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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara D.; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2020
conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207783
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Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: a study of adult height among immigrant siblings
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; … - 2009
We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277328
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Starting School and ADHD: When Is It Time to Fly the Nest?
Nicodemo, Catia; Nicoletti, Cheti; Vidiella-Martin, Joaquim - 2024
Does deferring school entry for children born just before the enrollment cutoff date improve their mental well … recommendations include sorting children by age and refining diagnostic decision-making in early primary school. …
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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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Have Girls Been Left behind during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Gender Differences in Pandemic Effects on Children's Mental Wellbeing
Mendolia, Silvia; Suziedelyte, Agne; Zhu, Anna - 2021
Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income families. Our results are consistent with previous findings of larger pandemic effects on mental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658244
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Urban working-class food consumption and nutrition in Britain in 1904
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T. - 2012
food consumption. We also find that the lower tail of the household nutrition distribution drops away very rapidly, so that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289869
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Parental Migration Decisions and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from China
Lin, Carl; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - 2018
associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show … a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure to parental migration on height-for-age Z-scores of left …-behind children relative to children who migrate with their parents. Additional results from a standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …
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Social Disadvantage and Children's Nutritional Status in Rural-Urban Migrant Households
Lin, Carl; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - 2020
children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … characteristics, and girl children exhibit poorer nutritional status than boys. Results from a quantile decomposition procedure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497789
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Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals
Habermalz, Steffen - 2003
This paper develops a multi-period model, in which workers are matched with jobs according to imperfect educational signals and in which their subsequent productivities depend on both their inherent ability and on the quality of the job match. It outlines a sequential process, in which underpaid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261976
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An Examination of Sheepskin Effects Over Time
Habermalz, Steffen - 2003
Previous empirical specifications are not flexible enough to capture the true pattern of sheepskin effects over time. If the quality of the match between the worker and the job contributes to earnings and if higher ability workers more easily reveal their true productivity, sheepskin effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261977