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Under the Weather : Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall
Maccini, Sharon - 2010
How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical...
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Maternal stress and child outcomes : evidence from siblings
Aizer, Anna; Stroud, Laura; Buka, Stephen - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009658271
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Maternal stress and child outcomes : evidence from siblings
Aizer, Anna; Stroud, Laura; Buka, Stephen - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 51 (2016) 3, pp. 523-555
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560527
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Maternal Stress and Child Outcomes : Evidence from Siblings
Aizer, Anna - 2012
We study how maternal stress affects offspring outcomes. We find that in-utero exposure to elevated levels of the … stress hormone cortisol negatively affects offspring cognition, health and educational attainment. These findings are based … between mothers that could bias estimates. Our results are consistent with recent experimental results in the neurobiological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100132
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Maternal Stress and Child Outcomes : Evidence from Siblings
Aizer, Anna - 2012
We study how maternal stress affects offspring outcomes. We find that in-utero exposure to elevated levels of the … stress hormone cortisol negatively affects offspring cognition, health and educational attainment. These findings are based … between mothers that could bias estimates. Our results are consistent with recent experimental results in the neurobiological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460238
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Mothers' non-farm entrepreneurship and child secondary education in rural Ghana
Janssens, Charlotte; Van den Broeck, Goedele; Maertens, Miet - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110443
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Income and fertility of female college graduates in the United States
Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2024
Fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels in many economies. We examine the relationship between female incomes and fertility for college graduates in the United States. Female income is likely endogenous to fertility, and candidate instrumental variables are likely imperfect. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015084141
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Navigating educational disruptions : the gender divide in parental involvement and children's learning outcomes
Ciaschi, Matías; Fajardo-Gonzalez, Johanna; Viollaz, … - 2024
's learning losses. Our analysis reveals that mothers experienced a disproportionate increase in time dedicated to children …This study analyzes the adjustment in time allocation to school support activities by mothers and fathers during the … pandemic across 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries, exploring the repercussions on labor market outcomes and children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529820
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Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Sandner, Malte - 2015
welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants’ economic self-sufficiency and family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391650
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Birth weight and academic achievement in childhood
Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - In: Health economics 23 (2014) 9, pp. 1013-1035
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