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's smoking all appear to contribute to the effect. We conclude that, by improving child health, unrestricted unconditional cash …
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adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of …We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult health and earnings, using data …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and …
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education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects … health conditioned on prior health as well as the more usual unconditioned estimates. We find that health is related to … in the state of poor health rather than dying …
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-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health …I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of … over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …
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This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food …
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(0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD), and health (0.2 SD). These effects grow for the first seven years …
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1970 -- the income gap between the US and the sending country, the education gap between the US and the sending country …
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Governments in emerging markets often behave like a quot;tormented insurer,quot; trying to use non-state-contingent debt instruments to avoid cuts in payments to private agents despite large fluctuations in public revenues. In the data, average public debt-GDP ratios decline as the variability...
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How is a developing country affected by its odious government’s ability to borrow in international markets? We examine the dynamics of a country’s growth, consumption, and sovereign debt, assuming that the government is myopic and wants to maximize short-term, socially unproductive,...
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To explain the fact that government spending and tax policy are procyclical in emerging and developing countries, we develop a model for the joint behavior of optimal tax rates and government spending over the business cycle. Our set-up relies on financial frictions, which have been shown to be...
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