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health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of … education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments …
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While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how sibling disability status …, sibling spacing and family size). We find that having a disabled sibling significantly decreases 9th grade exit exam GPAs …
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children who have a sibling in poor health persistently lag behind other children in their cognitive development - but only for … cognitive developmental gaps. The results are strongest when the ill-health in the sibling is of a temporary rather than longer … within the family home. However, we find mixed impacts on the gaps in non-cognitive development. …
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: e.g. parental absence due to migration, health problems, and alcohol abuse. These findings call for a greater policy … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …
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We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed … unemployment on child health. …
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of physical and mental health for a sample of German adolescents. In a first step, we estimate sibling correlations and … find substantial influence of shared family and community background on all outcomes. To further disentangle the influence … of family background and neighborhood, we estimate neighbor correlations. Our results show that for all outcomes …
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