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offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …
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explore potential mechanisms, including differential earnings, health insurance, and health behaviors, using data from the …
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The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in crucial growth years. An explanation is that shorter children experienced greater mortality and...
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We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …
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Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between … childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height … shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may be correlated with health conditions and socio-economic status from …
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This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow's Pension System that raised the attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to...
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In this paper we show that there is a reduction in the correlation coefficient between father and children schooling levels over time in Italy. However, focusing on equality of circumstances, we show that there is still a persistent difference in the odds of attaining a college degree between...
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This paper uses multiple data sources and a unified methodology to estimate the trends and levels of the U.S. high school graduation rate. Correcting for important biases that plague previous calculations, we establish that (a) the true high school graduation rate is substantially lower than the...
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Mental health problems - and depression in particular - have been rising internationally. The link between poor mental … health and poor educational outcomes is particularly interesting in the case of the UK which has a low international ranking … this issue using a large longitudinal study of a recent cohort of teenagers in England. We use the General Health …
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Health Survey help explain the links between socio-economic status and health. Transitions in food deprivation status are … correlated with changes in health status. While health transitions are correlated with changes in food deprivation status, there … is little evidence that change in food deprivation status leads changes in health status but some evidence that change in …
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