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We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test scores at age seven. Using English register data, we find that scores are .05 to .08 standard deviations lower for Pakistani and Bangladeshi students exposed to Ramadan in...
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decades of the twentieth century, significant race-, income-, and gender-based gaps, and significant increases in graduation …
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the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures …We use the 1997 Education Law in Turkey that increased compulsory formal schooling from five to eight years to study … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …
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This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn children close to birth, and against African-American...
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A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
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This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
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We make use of a new data resource, merged birth and school records for all children born in Florida from 1992 to 2002, to study the effects of birth weight on cognitive development from kindergarten through schooling. Using twin fixed effects models, we find that the effects of birth weight on...
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We study how maternal stress affects offspring outcomes. We find that in-utero exposure to elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol negatively affects offspring cognition, health and educational attainment. These findings are based on comparisons between siblings which limits variation to...
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This paper explores the relationship between education and the evolution of wealth after retirement. Asset growth … asset evolution. Our aim is to disentangle the effects of education on post-retirement asset evolution that operate through … health and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement from the effects of education that impinge directly on asset …
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gaps in education and income. Although racial inequality in health outcomes has fallen in the long term, significant …
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