthy in terms of excess accumulation of fat...
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