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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Tekin, Erdal; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Greve, Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual’s labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...

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Women's Education: Harbinger of Another Spring? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey

Kaushal, Neeraj; Grossman, Michael; Dinçer, Mehmet Alper - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use the 1997 Education Law in Turkey that increased compulsory formal schooling from five to eight years to study the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures of empowerment. We apply an instrumental variables...

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Childhood Health and Sibling Outcomes: The Shared Burden and Benefit of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Parman, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

There is a growing body of evidence showing that negative childhood health shocks have long term consequences in terms of health, human capital formation and labor market outcomes. However, by altering the relative prices of child quality across siblings, these health shocks can also affect...

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Does grief transfer across generations? In-utero deaths and child outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … control for whether there is a death around the time of the pregnancy in order to isolate true causal effects of a bereavement … during pregnancy. We find small negative effects on birth outcomes, and these effects are bigger for boys than for girls. The …

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The Relationship Between Neighborhood Quality and Obesity Among Children

Sen, Bisakha; Mennemeyer, Stephen; Gary, Lisa C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

It has long been posited by scientists that we need to have a better understanding in the role that larger contextual factors -- like neighborhood quality and the built environment -- may have on the nation's obesity crisis. This paper explores whether maternal perceptions of neighborhood...

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Obesity and Skill Attainment in Early Childhood

Cawley, John; Spiess, C. Katharina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper investigates the association between obesity and skill attainment in early childhood (aged 2-4 years). Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study are used to estimate models of developmental functioning in four critical areas (verbal skills, activities of daily living, motor...

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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their...

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Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation: the Externalities of ADD

Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Recent work shows that peers affect student achievement, but the mechanisms are not well understood. I show that peer behavior is an important mechanism, perhaps more so than ability, by exploiting exogenous timing in diagnosis/treatment of ADD among peers that improves peer behavior while...

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The Effects of Childhood ADHD on Adult Labor Market Outcomes

Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

While several types of mental illness, including substance abuse disorders, have been linked with poor labor market outcomes, no current research has been able to examine the effects of childhood ADHD. As ADHD has become one of the most prevalent childhood mental conditions, it is useful to...

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Synthesizing Econometric Evidence: The Case of Demand Elasticity Estimates

Kenkel, Donald S.; DeCicca, Philip - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Econometric estimates of the responsiveness of health-related consumer demand to higher prices are often key ingredients for policy analysis. Drawing on several examples, especially that of cigarette demand, we review the potential advantages and challenges of synthesizing econometric evidence...

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