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Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players
Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199855
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Does Mother Know Best? Parental Discrepancies in Assessing Child Functioning
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Lausten, Mette; Pozzoli, Dario - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2012
We investigate the degree of correspondence between parents’ reports on child behavioral and educational outcomes using the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851184
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Does Mother Know Best? Parental Discrepancies in Assessing Child Functioning
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Lausten, Mette; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate the degree of correspondence between parents' reports on child behavioral and educational outcomes using the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276080
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Family income and child health in China
Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; zhu, Rong - In: China Economic Review 29 (2014) C, pp. 152-165
We examine the effect of family income on child health using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We find a … significant child health/family income gradient for the overall sample of Chinese children. Our preferred specification shows that … the income gradient increases with child age until the age of 12. We find that parental health consciousness, household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875332
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Parental unemployment and child health
Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on parental unemployment. We find that children with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890034
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"The Effect of Child Health on Schooling: Evidence from Rural Vietnam"
Thai, Thuan Quang; Falaris, Evangelos M. - Department of Economics, Lerner College of Business and … - 2010
We study the relationship between long term child health and human capital. Child health may suffer if a child is inadequately nourished or is exposed to disease early in life and this may affect subsequent accumulation of human capital. We use data from rural Vietnam to examine the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008598638
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Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi
verwimp, philip; Bundervoet, Tom; Akresh, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We combine household survey data with event data on the timing and location of armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi’s civil war on children’s health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the war’s timing across provinces and the exposure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762148
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The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order: British Children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967985
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Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children
Akresh, Richard; Verwimp, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey conducted in 1992. We exploit district and time variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703096
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Child Health and the Income Gradient: Evidence from Australia
Khanam, Rasheda; Nghiem, Hong Son; Connelly, Luke B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature … but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child … age are not well understood. This paper presents new Australian evidence on the child health-income gradient. We use data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837071