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conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use …This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National … significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected. …
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Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … imply a lack of nutrition during that age interval, and vice versa, and in this sense the observed difference at most …
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We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable …
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Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … imply a lack of nutrition during that age interval, and vice versa, and in this sense the observed difference at most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321143
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … imply a lack of nutrition during that age interval, and vice versa, and in this sense the observed difference at most …
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, sibling size and maternal height, the coefficient associated with being an Indian girl is no longer statistically significant. …
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Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … imply a lack of nutrition during that age interval, and vice versa, and in this sense the observed difference at most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308274
hourly wage and spousal education, showing that attractiveness and height matter in the labor market, whereas both male and …We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and … the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all strongly contribute to male and female attractiveness when …
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hourly wage and spousal education, showing that attractiveness and height matter in the labor market, whereas both male and …We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and … the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all strongly contribute to male and female attractiveness when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491252
demographics, human capital and health status. While parsimonious models suggest that height is protective against depression, the …' height is associated with higher or lower levels of well-being. Two outcomes are used: a measure of depression symptoms … between height and symptoms of depression. These results are sensitive to the inclusion of several sets of controls reflecting …
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