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Early health shocks, intra-household resource allocation and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 125 (2015) 588, pp. 347-371
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430982
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The effects of two influential early childhood interventions on health and healthy behaviors
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2015
This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308448
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The effects of two influential early childhood interventions on health and healthy behaviors
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334646
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The economics of child well-being
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667210
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Personality and the education-health gradient : a note on "Understanding differences in health behaviors by education"
Conti, Gabriella; Hansman, Christopher - 2012
education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628151
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Transcriptional modulation of the developing immune system by early life social adversity
Cole, Steven W.; Conti, Gabriella; Arevalo, Jesusa M.; … - 2012
To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...
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Health insurance and child health : evidence from Mexico
Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita - 2016
health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520990
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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468878
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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks …. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey … data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We find that, compared with a twin sibling who did not suffer from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457824
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The developmental approach to child and adult health
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009703339