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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021
Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …
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The Indian enigma revisited
Grafenstein, Liza von; Klasen, Stephan; Hoddinott, John - 2022
, sibling size and maternal height, the coefficient associated with being an Indian girl is no longer statistically significant. …
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Entitled to property : how breaking the gender barrier improves child health in India
Hossain, Shahadat Md.; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023
indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby …
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Health, height, height shrinkage and SES at older ages : evidence from China
Huang, Wei; Lei, Xiaoyan; Ridder, Geert; Strauss, John; … - 2012
Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between … childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height … shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may be correlated with health conditions and socio-economic status from …
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Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and Ses at Older Ages : Evidence from China
Huang, Wei - 2012
Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between … childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height … shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may be correlated with health conditions and socio-economic status from …
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Experiential Household Food Insecurity in an Urban Underserved Slum of North India
Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016
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Is there a happiness premium for working in the public sector? : evidence from the Italy
Bucciol, Alessandro; Burro, Giovanni - 2021
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Is there a happiness premium for working in the public sector? : evidence from Italy
Bucciol, Alessandro; Burro, Giovanni - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 97 (2022), pp. 1-18
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Understanding the SES gradient in health among the elderly : the role of childhood circumstances
Stowasser, Till; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel; … - 2014
Individuals' socioeconomic status (SES) is positively correlated with their health status. While the existence of this gradient may be uncontroversial, the same cannot be said about its explanation. In this paper, we extend the approach of testing for the absence of causal channels developed by...
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Hungry children age faster
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2017
We analyze how childhood hunger affects human aging for a panel of European individuals. For this purpose, we use six waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average,...
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