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Fadlon, Itzik - 2017

adult children immediately increase their health investments and improve their health behaviors in response to family shocks …

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The Effect of Maternal Drug Use on Birth Weight : Measurement Error in Binary Variables

Kaestner, Robert - 1996

This paper develops a method to correct for non-random measurement error in a binary indicator of illicit drugs. Our results suggest that estimates of the effect of self reported prenatal drug use on birth weight are biased upwards by measurement error -- a finding contrary to predictions of a...

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Religion and Risky Health Behaviors among U.S. Adolescents and Adults

Fletcher, Jason - 2013

Recent studies analyzing the effects of religion on various economic, social, health and political outcomes have been largely associational. Although some attempts have been made to establish causation using instrument variable (IV) or difference-in-difference (DID) methods, the instruments and...

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Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors : Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland

Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey - 2015

This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in 2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors are lingering or short-lived and to explore...

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Living Rationally Under the Volcano? An Empirical Analysis of Heavy Drinking and Smoking

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2001

This study investigates whether models of forward-looking behavior explain the observed patterns of heavy drinking and smoking of men in late middle age in the Health and Retirement Study better than myopic models. We develop and estimate a sequence of nested models which differ by their degree...

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Alcohol Exposure In Utero and Child Academic Achievement

Scholder, Stephanie von Hinke Kessler - 2014

and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic … attainment, but there is a strong social gradient in maternal drinking, with mothers in higher socio-economic groups more likely …

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Marijuana Liberalization Policies and Perinatal Health

Meinhofer, Angelica; Witman, Allison E.; Hinde, Jesse M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We studied the effect of marijuana liberalization policies on perinatal health with a multiperiod difference-in-differences estimator that exploited variation in effective dates of medical marijuana laws (MML) and recreational marijuana laws (RML). We found that the proportion of maternal...

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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Skills in Rural China

Leight, Jessica - 2016

education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more … to catch-up in non-cognitive skills over time for children of more educated mothers … in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural …

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Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from College Openings and Longitudinal Data

Currie, Janet - 2002

We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth outcomes: use of prenatal care, smoking behavior,...

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The Health Effects of Cesarean Delivery for Low-Risk First Births

Card, David - 2018

Cesarean delivery for low-risk pregnancies is generally associated with worse health outcomes for infants and mothers … use birth records from California, merged with hospital and emergency department (ED) visits for infants and mothers in … significant effects on mothers' hospitalizations or ED use after birth, or on subsequent fertility, but we find a ripple effect on …

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