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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market out- comes. We focus on health shocks which … of children. This effect is more pronounced for daughters and for children who live close to their parents. Further …
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which … of children. This effect is more pronounced for daughters and for children who live close to their parents. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296219
Targeted treatments of newborns with delicate health stocks have been shown to have considerable returns in terms of survival and later life outcomes. We seek to determine to what degree such treatments are transmitted across generations. We follow three generations of linked micro-data from...
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child by age 2. By exploiting a longitudinal dataset of children and their parents, we find that children who were exposed …, exposed children had a lower level of development, cognition skills, and more attention problems relative to children not … trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and …
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In this paper we take a fresh look at the magnitude of the trade-off between caring informally for a parent and paid work. We adopt a simultaneous approach with a primary focus on how hours of care are influenced by hours of work rather than the other way round. We also investigate the role that...
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, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …
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these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …
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welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and … working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, the study focuses on mono-nuclear families with children under …
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this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using …-nuclear families with children under fifteen years of age. We find that fathers' alcohol consumption has a negative impact on their …
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For decades, the debate on using DDT to control malaria has focused on the balance between immediate public health gains and ecological costs, ignoring DDT's long-term harmful effects on humans. Using data from the large-scale indoor residual spraying of DDT that took place in Taiwan in the...
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