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maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for … for family-specific endowments and neighbourhood characteristics. Child health is indicated by infant survival and … occur in the year of birth and the year before birth limit the degree to which child health is tied to family circumstance …
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We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in late childhood. We estimate that a one standard...
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maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for … for family-specific endowments and neighbourhood characteristics. Child health is indicated by infant survival and … occur in the year of birth and the year before birth limit the degree to which child health is tied to family circumstance …
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Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is...
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