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Vertical transmission of overweight : evidence from English adoptees

Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Le Grand, Julian - 2015

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non-adopted, and their families. Our results suggest strong evidence of an intergenerational association of overweight among adoptees, indicating transmission through cultural factors....

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The power of Lakshmi : monetary incentives for raising a girl

Biswas, Nabaneeta; Cornwell, Christopher Mark; … - 2021

Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the...

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Time Use Among new mothers, the Economic Value of Unpaid Care work and gender aspects of superannuation tax concessions

Smith, Julie - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 10 (2007) 2, pp. 99-114

Population aging requires policies addressing ‘population, participation and productivity’. By failing to acknowledge women’s productive work in the unpaid care economy, current retirement income policies may reduce incentives to invest in children, the future labour force, and thereby...

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Long-term care and lazy rotten kids

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2013

This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case scenario concerning the "harmony" of family relations. Children are purely selfish, and neither side can make credible commitments (which rules out efficient bargaining). The model...

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Long-term care and lazy rotten kids

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2013

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Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids

Cremer, Helmuth - 2013

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Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2021

This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case scenario concerning the “harmony” of family relations. Children are purely selfish, and neither side can make credible commitments (which rules out efficient bargaining). The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315728

Mums and their Sons, Dads and their Daughters : Panel Data Evidence of Interdependent Marginal Utilities across 14 EU Countries

Molina, Jose Alberto; Navarro, Maria; Walker, Ian - 2021

main results show evidence of strong altruism effects, but these estimated effects differ across countries, differ between …

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Does medicaid coverage for pregnant women affect prenatal health behaviors?

Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George - 2016

Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant … maternal health indicators. We find that the 13 percentage point increase in Medicaid eligibility during the study period was …

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Public health insurance of children and parental labor market outcomes

Kunze, Konstantin - 2022

This paper exploits variation resulting from a series of federal and state Medicaid expansions between 1979 and 2014 to … extended Medicaid eligibility of children leads to positive contemporaneous labor supply responses of both parents. The …

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