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In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular attention to the role of the social safety net in mitigating the adverse effects of shocks to earnings and income. Using a state panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate...
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The effects of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on obesity have been the focus of much debate. However, causal interpretation of estimates from previous studies, comparing participants to non-participants, is complicated by endogeneity and possible misreporting of...
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only …We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary … offered financial education. Both programs included a voluntary after-school savings club that provided students with a locked …
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biological mechanism, which are validated with micro-data from India, Indonesia and Ghana can jointly explain inter …
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, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socio-economic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … worked as children. We find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, we estimate that from age 30 onward the … negative returns to their own education. This evidence suggests that reducing child labor will require facilitating access to …
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This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of China's Great Famine. To address problems of measurement error of famine exposure and potential endogeneity of famine intensity, we exploit a novel source of variation in regional intensity of famine derived from...
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significant impact on hemoglobin, anemia, physical health, cognition or mental health. For the sales experiment, we can reject at …
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promoting adherence to public health protocols during a pandemic …
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To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …
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