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Intergenerational social mobility based on the investments in human capital : evidence of the long-term results of PROSPERA in health

Gutiérrez, Juan Pablo; Shamah Levy, Teresa; Bertozzi, … - 2019

health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … intergenerational mobility in height and years of schooling. The findings show that, on average, male offspring are 2.8 centimeters …. The study finds that a 1 percent increase in height is associated with a 10.7 and 8.8 percent increases in hourly wages …

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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings

Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020

Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...

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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality

Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender...

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Lives and livelihoods : estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic

Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...

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