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Cunha, Flavio - 2010

This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...

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Life Shocks and Homelessness

Curtis, Marah A. - 2011

We exploit an exogenous health shock--the birth of a child with a severe health condition--to investigate the causal effect of a life shock on homelessness. Using survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study that have been augmented with information from hospital medical...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129129

Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and Health after Age 70 : A New Longitudinal Analysis for the U.S., 1895-2005

Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2011

The link between circumstances faced by individuals early in life (including those encountered in utero) and later life outcomes has been of increasing interest since the work of Barker in the 1970s on birth weight and adult disease. We provide such a life course perspective for the U.S. by...

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Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries

Currie, Janet - 2012

A growing literature documents the links between long-term outcomes and health in the fetal period, infancy, and early childhood. Much of this literature focuses on rich countries, but researchers are increasingly taking advantage of new sources of data and identification to study the long reach...

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The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence

Millimet, Daniel - 2013

Rates of childhood obesity have increased dramatically in the last few decades. Non-causal evidence suggests that childhood obesity is highly persistent over the life cycle. However little in known about the origins of this persistence. In this paper we attempt to answer three questions. First,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074278

How Does Household Income Affect Child Personality Traits and Behaviors?

Akee, Randall - 2015

-life outcomes. These studies have found limited impact of supplementary programs on children's cognitive skills, but sustained … effects on personality traits. We examine how a positive change in unearned household income affects children's emotional and … financial wellbeing on children's emotional and behavioral health and positive personality trait development. Moreover, we find …

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Under the Weather : Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall

Maccini, Sharon - 2010

How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical...

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Worms at Work : Long-Run Impacts of a Child Health Investment

Baird, Sarah - 2015

This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in school-based deworming. The program increased labor supply among men and education among women, with accompanying shifts in labor market specialization. Ten years after...

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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - 2021

This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...

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Non-Cognitive Deficits and Young Adult Outcomes : The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program

Baker, Michael; Gruber, Jonathan; Milligan, Kevin S. - 2021

Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224115

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