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Gray Matters : Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation

Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2014

This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on 4th grade test scores in Santiago, Chile. We rely on comparisons across siblings which address concerns about locational sorting and all other time-invariant family characteristics that can lead to endogenous exposure to poor...

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Intra-Household Insurance and the Intergenerational Transmission of Income Risk

Agostinelli, Francesco; Ferraro, Domenico; Qiu, Xincheng; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...

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Environment, Health, and Human Capital

Zivin, Joshua Graff - 2013

In this review, we discuss three major contributions economists have made to our understanding of the relationship between the environment and individual well-being. First, in explicitly recognizing how optimizing behavior, particularly in the form of residential sorting, can lead to non-random...

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"Golden Ages" : A Tale of the Labor Markets in China and the United States

Fang, Hanming; Qiu, Xincheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the labor markets in China and the United States, the two largest economies in the world, by examining the … U.S., but decreased sharply from 55 to around 35 in China; second, the age-specific earnings grew drastically in China … similar in the U.S., but differed substantially in China. We propose and empirically implement a decomposition framework to …

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