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We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … part of SHARE in Europe in 2009, with administrative data on food supply (caloric rations) in post-war Germany. The data … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …
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) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. …We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …
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changes uses only one measure of well-being - income or expenditure. Given that poverty is defined by deprivation over … different dimensions, we explore the role of average improvements and distributional changes in children's health and nutrition … using the height of young children as our measure of well-being. Similar to the income literature, we find that shifts in …
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we use alternative measures of economic status, such as wealth and neighborhood advantage. We find that area-level income …This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution …
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education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …
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) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth …We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022846
in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …
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in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279935
in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014275959
of lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life … wage income and disposable income measured over narrow windows of age that are used to proxy lifetime wealth. The … outcomes (including children's own expected lifetime resources and education) than the income measures traditionally used in …
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