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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise : Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development
Currie, Janet - 2010
There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759322
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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise : Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development
Currie, Janet - 2008
There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464659
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Superfund cleanups and infant health
Currie, Janet; Greenstone, Michael; Moretti, Enrico - In: The American economic review 101 (2011) 3, pp. 435-441
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009267132
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Does Participation in Transfer Programs During Pregnancy Improve Birth Weight?
Currie, Janet - 1991
A primary goal of transfer programs to the non-aged, non-disabled poor in the United States is to improve the well-being of children in poor families. Thus it is surprising that most of the considerable research which has been devoted to the study of transfer programs focuses on the incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475161
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Violence while in Utero : The Impact of Assaults During Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes
Currie, Janet - 2018
Evidence about the effects of violent crime on victims is sparse, but is necessary to determine the social costs of crime and the cost-effectiveness of policy interventions in the justice system. We present new evidence about the effects of violent crime on pregnancy and infant health outcomes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452919
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Does Prenatal WIC Participation Improve Child Outcomes?
Chorniy, Anna V. - 2018
Large literatures document positive effects of WIC on birth outcomes, and separately connect health at birth and future outcomes. But little research investigates the link between prenatal WIC participation and childhood outcomes. We explore this question using a unique data set from South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453029
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Congestion Pricing, Air Pollution and Children’s Health
Simeonova, Emilia - 2018
This study examines the effects of implementing a congestion tax in central Stockholm on both ambient air pollution and the population health of local children. We demonstrate that the tax reduced ambient air pollution by 5 to 15 percent, and that this reduction in air pollution was associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453304
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Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes
Currie, Janet - 2010
Previous research has shown a strong connection between birth weight and future child outcomes. But this research has not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily because it predicts future health or through some other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758157
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Has Public Health Insurance for Older Children Reduced Disparities in Access to Care and Health Outcomes?
Currie, Janet - 2010
from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an … important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 … these children in the past decade are responsible for the decline in the importance of income. We find that while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758590
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Congestion Pricing, Air Pollution and Children's Health
Simeonova, Emilia - 2018
This study examines the effects of a congestion tax in central Stockholm on ambient air pollution and the health of local children. We demonstrate that the tax reduced ambient air pollution by 5–15 percent and the rate of acute asthma attacks among young children. We do not see corresponding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924473