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This paper estimates the health returns to schooling, using a twin design. For this purpose, I use data on monozygotic twins from the Midlife in the United States survey. The results suggest that completing high school improves health, as measured through self-reported health, chronic...
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increased generosity of income support available to them. …
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first twenty-one waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and recently available retrospective marital histories. The …
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this variation to estimate the effect of the program on children’s health in Brazil, in an attempt to control for family … and municipality unobserved factors possibly related to the program’s adoption. The results indicate that children for … whom the Family Health Program was available in their municipalities during the prenatal period are healthier than children …
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<Para ID="Par1">We investigate the impact of maternity leave on the cognitive and behavioral development of children at … ages 4 and 5, following up previous research on these children at younger ages. The impact is identified by legislated …. Our results indicate no positive effect on indices of children’s cognitive and behavioral development. We uncover a small …
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