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The Height of Us-Born Non-Hispanic Children and Adolescents Ages 2-19, Born 1942-2002 in the Nhanes Samples

Komlos, John - 2011

We examine the height of non-Hispanic US-born children born 1942-2002 on the basis of all NHES and NHANES data sets available. We use the CDC 2000 reference values to convert height into Height-for-Age z-scores stratified by gender. We decompose deviations from the reference values into an...

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Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride : The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes

Gould, Eric D. - 2010

This paper estimates the effect of the childhood environment on a large array of social and economic outcomes lasting almost 60 years, for both the affected cohorts and for their children. To do this, we exploit a natural experiment provided by the 1949 Magic Carpet operation, where over 50,000...

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The Impact of Children's Public Health Insurance Expansions on Educational Outcomes

Levine, Phillip B. - 2010

This paper examines the impact of public health insurance expansions through both Medicaid and SCHIP on children's educational outcomes, measured by 4th and 8th grade reading and math test scores, available from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). We use a triple difference...

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Season of Birth and Later Outcomes : Old Questions, New Answers

Buckles, Kasey S. - 2010

Research has found that season of birth is associated with later health and professional outcomes; what drives this association remains unclear. In this paper we consider a new explanation: that children born at different times in the year are conceived by women with different socioeconomic...

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Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes

Currie, Janet M. - 2010

Previous research has shown a strong connection between birth weight and future child outcomes. But this research has … not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily …

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Child Care Subsidies and Child Development

Herbst, Chris M. - 2010

Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One … parents to purchase high-quality child care. Consequently, there are reasons to be concerned about the implications of child … care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on …

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Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly : Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?

Pezzin, Liliana E. - 2010

Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The quot;demonstration effectquot; postulates that adult children...

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Inside the War on Poverty : The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes

Almond, Douglas - 2010

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food Stamp Program (FSP) during the 1960s and early 1970s. Using variation in the month the FSP began operating in each U.S. county, we find that pregnancies exposed to the FSP...

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School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity

Millimet, Daniel L. - 2010

between SBP and NSLP participation and (relatively) long-run measures of child weight. After documenting a positive … association between SBP participation and child weight, and no association between NSLP participation and child weight, we present …

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Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores

Black, Sandra E. - 2010

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. Using a larger and more comprehensive dataset than previous work, we are able to estimate the...

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