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Height and cognitive function among older Europeans: Do people from "tall" countries have superior cognitive abilities?
Guven, Cahit; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2011
Previous research has found that height is correlated with cognitive functioning at older ages. It therefore makes … shorter people, such as Italy and Spain. We exploit variations in height trends due to nutritional deprivation in World War II … in Europe and use an instrumental variable analysis to further estimate the potential impact of height on cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282143
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World War II, the Baby Boom and Employment: County Level Evidence
Brodeur, Abel; Kattan, Lamis - 2021
This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United States. We rely on the number of casualties at the county-level and use a difference-in-differences strategy. While most counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597556
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Is there a fertility paradox in Denmark?
Lauridsen, Jørgen T. - 2015
Alike most of the Western world, the Danish fertility rate declined throughout the 20th century simultaneous to economic growth. This development, which conflicts with economic intuition, has been denoted the fertility paradox, and several studies have been devoted to resolve it. The present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400317
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Was Higher Education a Major Channel through which the US Became an Economic Superpower in the 20th Century?
Cook, Adam; Ehrlich, Isaac - 2018
This paper offers a thesis for why the US overtook the UK and other European countries in the 20th century in both aggregate and per capita GDP as a case study of recent models of endogenous growth, where "human capital" is the engine of growth. By human capital we mean an intangible asset, best...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931613
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Was higher education a major channel through which the US became an economic superpower in the 20th century?
Cook, Adam; Ehrlich, Isaac - 2018
This paper offers a thesis for why the United States (US) overtook the United Kingdom (UK) and other European countries in the 20th century in both aggregate and per capita GDP as a case study of recent models of endogenous growth, where "human capital" is the engine of growth. By human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944204
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441804
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2011
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282369
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321143
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - 2014
We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464366
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308274