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cohort composition within a school, we find a strong negative effect of a student's rank on the likelihood of smoking …, drinking, having unprotected sex, and engaging in physical fights. We further provide suggestive evidence that these results …
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cohort composition within a school, we find a strong negative effect of a student's rank on the likelihood of smoking …, drinking, having unprotected sex, and engaging in physical fights. We further provide suggestive evidence that these results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012032
Smoking during pregnancy is most common among women with a low socioeconomic status and is negatively associated with … important infant health measures such as birth weight. Cigarette taxes decrease smoking amongst pregnant women, thereby leading … intergenerational transmission of a low socioeconomic status by reducing smoking rates among pregnant women with low educational …
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endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational … maternal education and smoking in pregnancy, and investigate whether women endowed with different traits have different returns … mainly operate by changing maternal smoking, and that the physical fitness of the mother has a direct, "biological" effect on …
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endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational … maternal education and smoking in pregnancy, and investigate whether women endowed with different traits have different returns … mainly operate by changing maternal smoking, and that the physical fitness of the mother has a direct, "biological" effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391200
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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conditions, including smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. We find that better educated … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that...
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We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in late childhood. We estimate that a one standard...
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This paper develops and estimates a model with multiple schooling choices that identifies the causal effect of different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a halfway house between a reduced form treatment effect...
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