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Export Expansion and Investment in Children's Human Capital : Evidence from the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement
McCaig, Brian; Nguyen, Minh; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine how export expansion induced by the U.S-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) affected migration, school enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff reductions across industries associated with the BTA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172130
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The Relationship Between Diet, Parent"s Fatness, and Obesity in Children and Adolescents
Coate, Douglas - 1983
In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular emphasis on isolating the effects of diet and parent's fatness on the obesity outcome. The results show that parents fatness has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478031
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An Economic Analysis of the Diet, Growth, and Health of Young Children in the United States
Chernichovsky, Dov - 1979
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which family income and education are obstacles to the provision of adequate diets for young children in the United States. An examination of the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey reveals the following: 1. Average nutrient intakes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478731
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Risk Preferences of Children and Adolescents in Relation to Gender, Cognitive Skills, Soft Skills, and Executive Functions
Andreoni, James - 2019
complement our data with an assessment of cognitive and executive function skills. First, we find that adolescent girls display … significantly greater risk aversion than adolescent boys. This pattern is not observed among young children, suggesting that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479674
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O Youth and Beauty : Children’s Looks and Children’s Cognitive Development
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2019
We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children … 7, 11 and 16 in the U.K. National Child Development Survey 1958 cohort show larger effects. The extra gains persist when …-looking children, any relation between looks and a child's behavior, his/her victimization by bullies or self-confidence. Results from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480356
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Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life
Aizer, Anna - 2018
their mothers may be less mature, have fewer financial resources when the child is young, and may partner with fathers of … ages. Our evidence suggests that the causal effect of being a child of a teen mother is much smaller than that implied by … selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480817
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Social and Genetic Effects on Educational Performance in Early Adolescence
Isunget, Martin A.; Conley, Dalton; Zachrisson, Henrik D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
sufficient attention to genetics. This study is based on the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) and …-Rowe interactions in test scores nor parent-child genotype interactions. Even in a universal welfare state with relatively low levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482713
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Inequality at Birth : Some Causes and Consequences
Currie, Janet - 2011
Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and participation in social programs. In turn, endowments at birth are predictive of adult outcomes, and of the outcomes of future generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461859
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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years : An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2010
Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462975
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Studying the Child Obesity Epidemic With Natural Experiments
Sandy, Robert - 2009
-sectional estimates are quite different from the Fixed Effects estimates of the impacts of amenities locating near a child. In cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463660