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food security of households and children, as measured by number of affirmative responses to a food insecurity questionnaire … and an indicator for food insecurity. The effects are largest among low-income households and children, but are also … sizeable for middle-income children …
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Recent research documents a causal impact of place on the long-run outcomes of children. However, little is known about …
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little is known about the mental health and well-being effects for either victims or their children. We study the costs … associated with domestic violence (DV) in the context of Norway, where we can link offenders to victims and their children over … 19% for their children in the year of the event, effects which taper off over time for the victim, but not for children …
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We show that sugar-rich diet early in life has large adverse effects on the health and economic well-being of adults more than fifty years later. Excessive sugar intake early in life led to higher prevalence of chronic inflammation, diabetes, elevated cholesterol and arthritis. It also decreased...
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We estimate the impacts of temperature on alleged and substantiated child maltreatment among young children using … maltreatment of young children during hot periods. We rule out that our results are solely due to changes in reporting. Additional …
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Does the intellectual endowment of children affect parents' fertility choices? The quantity-quality model of fertility … predicts that a positive (negative) shock to child endowment increases (decreases) parental demand for children. We test these … predictions using Israeli data on intellectually gifted and intellectually disabled children. Because families with an exceptional …
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Previous research in the US has found negative health effects of contamination when it triggers regulatory violations. An important question is whether levels of contamination that do not trigger a health-based violation impact health. We study the impact of drinking water contamination in...
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This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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This article discusses son preference in India, including both greater investment in sons and the fertility preference for sons. Regarding differential investment, I focus on child health and show that gender gaps in inputs and outcomes have narrowed in recent years. Nonetheless, girls remain...
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While state incarceration policies have received much attention in research on the causes of mass incarceration in the U.S., their roles in shaping population health and health disparities remain largely unknown. We examine the impacts of two signature state incarceration policies adopted during...
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