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Understanding socio-economic inequalities in childhood respiratory health

Propper, Carol; Rigg, John A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Recent evidence has shown a socio-economic gradient in its … distribution. This paper examines whether a number of factors argued to have led to a rise in the incidence of asthma might also … history of asthma, poor child health at birth, maternal age at child’s birth and local deprivation. We find that each of these …

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Intergenerational transfers and household structure: why do most Italian youths live with their parents?

Manacorda, Marco; Moretti, Enrico - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

85 percent of Italian men aged 18-33 live with their parents. We argue that Italian parents like to live with their children and a rise in their income makes it possible for them to offer their children higher consumption in exchange for their presence at home. Children prefer to live on their...

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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and early child outcomes

Tominey, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight from the causal effect. We find that, despite a detailed...

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The impact of low income on child health: evidence from a birth cohort study

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Rigg, John A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

There is a growing literature that shows that higher family income is associated with better health for children. Wealthier parents may have more advantaged children because they have more income to buy health care or because parental wealth is associated with beneficial behaviours or because...

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Health supplier quality and the distribution of child health

Propper, Carol; Rigg, John A.; Burgess, Simon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

There is emerging evidence to suggest that initial differentials between the health of poor and more affluent children in the UK do not widen over early childhood. One reason may be that through the universal public funded health care system all children have access to equally effective primary...

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Multidimensional poverty and the state of child health in India

Mohanty, Sanjay K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Using data from the National Family and Health Survey 3, India, this paper measures and validates the extent of multidimensional poverty and examines the linkages of poverty level with child health in India. Multidimensional poverty is measured in the domain of education, health and living...

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