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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status : Evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - 2004
energy intake for adults, and for children, weight for height and stature. Our finding indicate a clear positive effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261851
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
This paper explores secular changes in women?s pay relative to men?s pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261859
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The lasting impact of mothers' fetal malnutrition on their offspring: Evidence from the China great leap forward famine
Kim, Seonghoon; Deng, Quheng; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Shi - 2010
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is also negative, but smaller in magnitude than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274685
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Intergenerational transmission of healthy eating behaviour and the role of household income
Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; Smith, Murray - 2008
adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating … behaviour of adult children and the past parental death from cardiovascular disease (CVD). It uses parental CVD death as an … adverse health signal which may cause a healthy eating compensatory response in adult children. This response is due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268566
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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012
This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289981
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Is the Child Health / Family Income Gradient Universal? : Evidence from England
Currie, Alison; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2004
the US, with the slope of the gradient being larger for older than younger children. In this paper we explore the child … analysis is based on a sample of over 13,000 children (and their parents) drawn from the Health Survey for England. In … hypothesis that the NHS has a protective effect on the health of children in England. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262070
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Parents' incomes and children's outcomes: a quasi-experiment
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Copeland, William; Keeler, Gordon; … - 2008
change in household income on the young adult outcomes of the household´s children. In this research, we examine the role … in the long run outcomes for children in affected households. We find that children who are in households affected by the … mechanisms through which this exogenous increase in household income affects the long run outcomes of children - parental time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268640
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The effects on stature of poverty, family size and birth order: British children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - 2008
This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268818
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The measurement of child costs: a rothbarth-type method consistent with scale economies
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier - 2009
We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children …). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269709
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Is there an income gradient in child health? It depends whom you ask
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2010
child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269821