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Marketing active transportation to school to improve children's health : utilizing parental perspectives from an inner-city environment
Stafford, Marla Royne; Ivey, Stephanie S.; Levy, Marian; … - In: Health marketing quarterly 33 (2016) 4, pp. 353-368
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The role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital : evidence from administrative data
Salm, Martin; Schunk, Daniel - 2008
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The effect of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Laucht, Manfred (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the impact of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence. The child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793903
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Self-productivity in early childhood
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor) - 2007
investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the … over time. A one percent increase in birth weight increase child’s noncognitive skills by 0.34 percent and child’s health … by 0.64 percent at the age of 3-18 months. Until the age of 42 months a one percent increases in child's noncognitive …
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Emigration, remittances and the education of children staying behind : evidence from Tajikistan
Dietz, Barbara; Gatskova, Kseniia; Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015
We study the relationship between migration and childrenś education in Tajikistan - one of the poorest and most remittance-dependent economies in the world. The analysis of a unique threewave household panel survey reveals that emigration of family members is negatively associated with...
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Three empirical essays on the long-run consequences of early-life living conditions
Neelsen, Sven - 2012
This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...
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Self-productivity and complementarities in human development : evidence from MARS
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...
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Cognitive development among young children in Ecuador : the roles of wealth, health, and parenting
Paxson, Christina H.; Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2005
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Children s health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based economic growth
Baldanzi, Annarita; Bucci, Alberto; Prettner, Klaus - 2017
We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this purpose we design an R&D-based growth model in which the stock of human capital of the next generation is determined by parental education and health investments. We show that i)...
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