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Fetal Shock or Selection? The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Human Capital Development

Beach, Brian - 2018

Almond (2006) argues that in utero exposure to the 1918 influenza pandemic lowered socioeconomic status in adulthood, whereas Brown and Thomas (2016) find that the effect disappears after controlling for parental characteristics of the 1919 birth cohort. We link microdata from the 1920 and 1930...

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The Effect of Maternal Depression and Substance Abuse on Child Human Capital Development

Frank, Richard G. - 2009

Recent models of human capital formation represent a synthesis of the human capital approach and a life cycle view of human development that is grounded in neuroscience (Heckman 2007). This model of human development, the stability of the home and parental mental health can have notable impacts...

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The FDA and ABCs : The Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Human Capital

Busch, Susan - 2011

Using annual cross-sectional data on over 100,000 adolescents aged 12-17, we studied academic and behavioral outcomes among those who were and were not likely affected by FDA warnings regarding the safety of antidepressants. Just before the FDA warnings, adolescents with probable depression had...

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Beyond Job Lock : Impacts of Public Health Insurance on Occupational and Industrial Mobility

Farooq, Ammar - 2016

We examine whether greater Medicaid generosity encourages mobility towards riskier but better jobs in higher paid … occupations and industries. We use Current Population Survey Data and exploit variation in Medicaid thresholds across states and … Medicaid income thresholds increases occupational and industrial mobility by 7.6% and 7.8%. We also find that higher income …

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