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First and second generation impacts of the biafran war
Akresh, Richard; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Leone, Marinella; … - 2017
health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716133
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First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War
Akresh, Richard - 2017
health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948574
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A validation study of transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on the third generation offspring's economic and health outcomes potentially driven by epigenetic imprinting
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014
generation, males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252665
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Transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on third generation health and education outcomes
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014
health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was exposed to a famine during preadolescence. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462133
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Long-term effects of childhood nutrition : evidence from a school lunch reform
Alex-Petersen, Jesper; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2017
-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776044
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Under the Weather : Health, Schooling, and Socioeconomic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall
Maccini, Sharon - 2010
effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian … rainfall on agricultural output, leading to higher household incomes and better health for infant girls. We present suggestive … leads to higher spousal quality, which in turn improves socioeconomic status. Adult women's education and health do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012717669
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The Effects of Maternal Education Versus Cognitive Test Scores on Child Nutrition in Kenya
Bhargava, Alok; Fox-Kean, Melanie - 2004
This paper estimates dynamic random effects models for intakes by dietary energy, protein, calcium, iron, zinc, niacin, riboflavin, thiamin, and vitamins A, C, D, and E 100 of Kenyan school children (6-9 years) within a multivariate longitudinal framework. The explanatory variables were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074353
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A longitudinal analysis of fast-food exposure on child weight outcomes : identifying causality through school transitions
Dunn, Richard A.; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Thomsen, Michael; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-22
This article investigates the effect of fast-food availability on childhood weight outcomes by gender, race, and location. We use a novel identification strategy based on changes in fast-food exposure along the route between the home and school that occur as students progress through the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326431
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269601
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892847