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This paper investigates impacts, mechanisms and selection effects of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the Western Netherlands (November 1944 - May 1945),...
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sample of children 0–59 months old in Bolivia and a rich set of child health and development outcomes including measures from … (SD) in height for age and weight for age z-scores respectively, between children in the top and bottom quintile of the … expenditure distribution. Children in the top quintile are less likely to have iron deficiency (11 pp) and anemia (17 pp), whereas …
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of parental income, and that children appear to compare their actual income situation with the aspiration level acquired …
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children can amplify existing inequalities across generations. Third, inequality can exist even within families, and the …
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parental beliefs about the human capital production function and their preferences for inequality in children’s outcomes, as … inequality concerns over children’s final outcomes. Because they perceive investments and baseline ability to be complements in … the production function, they invest more in higher-achieving children. Resources are important, as constrained parents …
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children. We propose that a better understanding of the connection between a country’s stage of economic transition the process … can potentially reduce undernutrition and micronutrient malnutrition. …
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