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Children of war: the long-run effects of large-scale physical destruction and warfare on children
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269392
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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011
In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286261
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329078
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Birth weight and the dynamics of early cognitive and behavioural development
Del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John - 2009
In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269639
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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, … - 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/10010278381
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How distance to a non-residential parent relates to child outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012
A substantial and growing fraction of children across Europe and the US live in single parent households. Law practices … are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289970
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Spillover Effects of Early-Life Medical Interventions
Breining, Sanni; Daysal, N. Meltem; Simonsen, Marianne; … - 2015
We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement. Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288212
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The impact of physical education on obesity among elementary school children
Cawley, John; Frisvold, David; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - 2012
have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287618
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children
Cawley, John; Frisvold, David E.; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959837
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Children of War: The Long-Run Effects of Large-Scale Physical Destruction and Warfare on Children
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015492