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One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient … ; health outcomes ; education …
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One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly … a positive education gradient into a negative one. We also consider the response in terms of uptake of other childhood …
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pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could have large returns. Using British data, maternal education is found to be … positively correlated with birth weight. We identify a causal effect of education using the 1947 reform of the minimum school … identification across cohorts but also within cohort. We find modest but heterogenous positive effects of maternal education on birth …
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pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could have large returns. Using British data, maternal education is found to be … positively correlated with birth weight. We identify a causal effect of education using the 1947 reform of the minimum school … identification across cohorts but also within cohort. We find modest but heterogenous positive effects of maternal education on birth …
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This paper is a progress report on the usefulness of data on physical height for the analysis of long-ten changes in the level of nutrition and health on economic, social, and demographic behavior. It is based on a set of samples covering the U.S. and several other nations over the years from...
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This paper reviews the evidence regarding the main trends in the height of the British population since the early eighteenth century. We argue that the average heights of successive birth cohorts of British males increased slowly between the middle of the eighteenth century and the first quarter...
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pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could have large returns. Using British data, maternal education is found to be … positively correlated with birth weight. We identify a causal effect of education using the 1947 reform of the minimum school … identification across cohorts but also within cohort. We find modest but heterogenous positive effects of maternal education on birth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317202