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This paper uses a "local average treatment effect" (LATE) framework in an attempt to disentangle the separate effects of criminal and noncriminal gun prevalence on violence rates. We first show that a number of previous studies have failed to properly address the problems of endogeneity, proxy...
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districts in which these men were observed as children in the 1901 census. We find strong negative effects of coal intensity on …
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We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country … Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which they had received for seven years, their young children weigh less …, and are shorter and more likely to be stunted than young children in families that kept the cash transfer. We find no …
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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 … exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing and the exposure of different children's birth … sites to more accurately measure a child's war exposure. War-exposed children in both countries have lower height-for-age Z …
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large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the … most hard-hit cities completing 1.2 fewer years. Second, these children were about half inches (one centimeter) shorter and …
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in adulthood among these wartime children …
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impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …
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causal effect of family size on children's education. Following common practice, a linear IV estimator has been used …, assuming constant marginal effects of additional children across family sizes. We find that the conclusion of no effect of …
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impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …
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spend significantly more money on the welfare of children and less on consumption of adult goods. In an attempt to explain … persons lacking the financial means to rely on themselves during old-age invest more in children who care for them in later … of expenditure allocated towards the welfare of children. FHH having access to alternative means of old-age security …
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