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Economic vs. Epidemiological Approaches to Measuring the Human Capital Impacts of Infectious Disease Elimination
Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alex; … - 2022
A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351959
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Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices
Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector—the Norwegian petroleum industry—on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational margins, by comparing individuals in regions exposed to the new sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377189
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Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822786
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Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
Chang, Simon; Fleisher, Belton M.; Kim, Seonghoon; Liu, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan in the early 20th century. We find that malaria exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855348
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The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow: Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We exploit the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937 to identify the causal impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on later life well-being and productivity in the United States. Using census data from 1980-2000, we find that cohorts born after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353611
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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
treatment to low birth weight children from both higher- and low-income families between ages one and three, shows much larger … impacts among low- than higher-income children. Projecting IHDP impacts to the U.S. population's IQ and achievement … trajectories suggests that such a program offered to low-income children would essentially eliminate the income-based gap at age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959739
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Sex-Differences in Language and Socio-Emotional Skills: Evidence from Large Scale Studies of Very Young Children
Bando, Rosangela; López Bóo, Florencia; Li, Xia - 2016
This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills on children 7 months to 6 years old in Latin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584630
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Disability and work: the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274395
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Same Program, Different Outcomes: Understanding Differential Effects from Access to Free, High-Quality Early Care
Chaparro, Juan; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2015
group, it was more effective for children from lower-income families. Families who participated in the intervention were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420731
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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
children from both higher and low-income families between ages one and three. The IHDP data are uniquely suited to developing … credible evidence on gap closing because other experiments have excluded children from higher income families. We first show … IHDP program impacts were generally much stronger among low- than higher-income children. We project that at age three – at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279253